Year 1

There are three classes in Year 1: The Komodo Dragons (1VSE) Sunda Clouded Leopards (1CTO)  and the Kalimantan Orangutans (1NDR).

Contact details:

1VSE - victoria_seeshaan@bsj.sch.id

1CTO - clare_tomlinson@bsj.sch.id

1NDR - nathalie_delarosa@bsj.sch.id 

Specialist teachers

Contact details

Ms Andrean: christine_andrean@bsj.sch.id 

Ms Mafalda: mafalda_hipolito@bsj.sch.id 

Pak Fery: fery_sitepu@bsj.sch.id 

Ibu Zuesty: zuesty@bsj.sch.id 

Ibu Julia: julia_arofah@bsj.sch.id 

Swim Team: swimcoach@bsj.sch.id  

Other useful contacts:

Primary office: primary@bsj.sch.id

Activities office: activities@bsj.sch.id 

Bus office: fajar@bsj.sch.id

Catering: catering@bsj.sch.id 

Length of the day: 7:45am - 1:45pm and 2:45 if your children will participate in an ECA.

Snack time: 10:00 - 10:30am

Lunch time: 12:00 - 12:45pm

Below is the timetable for Year 1 with information about when specialist lessons happen. 

Children wear their PHE clothes all day on their PHE day. The children should also wear PHE it on swimming days and bring in swimming clothes and change at school. Swimming and PHE are compulsory and any children who miss swimming due to illness will require a doctor's note detailing the reasons why.

Library

The children will visit the library once a week as a class where they will change their library books. Classes will visit on these days:

Wednesday - 1CTO

Wednesday - 1VSE

Thursday - 1NDR

Reminders

• Black school shoes when wearing blue Batik

• No trolley bags

• Change in normal routine - inform class teacher (emails above), bus office: fajar@bsj.sch.id  primary office: primary@bsj.sch.id, and Activities: activities@bsj.sch.id  via email before 12pm

• Food sent in for snack and lunch should not contain nuts or shellfish (crab, prawns/shrimp, octopus etc)

• Please send in a spare set of clothes each day

• Bring a water bottle each day

• Bring a hat for outside play

• Bring the red book bag on reading and library days

• Please label all your children's belongings

Explore topics

Supporting reading at home

One of the most important ways you can help support your child is regular reading at home. This is important because it helps your children build confidence, improve their vocabulary, and strengthen their understanding of sounds and words. When you read regularly it also supports your children's comprehension skills, which is key for learning in all subjects. When you read with your children, it makes reading fun and encourages a love for books that will help your children become better readers and learners overall.

Here are some ways parents can support reading skills for Year 1 students:

1. Read Together Daily: Spend time reading with your child every day. Read the levelled reading books we send home but also let them pick books they enjoy to make it fun.

2. Ask Questions: After reading, ask simple questions about the story to help them understand and think about what they have read.

3. Sound Out Words: Encourage your child to sound out words they don’t know, helping them use phonics skills they are learning at school.

4. Practice Sight Words: Work on sight words (common words like "the" and "and") to help them recognise words quickly. These words usually can’t be decoded using phonics and to aid fluency children should be able to read them on sight.

5. Create a Reading Routine: Set aside a special time each day for reading so it becomes a fun habit, like before bed or after school.

6. Use Environmental Print: Encourage reading everyday signs, labels, or menus while out and about to show that reading is everywhere.

7. Praise Their Efforts: Celebrate their reading achievements, no matter how small, to boost their confidence and motivation to keep reading.

8. Make Reading Interactive: Use different voices for characters, and let them act out parts of the story to make reading more engaging and fun.

9. Read the same books again: We will be sending 5 books home at a time, these books should not only be read once. Each time you read the book focus on a different skill from the list above. E.g one day focus on picking out all the ‘tricky words’, the next day focus on asking comprehension questions etc. 

Some examples of comprehension and inference questions:

1. Can you tell me the name of the main character?

2. Can you tell me what happened at the beginning of the story?

3. What did [insert character] do when there was a problem in the story?

4. How did [insert character] feel when [insert situation] happened?

5. Did you like the ending of the story?

6. [Looking at the front cover] what do you think this story is about, what makes you think that?

7. [pause the story] What might happen next?

8. Did you like the ending of the story? What would have made it better? 

Children will read each week at school with a grown up. This will be either, the Teacher, the Learning Assistant or a parent helper who has done the reading at school training. 

In addition to the reading books sent home from school you can also spend time using the apps below or oxford owl (you can make a parent account for free) click the link below to visit the website. 

Support at home

To help the children on their journey to the mastery of key concepts they need to revisit what they have learnt, practice and apply their understanding. 

These websites are tools for practicing key skills through games or from reading interactive books. To benefit from these the children should be able to apply their skills without help. 

If the game is too difficult or the book too hard choose an easier game or text for them to use.

Handwriting

In addition to these apps, we encourage children to practise handwriting following the cursive style of letter formation. Below is an example of what letters should look like and videos to help demonstrate how the letters should be formed. 

Here are the letters of the alphabet in pre-cursive form showing correct position on the line. Please refer to this when helping your children write at home. As we progress through the year, the children will begin to learn to join these letters to ensure they have fluent writing. 

These verbal pathways will help you when guiding your children at home to form their letters correctly.

*We will be using: f3, k1, w2, x2 and z2.