Over the course of the school year, we will be adding some useful information to this page. You can find all the information you need, below, regarding our current learning within school this term and it may also include some handy tips and tricks to help your child at home or may be some useful websites for learning, related to our topics in class.
Phonics
At Holy Trinity, we follow the Twinkl Phonics Scheme, which has been approved by the DfE as a validated scheme and is already making us fantastic at Phonics!
We began the year by recapping Phase 2, 3 and 4 before moving onto Phase 5. We will be reading a mixture of real and nonsense (alien) words in preparation for the Phonics Screening Check which takes place in June 2025. Please see the parent guide that has been uploaded. During this half term, we will continue to learn our Level 5 phonemes and consolidate our phonetic knowledge to help us become super spellers and confident readers and writers by following the Twinkl Rhino Readers home reading books which revise our prior learning.
Some Useful websites and resources that you can access at home and use to help your child with their phonics are:
Interactive games linked to each phase and a useful section on information for parents:
Offers interactive games, comics, and resources for various phonics phases, including blending, plural rules, and more.
BBC CBeebies series of animated programmes featuring the Alphablocks characters – great for practising sounds and blending words:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/alphablocks
Mrs G's little lessons on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJKLhhyCG1E&list=PLDNY9D-fYJHyzX_viN0HUr4f_Kr-e-JvY
A website set up by a Year 1 teacher who started making phonics videos for his class. He has since became very popular and has now created his own phonics apps:
More interactive games to support phonics skills.
https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/literacy.html
A collection of further games and resources
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=40
Some ideas for phonics games at home:
https://phonicsfamilycom.wordpress.com/phase-6-games/
Phonics screening check information:
a-parent-guide-to-the-phonics-screening-check.pdf
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Year 1 Reading Journey
Want to learn more about the books we have enjoyed so far this year and the books we will read this half term? Take a look at our Year 1 Reading Journey: