Welcome to Year One

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Welcome to Year One!

• Parent Induction Meeting
• Monday 14th September 2009

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What does your child need at school?

• Communication book
• A coat and jumper
• A waterproof jacket
• A named cup for water
• Named fruit (small pots where possible please!)
• PE kit indoor and outside

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What is a typical day in Year One like?

• Children are encouraged to enter school
  independently
• They register themselves change their reading
  book
• Do their morning jobs
• Start their integrated day
• Attend reflections
• Lunchtime
• Continue with integrated day

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• Each day children have the opportunity to support
  their learning in different ways through
• adult focus learning
• adult directed learning
• child initiated learning

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Adult and child initiated activities

• The learning activities are chosen to provide
  children with the opportunity to
• Learn something new
• Practise skills they have learnt
• Confidently apply skills and understanding

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Photographs

• We have included some photographs for you to see
  of the children during a typical Year One day

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Topics

• Autumn Things we play with
• Spring Living things
• Summer Horsell Village

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The outside classroom

• We are lucky at Horsell Village School to have
  excellent outside facilities
• Children have the opportunity to use these
  facilities on a daily basis, as part of their
  outside classroom, to enhance their learning
• Activities are planned using the Year One
  curriculum and are linked to the objectives
  inside.

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Reading

• Reading at school
• Guided reading takes place fortnightly. This is a
  group activity which discreetly teaches
  objectives from the Literacy strategy.
• Individual reading is weekly. It is an
  opportunity for children to practice skills
  acquired during guided reading.
• Reading skills are taught daily.

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Reading

• Reading at home
• Try to read with your child as often as you can.
• Please sign their communication book when you
  have read with your child.
• They can read the same book more than once.
• Please support us in encouraging your child to
  change their books daily.
• Books from home or the library can be read
  alongside school books.

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Phonics and Word work

• Phonic and word work have started in school
  already and are practised daily.
• We will be sending home a list of the reception
  and Year 1 key words. These are some of words we
  will be teaching the children to read and spell,
  using a variety of techniques.

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Split class

• In the event that the teacher is absent from the
  classroom the children will be split between the
  other classes in the school.

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PPA

• Thursday afternoon is the Year 1 teachers PPA
  time (Planning, Preparation Assessment).
• This time is planned and delivered by our team of
  excellent TAs, who will also dismiss the class
  at the end of the day.
• The children enjoy a wide range of activities
  linked to the current topic.

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Open classroom

• Is on Wednesday.
• You are welcome to come into the classroom to
  look at what your child has been learning.
• Please respect the privacy of others and only
  look at your childs work.
• Younger siblings are more than welcome in the
  classrooms, but please ensure the children are
  not touching any of the classroom resources.

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Parent Helpers

• We love to have help!
• CRB checks are required before parents can work
  in school. Forms can be obtained from the office.
• We particularly need help with the library on a
  regular basis could be a job share!!
• Help is sometimes shared between other classes.

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Library

• Please encourage children to treat Library books
  responsibly and try and keep them separate from
  other books at home so they can be identified
  quickly and easily!
• Children will only be allowed to take a new book
  once the old one has been returned.
• There will be a charge for lost books.

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Reminders

• Please encourage children to come in
  independently.
• Always have a waterproof coat in school.
• Please write messages on class white board.
• Please ask your child to hand their communication
  book to their teacher if there is an urgent
  message or one that requires a response.
• Website will be up dated weekly. You can e-mail
  the class. reception_at_horsell-village.surrey.sch.u
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• Please let us know if you do not wish to have
  your child's photo appear in any publications.