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As a school we have adopted "Super Sonic Phonics Friends", to support us with the teaching of systematic synthetic phonics. This ensures a consistent approach across early years. "Supersonic Phonic Friends" is based on the well-recognised "Letters and Sounds". Super Supersonic Phonic Friends is an enchanted adventure of phonics where along the way children will meet several friendly woodland characters who represent each literacy skill involved. Supported by the children's new 'Supersonic friends' and rhyming captions and phrases, this approach will ensure children develop confidence and apply each skill to their own reading and writing.
At the start of Primary One your child worked with his/her class teacher to complete a Phonological Awareness Assessment. The assessment was created by The Highland Council and designed in collaboration with Speech and Language Therapists. Children across Scotland are assessed using the same questions. These questions help us to gain a clearer insight to your child’s sound awareness; it is this awareness that will support him/her when learning phonics.
In Primary One, the children are introduced to phonemes (sounds) and their corresponding graphemes (written letters). We begin to look at single letter sounds and the representing spelling for this. Children then begin to read and write three letter words; matching the grapheme to the sound they can hear.
As they become confident and fluent readers and writers of CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words children are then introduced to digraphs; where two letters make one sound. Throughout the whole year our phonic teaching relies on the firm foundations of orally blending and segmenting and is deep rooted in rhythm and rhyme. By the end of Primary One children should be fluent with all 44 sounds; including one way to represent them.
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