Year 1

Welcome to Year 1

Welcome to Year 1. Year 1 is taught by Miss Pettett. The class is supported by Mrs K and Mrs Shea.

Sample Phonic assessments can be found under the Parents page, follow the assessment link.

The five key skills taught through our synthetic phonics programme includes the following:

Learning the letter sounds – children are taught the 42 main letter sounds. This includes the alphabet sounds as well as digraphs such as sh, th, ai and ue.
Learning letter formation – using different multi-sensory methods, children learn how to form and write the letters.
Blending – Children are taught how to blend the sounds together to read and write new words.
Segmenting – this involves children identifying sounds in words so that they have the best possible start for improving their spelling.
Helping children with tricky words – English contains a large number of regularly used words that don’t follow a phonetic patters. This words are learnt separately, alongside children’s acquisition of phonic skills.

For videos and resources please use the following link

http://www.phonics4free.org/home

http://www.phonics4free.org/phonics-repository

A pronunciation guide for the phonemes can also be found using the following link:

A guide for helping parents understand why the pure pronunciation of phonics sounds is so important can also be found at: