Phonics
At GHF, we read to succeed! Reading regularly and for pleasure significantly improves life chances by enhancing educational attainment and mental well-being. This is why we teach reading through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, which is a systematic and synthetic phonics programme. The Little Wandle phonics programme draws on the latest research into how children learn best; how to ensure learning stays in children’s long-term memory and how best to enable children to apply their learning to become fluent, confident readers.
The children are taught phonic lessons daily from their entry into school and their learning is embedded across the curriculum. Children who are not secure in their phonic knowledge in Key Stage 2 continue with their phonic learning through small group work or additional phonics lessons.
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