Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised

At Cam Woodfield Infant 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.

Daily Taught 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 and trigraphs: sounds made up of two letters such as; ch, sh, th or three letters such as; igh, air, 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.  

Phonic Screening Check

Year 1 Phonics Screening 2024 - 71.2%

Year 2 Phonics Screening 2024 - 90.5%

The Phonics Screening Check is a statutory assessment for all children in Year 1. It is designed to confirm whether individual children have learnt phonic decoding to an appropriate standard.

The Phonics Screening Check comprises of a list of 40 words that the children read one-to-one with a teacher. The list is a combination of real and pseudo-words. Using pseudo-words allows the assessment to focus purely on decoding using phonics.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE SCHOOL ON 01453 543535 OR EMAIL ADMIN@WOODFIELD.GLOUCS.SCH.UK 

Phonics and Reading Subject Story

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