Phonics and Early Reading

At Holy Trinity and St John’s Primary School, we teach Phonics through a scheme called Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised. This is a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP) developed for schools by schools. It is based on the original Letters and Sounds, but has been extensively revised to provide a complete teaching programme which meets all the expectations of the National Curriculum.

Phonics is taught daily for children working at Phases 1 - 5, and from Phase 2, these children have an additional 3 reading practise sessions per week, to help build fluency in decoding. The reading books that are used are from the Little Wandle programme and are closely match to each child's ability (Children should be able to read them with ease). An e-book of the book used in school is also assigned to each child so as they can share what they have been reading with their adults at home