Our next round of Family Learning workshops got underway on Tuesday 7th March, focusing on Primary 1 – 3 Literacy.
Mr Young opened the workshop by talking about Cathedral Primary’s holistic approach to Literacy:
- a rigorous synthetic phonics programme to give children the tools they need to read and write
- the use of decodable reading books during phonics lessons to give children instant success and build their confidence
- exposure to non-decodable reading books to develop vocabulary and comprehension
- access to ‘real’ books through regular visits to the school library
- daily opportunities for the children to apply their phonics and reading in meaningful ways across the curriculum
The remainder of the workshop was led by Mrs McCoy who gave a presentation on ‘Read Write Inc. Phonics’, followed by a live phonics lesson with a group of Primary 1 pupils. The children were absolute superstars and parents and carers were blown away by the model lesson!
The session finished with parents working alongside their child on some literacy activities in their classroom.
“Amazing! The progress in such a short space of time is nothing short of phenomenal.” (P1 parent)
“My child talks about ‘special friends’ a lot… now I understand what he means!” (P1 parent)
“We think it’s a great way of learning. Our daughter has progressed amazingly well using Read Write Inc Phonics.” (P2 parent)
“Today’s workshop will assist parents with home learning.” (P2 parent)
