Phonics

At LLPS, reading is at the heart of our curriculum. We believe that reading is a vital life skill that supports children’s learning across the whole curriculum.

High quality phonics teaching is an integral part of our early education provision, developing the crucial skills of word recognition that, once mastered, enable children to read fluently and automatically. Teachers plan and teach to the National Curriculum, ensuring that expectations are age-related. At LLPS we use the Bug Club Phonics Systematic Synthetic Phonics programme (SSP) for teaching and learning in EYFS and Key Stage 1 and across Key Stage 2 to support targeted reading interventions as required.

Each fiction and non-fiction text is 100% phonically decodable, supporting the explicit teaching of synthetic phonics. From EYFS through to Year 2, Phonics is taught daily with a clear structure which focuses on revision, reading, spelling and writing.

Phonics for EYFS and KS1 is really important.  Videos below can help you to pronounce all of the sounds! You can also access phonic reading books at home via Bug Club.  We recommend the CBeebies show Alphablocks, who model correct phoneme pronunciation and great segmenting and blending for early reading!

  • “I love to sing the alphabet song!"

    Victoria

  • “We learn different sounds every day."

    David

  • “I love shouting out the sounds!"

    Lola

  • “I love playing phonics games on Bug Club. They are exciting!"

    Lhotse

  • "My favourite part is when we do the spelling and we draw our sound buttons."

    Tom

  • "I like writing the sentences at the end of our phonics lessons."

    Emilie

  • "I love the eBooks and I like clicking on the bugs and doing the quizzes!"

    Ruby

  • "I love Bug Club Phonics! The books we read on the computer at home are fun."

    Henry