Curriculum Newsletters

Welcome to Mercury Class

 Welcome to Mercury Class and Wincanton Primary School

Your teacher is Miss Bundey and Miss Thomas is your Teaching Assistant who helps in your class too. Mrs Windsor and Miss Gill also work in Mercury Class as 1:1 Learning support Assistants.

We will have PE on a Tuesday afternoon.  Children will need to wear PE kit to school.

Also on Tuesday we will have Forest School.  Children will require long trousers, a coat and welly boots in school.  Forest sessions will take place on site in our forest area. 

Learning to Read:

We will be starting to learn to read using the phonics programme Unlocking Letters and Sounds. We will learn a new Grapheme Phoneme correspondence everyday.  We will learn to blend those sounds together to read words. Children will have reading books home when they can confidently blend the first set of sounds together.

 This term the Learning Experience is - The Land of the Dinosaurs  

Please see our curriculum newsletter above for more information as to what your child will be learning throughout the term. 

Reading within EYFS:

Your child now has a Wincanton Primary Book bag. We would like them to bring their book bag to school EVERY DAY. This is so we can give out resources and books when we need to. 

We are following Unlocking Letters and Sounds as our phonics scheme at Wincanton Primary. 

The children will be learning to link Graphemes to phonemes. They will be learning to blend sounds together to read and segment words in order to write. 

When children can confidently blend using some Phase 2 sounds we will send home a decodable reading book.

We are expecting your child to read at home at least 5 times per week. However, the more they can practise the skill of blending the more confident they will be with reading. 

We will change books once your child has read the book three times. The journey through the book should be:

1st time - Decoding (breaking words down to read them

2nd time- Fluency 

3rd time - comprehension

If you would like a book changed more regularly to engage your child at home please speak with the class teacher. 

We are also asking you to continue to support your child's reading for pleasure experience. We will visit the school library so that your child can bring home a family sharing book. This is for you to read to your child as it will not be decodable for them.

We want your child to love listening to stories but also love the journey they are on learning to read themselves. We welcome you onto their reading journey.