At Temple Grafton we teach use the phonics method to teach our children to read by linking the sounds (phonemes) to the symbols that represent them (graphemes or letter groups).

Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised is a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP) developed for schools by schools. Based on the original Letters and Sounds, but extensively revised to provide a complete teaching programme meeting all the expectations of the National Curriculum, the Ofsted Deep Dive into reading and preparing your children to go beyond the expectations of the Phonics Screening Check. It provides  children with the best chance of success in reading. Through small, focussed sessions matched to each child’s phonological understanding, children learn to convert graphemes (written letters) into phonemes (sounds), and so are welcomed to the joy and enrichment that reading provides.

N.B. 2019.20 – Covid exemptions