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The resources on this page will help you support your child with saying their sounds and writing their letters. There are also some useful videos so you can see how they are taught at school and feel confident about supporting their reading at home.

At All Saints’ Primary School we teach Phonics using Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised which is a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP) developed for schools by schools. Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised is based on the original Letters and Sounds, but has been extensively revised to provide a complete teaching programme meeting all the expectations of the National Curriculum, the Ofsted Deep Dive into reading and preparing your children to go beyond the expectations of the Phonics Screening Check.

Programme Overview Reception and Year 1

Daily Phonics Session

Each day your child will be taught Phonics. This is a fun, practical and interactive session that teaches the skills of oral segmenting and blending all children require to become good readers and writers.

The reading, including the teaching of systematic, synthetic phonics, is taught from the beginning of Reception. Words are made up from small units of sound called phonemes. Phonics teaches children to be able to listen carefully and identify the phonemes that make up each word. This helps children to read words and to spell words using the corresponding graphemes (the written corresponding sound). The children will then progress onto digraphs (sounds made up to two letters such as 'sh' and 'ch) and trigraphs (sounds made up of three letters such as 'igh' and 'ear.')

Our ongoing, 6-weekly assessment of pupils’ phonics progress  is sufficiently frequent and detailed to identify any pupil who is falling behind the programme’s pace. If any child does fall behind, targeted support is given immediately through daily 'keep up' sessions.

Each day in your child’s Phonic lesson they will be introduced to a new phoneme as well as revise previously taught phonemes. They will then be encouraged to recognise and use these phonemes in their reading and writing. In line with best practise your child will be bringing home reading books and word sets that contain taught phonemes to ensure that this new learning becomes fully embedded within their long-term memory. 

In Ruby Class (Reception) we enjoy learning how words are made up from small units of sound called phonemes. We use our Little Wandle resources to support us with our Phonics and we learn the catchphrase (mnemonic) for each of the taught graphemes.

During Phonics sessions we play lots of oral blending games to help us to put our learning into practice. We also use sound buttons to 'point and sweep' to help us to read new words with our taught graphemes.

In Amber Class (Year 1) during each lesson we review our previously taught sounds, our new sound is then introduced. We segment and blend words for reading first and then after that we use what we have learned to write words with our sound of the day in. We finish the week by writing a dictated sentence.

KS2 children working on Rapid Catch Up as many of our EAL children arrive into other year groups with limited or no English and they also have access to the Little Wandle Phonics Programme to get them reading fluently as soon as possible.