Welcome to Year 1 The class teachers are Mrs Perry (Monday – Thursday) and Mrs Flannery (Friday).   Our teaching assistants are Mrs Hales and Mrs Miller.   A-Z of Year 1 Allergies Please let a member of staff know if your child has an allergy, medical condition or specific diet. Be Ready Check out our Be Ready guidance which outlines the skills and responsibilities expected from our pupils as they enter each new class group. Change of clothes It is useful for all Year 1 children to have a spare change of clothes kept in a carrier bag on their peg.Daily Routine Y1 doors open at 8:40. Please help your child ensure shoes, packed lunch, water bottle, book bag are in the correct places. There are 5 early morning groups with a rotation of activities. As soon as your child is settled, please say goodbye and leave via the Y1 door. The door will be locked at 8:50 when the children will come to the carpet for the register. Pick up time in Year 1 is 3:00pm. If your child is Bus or breakfast club, the teacher or TA will make sure they have put their things away and settled to their activity. An adult will take them to the bus register or ASC at 3pm. Extra Curricular Clubs Year 1 pupils can join Little Masters, Zumba, KS1 Homework and KS1 Multisports clubs. Growth Mindset At Garsington all pupils, staff and parents are encouraged to have a growth mindset. Check out ideas and guidance on how you can achieve this via the Growth Mindset page. Homework This is given out on Friday and needs to be returned the following Wednesday. We will start this week. Please encourage your child to read regularly and often, read to them every day, practise counting and maths activities and talk about what they are learning. Handing in homework books is a really good habit to get into. Items required everyday •Book Bag •Indoor shoes •Outdoor shoes •Wellies •PE kit (have it in school every day). •Coat Junk Modelling Junk modelling is always popular and we welcome materials with which to do this. Please could you ensure that you do not bring in boxes or containers that may have been in contact with eggs or nuts (including sesame). Please do not send in milk containers or plastic meat trays. Key Stage 1 Key Stage 1 consists of Year 1 and Year 2. At the end of each Key Stage, children are formally assessed in reading, writing (inc. spelling and grammar), maths and science. Assessments are based on the teacher’s knowledge of the children and supported by KS1 tests (June 2018). Lost Property We will have a lost property box in Year 1 for PE kit that doesn’t find the right bag and jumpers that are found in the Year 1or shared area. This box will be kept in the Shared Area Lunch Menu |  Outdoor Learning Sadly, we don’t have a lovely garden but will try and get outside when we can. Please can children have a pair of wellies in school to keep in the cloakroom and they should always bring a coat with them. We don’t want slightly damp weather to stop outdoor experiences. Forest school will happen in the Spring Term. PE Children need correct PE kit. Plimsolls (indoor shoes) are fine for indoor PE as long as they fit well on the feet but trainers are good for outdoor PE. Pierced ears – ideally children will come to school without earrings on PE days but if this is not possible as they are recently pierced, please provide micropore tape to put over the studs. Phonics This is taught through Read, Write Inc in the morning with children split into ability groups across Year 1 and 2. This has started this week. A cross-curricular approach to writing will take place through topic work. Handwriting – we will begin to use ‘lead-ons’ to get ready for joined writing. Reading Staff change books with children. This will usually be on the day when their early morning activity is reading. Please record in the reading record book when your child has read with you. We will move children up only when we feel they are really secure with the colour they are on. Please bring book bags every day. Timetable   Topic Web Our topic this term is ‘Heroes’. For further details of all the curriculum subjects we will be studying this term please see the topic web. If you have any resources that may be useful to us for this term please bring them in. Water bottles Please could children have a named water bottle in school, these can be kept in the trays provided in the shared area. Wellies Wellies are also useful for Term 1 & 2 and can be kept in the cloakroom.
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