In Pheasey Park Farm Primary School and Early Years Centre, we understand the strong correlation between children's reading abilities from a young age and their future life chances. We therefore prioritise reading throughout our curriculum as we want children to quickly go from learning to read to reading to learn. To enhance children’s chances of becoming fluent readers, children are taught to read through synthetic Phonics.

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Phonics is taught through AnimaPhonics, this is an accredited scheme that ensures a systematic approach by following the sequence of revisit and review, teach, practise, apply.  AnimaPhonics combines stimulating online lessons, vibrant illustrations and engaging materials to provide a simultaneous visual, auditory and kinaesthetic approach to the development of early reading. This multi-media delivery allows children to physically engage with the lesson content. Each new sound is introduced through a song or poem, with a corresponding mnemonic action.

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A complete systematic synthetic Phonics (SSP) programme is one that provides:

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• All that is essential to teach SSP to children in Reception and Key Stage 1 in mainstream primary schools.

• Sufficient support for children in Reception and Key Stage 1 to become fluent readers.

• A structured route for most children to meet or exceed the expected standard in the Year One Phonics Screening Check.

• All National Curriculum expectations for word reading through decoding by the end of Key Stage 1.

All Reception and Year 1 children complete daily Phonics lessons and intervention groups are put in place throughout the day to ensure children have the opportunity to ‘keep up’. Phonics lessons continue in Year 2 and Key Stage 2 for those children who need it. Children are assessed half termly on their Phonics skills and our reading books correspond with the phoneme/graphemes children have been taught.

For more information about Phonics, visit the link below.

 https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/Phonics/