Welcome to Year 1        

Class Teacher- Miss Lea 

Autumn 1

Welcome to Year 1 and a brand new start at Christ Church Academy! We look forward to having you back and can’t wait to start the new year off with a happy and safe start.

Please rest assured that the safety of your children is our priority and we have made many changes to the running of our school to comply with Government guidelines.

Letters have been attached to the website and are also on the school Dojo website if you need to re-read and remind yourselves of the new arrangements for drop off and pick up times.

Useful Class Information

Class Dojo

Our PE day is Friday Afternoon. On P.E days we ask your child to come in their P.E kit and stay in it all day. We will do our P.E lessons outside when appropriate so make sure your child is dressed in joggers and a jumper if needs be. Thank you.

The children will be given a reading book to take home each Wednesday. We ask that children read with you at home each day so that they become really familiar with the book.

These books will then need to be returned to school on a Monday so that we can exchange them again on Wednesday, leaving 72 hours to remove risk of cross contamination. At school the children will have a school reading book which we will read with them every other day.

It is the child’s responsibility to bring their book back into school to be changed and reading log checked.

If you read four times a week and have your reading log signed at home by the end of the week you will receive a sticker for your individual badge. Collector badges are a great way for pupils to save their mini sticker rewards: They can attach the badge to their uniform and wear their collection with pride. Children’s badges will be displayed on a pin board in the classroom. Only when the badge is full does the child get to wear it with pride before getting a new colour badge on the pin board.

Base Groups

The children may talk to you about this. Base groups happen on Friday morning. The children will now belong to a group (Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald or Topaz) where they will have opportunities to discuss their behaviour, attendance, smartness and effort each week. Children who stay green all term will obtain a good to be green badge to wear. Children will be awarded Dojo’s for their BASE groups.

Monies

We ask that any money which is to be  handed in to school is in a named envelope.You can then give it to staff on the door at the start of the school day.

Please ask school staff if there is anything else you need to know. We are always happy to help.

Our Year 1 expectations and Talk Time rules:

When we are listening we sit still with our tidy hands

We speak clearly and use a loud voice so that others can hear

We listen carefully when someone is speaking and show respect

We look at the person who is talking