Welcome to Year 1

Broadstone First School 2019-2020

Who’s Who?CEO of the Castleman Academy Trust - Rhonda Moore

Executive Head of BFS & BMS- Dawn Wilks

Head of School – Rebecca Wood

Director of Inclusion- Rachel Milton

Directors of Curriculum- Dani Goulding & Aimee Lancaster

Assistant Head Teachers- Louise Graves & Fiona Lord

Year 1 Team

Debbie Clothier – Class Teacher

Terrese Morgan – Class Teacher

Shelly Colyer, Laura Dunford and Sally Churchill -Learning Support Assistants

Communication Effective communication is a crucial factor in ensuring all our learners achieve their best and are safe and happy at Broadstone First School.

We are constantly striving to ensure we keep you updated and fully informed regarding your child’s learning.

Open door Policy

School Website- calendar of events, curriculum overviews, Learning Pathways

Letters, texts and emails

Snapshot of the week

Official Facebook Page

Contacting your child’s class teacher Your child’s Class Teacher is your first point of call.

Miss Clothier

dclothier@broadstonefirst.poole.sch.uk

Miss Morgan

tmorgan@broadstonefirst.poole.sch.uk

Class Teacher - Assistant Head Teachers (KS1 Louise Graves, KS2 Fiona Lord)- Head of School - Executive Head

Emailing your child’s class teacher

Communicate positively

Vital need to knowsAsk questions

Arrange a further appointment

Teachers regularly check their emails and will respond in a timely manner. Emails will not be responded to during lesson time and beyond 6pm.

Social Media

Please think twice about what you post.

Behaviour Expectations at BFS1. We are kind and helpful. We don’t hurt feelings.2. We work hard. We don’t waste our own or others time. 3. We are gentle. We don’t hurt others. 4. We look after property. We don’t waste or damage things. 5. We listen. We don’t interrupt. 6. We are honest. We don’t tell lies.

Please refer to our Positive Self Esteem Policy on the school website

Expected behaviours are modelled and unwanted behaviours addressed at ALL times with ALL pupils.

Zero Tolerance to Bullying Bullying vs Developmental behaviour

Age appropriate behaviour

UniformWe believe a uniform looks smart, wears well and contributes to a feeling of belonging to our

school.

Attendance and Absences You can help us by:

Ensuring your child attends school regularly. Absences should only happen when your child is significantly ill and therefore unfit to attend school, or if there is an unavoidable/unforeseen reason or circumstance which is causing a difficulty.

Ring as soon as you know! Please contact the school office to inform us of your child’s absence. If school is unable to contact a parent, a welfare check may be arranged and The School Attendance Service may be made aware.

Sending us a note confirming the reason for your child’s absence when s/he returns to school.

Arranging all non-emergency medical appointments out of school hours or during school holidays.

Making sure we always have your current contact numbers; this includes all telephone numbers (including child minders’) and emergency contact details.

Holidays in Term Time

No holidays in term time will be authorised.

LatenessDoors open at 8.30am and will close at 8.50am. Your child will be registered as

late if they arrive after the gate and doors close.

Being frequently late for school adds up to lost learning:

Arriving 5 minutes late every day = 3 days lost a year Arriving 15 minutes late every day = 2 weeks lost a year Arriving 30 minutes late every day = 19 days lost a year

Lateness after the register has closed will impact your child’s attendance figure.

Pupil Premium

The money we receive for PP is a real bonus to the school and allows us to put things into place for pupils that are over and above. This helps us to deliver a better provision which can really

help support a child’s development.

Reporting to Parents

September- Welcome to Year Group Evenings

Tuesday 26th November - Book Look evening 3.15pm-6pm

Thursday 28th November - Optional Follow up appointment with the class teacher from 3.15pm

February - Mid year reports out to families

Week Beginning 24th February - Child Led, parent, teacher consultations

July – End of Year reports out to families

Tuesday 7th July- Tuesday 14th July- Optional report follow up meetings.

Learning Overviews Throughout the year there will be:

Broadstone Come Dancing (5)Once Upon a Time (6) A Christmas Carol ( 3) Road to Recovery (5) Location, Location, Location (6) Blue Planet – War on Plastic (7) Art Attack (5)

Key Dates Hook/Challenge Outcome Visitors/Trips

Broadstone Come Dancing w/b 9th September w/b 30th September Dance students Corfe Hillsw/b 16th September

Once Upon a Time w/b 7th October w/b 18th November Visitor from Nurseryw/b 14th October

A Christmas Carol w/b 25th November Monday 16th December

Road to Recovery w/b 6th January w/b 3rd February NHS visitor date TBC

Location, Location, Location w/b 10th February w/b 23rd March Local Walks

Blue Planet w/b 30th March w/b 1st June Oceanarium w/b 30th March

Art Attack w/b 8th June w/b 6th July Local Artist Date TBC

Daily Routine- Year 1Start of day 8.30 -Morning activities to settle.

Morning sessions-Phonics, Topic and Literacy, Maths

Breaks flexible generally around 10.30

Lunch 12.15, please remember to order and talk through choices with your child

Continuous provision in the afternoon- more child led and independent, children plan then choose then recall at the end.

Home time is 3.00pm- please ensure we know if someone different is picking up.

PhonicsWe teach using Read Write Inc scheme of work mainly.

System that uses pictures and rhymes to help children remember the sounds.

Continue learning from EYFS- Set 1 set 2 and set 3.

Daily sessions and group reading with phonics books in stage appropriate groups.

Pack being sent home with sounds on to help your child progress through the books.

Other books to take home for variety grouped in colour stages.

Set One:

Set One: single sounds that can be blended together to makesimple words, children sounding out and blending for reading.

Set Two:

Set two , 2 or three letters together digraphs and trigraphs to form a wider range of words.

Set Three:

Set 3, alternative spellings for sounds allowing for spelling and reading a wider range of words.

Red Words:

Phonics Screening

Mid June we have the phonics screening test, please don’t book a holiday for this time!

A test using all of the sounds we teach by reading real words and ‘alien’ words.

The alien words can be tricky so we ask you to help them practise reading some of these at home as well as the regular reading books.

Phonics- How you can help at home:

Thursday 26th September- 5pm-6pm- Reading Meeting Refresher

The books we send home should be accessible and not too challenging. They are there to support decoding, fluency, speed and confidence.

More challenging texts are used in school when teaching reading.

Encouraged at home to read more than just the school books. Expose your child to a range of texts.

Your child will be assessed every 6 weeks.

Not a race to whizz through book colours. Within each colour there is a wide range of genres and texts. Build fluency speed, ensuring not heavily relying on sounding out.

Reading and understanding the text is just as important as decoding words. We only move children onto the next level when we know children are secure with the skills they need to be a good reader and are making important links with their reading and writing.

Reading in Year 1:

Value of a number- numbers up to 20

Concrete Resources

Number formation 1 more 1 less

Counting in 2s

Building a secure understanding of number

Maths in Year 1:

General Information

PE days are Tuesday and Friday

Please name all PE Kits

Book Bags in school daily please

Changing books

Key Dates- Autumn TermDate Event

Monday 9th September Welcome to Year One Evening

w/b 9th September Broadstone Come Dancing Hook

w/b 16th September Corfe Hills Dance Expert Visitors

Thursday 26th September Reading Refresher evening 5pm-6pm

w/b 30th September Broadstone Come Dancing Outcome

Friday 4th October Harvest Festival

w/b 7th October Once Upon a Time Hook

Tuesday 8th October PTA- School discos- time TBC

Thursday 17th October New Reception parents evening

Friday 15th November Children in Need

w/b 25th November A Christmas Carol Hook

Tuesday 26th November Book Look evening 3pm-6pm

Thursday 28th November Book Look follow up appointments

Friday 6th December PTA- Christmas Fayre- time TBC

Monday 16th December BFS Taste of Christmas, St John’s Church- time TBC

Tuesday 17th December PTA- Film Night- time TBC

Thursday 18th December BFS Party Day

Key Dates- Spring TermDate Event

w/b 6th January Road to Recovery Hook

February Mid Year Reports out

w/b 10th February Location, Location, Location Hook

w/b 24th February Child led parent consultations

w/b 9th March Year 1 local walk of the area

Tuesday 10th March PTA- School disco- time TBC

w/b 30th March School Show – Yr2, Yr3, Yr4

Key Dates- Summer TermDate Event

June Phonics screening- week TBC

w/b 15th June Year 1 Art Visitor

w/b 9th March Year 1 local walk of the area

Friday 19th June Sports day- time TBC

Monday 22nd June Reserved Sports Day

Friday 26th June PTA- Summer Fayre- Time TBC

July Transfer Day

End of July End of Year reports

Home Learning ‘Meaningful, manageable and fully supports what is

being taught in school.’

Reading Writing Maths Topic

Knowledge Organiser Packs

The ‘go to’ document full of knowledge, experiences and resources to help at home. These will be kept in your child's book bag.

Resources to help at home…

Spellings…

Exception words are words in which the English spelling code works in an unusual or

uncommon way. They are not words for which phonics 'doesn't work', but they may be exceptions to spelling

rules, or words which use a particular combination of letters to represent sound

patterns in a rare or unique way.

Reading at home…

Reading little and often - we would like children to be reading at least ten minutes a day.

By reading with your child you are: Stimulating imagination Helping develop language skills Helping develop comprehension skills Demonstrating that reading is important

Open Door Policy

If at any point you want to discuss your child’s learning with us, then please come and see us.

Don’t wait for a parent’s evening.

Miss Clothier dclothier@broadstonefirst.poole.sch.uk

Miss Morgan tmorgan@broadstonefirst.poole.sch.uk

Thank you

We will be around to answer any questions you may have.