Transition to Year 1.

Tuesday 9th September 2014.

The aims of tonight’s content:• To introduce you to the Year 1 staff.• To give you an understanding of the Year 1 curriculum.• To show you how the Year 1 curriculum is different to the Reception curriculum.• To give you an understanding of the Year 1 assessment, which moves on from Early Learning Goals onto National Curriculum.

Year 1 Staff.

• Miss V Ashurst – Head of Year and Class Teacher (Bint Qays).

• Miss V Plummer – Class Teacher (Ibn Salamah).

• Miss T Adam – Class Teacher (Ibn Thabbit).

• Miss N Edwards – Lead Learning Coach for Year 1 (Bint Qays).

• Mrs R Yusuf – Learning Coach (Ibn Salamah).

• Miss M Patel. – Learning Coach (Ibn Thabbit).

• Miss S Patel – Lunchtime Supervisor.

The Year 1 Building.

• There is one classroom on each floor.• Entrance for Ibn Salamah and Ibn Thabbit is on the bottom floor, through the black gates.• Entrance for Bint Qays is directly into the classroom on the middle floor.• The children’s toilets are on the ground floor.• The dining / PE hall is on the top floor.• There is a dedicated intervention room on the middle floor, for all classes to use.

The Year 1 Timetable.

This is an approximate timetable. It is slightly different for every class but contains the same content. PE days

are on the parent newsletter coming out shortly.

TIME MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

8.30– 8:35 Active Maths Active Maths Active Maths Active Maths Active Maths8:35 – 8:45 Assembly (HT) Assembly (SLT) Nasheeds MFL MFL

8:45 – 9:10 Phonics Phonics Phonics Phonics Phonics

9.10 – 10:10 Literacy Literacy Literacy Literacy Literacy10:10 – 10:45 Guided Reading Guided Reading Guided Reading Guided Reading 10:15 – 11:15

Mathematics10:45 – 11:00 BREAK11:00 – 12:00 Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 11:20 – 11:35

Assembly 11:35 – 11:45

Storytime12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH

1:00 – 2:10 ICT (45 mins) Art/DT (45 mins) RE/ PSHCE (45 mins)

Humanities(1 hour)

2:10 – 2:35 Science (1 hour) Grammar (45 mins) 1.50 – PE (1 hour)

Music (30 mins)Handwriting (10 mins) Handwriting (10

mins)2:35 – 2:40 Story time Story time Story time Story time

Homework and Reading Books.• Reading books will be changed on Monday and Thursday.• Homework is to be given on Friday and handed in on Monday. Late hand-in will be monitored.• Children will be read with 1-1 at least once a week, as well as an additional 2 Guided Reading Sessions and 1 Reading Comprehension lesson.• Please contact the school as additional homework and books can be given if your child is poorly or has prolonged absence.

How do we assess the children?

• In Reception, you child will have been assessed against the EYFS Early Learning Goals. This does not carry on into Year 1.• Year 1 is classed as Key Stage 1 and is assessed using the National Curriculum.• We assess Reading, Writing and Maths.• We track their progress on a levelled tracker.• The end of year expectation in all subjects is a secure 1A.

How the National Curriculum levels work.

•1C (most children are expected to be emerging into this upon entry).

•1B•1A – End of Year 1 expectation.•2C•2B•2A•3C

and so forth throughout their time in school.

When do we assess the children?• Baseline assessments in Reading, Writing and all areas of Maths. This is done alongside continuous provision on a 1-1 basis.• We collect 3 levelled pieces of writing over each term and use these together to inform a level for writing, e.g. in December they may be a secure 1C, in March they may be a secure 1B and in May they may be working within a 1A.• Children do not always make a clear 1 sub-level progress each half term.

When do we assess the children?• Guided Reading regularly informs a teacher judgement on reading ability.• In March and July the children will do more formal test papers (often mock SATs) to give a definitive judgement on where they are at without any help.• The papers are sat very informally in small groups but children are just asked to have an independent attempt at all questions.• June 2015 is when your child will sit the Phonics Screening Check.

Phonics.

•Most children will enter Y1 secure with Phase 3.• Classes are streamed by ability.• Your child’s class teacher may not be their Phonics teacher.• Content is delivered at the level your child needs.• It is expected by the end of Year 1 that all children are secure with Phase 5.

Literacy – Writing.•Consistent capital letters and full stops.• Work that can clearly be read by an adult who is NOT your child’s teacher.• Frequent use of adjectives.• Use of the connectives ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘because’, and ‘so’.• Beginning to use ? and !• Using time connectives to order ideas in their writing.

Reading.

• To be able to quickly decode simple words, including polysyllabic words.• To be able to make simple predictions about what might happen next and why.• To express an opinion on a story and justify it.• To relate a text to their own experiences. • To recall most events in a story in the correct order.

Numeracy – Number.

•To be working on reading, writing, counting and ordering numbers to 100.• To count up and down in:• 2s to/from 20.• 5s to/from 50.• 10s to/from 100.• To double / halve numbers within 20.• To mentally add and subtract within 20.• To know number bonds to at least 10.• To be able to apply knowledge of number and operations to word-based problems (e.g. Sam has 20 balloons. Tom has 10 less than that. How many does Tom have?)

Numeracy – Shapes, Space and Measure.• To name, and describe the properties of, simple 2D and 3D shapes. (Circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, cubes, cuboids, cylinders, spheres and cones).

• To describe positions (e.g. first) and movements (e.g. two steps backwards).• To remember and order the days of the week.• To tell the time to o’clock and the half hour.•To sort objects based on a particular criterion and say how they have been sorted.• To become familiar with cm, m, kg, g,l and ml.• To measure in non-standard and standard units of measure.

Science.• The topics we will cover this year in Science are:• Seasons and the weather.• Every day materials and magnetism.• Taking care of the Earth.• The human body.• Plants and plant growth.• Animals and their needs.

• Children will learn to make simple, plausible predictions and compare this prediction to the actual outcome.• Children will collect data, describeobservations and understand the concept of fair testing.

History.

• We will cover the following History topics this year:• The History of Blackburn.• Kings and Queens.• Prime Ministers and Figures.• Children will learn how to use primary and secondary sources.• Children will understand how lives have changed over time and that the world has not always been as it is now.• Children will learn about the development of technology.

Geography.• We will cover the following Geography topics this year:• The classroom and the school environment.• An overview of the seven continents.• Ice age, Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age.

• Children will learn about the size of the school / Blackburn in comparison to the country / world.• Children will understand how thelives of others are different depending on where they live.• Geographical history.

Art and DT (Design Technology).• We will cover the following Art and DT topics this year:• Self portraits.• Investigating materials.• Sculpture.• Moving pictures.• Homes• Fruit and vegetables.• In Art, children will learn how to mix colours, use materials for effect and model using clay.• In DT, children will learn how to use hinges (e.g. split pins), model 3D pictures and design new packaging for food products.

Grammar.• Grammar lessons are 15-20 minutes long, daily.• The foci of the sessions are as follows:• Punctuation.• Different connectives.• Up-levelling vocabulary.• Writing sentences containing double adjectives.• Improving and correcting sentences.• Although Grammar sounds quite formal, the sessions aren’t difficult. They are there to improve overall sentence formation.

Reading Comprehension.

• There is one 30-40 minute session on Reading Comprehension each week.• The whole class read and unpick a text.• The children complete basic comprehension exercises on the text.• Towards the end of the year, the children have a go at SATs Reading questions.• A lot of the work in these sessions is oral comprehension.• This lesson each week is inaddition to standard reading.

Guided Reading.• The children are streamed into GR groups based on ability.• The groups contain between 4 – 6 children.• Each group gets 1 session with the class teacher and 1 session with the class LC per week.• Every session is planned and records are made which are used to adjust groups if necessary.• GR is the main form of readingassessment for all children.• The children do not use theirhome reading books for GR.

Have you got any questions?