Phonics

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go.” – Dr Seuss

At St Francis we believe that reading is the key to accessing our whole curriculum and is the biggest indicator to future academic success. With reading at the forefront of our curriculum, we aim to establish each child as a lifetime reader and develop their love of reading. Please see our core reading and reading for pleasure overviews to view the texts that we use.

Phonics has been given a high priority within our school and we aim to ensure that all children are fluent readers. All of our teaching staff have received ‘Little Wandle’ training to ensure consistency across the school.

Little Wandle

Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised is a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP) developed for schools by schools. Based on the original Letters and Sounds, but extensively revised to provide a complete teaching programme meeting all the expectations of the National Curriculum and prepares our children to go beyond the expectations of the Phonics Screening Check.