Supporting Your Child
There are lots of things that you can do to support your child with their development and learning.
Here are some things that you might find interesting.
Here you can find examples of the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
- Phonics Screening Check: 2018 Materials
- Phonics Screening Check: 2017 Materials
- Phonics Screening Check: 2016 Materials
- Phonics Screening Check: 2015 Materials
At Wellstead Primary School we use the Letters and Sounds Phonics Programme for all of our phonics teaching.
Letters and Sounds is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education and Skills in 2007. It aims to build children's speaking and listening skills in their own right as well as to prepare children for learning to read by developing their phonic knowledge and skills. It sets out a detailed and systematic programme for teaching phonic skills for children starting by the age of five, with the aim of them becoming fluent readers by age seven.
There are six overlapping phases. The table below is a summary based on the Letters and Sounds guidance for Practioners and Teachers. For more detailed information, visit the Letters and Sounds website.
Phase | Year Group | Phonic Knowledge & Skills |
Phase One |
Nursery/Reception | Activities are divided into seven aspects, including environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body sounds, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and finally oral blending and segmenting. |
Phase Two | Reception | Learning 19 letters of the alphabet and one sound for each. Blending sounds together to make words. Segmenting words into their separate sounds. Beginning to read simple captions. |
Phase Three |
Reception | The remaining 7 letters of the alphabet, one sound for each. Graphemes such as ch, oo, th representing the remaining phonemes not covered by single letters. Reading captions, sentences and questions. On completion of this phase, children will have learnt the "simple code", i.e. one grapheme for each phoneme in the English language. |
Phase Four |
Reception | No new grapheme-phoneme correspondences are taught in this phase. Children learn to blend and segent longer words with adjacet consonants, e.g. swim, clap, jump. |
Phase Five |
Year 1 | Now we move on to the "complex code". Children learn more graphemes for the phonemes which they already know, plus different ways of pronouncing the graphemes they already know. |
Visit the Department for Education and Skills website to view the 'Letters and Sounds - Principles and Practice of High Quality Phonics' documentation.
We support our teaching of phonics with bug club teaching tools, reading books and phonics e-books to give your children a firm, fun foundation in phonics with a complete phonics programme that's proven to raise reading standards. KS1 children have a unique log in code to allow them to enjoy reading and collecting bug club points. Visit the Active Learn website to find out more.
Reading
At Wellstead we use the series of 'Oxford Reading Tree' books to support reading. Biff, Chip and Kipper are loved by millions of children and are frequently ranked in the top ten of children's favourite characters.
Created by Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta, these stories are guaranteed to hook your children into reading as they follow Biff, Chip and Kipper on their magical adventures. Not only that, they are perfectly matched to the new National Curriculum too!
- Packed full of humour, drama, detailed illustrations and endearing characters to motivate every child
- Perfect for the new National Curriculum
- Carefully levelled to make sure every child makes real progress with their reading
- Packed full of support, including revised notes to help with reading at home
Take a look for yourself at these links...
- How does Oxford Reading Tree meet the aims of the new National Curriculum?
- Learn to read with Biff, Chip, Kipper and Floppy.
Once our children are confident with ORT characters and are able to sound and blend cvc words and recognise some high frequency words, they are moved onto coloured book banding books. This is to allow us to intersperse our main reading scheme with other schemes for breadth and variety.
These are banded using HIAS English Team Book Bandinh Guidance March 2016
Organising books in a gradient of challenge enables us to select texts to cater for the range of attainments within a class.
Spellings
Throughout Wellstead we teach spellings in line with the new National Curriculum, please read either the KS1, KS2 or Year 6 letter relating to how this has been introduced, via these links:
- KS1 - New Spelling Curriculum Letter
- KS2 - New Spelling Curriculum Letter
- Year 6 - New Spelling Curriculum Letter
Other useful documents relating to Spellings for each year group can be found here:
- Spelling Guide for Parents
- Spelling Overview - Year 2
- Spelling Overview - Year 3
- Spelling Overview - Year 4
- Spelling Words List - Years 3 & 4
- Spelling Overview - Year 5
- Spelling Words List - Years 5 & 6
English
Here you can find the English Overviews for every year group. This shows you the end of year english expectations, including reading, writing and spelling. It also includes grammar and punctuation for year 5 and 6 in line with the new National Curriculum.
- Year 1 English Overview
- Year 2 English Overview
- Years 3 & 4 English Overview
- Years 5 & 6 English Overview
Maths
On each years website page you will be able to find the end of year expectations in line with the Statutory Requirements for Programmes of Study.
Click this link for a whole school version: Maths New Curriculum Whole School
You will also be able to see the below documents that highlight the end of year expectaions in maths, for each year group in more detail.
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Addition |
Subtraction |
Multiplication |
Division |
Religious Education
At Wellstead, Religious Education is taught in accordance with the legal requirements of the Education Act and the 2016 agreed syllabus for Hampshire, known as 'Living Difference III'
Children encounter simple concepts which are particularly appropriate for each stage in their learning. Wherever possible we use first hand experience as a stimulus for learning. We encourage children to question stories, practices and beliefs and form opinions about them.
Our 'Religious Education Policy' can be read here.