Curriculum Newsletters

Welcome to Pluto Class! 

Welcome to Pluto Class and Wincanton Primary School. 

Your teachers will be Mrs Gibson on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Mrs Hillier on Thursday and Friday. Miss Boulton is your learning support assistant in Pluto Class every day.  We also have Mrs Maddox and Miss Angell supporting with special education needs within the classroom.

PE:

The children will have PE on Tuesday afternoons. They will need to wear PE kit to school. 

Forest School:

The children will have Forest School on Tuesdays. They will need long trousers, a coat and welly boots in school. Forest school sessions happen in our on site forest area. 

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 4 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.