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07/02/22

A big shout out to HPACH great video and Happy Chinese New Year.

05/02/22

A big shout out to HPACH great video and Happy Chinese New Year.

02/02/22

Happy Chinese New Year! What a lovely day, wearing bright colours and learning about Chinese new year at HPACH, where we're all about celebrating diversity.Check out the snippet of the video that we watched in the online whole school assembly! pic.twitter.com/6bOovEFndY

01/02/22

Happy Chinese New Year! What a lovely day, wearing bright colours and learning about Chinese new year at HPACH, where we're all about celebrating diversity.Check out the snippet of the video that we watched in the online whole school assembly! pic.twitter.com/6bOovEFndY

14/11/21

We Remember ❤️ pic.twitter.com/2Z4uSuR1uF

12/11/21

We are consulting on our admissions arrangement for 2023-24. Please see our website for more details. pic.twitter.com/3BbxmhFqnu

01/10/21

We are consulting on our admissions arrangement for 2023-24. Please see our website for more details. pic.twitter.com/4wOC05LcTo

27/08/21

What a great end to Summer School! The children have worked so hard and have been fantastic - well done to everyone that attended! The children were also introduced to Countdown and they may have outsmarted the teachers 😬 🕰 pic.twitter.com/zgllXaGGFi

27/08/21

What a great end to Summer School! The children have worked so hard and have been fantastic - well done to everyone that attended! The children were also introduced to Countdown and they may have outsmarted the teachers 😬 🕰 pic.twitter.com/zgllXaGGFi

26/08/21

Welcome back to all our new Year 6 pupils! Well done to all the children joining us in school and online this week pic.twitter.com/MnyAOjSpPh

16/07/20

More great work from our pupils working online at home and in school pic.twitter.com/GwcsobkZHf

16/07/20

Great work from our pupils working online from home...keep up the fantastic work! pic.twitter.com/3SsAwOkuQw

16/07/20

Great to see so many of our Year 6 pupils join our Teams Leavers Assembly yesterday pic.twitter.com/2ZxJyHifSA

03/07/20

Such a great opportunity for our pupils to learn about their Year 7 experience in September and ask questions that they have. Thank you Miss Sivyer pic.twitter.com/usSSyNZUv1

03/07/20

Great to be part of the Year 6 to Year 7 transition meeting for pupils this morning pic.twitter.com/jV9vgzxhYC

03/07/20

Our second Year 6 transition bulletin has been sent out. This week, hear from our Head of Academy; Mr Glees. Also read the top tips from Jack in Year 7. All Y6 Bulletins will also be available on our website. pic.twitter.com/kKdcmhQwJT

03/07/20

Our second Year 6 transition bulletin has been sent out. This week, hear from our Head of Academy; Mr Glees. Also read the top tips from Jack in Year 7. All Y6 Bulletins will also be available on our website. pic.twitter.com/kKdcmhQwJT

02/07/20

Here is a link to our assembly on Effective Communication led by Mr Drakes https://t.co/qTjilGzCvd pic.twitter.com/IYujyM5uI0

02/07/20

Here is a link to our latest assembly ‘People who Inspire us’ led by Mrs Cottis https://t.co/6IPVDVga0l pic.twitter.com/03lehWz57C

28/06/20

It is almost the start of a new week and here is Mr Perry’s Sports Challenge 3 https://t.co/XErCFrXIhw

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Read Write Inc

At Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred (HPACH) 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 HPACH 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!’

‘Fred Talk’ doc link

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.

Handwriting phrases doc link

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!

‘Listening to your child read’ doc link

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.

‘Reading stories to your child’ doc link

FAQs

‘Parent FAQs’ doc link

Phonic Leader - Miss A Wilsmore