Kingswood Primary School & Nursery

Phonics is a way of teaching children how to read and write. It helps children hear, identify and use different sounds that distinguish one word from another in the English language.

Written language can be compared to a code, so knowing the sounds of individual letters and how those letters sound when they’re combined will help children decode words as they read.

Understanding phonics will also help children know which letters to use when they are writing words.

Phonics is taught in phases, beginning with the most common sounds in the English language and building skills from there.

We are using the validated SSP Programme with the DFE: 

Super Sonic Phonic Friends

The children begin their phonics journey by listening out for sounds, recognising and naming them (phonological awareness), then progress on to sounds such as: s, a, t and then cobinations of letters such as: th, zz, igh.  The children read words by sounding them out and blending and learn to write by sounding words out and using their phonic knowledge to write them. 

In class, the children practise through rhymes, actions, air writing, using magnetic letters and exploring reading and writing through play, teacher and LSA led activities and much, much more.