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Year 1 Parent Curriculum Meeting

Date: September 2018

Aims:

• Opportunity to meet your child’s class

teacher

• Opportunity to hear about what your child

will be learning and how you can be involved

Year 1 Team

 Oak Class Teacher: Miss Zenasni  Oak Teaching Assistants: Miss Fudge(part-time) & Miss

Newby(part-time) Miss Anna (AM) Miss Gustaffe (PM)

 Birch Class Teacher: Miss Reid  Birch Teaching Assistants: Miss Currier

DKH Vision

“A caring, supportive and stimulating environment where positive links between the school, home and community promotes shared high aspirations supported by a broad, balanced, creative and inclusive curriculum which develops an enquiring mind and a love of learning in all our pupils…”

“Where Children Love To Learn!”

A schools culture refers to the shared values, attitudes, standards, and beliefs that characterise members of an organisation and define its nature.

Our values:

Creativity Ambition Courage

Respectful

Empathy Resilient

“Treat others the way you want to be treated!”

School Day

School starts promptly at 8:55am when the bell

• goes. To ensure children benefit fully from

classroom learning and that other children’s learning is not disrupted we have a strict punctuality procedure. Children arriving after 9:00am are required to collect a late arrival ticket from the School Office before going they are admitted to the classroom. School ends at 3:15pm daily.

Home-School Agreement

We the adults are responsible for children at home and at school. We want to provide a safe, supportive and stimulating learning environment in which each child is treated as an individual and needs of all are considered. We encourage children to work hard, to behave appropriately and to take pride and pleasure in their own and others’ achievements. We look forward to working together on a basis of mutual respect to help children become confident enthusiastic learners.

Parent/ Carer:

To help my child at school, I will do my best to:

• Make sure that my child attends school regularly and inform the

school of the reasons for any absence

• Support the school in maintaining good behaviour and discipline
• Attend open evenings for parents
• Ensure that my child dresses appropriately for school
• Let the school know if there are any problems that may affect my

child’s ability to learn.

• Provide healthy lunch choices
• Support my child with homework and other home learning
• pportunities and listen to my child read and read to them also

(10mins)

• Make sure my child arrives in school on time and is collected on time

Will do its best to:

• Encourage your child to do his/ her best at all times
• Expect the best from your child in behaviour and work
• Inform parents and carers regularly how their child is progressing
• Inform children, parents and carers what the teachers aim to teach your child

each term

• Take reasonable steps to ensure the safety, happiness and self-confidence of all

your child

• Be open and welcoming at all reasonable times and offer opportunities for parents

and cares to become involved in the daily life of the school

• Set, mark and monitor home tasks regularly in keeping with the school’s policy
• Contact parents and carers as soon as possible if we are concerned about your

child’s work or behaviour

• Contact parents and carers if there is a persistent problem concerning your child’s

attendance or punctuality

• Offer a broad and balanced curriculum which meets the needs of your child
• Provide healthy lunch options
• Listen to your child’s ideas and encourage him/ her to speak out
• Encourage your child to keep fit and active
• Challenge your child and ensure that he/ she does his/ her best
• Ensure your child understands the teacher and any curriculum covered

School:

Pupils:

I will do my best to:

• Work hard and listen carefully to instructions
• Come to school regularly and be on time
• Keep to the GOLDEN rules and behave well
• Do my homework regularly and bring it back to school
• Dress appropriately for school
• Always bring my PE kit into school
• Take good care of the school environment
• Achieve individual targets and aim to beat them
• Be the very best I can in all that I do
• Be polite and helpful to other children and all adults and respect
• thers

Geography

• Naming and locating continents and
• ceans
• Comparing life in Kenya to life in

England

• Using geographical vocabulary

Class Trip

• Black History Month
• Museum of London
• 19th October 2018

Show and Tell

 Show and tell will happen on a Friday and we

encourage children to bring in something related to what we have been learning. This could be a book, photograph, object etc.

 Children are responsible for looking after their own

• bject that they have brought into school.

 Children should not bring toys into school or

jewellery with the exception of stud earrings.

Weekly Homework Activities

• Homework is to consolidate learning and for

your child to practise at home. It is not compulsory but is beneficial.

• Homework will be set every Friday to be

submitted by the Tuesday of the following week.

• Your child will receive 2 reading books per

week.

• The homework will consist of some spellings

and a short maths and topic activity.

• This

is to be returned in the provided homework folders.

Ways to help!!

• Please read with your child as often as you can and ask them

questions so that they can interrogate the text.

• Support your child with the weekly homework tasks.
• Parent Volunteers welcomed
• Visit useful websites such as:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/ http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/ https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html

• Purchase workbooks from leading book stores such as: WHSmith,

Waterstones etc.

PE Days

 Oak Class

Miss Zenasni will teach PE on a Tuesday and Mr Rochford will teach PE on Friday.

 Birch class

Miss Reid will teach PE on a Wednesday and Mr Rochford will teach PE on Friday.

PE Uniform

Please make sure that your child is wearing the correct PE

• uniform. This includes:

Outdoor shoes must not be canvas to prevent ankle and foot injuries. I would recommend AstroTurf football shoes for those that play football a lot as they are hard wearing, otherwise running shoes are the most comfortable and supportive

PE Lessons:

It is best that children bring both indoor and outdoor kit for all lessons just in case we have to change the venue of the lesson because of the weather for example.

Outdoor PE kit Indoor PE kit Navy Blue Joggers Navy Blue Hoody White T-Shirt and running shoes or Astroturf football

• shoes. No canvas

style trainers. White T-Shirt Navy Blue Shorts (at the length pictured) Plimsolls/ gymnastic shoe/bare feet for dance and gymnastics

High standards of behaviour: The Governors strongly believe that high standards of behaviour lie at the heart of a successful school. Good teaching and learning promote good behaviour and good behaviour promotes effective learning. Children have the right to learn and to achieve their full potential in all aspects

• f their lives, and staff have the right to teach. Governors also

believe that the expectation of high standards of behaviour which are required during the school day can have a positive effect on the life of young people outside school in encouraging them to become successful citizens.

No Bullying Allowed

Communication

Weekly Newsletter School Website: www.dkh.org.uk Text message Contacting the school office

Who do I speak to?

First instance:

• Class teacher (end of day/appointment)
• School office (Ms Cook or Ms Stewart)

By appointment:

• Year 1 and 2 Phase Leader: Ms Ghezzi
• Assessment: Ms Hillier (Head of School)
• Inclusion/SEND: Ms Melehi (Deputy Headteacher)
• Pupil Welfare: Mrs Thomas (Safeguarding Lead)
• Mrs Galiema Amien-Cloete: Executive-Headteacher

Contact Details

Please contact the school office to let us know if you have changed your contact details. It is important that we are able to get in contact with you in the case of an emergency. Important Details Required:

• Landline telephone number
• Mobile number (for text messaging service)
• Current address
• Work number
• Next of kin/emergency contact number & address
• Email address (for email list)

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions!!!