Phonics

PHONICS AND SPELLING

Intent

We have designed our English Phonics and Spelling Curriculum to: 

  • Deliver a high- quality systematic synthetic phonics programme of proven effectiveness, followed with rigour and fidelity so that children are taught consistently.
  • Following completion of the phonics programme, children from Year 2 onwards, will be taught spelling each week, systematically using a spelling programme, so that children are taught consistently. 

Implementation: 

  • In EYFS and KS1 all phonics and spellings will be taught using Little Wandle.
  • The Little Wandle SSP programme. This will be taught from week 2 in Reception as explicit 20 minute session, ensuring that children build on their growing knowledge of the alphabetic code, mastering phonics to read and spell as they move through school.
  • The systematic daily teaching of phonics has a very high priority throughout EYFS, Key Stage 1 and beyond, therefore same interventions are used to ensure the pace of the phonics programme is maintained.  
  • Once children in Year 3 are consistent in their use of all 6 phases of phonics, they will progress on to the No Nonsense Spelling programme, which is continued through to Year 6.
  • Children aged 7 upwards, who have not yet mastered their phonics to become fluent, independent readers will receive Little Wandle Rapid Catch up interventions. 

Impact: 

Children will become confident and resilient in tackling unfamiliar words by applying learnt knowledge and skills to segment, blend and read words which are real and nonsense. Children will demonstrate high levels of engagement in phonics and will apply their phonological knowledge when reading and writing and use the working walls to assist them when needed but become increasingly independent in this process.  Children will have an increased recognition of tricky words and high frequency words when reading and apply these when writing. All of this will lead to our children becoming fluent and confident readers and writers by the end of KS1 who read and write for pleasure. Once children progress onto the KS2 curriculum Pupils will be equipped with a strong command of the written word they will amass a varied vocabulary which they can use across the curriculum and spelling accurately and use correct grammar in their work.