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07/03/25

A great match against Warren Road this evening! Back at school just after 6pm pic.twitter.com/hfbNRCbvBA

06/03/25

We’ve made it to Instagram!! Come follow us over there!

06/03/25

Happy ! 🎉📚 We inspire children and young people to read for fun, because it makes a serious difference to their lives. Show us how you and stay tuned for a day full of fun! ✨ pic.twitter.com/YH7ASC5Itf

03/03/25

Want to know how to set up parent locks, joint accounts, screen-time limits and purchasing limits online? Have a look at these guides: https://t.co/pDu4hkL5ya

27/02/25

Our year ones have really enjoyed watching the eggs hatch, and learning about new life! pic.twitter.com/QR5nW9CEIb

26/02/25

World Book Day is next Thursday, 6th March! ✨ we are happy to offer pre-loved costumes for FREE! to our school community :) these can be found inside the gates at pick up and dismissal 📚 🧚✨ pic.twitter.com/RK0pIqaYSw

25/02/25

Getting ready for a very special day.. do you have any guesses as to which day this could be!? 📚 🧚 ✨ 🦸 🧜 🥷 💫 pic.twitter.com/axh4FNKdfq

24/02/25

School Photos this week! 📸Here are the timings and days: pic.twitter.com/ohuduLooIZ

13/02/25

Guess who's helping out with our cake sale after school? Our amazing governor Jane Mines 🥳🎂 pic.twitter.com/gg7wpSo2If

10/02/25

We've come a long way since the worry worms - here are the new bookmarks that the crochet club made today! pic.twitter.com/0ZOGILQURi

06/02/25

Proudly hosting the second session of our very own Harris Orchestra; can you recognise the piece? pic.twitter.com/jkAcpYSW9v

04/02/25

Our Reading Buddies have been spreading the love for reading at HPAKH! 📚 pic.twitter.com/aK9IcXs94F

03/02/25

Our Digital Leaders learning new iPad skills and creating their own emojis! Thanks 🤩🤪💻 pic.twitter.com/mEhhO7LROM

31/01/25

Today in Art, Year 5 learned about the different ways to make browns. They were then able to apply this knowledge to create their own skin tones from just red, blue, yellow and white! pic.twitter.com/nzbtSju9L2

31/01/25

Working collaboratively, exploring solutions, noticing patterns… Year 6 Maths Club absolutely smashing brain teasers on this rainy Friday afternoon! ✏️🔎 pic.twitter.com/XopBQCgc2w

30/01/25

Our creative crochet club have just finished up their worry-worms, don't they look brilliant? pic.twitter.com/FYJtECzTbv

24/01/25

Having the best time learning about nutrition and creating our very own healthy foods! 🥗🌯 pic.twitter.com/uh5Ckssbkk

22/01/25

Midway through, and we are blown away by the quality of the singing! Thank you pic.twitter.com/QMAAl5etfs

22/01/25

We are so excited to be hosting the Royal Ballet and Opera in training London Teachers today! pic.twitter.com/71EAJGVkPM

22/01/25

KS1 love our curriculum assemblies, celebrating all of their amazing knowledge and learning! pic.twitter.com/AgKiG00ovD

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Phonics

At Harris Primary Academy Kent House 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 Kent House 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’ document

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 document

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’ document

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’ document

FAQs

 ‘Parent FAQs’ document

 

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