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Supporting your child with Phonics

Funding area Life Skills
ONL/148663/P/PF
Location:
Delivered online
Start date:
25/03/2025
End date:
25/03/2025
Level:
Mixed Level
Time:
10:00 - 12:00
Duration:
1 session
Course hours:
Course hours

Course hours are the total number of hours you'll spend being taught by your tutor. Self study time is not included within the course hours.

2 hours
Day of week:
TUE
Tutor:
Fiona Judge
Price: FREE Concessions
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Who can join this course

Kent Family Learning courses and workshops are free for parents, carers and grandparents, who are aged 19 years and above and who live in Kent and are intended to help create a better family life. All courses are funded by the Education and Skills Funding Agency and are FREE to eligible learners. To be eligible you must be able to answer ’yes’ to BOTH statements below:

1. Have you been living in the UK or an EEA country continuously for at least 3 years prior to the learning start date, and
2. Are you a UK national, or Irish national or do you have pre-settled or settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme?

Please speak with us if you cannot answer ‘yes’ to both statements as you may be able to gain a place if you can provide suitable residency evidence.

Learners may enrol onto courses in this subject area, up to a maximum of 240 guided learning hours. Please refer to our Course details for the subject area, and guided learning hours assigned to this course.
If you have already reached the maximum guided learning hours in this subject area, please speak to your tutor or another member of our team about your next progression steps.

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Is this course for me

Welcome to "Supporting Your Child with Phonics" – your key to unlocking the world of literacy for your child! In this empowering course, parents and caregivers will explore effective strategies for supporting their child's phonics development.
Join us as we delve into practical guidance and valuable resources aimed at improving your child's literacy skills. From decoding words to enhancing reading fluency, you'll gain essential techniques to bolster your child's phonics proficiency.
Through interactive sessions and hands-on activities, you'll discover how to create an engaging phonics learning environment at home, setting the stage for your child's academic achievement. You'll feel empowered to play an active role in your child's literacy journey.
Get ready to embark on a transformative journey where every phonics lesson is a step closer to unlocking your child's potential. Let's support our children with phonics and pave the way for a lifetime of literacy success!

Course aims

This course will offer:

* Look at how phonics is taught in schools with the emphasis on synthetic phonics but including other key strategies
* Learn the accurate pronunciation of the 44 phonemes and how to use them when blending and decoding words
* Understand what is meant by tricky words, CVCs, synonyms, alliteration and other English terms and vocabulary which may be new and unfamiliar
* Since this course can run over different time frames the aims will be amended to fit in with the time allocation and the learner requirements

Since this course can run over different time frames, the aims will be amended to fit in with the time allocation and the learner requirements.

What will I need for my course

Pen and paper.
For face-to-face sessions, we will provide the resources, but you are welcome to bring additional items if you would like to.

What can I do next

You can find out more about next steps and careers here:
https://sway.office.com/uxX6yCXTyREZOHtp?ref=Link&loc=play

You can log in to our Moodle careers section here:
https://vle.kentcls.ac.uk/login/index.php

You can browse more Family learning courses here:
https://www.kentadulteducation.co.uk/course-areas/family-courses/

Additional Information

From 1st August 2024, the Department for Education (DfE) require that learners attending this course must identify their primary purpose for learning. This course is not available for learners whose main aim is to learn a hobby, or for leisure/pleasure.

Please comply with the following:
For online courses, have a computer/laptop/tablet or phone using a reliable internet connection with a fully updated browser, a microphone and your camera turned on.
Provide a mobile phone number and email address when you enrol so that we can contact you about your course.
Attend all sessions.
A pen and paper.

Check your email for detailed joining instructions, including your SPAM folder.
Contact us at businesssupport2@kent.gov.uk if you have any questions.

To get the most out of your course we recommend you attend at least 85% of your sessions. If you do have a pre-arranged commitment booked during term time, please let the tutor know in advance so that we can help you catch up on missed sessions and ensure that you still achieve the course outcome.

By participating in this class, you accept and understand that Family Learning activities involve potentially hazardous tools and equipment and that such activity carries the risk of injury. You understand that it is your responsibility to judge your and your children’s motor skills and physical ability.

It is your responsibility to ensure that by participating in classes and activities from Kent Adult Education, you will not exceed your and your family’s limits while performing such activity, and you will select the appropriate environment and level of task for your and your family’s skills and abilities.

You understand that in creative and physical activities you and your children will need to be suitably dressed, will need protect your work surface and be mindful of the correct Health & Safety processes. KAE is not responsible for damage to items in your house/home or persons.

KAE are not responsible for any injuries you or your children may experience as a result of your attendance of this course. By remaining enrolled on this course, you are accepting that you have read, understood and agreed to follow these basic instructions.

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Joining your course

Delivered online

Click here for more details.

If you require any information about joining this online course then please call 03000 41 22 22 and quote the Course Code ONL/148663/P/PF.