At John Wheeldon Primary Academy, we are passionate about ensuring all children become confident and enthusiastic readers and writers. We believe that phonics provides the foundations of learning to make the development into fluent reading and writing easier. Through daily, systematic, and consistent high quality phonics teaching, children learn to segment words to support their spelling ability and blend sounds to read words.
To allow our children to develop a strong phonic awareness with effective blending and decoding skills, we have chosen to use a synthetic phonics programme called Read, Write, Inc. produced by Ruth Miskin. Read Write Inc. is centered around letter sounds and phonics, blending sounds together to read and spell words and applying these skills across the curriculum. Using Read Write Inc (RWI) the children learn to read fluently so that they can put all their energy into comprehending what they read. We passionately believe that teaching children to read and write independently is one of the core purposes of a primary school. Enabling children to access a broad and exciting curriculum in which they can flourish and can be PROUD of what they do throughout their time at our school.
Phonics Intent Statement
Expectations in Phonics
Useful Parent Information
By clicking on the following links you should be able to understand a little more about phonics and how it is taught at John Wheeldon.
Understanding Phonics
What is RWI Phonics?
Complete set of sounds and rhymes
Set 1 Sounds
Set 1 sounds pack
Set 2 Sounds
Set 2 sounds pack
Phonics Screening
Children in year one take part in a Phonics Screening test which takes place in June. The check is designed to confirm whether individual children have learned sufficient phonic decoding and blending skills to an appropriate standard. The test consists of 40 words – it is a combination of 20 real words and 20 pseudo words (nonsense words) for the child to read 1:1 with their teacher. This is carried out by a member of staff who has undertaken the phonics testing training and who the children are familiar with. Children who do not pass this in Year 1 will be re-assessed in Year 2, in the same manner. The results of this are reported to parents in the summer term.
Phonics Screening
