At Waterhouses CE Primary Academy and Nursery, we want our children will leave our school as fluent, confident and expressive readers, writers and speakers who love to read and can find information and gain knowledge through using comprehension skills. They will be able to express preferences about what they have read, using a wide vocabulary, and share their opinions confidently in a variety of contexts. Alongside this we aim for all of our children to leave our school with the ability to write with confidence and accuracy for a variety of purposes and audiences. They will write with grammatical accuracy and apply spelling patterns using a neat handwriting style. In order to achieve this, we will provide our children with a high quality text based English curriculum that is both challenging and enjoyable. Our intention is that our children will apply these English skills to all areas of the curriculum to facilitate further learning and use them to enrich their lives beyond school.
At Waterhouses CE Primary School and Nursery we use the Little Wandle phonics programme (DFE approved scheme) to develop early Reading skills. We use the Big Cat Little Wandle books as part of this. In Year 2 we build on this by using Accelerated Reader to help our children become confident, fluent readers.
LS KEY GUIDANCE GLOSSARY
Spoken Language And Listening Intent 2024
Whole School Spoken Language Progression Plan
Whole School Writing Progression
Waterhouses Whole School Reading Progression Plan
Whole School MTP 2024 2025
Reading Intent
Writing Intent
Main Little Wandle Parent Presentation
Little Wandle Phonics And Early Reading Policy 2024
Agreed Consistencies And Experiences English
Our approach to phonics
Please find the link below to the Little Wandle Website and the parent information page. Here you will find information to help understand how to say the sounds your child is being taught in school; print off useful resources and get more information as to how phonics is taught at Waterhouses CE Primary Academy and Nursery.
For parents | Letters and Sounds (littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk)
