Welcome to Year 1  

Here you will find our latest curriculum newsletters and pictures of the children working in our class.

See below what we will be getting up to in Year 1:

Summer Newsletter 25

Little Wandle Phonics Scheme

Please visit the Little Wandle website for parents to support your child on their reading journey. There are documents that support you to help your child pronounce the phase 5 sounds correctly with the corresponding graphemes.

Please click the link below to find out more:

For parents | Letters and Sounds

Phonics Screening Check Preparation

Little Wandle Phase 5 Flashcards

Little Wandle at Home Phonics Flashcards for Year 1: Phase 5 (Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised) : Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Section 1

The words in section 1 will have a variety of simple word structures (for example CVC, VCC, CCVC and CVCC) using:

• single letters (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, I, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q(u), r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z)
• some consonant digraphs (ch, ck, ff, ll, ng, sh, ss, th, zz)
• frequent and consistent vowel digraphs (ar, ee, oi, oo,or)

Section 2

The words in section 2 will have a variety of more complex word structures (for example CCVCC, CCCVC, CCCVCC, two syllable words etc) using the grapheme phoneme correspondences (GPCs) from section one as well as the GPCs listed below:

• additional consonant digraphs (ph, wh)
• less frequent and consistent vowel digraphs, including split digraphs (a-e, ai, au, aw, ay, ea, e-e, er, ew, i-e, ie, ir, oa, o-e, ou, ow, oy, ue, u-e, ur)
• trigraphs (air, igh)
• alternative pronunciations (a, c, ch, e, ea, er, g, i, ie, o, ou, ow, s, u, ue, u-e)

Here are some websites to help your child with their phonics.

We are working on Phase5 - http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/Phase5Menu.htm 

http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html 

Here are some websites to help your child with maths.

http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html 

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16&AgeGroup=2