At Collingham, our intent is to ensure that every child becomes a confident, fluent, and enthusiastic reader. We believe that reading is the foundation for all learning, and high-quality phonics teaching is essential in enabling pupils to access the full curriculum, develop a love of books, and achieve success throughout their education.

Through the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised programme, we aim to:

• Deliver a structured, consistent, systematic and rigorous teaching framework aligned with fidelity to SSP principles.
• Provide a coherent, cumulative, and sequential progression, enabling pupils to secure phoneme–grapheme correspondences and decoding skills rapidly
• Ensure consistency and fidelity to the programme across all teaching staff, by delivering regular high quality training and coaching, which eliminates variation and ensures equity for every child.
• Provide an embedded focus on fluency, prosody, and automaticity
• Remove barriers to learning by providing whole class teaching for every child and precisely targeted keep-up and catch-up support, so that no pupil falls behind.
• Reduce cognitive overload for all pupils by maintaining consistency in resources and routines across year groups, and by providing daily opportunities for structured and repeated practice.
• Cultivate a positive reading culture, fostering enjoyment, confidence, and early success in reading from the outset.
• Provide high quality matched decodable texts that precisely align with pupils taught GPCs
• Equip pupils with the foundational knowledge required for later fluency and comprehension, ensuring they can fully access the wider curriculum by the end of Key Stage 1.

By the end of Key Stage 1, all pupils will be secure in their phonics knowledge, fluent in reading age-appropriate books, and prepared for the demands of the wider curriculum. All children will be ‘reading to learn’.

The resources on the page below will help you support your child with saying their sounds and writing their letters. There are also some useful videos so you can see how they are taught at school and feel confident about supporting their reading at home.

https://www.littlewandle.org.uk/resources/for-parents/