Phonics and Spelling
We start teaching phonics in our Early Years using the Sounds Write Programme; we continue to use it consistently across the school all the way up to year 6. We also use Sounds Write to teach our spelling, and we teach the children the core concepts of spelling from Early Years to Year 6.
Early reading is taught daily in Early Years and KS1. Children are encouraged to foster a love for books and they progress through a reading scheme that is matched to the sounds that we teach in our daily phonics lessons. When the children can successfully read and comprehend a text, usually during year 1, they progress onto the Accelerated Reader scheme.
See our Parent Workshops page for phonics presentations to parents.
Key English Texts 2021-2022
| TERM 1 | TERM 2 | TERM 3 | TERM 4 | TERM 5 | TERM 6 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nursery | Owl Babies | No Dinner | Astro Girl | What the Ladybird Heard | Yucky Worms | Handa's Surprise |
| EYFS | The three little pigs A new house for mouse Lost and Found Goldilocks and the three bears There’s a monster under my bed Voices in the park The giraffe, the Pelly and me The Enormous Crocodile | There’s a trex in town Goodnight Dinosaur Dave’s Cave If I had a dinosaur Dinosaur Bones The Jolly Postman | Beegu The Way Back Home Aliens love underpants Whatever Next Moon Man Toys in Space - Mini Grey The Faraway Tree collection | Fairy Tales; Castles! Sir Charlie Stinky Socks collection | On Sudden Hill Bog Baby Stanley’s Stick | Owl Babies Rumble in the Jungle |
| Y1 | The Adventures of Egg
Box Dragon The Owl who was afraid of the dark | The Dark | The Jolly Postman Fantastic Mr. Fox | The Storm Whale | Errol's Garden | Augustus and his Smile |
| Y2 | Claude in the City The Guardians of Magic | Pattan’s pumpkin | Wild The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe | Zerraffa Giraffa | The Secret Sky Garden | Orion in the Dark |
| Y3 | Oliver and the Seawigs Podkin one ear | Ottoline at Sea | Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx The Borrowers | Art and Joy Best Friends Forever | The Stolen Spear | A Kid in my Class Poems |
| Y4 | The Boy at the Back of
the Class The Nowhere Emporium | The Adventures of Odysseus | The Explorer Treasure island | The Accidental Rock Star | The Great Kapok Trees | A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
| Y5 | The Boy in the Girl’s
Bathroom Who let the Gods out? | Floodland | Comic Disco The Odyssey | The Viewer | The London Eye | Varmints |
| Y6 | Zombierella The White Rose and the Swastika | When the Sky Falls | On the Origin of
Species A Christmas Carol | Clockwork | Shackleton’s journey | Rooftoopers |