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Our school is currently undergoing a transition to align our phonics and early reading scheme with the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised systematic synthetic phonics programme. Over the coming term we will be investing in staff CPD, learning resources and reading books to further support our children's learning. Part of this transition will also include further support and guidance for parents to help support their children when at home.
Visit: www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk to learn more about the systematic synthetic programme.
Support for parents, including resources and video clips can be found at: www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/
(September 2021)
Staff who teach phonics demonstrate a good subject knowledge (Ofsted, November 2021)
Throughout Key stage 1 and early Key stage 2 we aim to provide our children with the very best start.
The children love the familiarity of the characters.
- Teach - using systematic phonics resources and training that really work
- Practise - with more decodable readers than any other reading programme
- Offer richer reading - through a huge selection of stories with children's best-loved characters
- Bridge the gap - with support for the transition from phonics into richer reading
- Make progress - through careful levelling
- Support parents - with detailed inside cover notes in every title
Phonics teaching is a fun and child centered approach to teaching literacy through synthetic phonics. Letters and Sounds is used as our phonics teaching programme. A range of resources are used throughout the school to deliver the content of letters and sounds. Letter phonemes and graphemes are taught using a multi-sensory approach which caters for different children's learning needs and styles.
The sounds are taught in a specific order in phases as outlined in Letters and Sounds. This enables children to begin building words as early as possible.
The five phases taught in Phonic are;
- Learning the letter sounds
Children are taught the 44 main letter sounds. This includes alphabet sounds as well as digraphs such as sh, th, ai and ue. - Learning letter formation
Using different multi-sensory methods, children learn how to form and write the letters. - Blending
Children are taught how to blend the sounds together to read and write new words. - Identifying the sounds in words (Segmenting)
Listening for the sounds in words gives children the best start for improving spelling. - Tricky words
Tricky words have irregular spellings and children learn these separately.
