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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EYFS | A new house for mouse, Three little pigs, 5 Minutes Peace | Dinosaur Fiction Usbourne, Stomp Stomp Roar Roar, Egg, Usbourne Dinosaur Facts | The Way Back Home, Space Tortoise, Whatever Next | Jack and the beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, Elliot Midnight Superhero, Super Stan Traction Man, Non Fiction: People who help us. | The Pirates next door, Night Pirates, Non-Fiction: Sea animals | Owl Babies, What the Ladybird heard, Farmyard Lullabies, Gruffalo, On Sudden Hill, Non-Fiction: Animals |
| Y1 | Town and Country Mouse, Home, Funny Bones, Town and Country | The Queen’s Knickers, Paddington at the Palace, The Queen’s Hat | Tree-Seasons come, seasons go, The squirrel’s busy year, Lila and the Secret Rain, Storm whale in winter. | Traction Man (POR book), Naughty Bus (POR book), Toys in Space, I love you blue kangaroo, Old Bear stories | Rainbow fish, The selfish crocodile | Tiny Seed, Little Gardener, Eddie’s garden and how to make things grow. |
| Y2 | Vlad and the Great Fire of London (Kate Cunningham) | Jemmy Button (Valerio Vidali) | Moth: An evolution story | The Sky garden, It starts with a seed, George and Flora’s garden, Ten Seeds | Dirty Bertie | Man on the Moon, Dear Greenpeace |
| Y3 | Letters from Felix | Ug Boy Genius of the Stone Age | Oliver and the Seawigs | pending | Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx, Secrets of the Sun King, Egyptian Cinderella, Time Travelling Cat | Ottoline at Sea |
| Y4 | Lonely Planet Guides, Boy in back of the Class | The Adventures of Odysseus | The Explorer Wild by Emily Hughes, Hope Jones Saves the World | The Accidental Rock Star | Macbeth | Charlie and The Chocolate Factory |
| Y5 | Floodland | Beowolf | Cosmic | Escape from Pompeii | Six Men – David McKee | Beegu, The Savage – David Almond |
| Y6 | Survivors | The Firework Maker’s Daughter | Charles Darwin on the origin of Species | Letters from the Lighthouse, Goodnight Mr Tom | You are Awesome, Crossover - Kuame | Varmintz, Way Home, The Viewer |