Year R

Welcome to Endeavour and Year R!

Columbus, Hillary, Attenborough and Kandinsky

Year R Curriculum

Our Year R Aspirations

Welcome

The whole Year R Team would like to say a massive Welcome to you and your family on your child’s first year of school at Endeavour Primary School.

We are looking forward to working together to support and encourage your child to learn, grow and develop.

If you have any queries or questions, please speak to your child’s class teacher either by booking an appointment via the office.

EYFS Autumn 1 Newsletter

eyfs-autumn-1-curriculum-newsletter-5-1.pdf

Home Learning

Reading: Reading at home with your child is important for their development and helps them embed their learnings from they day.

Please read with your child as often as possible at home.

Your child will bring home a school book and we ask that you record any reading in their home school reading diary.

Phonics: We will begin learning our sounds at school and it would be great if you can reinforce these at home. Your child will learn one new sound per day, and we encourage them to talk to you about these sounds.

Below are some games you can play at home to make phonics fun and reinforce your child's learning at home:

•Sound splat: Write sounds on pieces of paper, place them in an area in your house. The adult says a sound and the child high fives the sound you have said.

•Sound hunt: Hide sounds around your house/garden and go on a hunt to find all of the sounds. As your child finds the letter, encourage them to say the sound to support recognition.

•Silly soup: All you need is a large bowl, mixing spoon and a selection of items beginning with the sound your child has been practising. Ask your child to find the objects beginning with the sound you are practising and add them to the silly soup. Sing the song 'We're making lots of silly soup. We're making soup that's silly. We're going to put it in the fridge to make it nice and chilly. In goes a 's'.

•Drive the car: Draw some car parking spaces on a piece of paper and write single sounds into the spaces. Ask your child to park the car in the ‘t’ space and so on. You can role reverse this game so the child is giving you the instructions.

•Alphabet jump: Write letters in chalk and ask your child to jump to a specific sound. As a challenge, you can ask them to think of a word that begins with that sound.

•Playdough printing: Using playdough and some letters encourage your child to find a sound and print it into the playdough. They can then trace this with their finger and write it on a piece of paper.

ELS Phonics programme links.

Here are the links for you to access all of the phonics sounds your children will be learning and videos showing you how to pronounce all of the sounds correctly.

Phoneme pronunciation video PHASE 2

https://vimeo.com/753929025/5eaa45c0aa

Phoneme pronunciation video PHASE 3

https://vimeo.com/753931102/b9a2f8194f

Phoneme pronunciation video PHASE 5

https://vimeo.com/753933192/43104a30e0

PHASE 2 Grapheme sheet

https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/oxed/children/Grapheme-Sheet-Phase-2.pdf

PHASE 3 Grapheme Sheet

https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/oxed/children/Grapheme-Sheet-Phase-3.pdf

PHASE 5 Grapheme Sheet

https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/oxed/children/Grapheme-Sheet-Phase-5.pdf