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title: "Year 1 Phonics- learning new graphemes."
url: "https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2021-12-09-year-1-phonics-learning-new-graphemes"
school: "St Barnabas Primary School, A Church of England Academy"
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# Year 1 Phonics- learning new graphemes.

  ![](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/images/news/E945BB11-B2FE-4738-AA8B-668D749B0B21.jpeg)   9 December 2021

Year 1 are working very hard on their phonics. They are learning new graphemes for sounds that they already know. They now know lots of ways of writing the ai, ee and igh sounds. We will now be working on applying these new graphemes in our writing. Well done Year 1.
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