Mercury EYFS

Mercury EYFS

Curriculum Newsletters

Curriculum newsletter

newsletter EYFS What a wonderful World

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 Rigby and Miss Graddock also works in Mercury Class as a 1:1 Learning support Assistant.

We will now be having PE every FRIDAY. Please can your child come to school WEARING THEIR PE kit.

On a WEDNESDAY we will have FOREST school. Please can you bring in a pair of wellies only.

Our Library day will be on a TUESDAY.

This term the Learning Experience is What a Wonderful World

We will be focusing on our Wonderful Planet mostly through food and music. We will be planting our own vegetables to look after in the shared outdoor area. We will be learning about where milk comes from and how we use cream to make butter. We will also be looking at where food comes from around the world and how many miles some foods we enjoy have to travel before it gets to our table. As we move around the world we will be learning about different cultures specifically different music from those cultures.

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.}

Phase 2 sound mat.pdf

Parent Carer helping my child with phonics at home workshop

A short workshop to help you to support your child to read at home. It has information regarding phonics, an example of a phonics lesson in school and a video showing the actions for Phase 2 sounds.