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TheSchoolRun.com closure date
As we informed you a few months ago, TheSchoolRun has had to make the difficult decision to close due to financial pressures and the company has now ceased trading. We had hoped to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.
As a result, we now have to permanently close TheSchoolRun.com. However, to give subscribers time to download any content they’d like to keep, we will keep the website open until 31st July 2025. After this date, the site will be taken down and there will be no further access to any resources. We strongly encourage you to download and save any resources you think you may want to use in the future.
In particular, we suggest downloading:
- Learning packs
- All the worksheets from the 11+ programme, if you are following this with your child
- Complete Learning Journey programmes (the packs below include all 40 worksheets for each programme)
You should already have received 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep. If you haven’t received these, please contact us at [email protected] before 31st July 2025, and we will send them to you.
We are very sorry that there is no way to continue offering access to resources and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.
Year 1 Phonics worksheets
Free worksheets: Phonics, KS1, Y1
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Split digraphs revision (Phase 5 phonics)
A fun, teacher-created resource that helps children understand what a split digraph word is, which is often taught in Phase 5 phonics at primary school.
Year 1 Phonics screening check 2014
The Y1 Phonics Screening Check tests children's knowledge of phonics with a mixture of real and nonsense words. Look through the official past paper for 2014 to see what sort of words your child will be asked to read.
Words containing 'tch' (Phase 5 phonics)
The 'tch' grapheme is a trigraph (one sound made up of three letters) used to represent the /ch/ sound. Cut out these letters. How many words can you make containing 'tch'?
Spelling patterns: 'ai' or 'ay'? (Phase 5 phonics)
Ask someone to read out the answer words to you one at a time. Listen carefully to where the /ai/ sound is in the word, then choose the correct spelling. Write the ‘ai’ spellings in the train, the ‘ay’ spelling on the tray.
Spelling patterns: 'oi' or 'oy'? (Phase 5 phonics)
Use the correct 'oi' or 'oy' word to fill in the gaps in these sentences. Then see if you can complete the crossword!
Spelling patterns: 'ie' (Phase 5 phonics)
In these words the letters i and e are making the /igh/ sound. Fill in the letters ‘ie’ to complete the words in the pies. If the word is real, match the pie to the chef. If not, match it to the clown!
Spelling patterns: ‘aw’ words (Phase 5 phonics)
Miss Muddle can’t remember how to spell these words. Can you help her? Colour in the correct spelling for each picture.
Spelling patterns: ‘air’ balloons (Phase 5 phonics)
The ‘air’ has blown out of these hot air balloons! Can you put ‘air’ back into the words, read them and match them to the correct baskets?
Spelling crossword: 'nk' words
Can you work out the missing words in these sentences? Clue: They all have the sound /nk/ in them. Write your answers in the crossword grid
Reading split digraph 'e_e' words (Phase 5 phonics)
Can you spot the /ee/ sound, spelled e_e, in these words? Look carefully and colour in the letters e_e.
Reading and drawing the /er/ sound (Phase 5 phonics)
Read these /er/ words. Can you draw a picture for each one?
Making -ay words (Phase 5 phonics)
How many words can you make with the /ai/ sound when it’s written ‘ay’?
Find the rhyme using 'ou' (Phase 5 phonics)
Look at these rhyming pictures. Using the ‘ou’ spelling, can you write the rhyming words?
Codebreaker: 'nk' (Phase 4 phonics)
Detective Dan needs some help breaking a code. He’s worked out that each number in the code words represents a different letter of the alphabet. Can you use the grid to help you break the code and decode these words, then draw a picture of them?
First 100 high-frequency words list
Children learn to read and spell high-frequency words, the most common words in English-language texts, throughout primary school. Download a list of the first 100 high-frequency words to use for at-home spelling practice and revision.
Year 1 Phonics screening check 2014
The Y1 Phonics Screening Check tests children's knowledge of phonics with a mixture of real and nonsense words. Look through the official past paper for 2014 to see what sort of words your child will be asked to read.
Words containing 'tch' (Phase 5 phonics)
The 'tch' grapheme is a trigraph (one sound made up of three letters) used to represent the /ch/ sound. Cut out these letters. How many words can you make containing 'tch'?
Choose 'oa', 'oe' or 'ow' (Phase 5 phonics)
All these words have the /oa/ sound in them, but some are spelled with the digraph 'oa', others with 'oe' or 'ow' or 'o_e'. Can you cut out the words and stick them into the right columns in the table?
Choose 'ai', 'ay' or 'a_e' (Phase 5 phonics)
All of these words have the same /ai/ sound in them, but some are spelled with the digraph 'ai', others with 'ay' or the split digraph 'a_e'. Can you cut out the words and stick them into the right columns in the table?
Spotting trigraphs (Phase 5 phonics)
A trigraph is a single sound represented by three letters. Cut out these nine words and see if you can put them in the correct places in the following sentences.
Split digraphs revision (Phase 5 phonics)
A fun, teacher-created resource that helps children understand what a split digraph word is, which is often taught in Phase 5 phonics at primary school.
Year 1 Phonics screening check 2013
At the end of Year 1 children's reading and phonics skills are tested in the Y1 Phonics Screening Check. Look through the official past paper for 2013 to see what sort of words your child will be asked to read.