Year R
Welcome to Endeavour and Year R!
Columbus, Hillary, Attenborough and Kandinsky
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.
Spring 1 - Curriculum Newsletter
Autumn 2 - Curriculum Newsletter
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.
Keep an eye on your child's Tapestry account to see which sounds we have been learning each week, and please speak to your class teacher if you need any support.
Below are some games you can play at home to make phonics fun and reinforce your child's learning at home:
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
Harder to read and spell words
Some words are known as 'harder to read and spell words' these are words that are frequently used in books and often are not decodable using our knowledge of sounds. Please find a list attached to practise recognising the key words by sight. We will test your child every half term on how they are getting on. Please only focus on a few words at a time to ensure the children are not overwhelmed and secure in knowing a few words, before moving on to learn more.
Projects
At Endeavour, we will engage in many exciting projects over the academic year.
In year R, the projects are:
All about me.
Autumn Leaves.
Let's Celebrate.
People who help us.
Growing.
Story makers.
Animal madness.
Tapestry
In Year R we use Tapestry to gather evidence around each child's learning. You will be able to see what they have been up to at school as we upload pictures of their learning. We love to see what you get up to at home, so please add exciting news to your child’s account for us to share at school. This can include, cooking, clubs, days out, family events, learning new skills and having lots of fun!
If you have not received an email with your child's log in details please contact the office.
Useful websites to support home learning;
https://www.purplemash.com/login/
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Support
Please do speak to us if you have any queries or concerns.
It can be a little tricky to speak on the door so it is advisable to book an appointment though the office.