Phonics is crucial for your child to begin to learn to read and write.

At Whitehouse we teach reading through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, the fastest growing Department for Education-validated phonics programme, supporting over 5,000 schools to teach every child to learn to read!

Little Wandle draws on the latest research into how children learn best; how to ensure learning stays in children’s long-term memory and how best to enable children to apply their learning to become highly competent readers. 

With Little Wandle,we teach children that the letters of the alphabet represent a different sound, that these can be used in a variety of combinations and are put together to make words. The children learn to recognise all of the different sounds and combinations that they might see when they are reading or writing.

Our phonics teaching starts in the school nursery where children follow a 'foundations for phonics program'. Teaching then follows a very specific, systematic sequence that allows our children to build on their previous phonic knowledge and master specific phonic strategies as they move through school.

We support all our children are able to tackle any unfamiliar words that they might discover. We also model these strategies in shared reading and writing both inside and outside of the phonics lesson and across the curriculum. We have a strong focus on the development of language skills for our children because we know that speech, language and communication skills are crucial for reading and writing in all subjects.

To learn more about the programme, please see the link below:   https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/about-us/