Curriculum Newsletters

Welcome to Mercury Class

Welcome to Mercury Class and Wincanton Primary School

Your teacher is Miss Dutson and Miss Swinburn is your Teaching Assistant who helps in your class too. Mrs Windsor, Miss Gill, Mrs Wiles and Miss Graddock  also works in Mercury Class as a 1:1 Learning support Assistant.

Our Library day will be on a TUESDAY. 

 This term the Learning Experience is  

Land of the Dinosaurs 

We will be focusing on comparing life now and life when the dinosaurs were alive, discovering different types of dinosaur and exploring people in history who have helped us to learn facts about dinosaurs. 

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

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. 

Mercury Class have their P.E. day on WEDNESDAY. Children will need to come to school in PE kit on that day. 

We will also be going to forest school on a Wednesday afternoon. Children will need welly boots in school to wear to forest school. 

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.}