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Kennedy School

Year 1 Familiarisation Session

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Objectives

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The aims for your child this morning:

• Meet children who will be in their class
• Chance to meet teachers who they will encounter next

year

• Develop confidence in the school environment and

some of the routines

• Know what to expect
• Become less anxious about coming to Kennedy
• Separate from parents more easily in August

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Aims for you this morning:

• An opportunity to meet other

parents and staff

• To learn more about life at Kennedy

for your child

• To find out about the organisation

for the start of school

• To develop a support network

The Leadership Team

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Mrs Emma Navin, Vice Principal Mr Bryce Pedersen, Vice Principal Ms Traci Salter, Vice Principal Mr Joshua Blue, Vice Principal

Year 1 class teachers

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• Mrs. Allen

(1A) Miss Flint (1R)

• Mrs. Jeffes

(1J)

• Ms. Scott (1F)
• Mr. Sweet (1S)

ORGANISATION FOR THE YEAR AHEAD

Information pack

• http://www.kennedy.edu.hk/famday

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Medical information

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Immunisation

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Emergency contact

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Drug administration

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Gateway

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Epayment, PPS leaflet

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Parent consent form

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Year 1 organization letter

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ORGANISATION LETTER

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Buses

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Snacks and Lunch

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School Bag

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Reading pocket

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Diary

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PE kits/Houses

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Uniform

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Laptops

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Swimming

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ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FIRST DAYS IN YEAR 1

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 10:00am – Tuesday 19th August (10 children)  10:00am – Wednesday 20th August (10 children)  10:00am – Thursday 21st August (10 children)  10:00am – ALL CHILDREN Friday 22/8 to 29/8 TILL 3:00pm  Monday, 1st September ALL CHILDREN START 8:30 to

3:00pm

THE CURRICULUM

IB Primary Years Programme We believe:

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Children need to explore, inquire and engage with the world around them

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Children need to be encouraged to ask questions and to seek out answers

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Children need to create their own understanding of the world around them

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Children need to have a strong foundation in the skills of Reading, Writing and Mathematics

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Kennedy School provides a caring, supportive and academically challenging environment which helps develop students academically, socially and emotionally

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WHAT WILL MY CHILD BE LEARNING AT SCHOOL?

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IB Learner Profile

IB learners strive to be:

CARING THINKERS RISK-TAKERS

KNOWLEDGABLE

BALANCED OPEN-MINDED

COMMUNICATORS

PRINCIPLED REFLECTIVE INQUIRERS

PROGRAMME OF INQUIRY

 How We Organize Ourselves—Community  Who We Are—Characteristics, Abilities and

Uniqueness

 How We Express Ourselves—Imagination  How the World Works—Materials  Where We Are in Place and Time—Homes  Sharing the Planet—Living things

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Building Phonemic Awareness Reading and Writing

• For Enjoyment
• With Purpose

Year 1 Curriculum - Literacy

Handwriting Speaking & Listening Library

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 Number  Patterns and

Function

 Measurement

Year 1 Curriculum - Numeracy

 Data handling  Space and Shape

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Physical Development

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Fine and Gross Motor Skills ( P .M.P )

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Year 1 Curriculum – PE / Games

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD

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CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT  Art  Music  Dance  Stories  Structured

Play

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In Year 1, we aim to provide the foundation for the learning your child will do throughout his / her school life.

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Chinese study at Kennedy School

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

What is Chinese learning about?

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Denggao Zeng

(Zeng Lao Shi)

The Chinese Team

Lois Ma

(Ma Lao Shi)

Judy Lee

(Li Lao Shi)

John Cheung

(Zhang Lao Shi)

Lucy Wong

(Wong laoshi )

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 We follow ESF Chinese curriculum guideline with our curriculum design, choice of resources and main textbooks  Chinese simplified characters and Putonghua is the teaching media  Programmes of Inquiry are part of Chinese curriculum with different focus according to PW groupings  Chinese festivals are celebrated in line with curriculum and PYP POI

Chinese Programme

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What do students study in Chinese? 学什 么？

Year One ‘s Chinese is topic based. Students will learn to recognise and respond to words, phrases and simple sentences in spoken Chinese, identify and respond to features of written Chinese; use known words in Chinese to interact in everyday activities and demonstrate developing writing skills by recognising and tracing stroke orders, stroke directions and basic root words. E.g.

• Greetings and

classroom languages (including school items)

• Numbers
• About me
• Mid- autumn Festival/

Christmas

• My family
• 12 animals and Pets
• CNY Celebration
• Body Parts
• Colors
• Weather
• Mother’s day
• Dragon boat

festival

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 Activities are constructed around texts  Lessons include the systematic teaching of Chinese strokes, radicals, structures and sentence patterns  Learning falls in meaningful contexts

Key principles of teaching Chinese

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How do children learn Chinese in Class?

• Learning Chinese through music

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• Learning Chinese through games

• Stroke recognition

• Character writing

谢谢！

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

ASSESSMENT

 PIPS – Performance Indicators in Primary

Schools

 Ongoing teacher assessment  End of Unit reports -3 x year  End of Year report

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OPPORTUNITIES TO MEET THE TEACHER

 Meet the teacher evening -September  Parents evening – November  3way conferences – Parent/Teacher/Child - March

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TYPICAL DAY IN YEAR 1

 Inquiry learning – transdisiplinary  Specialist lessons e.g PE, Chinese, Music  Library time  Weekly newsletter to update you on learning

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OUR CURRENT YEAR 1 CHILDREN

What’s it like to be in

Year1?

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PTA

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SCHOOL NURSE

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Nurse Irene Wong

Parents

If you would like to volunteer to be our class parent please contact: Elspeth Penny at pta@kennedy.edu.hk

Parent helpers -meeting in September. Start volunteering from October.

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If you have any questions to be discussed, please contact us and we will be pleased to help you. enavin@kennedy.edu.hk We look forward to working with you and your children to have a happy and successful time at Kennedy.