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Week 6

Years 3-6

Soundwaves Spelling - Years 3-6

Years 3-6 will be covering units:

Week 6: Unit 15 

Week 7: Unit 16

Week 8: Unit 17

WriteOn Competition 2024

WriteOn is an annual writing competition open to all NSW primary students in Years 1 to 6.

Entries are now open for students to write a short, imaginative text of up to 500 words using the artwork above as inspiration. The annual WriteOn competition gives students the opportunity to develop their writing skills and if their entry is selected for inclusion, become a published author. To find out more visit: nsw.gov.au/education-and-training/nesa/awards-and-events/writeon-competition. As a school, we can enter three submissions per category. Please send your submissions to Mrs Hill. 

Kim Hill 

Years 3-6 English Coordinator

K-2 Phonics Update 

Kindergarten   

Week 6:  Consolidate  e  u  r  rock, sock, rag, red, tug, get, sum, gum mud, mug

Week 7:    b  h  f  bun, rub, fun, him, fin, bed, hot, bib, bus, hat, fat

Year 1  

Week 6: oa:  oa  ow  o_e    loat, throat, groan, toast, coach, blow, glow, crow, snow, smoke, broke, drove

Week 7:  Consolidate  oa:  oa  ow  o_e   

Year 2

Week 6: oo:  oo u oul  book, cook, shook, hook, wood, good, look, looking, would, could, should

Week 5:  e:  e ea  ai  ie  a:  red, bed, fed, held, sent, bread, head, dread, better, pepper, reckon, plenty

Click on the link below for an informative video on orthographic mapping. This is the ability to read and write fluently, retrieving words from their long term memory. They will orthographically map words through practise and repetition with sounding out words using a systematic synthetic phonics approach.

https://youtu.be/KIuwKnZqJEQ?si=Cbjht_oXPIuZx2Ya 

Kate Gill

K-2 English Coordinator