Moving on to Year 1!

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Moving on to Year 1!
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Transition from Year R

• Throughout the Year, staff from Year R and Year 1
  regularly meet to talk about the children in each
  year group, focusing on friendships, progress and
  learning needs.
• The Year leader visits the children in MOOT times
  beginning in the Spring term.

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In the summer term, we begin transition MOOT
where Year R children come to the Year 1 classes
to enjoy MOOT and get to know the adults in Year
1 and the new learning environment.
This works by each Year R class visiting a Year 1
class over a period of a few weeks they may have
already told you about their first visit!
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The PSHE topic for the whole school is
Changes. This theme tackles the issue of
change and aims to equip children with an
understanding of different types of change,
positive and negative, and common human responses
to it. The topic seeks to develop childrens
ability to manage the feelings associated with
change. It aims to develop knowledge,
understanding and skills in three key social and
emotional aspects of learning motivation, social
skills and managing feelings.
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The current Year 1 children prepare a welcome
video for the new Year R children, just as your
children will help the teachers prepare for the
new Year R children coming into school in
September. This allows them to feel proud of
what they have achieved in starting school and
support others in this change. They are always
very proud of the video they make for the new
children and feel more ready to move on to a new
class themselves.
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• Particularly at this time, we encourage
  children to use our bubble time technique. The
  children can then share any worries they have
  confidentially with any member of staff in the
  school.
• We pop the bubble once the worry is shared to
  make it go away.

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• We also arrange to swap classes for story time to
  spend more time with the children in Year R so
  that the idea of moving classes is less daunting!

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Creating new Year 1 classes!
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Considerations for creating new class lists for
Year 1

• Friendships
• Balance of ability
• Special Educational Needs
• Balance of boys and girls

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The children will find out their new classes on
the morning of the 2nd July.They will spend the
morning meeting their new class teacher and
teaching assistant. They will get to meet the
other children in their class too! You will find
out in their school report at the end of the day.
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There will be an open doors just after shuffle up
day, on Friday 4th July. You can pop in and see
your childs new classroom and meet their teacher
at 315.
The children will also spend one more MOOT in
Year 1 in their new classes.
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Our Curriculum

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2
Superheroes To Boldly Go Christmas Once Upon a Town Victorian Days Easter Town Mouse and Country Mouse Bugs and Beasties
Numeracy Ongoing Numeracy Ongoing Numeracy Ongoing Numeracy Ongoing Numeracy Ongoing Numeracy Ongoing Numeracy Ongoing Numeracy Ongoing
PSHE Ongoing PSHE Ongoing PSHE Ongoing PSHE Ongoing PSHE Ongoing PSHE Ongoing PSHE Ongoing PSHE Ongoing
Phonics and Handwriting - Ongoing Phonics and Handwriting - Ongoing Phonics and Handwriting - Ongoing Phonics and Handwriting - Ongoing Phonics and Handwriting - Ongoing Phonics and Handwriting - Ongoing Phonics and Handwriting - Ongoing Phonics and Handwriting - Ongoing
P.E Games, Gymnastics and Dance Ongoing (Games constant) ICT and eSafety- Ongoing Music- Ongoing (Spring 2 and Summer 1 peripatetic provision) Art and D.T- Ongoing through Creativity Time P.E Games, Gymnastics and Dance Ongoing (Games constant) ICT and eSafety- Ongoing Music- Ongoing (Spring 2 and Summer 1 peripatetic provision) Art and D.T- Ongoing through Creativity Time P.E Games, Gymnastics and Dance Ongoing (Games constant) ICT and eSafety- Ongoing Music- Ongoing (Spring 2 and Summer 1 peripatetic provision) Art and D.T- Ongoing through Creativity Time P.E Games, Gymnastics and Dance Ongoing (Games constant) ICT and eSafety- Ongoing Music- Ongoing (Spring 2 and Summer 1 peripatetic provision) Art and D.T- Ongoing through Creativity Time P.E Games, Gymnastics and Dance Ongoing (Games constant) ICT and eSafety- Ongoing Music- Ongoing (Spring 2 and Summer 1 peripatetic provision) Art and D.T- Ongoing through Creativity Time P.E Games, Gymnastics and Dance Ongoing (Games constant) ICT and eSafety- Ongoing Music- Ongoing (Spring 2 and Summer 1 peripatetic provision) Art and D.T- Ongoing through Creativity Time P.E Games, Gymnastics and Dance Ongoing (Games constant) ICT and eSafety- Ongoing Music- Ongoing (Spring 2 and Summer 1 peripatetic provision) Art and D.T- Ongoing through Creativity Time P.E Games, Gymnastics and Dance Ongoing (Games constant) ICT and eSafety- Ongoing Music- Ongoing (Spring 2 and Summer 1 peripatetic provision) Art and D.T- Ongoing through Creativity Time
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Superheroes!
This is our bridging topic at the beginning of
autumn term. We find that by continuing with the
same topic as the children have started in the
last two weeks of Year R that the children are
more confident in their learning in their new
classes.
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• In Year 1 MOOT runs in a similar way to Year R,
  with well resourced indoor and outdoor learning
  areas and a free-flow between the classes.
• Each half term, topic related challenges are
  planned for each area of learning, and the
  children are able to share their achievements in
  review time.

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• We continue to run MOOT sessions twice a week
  until the end of Summer 2. In the last 2-3 weeks,
  the children drop to having one MOOT session as
  preparation for moving to Year 2, in which MOOT
  still runs once a week.
• We really value MOOT time to enhance childrens
  independent learning skills throughout the whole
  school.

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• Morning routines are very similar in Year 1
• Children continue to self register their lunch
  choices by finding their own names.
• Each class has a visual timetable to show our
  learning for the day
• Children are encouraged to say goodbye to you at
  the door to start the day promptly and we find
  they are very quickly confident to do so.

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Reading in Year 1
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Reading
In Year 1 we develop reading skills through
guided reading sessions which we endeavour to do
twice a week with every group. We also read
individually with children, particularly if they
find it difficult to concentrate in group reading
tasks or are still developing their very early
reading skills. We will monitor your childs
reading and move them to the next reading level
when they are ready.
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Changing Books
In Year 1 we encourage children to change their
own reading books from the colour coded boxes in
the classroom. They may change their book any day
in the morning as they arrive. We will show them
how to do this and soon they will be able to do
this independently.
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• Please remind your child to change their book as
  they come into class, and let us know if they are
  struggling to do this so that we can also remind
  them.
• We will ensure the children change their books at
  least twice a week, after we hear them read, if
  they do not change them that morning. Also, bear
  in mind that re-reading a book is a good way of
  consolidating reading skills, so it is not
  necessary to have a new book every day.

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Reading diaries
Children need more regular practise with
reading than we can provide in school in order to
make good progress. Please read regularly with
your child at home and write a comment in the
home reading diary when you listen to your child
read. These comments can inform teachers about
how your child is progressing in reading at home.
Teachers and TAs will also place some targets
for you to practice at home when necessary.
Please make sure reading diaries and books are in
book bags every day.
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Phonics
The children continue with daily phonics practise
and we pick up the childrens next targets
through discussions with the Year R staff and
beginning our phonics lessons mirroring the
planning from the last two weeks in Year R. We
continue to work from the Letters and Sounds
programme to inform our planning.
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Once the children are ready, we move on to
learning some alternative spellings for the
sounds they know and begin to look at common
spelling patterns.
ai and ay
ea and ee
ie and igh
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We also learn new tricky words
there
because
when
though
asked
called
please
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Writing in Year 1
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Please continue to practise basic skills to
develop your childs fine motor skills

• Fine motor activities pegs, scissors
• Pencil grip
• Pencil control through colouring and drawing
  patterns
• Letter formation in print or cursive script
  through different media crayons, air writing,
  sand trays.
• Name writing in print or cursive
• letters.

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Progression in writing
In Year 1, we focus primarily on teaching
sentence structure with the accurate use of
finger spaces between words, and capital letters
and full stops to demarcate each sentence. We
work on extending vocabulary and acknowledge the
importance of developing the childrens speaking
skills in this.
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Children then become more confident to write
using more complex phonic sounds with greater
accuracy in captions, simple sentences and other
forms, such as letters, stories, poems and
recounts.It amazes us how much the childrens
independent learning skills progress over the
year.
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• We have a writing booklet available from the
  school office or on our website which will help
  if you would like to understand more about
  progression in writing in Year 1.
• www.shirleyinfantschool.org.uk

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Mathematicsin Year 1
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Number
We continue to build on the childrens knowledge
of number and equip them with a greater range of
strategies to support their calculation skills in
addition and subtraction. We build confidence in
using higher numbers and in problem-solving
skills as the year progresses.
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Shape and Measure
We develop childrens mathematical vocabulary in
work on 2D and 3D shape. When the children are
comfortable with measuring in everyday
non-standard units of measure, we teach them to
use standard units such as rulers and scales
accurately.
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We do not send regular maths homework out,
however we may send resources to support the
childrens learning home at key points in the
year, or challenges which will support their in
class learning. If you would like to know more
about what your child will be learning in maths,
we have a maths guide available to guide you
through the learning objectives for each year
group.
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Helping with Maths at Home

• You can easily support your childs mathematical
  vocabulary by applying the skills learnt in
  school in different contexts, such as
• Following a recipe to bake a cake
• Using a shopping list and counting out money to
  buy items at the shop
• Adding the total of two dice instead of just
  rolling one when playing favourite board games

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Home Learning in Year 1

• Linked to each new topic, you will have the
  opportunity to complete a home learning task with
  your child. The children love sharing their
  learning with us and are proud of their
  achievements at home.
• These are optional tasks, and we plan them to
  allow you time to work on little projects with
  your child, not to burden you! You can spend as
  much or as little time as you wish on the
  activities, and please speak to the teachers if
  you would like any further guidance on what you
  could do.

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Any Questions