Early Reading and Phonics at West View

We have become a Little Wandle Champion School!

This means our school has met 16 Standards of Excellence in the teaching of early reading and phonics.

The teaching of phonics at West View Primary School follows the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised programme.

“The Little Wandle programme provides a full progression through all commonly occurring GPCs* (sounds), working from simple to more complex, and taking into account the frequency of their occurrence in the most commonly encountered words.” 

Please access the Little Wandle website (link below) to find more information. The ‘For parents’ section provides videos of how to pronounce sounds and how we teach the reading of words.

For more information about how we teach Phonics and Early Reading, please click on our policy below:

Phonics and Early Reading Policy

Please access the Little Wandle website to find about more information about the programme:

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/my-letters-and-sounds/

Here are some videos to help you support your child with their phonics at home.

These four videos show you how to pronounce the sounds.

These videos show you how we teach blending and tricky words in school. 

This video is all about how to support your child with reading at home. It also gives information about reading books and sharing stories.