--- title: "Helping your Child to 'Catch-Up' with 'Sounds Write'" url: "https://www.eastersideacademy.co.uk/news/2020-10-15-helping-your-child-to-catch-up-with-sounds-write" school: "Easterside Academy" --- # Helping your Child to 'Catch-Up' with 'Sounds Write' ![Image of Helping your Child to 'Catch-Up' with 'Sounds Write' ](https://files.schudio.com/easterside-academy-2/images/news/images(5).jpg) 15 October 2020 From **Reception** onwards children receive **daily, systematic, discrete phonic teachin**g sessions. We follow the **‘Sounds Write’ Phonic Programme**. This is a **highly structured**, **cumulative, sequential, explicit** and **code-oriented instructional programme** for teaching all children to **read** and **spell**. The programme focuses on three key skills: - **Segmenting** - **Blending** - **Phoneme manipulation** And **4 key concepts**: - Letters are used to spell individual sounds. (Symbols for the sounds we make). What sound do you say for this? - Each sound may be written in more than one way. - Many sounds may be written in more than one way. - Many spelling represent more than one sound. This programme is introduced in YR, taught in KS1 and fine-tuned throughout the rest of Key Stage 2. Due to COVID children in both Year 3 and 4 also receive daily 'Sounds Write' session in order to support them to catch-up where needed. Sounds Write's website can be found here: ### **Please also see the link below that takes you to a FREE parent / carer course / video explaining 'Sounds Write' and how to help your child read and write at home.** [ COVID Procedures - Update ](https://www.eastersideacademy.co.uk/news/2020-10-12-covid-procedures-update) [What are the COVID restrictions in Middlesbrough? ](https://www.eastersideacademy.co.uk/news/2020-10-16-what-are-the-covid-restrictions-in-middlesbrough) ### News - [Newsletters](https://www.eastersideacademy.co.uk/our-news/head-teacher-newsletters) - [Latest News](https://www.eastersideacademy.co.uk/our-news/latest-news) - [Year Group Learning](https://www.eastersideacademy.co.uk/our-news/year-group-learning) ![Easterside Academy](https://files.schudio.com/easterside-academy-2/images/logo/Easterside-Logo(1).png) ### Easterside Academy Erith Grove Easterside Middlesbrough TS4 3RG 01642 273006 © Copyright 2026 Easterside Academy School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://www.eastersideacademy.co.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)