English
The Patron saint of writing is Francis de Sales
The Patron saint of reading is Christina the Astonishing
Our English leader is Miss Armstrong
Our Writing Policy
Our Writing Progression
Our Reading Progression
Our Phonics Progression
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Children begin their reading journey with Foundations for Phonics where they tune into sounds. Now, take a look at the Programme Overview Reception And Year 1 to see how your child is learning to read. We shared our reading expertise with parents recently at our Everybody Reads parent workshop.
Our School Phonics policy
Watch these videos to see how the children are taught to say their sounds
Phase 2 sounds taught in Reception Autumn 1
Phase 2 sounds taught in Reception Autumn 2
Phase 3 sounds taught in Reception Spring 1
The documents below explain how the children are taught to say the sounds and write each grapheme with the correct letter formation during the Autumn term in Reception Class
The documents below show how to say the Phase 3 sounds which are taught during the Spring term in Reception and Class and the Phase 5 sounds which are taught in Year 1
Take a look at the document below which explains how the children are taught to form capital letters correctly
Phonic Screening Check
In the summer term, all Year 1 pupils are assessed on their ability to apply their phonetic knowledge to read words. This is carried out using the Phonic Screening Check, which consists of a mixture of 40 words; some real words and some made-up words. All the words are phonetically decodable. (No tricky words are included).
You may also wish to look at some sample materials and a video showing how the check is marked. This can be found here:
Spelling
In FSU and KS1, we teach spellings by segmenting graphemes (letters) into phonemes (sounds) from c-v-c (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. This develops into words with more complexity with vowel/vowel or vowel/consonant diagraph, trigraphs or quadgraphs. Irregular or ‘tricky’ words as they are known, are taught by recognising the tricky part and learning to read and spell by sight.
In KS2, we teach spellings grouped according to sounds so that pupils continue to apply the phonic knowledge they acquired in KS1 to more complex spellings.
