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Fun With Phonics
Unravel the mysteries of phonics and share ideas, tips, games and activities to aid your child's early sound and word recognition. You will learn how reading is taught at nursery and school and how skills are developed.

You will discover how you can use everyday items to make phonics games, explore activities you can do when you're out and about, and look at resources available online.

Week 1: Pure Sounds. You will learn about the pure sounds that children learn in school. You will learn about important terminology (phoneme and grapheme) and importance of listening skills and choose some listening activities and games to play at home.
Week 2: Decoding the world. You will learn what environmental print is and how we decode it understanding phoneme-grapheme correspondence and Choose activities for decoding and handwriting at home.
Week 3: Segmenting & Blending. You will learn more phonics terminology (special words) and how to use sound buttons to support segmenting and blending.
Week 4: Tricky Words. You will learn how to support children to read and write words that cannot be read phonetically and design games and activities to help children practise tricky words.
Week 5: Alien words. You will learn about Phase 5 phonics and the Phonics screening in year 1.

You will use the skills learnt during this course to develop games and activities to support children’s learning at home, and develop understanding to support early reading at home.
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This course is perfect for parents, grandparents or carers of children in nursery, reception or in their early years at school. It is also ideal for anyone who wants to volunteer or work in an early years or school setting.

Family Learning is for anyone who wants to understand children’s development and support their learning—parents, grandparents, carers, and any adult with an interest in helping children thrive. We work closely with schools across the city, building confidence at home and celebrating the progress children make.

Our free courses and workshops give adults practical skills, fresh ideas and the confidence to support children through their Early Years and Primary School. Sessions are friendly, creative and hands‑on, with plenty of space to ask questions and share challenges.

Learners can also work towards Functional Skills qualifications in Maths or English and access personalised guidance on future learning, new career pathways and routes into employment.
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All course materials are provided, but you may want to bring a pen and paper to take notes.
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There are many follow on courses which you can do to continue supportig your child's and your own learning.
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In order to support keeping York moving, consider travelling to your course by bus or bike. Click here to check out the bus routes closest to the venue for this course using the iTravel website, or discover York's cycle routes by clicking here.
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Alongside gaining course-specific skills, you will develop and showcase transferable skills that boost your confidence, employability, and ability to engage in further learning or volunteering.
Alongside gaining course-specific skills, you will develop and showcase transferable skills that boost your confidence, employability, and ability to engage in further learning or volunteering.
Employers highly value these transferable skills because they equip employees to excel beyond their basic job roles.
Employers highly value these transferable skills because they equip employees to excel beyond their basic job roles.
On your Family Learning course you will be developing transferable skills such as communication, teamwork, interpersonal skills, creativity, resilience, problem solving and critical thinking.
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Learners who live in devolved authorities

Learners who live in devolved authorities
York Learning receives government funding which allows us to offer courses at a lower cost. The guidelines relating to devolution means that we cannot apply this funding to learners who live in devolved areas such as the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
York Learning receives government funding which allows us to offer courses at a lower cost. The guidelines relating to devolution means that we cannot apply this funding to learners who live in devolved areas such as the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
If you live outside of this area, we recommend that, before committing to a course with York Learning, you explore options to study the course in your local area.
If you live outside of this area, we recommend that, before committing to a course with York Learning, you explore options to study the course in your local area.
If you would prefer to continue your learning with York Learning please note that the price of the course could be double the advertised cost.
If you would prefer to continue your learning with York Learning please note that the price of the course could be double the advertised cost.
In this case, please contact us on 01904 554277 to complete your enrolment.
In this case, please contact us on 01904 554277 to complete your enrolment.

Learners under the age of 19

Learners under the age of 19
Please note that Adult Education funding is for individuals who are over the age of 19 on the 31st of August prior to the start date of their course.
Please note that Adult Education funding is for individuals who are over the age of 19 on the 31st of August prior to the start date of their course.
This means that there will be an additional cost for learners who are under 19 who wish to access funded courses.
This means that there will be an additional cost for learners who are under 19 who wish to access funded courses.
For safeguarding reasons, we cannot accept learners who are under 18 on courses except by prior arrangement. This does not apply to programmes which are designed for 16-18s.
For safeguarding reasons, we cannot accept learners who are under 18 on courses except by prior arrangement. This does not apply to programmes which are designed for 16-18s.
If you are under the age of 19, please contact us on 01904 554277 before booking.
If you are under the age of 19, please contact us on 01904 554277 before booking.
FT1/RJ3
04/11/2026
02/12/2026
12:45 - 14:45
Wednesday
2.00 hrs per wk
5 weeks
Sally Sutton
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Free