Welcome to Lemur Class!

Aims of our meeting

• To explain our school ethos and aims.

• To explain our expectations for Year 1 and 2.

• To give you suggestions of how you can help at

home.

Growth Mindset

• 4 Rs

• Reciprocity – sharing knowledge, ideas and working collaboratively.

• Resillience – practice makes perfect.

• Resourcefulness – fostering independence

• Reflectiveness – upon learning, behavior, setting goals.

The learning pit - ''I'm stuck!''

Incas

• Maths

• Mental Maths

• Developed ability

• Spelling

• Reading

• Attitudes

More independence

• Classroom jobs

• DIRT time

• Peer and self marking

• Thinking journals

• What to do if I’m stuck

Rewards

• Positive praise

• Merits

• Community points

• Headteacher’s award

National testing

• Year 2 children

• May 2021

• GHaSP

• English reading

• Maths – arithmetic and reasoning

Teaching reading and writing• Year 1 phonics screening – week beginning 7th June 2020

• Children are taught to read and spell using phonics. Words are

broken into pure sounds.

• Letter sounds are taught in an order than has been shown to help

children to learn to read and write more quickly.

• Reading is taught by sound talking (blending), where children are

taught to ‘blend’ sounds together. For example, c-a-t, b-a-g.

• Words that cannot be sounded out (also known as ‘tricky words’,

such as ‘the’, ‘said’, ‘he’ and ‘she’), are learnt by sight. It is

important to practise these at home.

• Spelling is taught by segmenting the word into sounds.

• Daily phonics sessions.

Phase 2My Phase 2 Sound Mat

s a t p i n m d

g o c k ck e u r

h b f ff l l l ss

Phase 3 My Phase 3 Sound Mat

j

ch

oo

air

v

sh

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ure

w

th

ar

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x

ng

or

y

ai

ur

z

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zz

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oi

qu

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Phase 5 (Year 1)

Phase 6 (Year 2)

Phase 6 phonics takes place throughout Year 2, with the aim of children

becoming fluent readers and accurate spellers.

They will learn, among other things:

• Prefixes and suffixes, e.g. ‘in-’ and ‘-ed’

• The past tense

• Memory strategies for high frequency or topic words

• Proof-reading

• How to use a dictionary

• Where to put the apostrophe in words like ‘I’m’• Spelling rules

Jolly Phonics Songs

Words to learn by sight

shop

Handwriting

• Key focus for writing in Year 1.

• Daily practise in the mornings.

• Letterjoin - www.letterjoin.co.uk/

Reading

• Ideally, children should complete five reads at home every week. Six or more reads earns them a Reading merit.

• Reading assessments currently taking place.

• Children to have two books.

• Comprehension- ask questions.

• Guided reading – carousel activities

• Class read.

Home learning

• Purpose – consolidation of skills taught or preparing for upcoming teaching.

• Needs supporting in order for there to be impact.

• Sent out on Thursday.

• Due in on Monday.

• Please work in pencil.

Supporting your child

• Talk homework

• Home learning

• Reading journals

• Phonics folders

• Letterjoin