Supporting Your Child at Home

Please find below some useful resources and instructional videos to help you support your child's learning at home.

Phonics - How to say each phoneme

Click on the videos below for demonstrations of how to say each of the phonemes we learn in school and to the see the actions and images associated with each sound.

Phonics Phase 2 - Actions for Sounds	Phonics Phase 3 - Actions for Sounds
Phonics Phase 5 - Actions for Sounds (Year 1)	Phonics Phase 5 - Actions for Sounds (Year 2)

Phonics - Sound Mats

Click on the images below to download a copy of the sound mats we use in school to aide the recall of each phoneme and the graphemes we can use to write them down.

Phase 2 Sound Mat	Phase 3 Sound Mat	Phase 5 Sound Mat - Year 1
Phase 5 Sound Mat - Year 2	Phase 3 and 5 Alternative Graphemes

Reading and Spelling - Irregular Words and Common Exception Words

These are the words we can't use our phonic knowledge to help us decode. They are words we just have to learn to read and spell by heart.

Irregular Words	Year 1 Common Exception Words	Year 2 Common Exception Words
Year 3 and 4 Common Exception Words	Year 5 and 6 Common Exception Words

Reading and Phonics - Parent and Carer Workshops

Click on the links below to revist our Reading and Phonics Workshops which are full of information about how we teach these subjects in school and how you can support your child with developing these skills at home.

Reading and phonics(1).png — EYFS and Year 1 Workshop

Reading workshop 2, 3.png — Year 2 and 3 Workshop

Reading workshop 4,5,6.png — Year 4, 5 and 6 Workshop

Reading - Parent and Carer Leaflets

Use our Reading Leaflets for lots of ideas on how to support your child with their reading at home.

EYFS leaflet.png — EYFS and Year 1 Leaflet

4, 5, 6 leaflet.png — Year 4, 5 and 6 Leaflet

Reading - Using Bug Club at Home

Read through our Parent User Guide for support in using the Bug Club Online World at home.

Bug Club at Home.png — Bug Club Parent User Guide

Reading - Recommended Reads

Looking for inspiration for what to read with your child? Explore these recommended read lists from The Reader Teacher.

Reception Recommended Reads	Year 1 Recommended Reads	Year 2 Recommended Reads	Year 3 Recommended Reads
Year 4 Recommended Reads	Year 5 Recommended Reads	Year 6 Recommended Reads

Letter Formation - Where does each letter start and end?

Click on the images below to download a copy of the letter formation mats we use in school to support your child's letter formation. Use the Handwriting Patter resource to help reinforce where each letter should start, end and the direction your child should form each letter in.

Handwriting patter.png — Handwriting Patter

Letter formation - pre cursive.png — Letter Formation - Pre-cursive

Letter formation - cursive.png — Letter Formation - Cursive

Phonics Glossary - What is a phoneme?

Unsure of what we mean by some of the technical language associated with phonics? Use this glossary to clarify your understanding.