We are so excited to start our phonics journey with our children. This is laying the foundations for their learning in reading and writing and we are passionate about getting it right for your child. 

Our phonics scheme is Supersonic Phonic Friends. They use characters that help the children in their phonics sessions. These include: Listening Len, See it Sam, Segmenting Seb, Blend with Ben, Build with Bill, Read with Rex, Write with Ron, Tricky Tess. 

We start the term looking at what is called Basics 1, which is where we play lots of listening games and begin to identify sounds in words.When we feel the children are ready we introduce Basics 2. This is when the children will learn letter sounds. Please see the sound mat at the bottom of this page to see the order that we teach. We use sound mats to support reading, writing and in our phonic sessions, so it is helpful for you to look at these with your child. You will find these at the back of their yellow reading diary. Regular practice of these sounds at home and school will consolidate their knowledge and help develop confidence. We wills end home phonics home learning sheets each week. These show you the sounds that your child has been learning so you can practice at home.

Basic 2 sounds: s, a, t, p, i, m, n, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, l, ll, ff, ss

Basics 2 and 3 sound mats can be found in the boxes at the bottom of this page.

Please ask the FS staff if you would like a hard copy for home.

Term 1

This term our enquiry question is - What makes a good superhero?

We start our year thinking about what makes us special. We explore the concepts of friendships and kindness. We discuss different feelings and how we can recognise these feelings and what they may mean. 

We have lots of exciting things happening this term including, Superhero day, visitors from different jobs e.g. police and firefighters. 

During PSHE we continue to follow the Jigsaw programme focusing on Being Me in My World. We think about ourselves and our relationships with others.

Some of the books we will be using are:

Meesha Makes Friends

Super Duper You

Real Life Superheroes

Supertato

The Little Red Hen

The Leaf Thief

In our maths sessions we follow the NCTEM Mastering Number scheme, alongside supplementary materials from White Rose to support our maths learning. We are focusing on the subitising; counting, ordinality, cardinality; compositions and comparison. We will practice the concept of subitising which is where we look and say an amount, without counting. We will talk about counting and how many there are altogether. We will looking at the composition of numbers e.g.  seeing that 5 can be made of 3 and 2. We will also look at comparison of numbers and quantities.

We will also look at aspects of time, measure and shapes.