Our students begin their learning journey in their very first year at school...and this continues as they progress through the year groups.

The Very Beginning:

Sets 1 to 3 will focus on phonics for all the single-letter phonemes with some double letter phonemes, to build the strongest foundations for reading, writing and spelling success. Children will learn to recognise each letter shape and make its corresponding sound. They will also learn to hear a letter sound and then write its corresponding shape forming it correctly.

This video models the sounds of the letters.

Once children know a bank of letters, they will learn to use these letters to read and write words e.g recognise letters, attach and say the sound they know for the letters, then blend the letters together to form a word for reading e.g. /m/ /a/ /t/ says mat (decoding). They will also learn to hear sounds through a word, attach the letter shape they know to the sound they hear and write it to form a word (encoding).

Examples of our readers are below.

The learning continues on through Sets 4 to 11, as our students continue to build their ability to decode (read words) and encode (make words) and begin to develop fluency.

From Year 4 onwards, our students begin to revise and then focus on spelling patterns using The Code programme.