1. Welcome to the Early Years!

2. Our Vision at Tardebigge
We are passionate about providing all our children with a safe, secure and happy learning environment both indoors and outdoors within a Christian surrounding.
Every child is unique, bringing a wealth of experiences from their own background which we aim to nurture and develop throughout the Early Years Foundation Stage.
We believe that a strong partnership link between parents, carers and the wider community is vital to providing our children the best possible start to their early education.
At Tardebigge C.E First School we acknowledge that children learn in different ways and at different rates and that all areas of learning and development are equally important and interconnected.

3. Characteristics of Effective Learning

7. 7 areas of learning Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding of the World
Expressive Arts and Design

15. Capture Learning Independent learning – structured play
Focus activities
Focus children - observation
Living diaries (now online!)
WOW – parents/carers capture

16. Reading
Reading is one of the most important skills your child will learn in the Early Years
It unlocks the door to all future learning
Many approaches to reading
We want all children to have a love of reading

17. Sounds / phonics
Picture clue
Reading
What makes sense
Context

19. Phonics

20. What is the alphabetic code?
In English 26 letters make 44 sounds (phonemes)
3 letter – ion, igh
2 letter – th, ng
4 letter – ough
These phonemes are represented by 140 different letter combinations
A phoneme can be represented by one or more letters
The same phoneme can be spelled in more than one way – ay, ai, a_e
The same spelling may represent more than one sound – live and live
No wonder it can take years for children to learn to read, write and spell!

21. How do we teach phonics in school?
Letter/s sound correspondences at a quick pace
Immediately teach how to blend the sounds for reading
c-a-t is cat, b-u-s is bus, s-t-o-p is stop
Main digraphs (letter combinations) - for blending and segmenting
Irregular keywords (tricky words) – blending them but noting the regular and irregular/unusual parts
Uses decodable texts initially
Has blending all-through-the-word as one of the main strategy for reading unknown words

22. Phase One (Nursery) Develops awareness of sounds.
Taught through speaking & listening activities.
Split into 7 aspects:
General sound discrimination – environmental.
General sound discrimination – instrumental.
General sound discrimination – body.
Rhythm & rhyme.
Alliteration (e.g. silly sausages sizzle slowly).
Make own voice sounds (e.g. going down a slide / keep everyone quiet / buzz like a bee).
Oral blending (ready to read) & segmenting (ready to write).

23. Phase Two (Reception) Teaches blending to read & segmenting to spell.
Set 1: s a t p
Set 2: i n m d
Set 3: g o c k
Set 4: ck e u r
Set 5: h b f ff l ll ss
Vowel consonant (VC) & consonant vowel consonant (CVC) words.
Learning to read some tricky words: the to I no go into

24. Phase Three (Reception)
Continues to teach blending to read & segmenting to spell.
Set 6: j v w x
Set 7: y z zz qu
ch sh th ng ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er
Letter names
Introducing two syllable words
Learning some tricky words:
Read: he she we me be was you they all are my her
Write: the to I no go

25. Vocabulary Phoneme Digraph Grapheme Split Digraph Trigraph
The sound that a letter
or group of
letters make.
Vocabulary
Digraph
Two letters making
one sound
e.g. ch oa ee
Grapheme
The written
representation
of a phoneme.
Split
Digraph
A digraph split
by a consonant.
e.g. Bike i-e
Pete e-e
Trigraph
Three letters making
one sound
e.g. Igh / ure

26. IMPORTANT
Sounds need to be learnt and said correctly to enable children to read and spell successfully.
We all need to keep the sounds pure.
(No additional ‘u’ sound.)

27. Please check the Reception class blog every week!!!
School Website
Please check the Reception class blog every week!!!

28. Home Learning Bug Club book Maths activity on Education City
Reading at least 3 times a week.
(You will receive a letter about Bug Club and Education City on Thurs 8th October)