Staff
Teacher – Miss Walker (Monday) and Mrs Dobson (Tuesday – Friday)
Teaching Assistant – Mrs Walsh
Curriculum Trees 2025/2026
Homework
Phonics
W/C – 24/11/25 – We have 4 new graphemes this week and 4 new tricky words. Please check your child knows them. Then read the words and sentences containing them.
o (oa) most open post no so go
i (igh) child wild kind spider tiger find
a (ai) paper later chasing basic baking acorn
e (ee) fever secret being me be we
‘I can open the most post,’ boasted the otter.
‘I found a spider in my post!’
‘The wild tiger was chasing an acorn.’
‘She likes to read in secret.’
TRICKY WORDS Mr Mrs Ms ask
W/C – 03/11/25 & 10/11/25 – We have 4 new graphemes this week and 4 new tricky words. Please check your child knows them. Then read the words and sentences containing them. If your child comes home with any phonics stickers these weeks please remember to practise the sound or word with them.
ir (ur) bird skirt first girl shirt third
ie (igh) lie tie pie cried tried fried
ue (oo/yoo) blue clue true glue recue argue
u (u/yoo) unicorn music unit human tuna stupid
The girl has some birds on her skirt.
I looked at the pie and tried not to eat it!
The clue led us to the blue bench.
We spied unicorn tracks in the mud.
TRICKY WORDS their people oh your
(Tricky words are words that should be read on sight rather than sounded out)
W/C 13/10/25 & 20/10/25 – This week we have reviewed our sounds from week 4 and our routines for phonics as well as carrying out assessments. Please revisit the sounds and words in that section and review.
W/C – 29/09/25 & 06/10/25 – Our new GPC’s for this week are
ay (play) ou (cloud) oy (toy) ea (treat)
Practise recognising these graphemes and try to read the following words.
day say play spray may crayon cloud sound about proud found boy joy toy enjoy annoy destroy sea read heap treat least each
Sound them out carefully to start and then practise being able to read them automatically.
We have continued to review our phase 3 sounds and tricky words so please continue with these too.
W/C – 22/09/25 – We have been focusing on CVCC, CCVC, CCVC and CCVCC words. (C – Consonant, V – Vowel)
Here are some words you can practise with your child that follow these patterns. Please get them to sound out and blend them.
snack shelf shrink squelch stand slept plum milk springs scrubs splat
We have also looked at Phase 4 words with long vowels. Here are some you can try together……
floating paint train spoon treetop flight bright steep groan
W/C – 15/09/25 – We have continued to practise the sounds from last week and focused on words with 2 or more digraphs. A digraph is ‘2 letters, 1 sound’ for example ‘ch’. The words we have focused on have at least 2 digraphs in the word – for example ‘sh-ee-p’ – the 2 digraphs are ‘sh’ and ‘ee’.
Below are some words you can practice reading with your child. Once they have sounded them out a few times, try and get to just read the word…….
sharp cheep shower arch march chain thorn sheet queen teeth farmyard thicker
You could turn this into a game – write the words on cards and hide them around the house. Once they find one, they need to read it to earn a point. If you would like to make any notes on what you have done in the reading record, Mrs Walsh will check these on a Friday and give team points 🙂
W/C – 01/09/25 & 08/09/25 – We have been reviewing phase 3 sounds this week. Please click on the sheet below. Practise these sounds with your child.
Spellings – Autumn Term 2 (Second Half) *Coming Soon*
