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25/03/23

A fabulous day of sportshall athletics for year 3/4 children. 19 schools took part with the top 3 as follows 🥉 🥈 🥇 pic.twitter.com/YuTmpQZfcM

24/03/23

A fabulous day of sportshall athletics for year 3/4 children. 19 schools took part with the top 3 as follows 🥉 🥈 🥇 pic.twitter.com/YuTmpQZfcM

23/03/23

Our amazing allotment pic.twitter.com/vKCqPdYeXh

03/02/23

Results of todays swimming gala! 🥉Little Thurrock 🥈 🥇 well done to all 9 schools that took part today! pic.twitter.com/5TpJfKtWWh

03/02/23

Results of todays swimming gala! 🥉Little Thurrock 🥈 🥇 well done to all 9 schools that took part today! pic.twitter.com/5TpJfKtWWh

21/01/23

A fabulous year 5/6 sports hall athletics event today with 21 schools taking part!! Our top 3 schools were 🥉 🥈 🥇 well done to everyone who took part! 🏃🏼‍♀️ 🏃🏾‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/Ei4ZPowiWB

20/01/23

A fabulous year 5/6 sports hall athletics event today with 21 schools taking part!! Our top 3 schools were 🥉 🥈 🥇 well done to everyone who took part! 🏃🏼‍♀️ 🏃🏾‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/Ei4ZPowiWB

14/10/22

An amazing day at the Conference today and feeling very proud of our very own Mrs Webb who won the Transforming Lives as a Leader Award pic.twitter.com/tC9jLnxnEg

12/10/22

Well done to all the KS2 children that took part in this year’s cross country events - one of the toughest events of the year and you all did incredibly well! We had plenty of individual success and the Year 6 boys won their team event 👏🏻🥇🥈🏃🏾‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/BtIFJZnwGl

12/10/22

Sporting Success: here is another one of our amazing pupils after winning gold (doubles) and silver (singles) at a recent badminton event in Colchester! Congratulations - we are so proud of you 🏸🥇🥈 pic.twitter.com/mots999thP

12/10/22

Sporting Success: here is another one of our amazing pupils after winning gold (doubles) and silver (singles) at a recent badminton event in Colchester! Congratulations - we are so proud of you 🏸🥇🥈 pic.twitter.com/mots999thP

12/10/22

Well done to all the KS2 children that took part in this year’s cross country events - one of the toughest events of the year and you all did incredibly well! We had plenty of individual success and the Year 6 boys won their team event 👏🏻🥇🥈🏃🏾‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/BtIFJZnwGl

29/09/22

So many different varieties of tomatoes and beans are grown in our allotment. Don’t forgot to stop by on Thursday each week to buy some of the produce pic.twitter.com/ZqIgzFQ95e

29/09/22

Our garden is thriving! Our pupils are enjoying tending the garden each day and selling their produce to their parents pic.twitter.com/rij1no0d4L

23/09/22

Cleverbox film crew at Harris Primary Academy Mayflower today filming for the conference 2022… A massive thank you to all the amazing staff and students for their invaluable support and participation. pic.twitter.com/biDwm4YecM

22/09/22

Cleverbox film crew at Harris Primary Academy Mayflower today filming for the conference 2022… A massive thank you to all the amazing staff and students for their invaluable support and participation. pic.twitter.com/biDwm4YecM

21/07/22

End of term treat time! pic.twitter.com/P81yG4ma9Y

14/07/22

Vocal chords are warm, smiles are ready and our choir are all set for their Junior Music Festival rehearsals 🎶 pic.twitter.com/sgkSfUbfDf

06/07/22

A huge well done to everyone at that helped us to achieve the Gold mark! 🥇👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/gVupX4r26u

06/07/22

A huge well done to everyone at that helped us to achieve the Gold mark! 🥇👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/gVupX4r26u

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Phonics and Early Reading

At Harris Primary Academy Mayflower our aim is for all children to become fluent, confident readers.

Reading will give your child the tools to become an independent life-long learner.

We achieve this by:

  • Teaching reading using Read Write Inc. 
     
  • Reading a range of storybooks daily to encourage a love of reading
     

At Mayflower we teach Read Write Inc. (RWI) to give your child the best possible start with their reading and writing. 

What is RWI?
RWI is a literacy programme which teaches all children to learn to read fluently.

At first, children learn to read ‘sounds’ and then learn how to blend those sounds together to read a word.

Once they can read words, they read carefully matched Storybooks containing words they know.

Their speed and fluency increases on subsequent reads of the book.

All children are assessed half termly by our RWI leader so children are always learning to read at the right stage for them.

Children are re-grouped each half term.

How can I help at home?

Use pure sounds

We use pure sounds (‘mmm’ not ’muh’,’sss’ not ‘suh’, etc.). This helps children to blend the sounds into words more easily.

Click here to hear how to pronounce sounds correctly.

Please do not use letter names at this early stage.

Sound out words using ‘Fred Talk’

We use a puppet called Fred who only talks in sounds. We call it ‘Fred Talk’.
E.g. m-o-p (mop), c-a-t (cat), m-a-n (man).

Use Fred Talk throughout the day at home eg. ‘it’s time for l-u-n-ch… lunch!’

 The ‘Fred Talk’ document is attached below.

 

Use the handwriting phrases

For each letter, there is a handwriting phrase. Use the handwriting phrase to support your child with their letter formation when writing.

The Handwriting phrases document is attached below.

Practice at home

Your class teacher will send home links to Virtual lessons.

Please follow these links (which may come in the form of QR codes) and encourage your child to join in.

The more times they access the lessons, the better! Learning to read can be hard, but the more practice a child has, the easier it will become.

Listening to your child reading

Once your child knows how to read the initial sounds and can blend these sounds into words, they will bring books home.

Encourage them to read the book to you using ‘Fred Talk’. Your child will have read these books in school, so please don’t worry if they are reading the book easily. We want them to show off their reading to you at home!

The ‘Listening to your child read’ document is attached below. 

Reading to your child

We inspire a love of reading in our children by reading to them.

Read a wide range of stories daily. Make this a special time for you and your child to bond over books.

The ‘Reading stories to your child’ document is attached below. 

FAQs

 ‘Parent FAQs’ doc link