Fazakerley Primary School CLLD Policy January 2013 LBD
Fazakerley Primary School
Policy For The Teaching of Phonics
March 2012/Updated Feb 2015
Fazakerley Primary School will follow the Letters and Sounds document, which will be used as the basis for the teaching of phonics. Letters and Sounds will be the only programme followed. A range of resources will be used appropriately and effectively to support the delivery of this programme.
Delivery of teaching of phonics
At Fazakerley Primary School, phonics will be taught throughout Foundation Stage and Key Stage One.
· It will be delivered as a discrete daily session, lasting for 15 minutes.
· In Key Stage One, pupils will be allocated into differentiated groups across Years One and Two to allow for more focused teaching of the Phases.
· The phonics session will be delivered as a “Four part” session, which will be:-
Revisit
Teach
Practise
Apply
· Sessions will be multi-sensory and fun, using a range of resources.
· Opportunities will be provided within the learning environment, both indoor and outdoor, to apply skills taught in the session throughout the day.
· Progression in phonics will be monitored by the CLLD Co-ordinator, using the Phonics Progression Tracking sheets and evaluated on a termly basis. This will then be reported to the Local Authority on a termly basis.
· Assessments of individual pupils will be completed at the end of each Phase.
· Termly assessments will be completed by individual teachers in addition to their ongoing assessment of children’s learning on a daily basis.
Nursery
At Fazakerley Primary School, children will be introduced to Phase 1, aspects 1 – 7
· Aspect 7, oral segmenting and blending, should only be introduced after careful consideration of ability.
Reception
At Fazakerley Primary School, children entering Reception class will be initially working within Phase 1.
· Phase 1 contains seven aspects.
· Elements of Phase 1 will continue to be delivered throughout Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Children will be given continual opportunities to develop language.
· Phase 2 will be introduced in the Autumn Term. This phase will introduce 19 phonemes. This phase will last for six weeks.
· Phase 3 will be introduced in the Spring term. Phase 3 will introduce 25 new phonemes. This phase will last for 12 weeks.
· If appropriate, Phase 4 will be introduced at the end of the Summer term to accelerate progress.
In the Summer term, phonic data will be analysed by the Assessment Co-ordinator to form part of the screening process for children who may need extra support in the Autumn term of Year 1. This data will also inform decisions regarding which Phase group the children will be taught in during Year 1. This is also the case for the Summer term data from Year 1.
Year 1
At Fazakerley Primary School, children entering Year 1 will be introduced to Phase 4 of Letters and Sounds. Children who are still working within Phases 2 and 3 will continue to be taught within those phases through the differentiated teaching system implemented across Years 1 and 2.
· Phase 4 will last between 4 to 6 weeks. No new phonemes are taught within this phase, it is a consolidation of phases 2 and 3.
· For the remainder of the year (30 weeks) children will be working within Phase 5. (now superseded by the Spelling Phases) By the end of the year the majority of children will be working securely within this phase.
Year 2
· Throughout Year 2 children will be working within Phase 6.( now superseded by the Spelling phases) Again, pupils working below Phase 6 will be taught within the other phases through differentiated daily phonics teaching across Years 1 and 2.
In terms of the national expectation for progression, 85% of children should be working securely within Phase 6 by the end of Year 2.
Key Stage 2
At Fazakerley Primary School, the teaching of phonics within a discrete daily lesson continues in Year 3 and 4. Teachers again teach differentiated groups across the three lower KS2 classes. Teachers and support staff in Years 5 and 6 have also taken part in ‘Letters and Sounds’ training and use this in small group teaching sessions for selected children.
Year One Phonics Screening Check
Pupils in Year One take part in a statutory Phonics Screening check. It is designed to confirm if children have learnt the skill of phonic decoding to an appropriate standard. This will take place in the Summer term and is a list of 40 real and pseudo words that children are asked to read. Pupils take part in the check individually and results are reported back to the Local Authority. Pupils who do not achieve the expected standard will retake the screening check in Year 2.