You will find this page easier to understand if you have already read the Literacy Learning in School page: Click here to access it.

Phonics Learning at Home P1-3

Our children start to learn to read and write by building their knowledge of the initial sounds. Click here to access a platform with activities to practice the initial sounds.

Click here to play a game to practise CVC words.

Click here to find some activities to practise diagraphs.

Click here and here to practice some tricky words.

Spelling Learning at Home P3-7

Spellingframe is a great resource and all P3-7 children have their own log in to access the lists. Please Click Here to access a parents’ guide to SpellingFrame.

Click here to access doorway speller which is a useful resource for learning common words.

Spelling Learning at Home P6/7

Spellingframe and doorway are good for children throughout the school but if your child is at the older end of the school and is an able speller, these activities will be helpful if they need to learn from home as they are self-isolating:

Click here to learn about silent letters.

Click here for activities to support knowledge of homophones and dictionary/thesaurus work.

Click here and here for activities to support use of suffixes and other more complex spelling patterns.

It is also important to be able to edit work and in the upper school, we make time for the children to go back over their work to looks for errors to self correct and well as giving them support to find errors they might not notice on their own. Click here for an activity to support editing skills.