1. Meet the Teacher 30th September 2016
Reception 2016
Mrs Evans
Mrs Wilson
Mrs Dover (Mon,Tues & Wednesday)
Mrs Shafeer

2. Areas of Learning 3 Prime Areas of Learning:
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Personal, Social and Emotional development
4 Specific Areas:
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts and Design

3. How to help your child in school
Label ALL clothing!
Teach them to put on and do up their coats.
Encourage them to do as much as they can for themselves at home, eg Dress themselves! (buttons are the worst…)
Talk to them about trying
hard, doing their best, being
kind, asking for help when
they are struggling.

4. Lunch
You can choose between packed lunch or school dinners. Please talk with us if you are unsure what will be best.
Encourage your child to try new food.
Practise using a knife and fork.
They have 3 choices each day!!

5. Further Information…
PE Kits: Sweatshirts and Jogging bottoms can be ordered now. MILK: order at : Walk on Wednesday Reading books

6. Outside of school Class Rep’s
Homework sent home Friday to be handed in following Wednesday
Support your child in finding pictures for their sound book on a weekly basis
Practising their cursive letter shapes
Share reading books each evening
Play number games together

7. TRIPS
Father Philip will be coming to school to help us learn more about Baptism – November 2016
Church Visit -January 2017
Summer Trip -May 2017

8. Phonics We follow a scheme from the DfEE “Letters and Sounds”
We will be learning sounds in a particular order starting next week.
We focus on letter sounds (phonemes) rather then letter names at this stage so that children can apply their knowledge to be able to sound out (segment and blend) words when reading or spelling.

9. Phase 2
This is where we teach children the first set of letters / tricky words
We teach their sound (phoneme) and practise forming the letter using cursive formation. The letter shape is known as a grapheme.
Even after just 1 week, we can practise sounding out words using the letters learnt.
(s,a,t,p = pat, sat,tap)

10. Phase 3
This phase introduces the remaining single letter phonemes to the children as well as some digraphs (phonemes with 2 letters) and trigraphs (phonemes comprising of 3 trigraphs).
An even greater emphasis is placed on segmenting and blending words.
sh-i-p r-ai-n l-ou-d h-igh s-ee-d h-ear
Many more tricky words and high frequency words are introduced.

11. Phase 4
Children can consolidate their recognition of all phonemes / graphemes taught so far.
Children learn how to segment and blend words with adjacent consonants.
Eg t-r-ai-n, b-l-ue, d-r-ea-m, m-i-s-t
New tricky / high frequency words.

12. Phase 5
The final set of phonemes are taught including split digraphs (a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e)
Children will be reading new and longer words using their phonic knowledge
Children will be using digraphs and some trigraphs in their spelling. (Don’t worry if it isn’t the correct one yet!
(– eg d-r-ee-m / d-r-ea-m)
More complex sight vocabulary is taught.

13. Tips
If you are unsure of how to pronounce each phoneme (sound) please ask or go online to
If your child is unsure how to read a new word, help them segment it and blend it. You can frame the graphemes in the word to help)
Practise reading tricky words on sight.
Discourage your child from using capital letters unless starting a name or sentence and persevere at learning cursive formation – it will be worth it!!

14. QUESTIONS?