We teach phonics in Reception and Year 1 daily for 20 minutes.The school uses a variety of schemes including Letters and Sounds, Ruth Miskin, Bug Club and Jolly Phonics. The children work through 6 phases of phonics. At the end of Year 1, children undertake a statutory Phonics Screening Check to assess their phonic ability at that time. By the time the children have reached Year 2 the children will continue phonics as part of a spelling program through No Nonsense Spelling.

We follow a lesson plan that: introduces a new sound, revisits previous sounds, practices new/old sounds and words (blending and segmenting words), applies sounds learnt and assesses what the children have learnt.