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!
Phonics Screening Check Information
All children in Year 1 take the phonics screening check in June each year. The phonics screening check contains 40 words divided into two sections of 20 words. Both sections contain a mixture of real words and pseudo-words (not real words). The purpose of the phonics screening check is to confirm that all children have learned phonic decoding to an age appropriate standard. The check is delivered by staff who know the children on a 1:1 basis.
