At Donington on Bain, we follow the Little Wandle, Letters and Sounds Revised SSP (Systematic Synthetic Phonics Programme).
Children in Reception begin phonics lessons as soon as they start school. We work through phase 2, 3 and 4 in EYFS and then phase 5 in Year 1.
Children in both year groups are taught by fully trained staff with each year group being taught separately according to the phase they are studying.
Reading is then carefully planned for groups of children accessing books at the same level. They read the book on three occasions in their group, each session focusing on a different skill: decoding, prosody and finally comprehension of the text.
Families are invited to visit the parent section of the Little Wandle website for more information.