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title: "Initial Sounds"
url: "https://waterside.stoke.sch.uk/blog/2023-12-12-12-00-00-initial-sounds"
school: "Waterside Primary School"
---

# Initial Sounds

  ![Image of Initial Sounds ](https://files.schudio.com/waterside-primary-school/images/blog/39700679-05A0-4834-8ED1-966589FD5C8F.jpeg)  12 December 2023   [Holly Mayer](https://waterside.stoke.sch.uk/blog/author/Hmayer)

Nursery have been working very hard on hearing the initial sound of their names. They can now do this and we have moved on to hearing the initial sound of a variety of words.

We have loved playing ‘Bertha the Bus’ in phonics and this has helped us to hear the first sound in words.

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