At Primet Primary School, we teach Phonics through a scheme called Little Wandle. This is a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP). 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.

Here is the link to the 'For Parents' section of the Little Wandle website. https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

The resources on this page will help you support your child with saying their phonemes (sounds) and writing their graphemes (letters). There are also useful videos, so you can see how your child is taught at school, to be able to confidently support their reading at home. 

Here is a little video explaining how we use phonics to read. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL5YUCPyC5I 

Your child may come home with a library book in addition to their reading book, this is a book for you to share at home simply for the joy of reading.