This document provides information for parents of students in Year 1. It outlines the class teachers, support staff, daily schedule, topics covered for the year, educational visits, parent workshops, and resources to support learning at home including Power Projects, Mathletics, Bug Club, phonics, handwriting, and behavior expectations. Reading and homework expectations are also explained.

1. Welcome Parents!
Year 1

2. Staff in this year…
• Class teachers are Miss Cox (Rowling) and Mrs Khanam
(Potter) .
• Support staff for the Rowling and Potter class are: Mr Walmsley,
Mrs. Hall and Mrs Targett.
• In Literacy, we also have Mrs Trattos who takes a group out
from each class to support them further.

3. Classroom
Schedule
8:55 – 9:05 Registration.
9:05 – 9:20
Assembly (good work-Wednesday) (Class worship-
Thursday)
9:25 – 10:20 Literacy
10:25 – 10:40 Snack & Break Time
10:45 – 11:40 Numeracy
11:40 – 12:05 Phonics
12:10 – 1:10 Lunch
1:15 – 1:40 Guided Reading
1:45 – 2:30 Topic
2:30 – 2:40 Break Time
2.45 - 3:20 Topic
3:25 Home Time
This is what a typical day in our
classroom looks like.

4. Timetable…
Monday –Children will require their indoor P.E. kits.
Wednesday - Children will require their indoor P.E. kits.
Friday – Children should return their spellings, Instant recall
tests and Power Projects and spelling activity given out.

5. Topics covered this year are…
Creative Curriculum
Autumn 1: What’s great about Great Britain: Victorians
Autumn 2: School Days
Spring 1: Toys
Spring 2: Poles Apart
Summer 1: Get out of my swamp
Summer 2: Flight
Science Topics
Everyday Materials, Plants, Animals (including humans and seasonal
changes.

6. Educational Visits
• Autumn : Black Country Museum.
• Spring: Hartlebury Castle
• Summer: RAF Cosford

7. Parent Workshops
• We will be having a Maths workshop after the half term
holiday.
• Parents Evening will be Tuesday 17th
and Wednesday 18th
October 2017.
• Year 1 will be doing an Easter Production in the Spring
term.

8. Supporting your child at home…
Power Projects! These will be given out and the children can
choose from the given section which task to complete.
Spellings – these will be given out every Friday and tested the
following Friday.
Mathletics – the children will be issued with a login for an online
Numeracy resource.
Bug Club – the children have been issued with a login for an
online reading resource.

10. Maths Challenges…
To improve speed and accuracy of
multiplication facts, children will
complete maths challenges weekly.
When they score full marks on two
occasions on a challenge level, they
progress onto the following level.

11. Home Reading & Reading Comments…
Our class author is Anthony Browne.
Children will read to an adult in school at least twice a
week. Please make a note of your child’s reading day.
When you read with your child at home, please sign
and date the reading record.
Children read during guided reading sessions and
during phonic lessons.

12. Phonics
Important part of child's learning as it helps them to read
and spell.
Children will be assessed and grouped across the year, to
improve their phonetic ability.
Phonics five days a week.
In June the children undertake a National Phonic
Screening Assessment where they will read 40 words: 20
real and 20 alien/pseudo words.
(More information will be given to you in the Phonics workshops
later on in the year).

14. Handwriting
• We have introduced a new scheme for handwriting called Letter join.
• The children will practise this new type of writing once a week.
• Please can you continue to support and encourage them to use letter joins when
they are completing their homework.
Parents Letter join Home login:
Username: ak7182
Password: home
Swipe code: Capital L

15. Bug Club…
Log into Bug Club from ActiveLearn (can be
accessed through google).
Username: First 4 letters of first name, followed by
first 4 letters of surname.
Password: 5jj / 5mf
School Code: 3969

16. Behaviour
At Wylde Green we are trying to improve children’s learning
behaviour by changing the vocabulary that we use with them
and our systems for monitoring behaviour.
Children are asked to make the right ‘choice’ with their behaviour
and understand that the consequences are as follows:
Warning.
Move down the ladder ONCE.
Move down again. Once they have moved 3 times, they will be
issued a Yellow Card and will spend the next morning break.
Red cards are issued for serious offences such as fighting
(including play fighting), damaging property and serious
disrespect.

17. Questions?