--- title: "Reception - Phonics - ai as in Snail" url: "https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-01-13-reception-phonics-ai-as-in-snail" school: "Darwen St James’ C of E Primary Academy" --- # Reception - Phonics - ai as in Snail ![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/news/IMG_1072.jpeg) 13 January 2025 Reception class have been working extremely hard during phonics and guided reading. Today the children learned a new digraph, ai as in snail. Every phonics session the children are given the opportunity to read and write words and phrases containing the phonemes they already know. ![](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/images/news/IMG_1072.jpeg) [Reception](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/tag/reception) [Early Years Foundation Stage](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/tag/early-years-foundation-stage) [English](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/tag/english) [Phonics](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/tag/phonics) [![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/imagecache/100x100c/news/Year_1_Epiphany_.jpg)](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-01-09-year-1-re-epiphany) Previous ### [Year 1 - RE - Epiphany](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-01-09-year-1-re-epiphany) [![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/imagecache/100x100c/news/Collage_2025-01-14_14_02_29.jpg)](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-01-14-computing-year-4-artificial-intelligence) Next ### [Computing - Year 4 - Artificial Intelligence](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-01-14-computing-year-4-artificial-intelligence) ### Academy Life - [News](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news) - [Events](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/events) - [Clubs](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/academy-life/basc) - [School Council](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/academy-life/school-council) - [Attendance](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/academy-life/attendance) - [Charities and Fundrasing](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/academy-life/charities-and-fundraising) - ![School Games Gold](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/partners/Gold_Logo_25-26(1).png) - ![Healthy school](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/partners/healthy_school.png) - ![Picture News](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/partners/6_Years_of_Picture_News.png) - ![AP smilestar](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/partners/Screenshot_2026-07-27_10.26.27.png) ##### Location St James Crescent Darwen Lancashire BB3 0EY ##### Contact Us 01254 703260 ##### Stay Connected - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Darwenstjames) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/darwenstjames/) © Copyright 2021–2026 Darwen St James’ C of E Primary Academy School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)