PHONICS @ HEATHFIELD
Our aim at Heathfield is to develop fluent, skilled and passionate readers as well as equip each child with the necessary literacy skills needed to express themselves creatively and imaginatively and to communicate with others effectively. At Heathfield, we are determined that every child can read and we adopt a ‘keep up not catch up’ approach to phonics and reading.
To teach phonics, we follow Supersonic Phonic Friends-a validated scheme. Supersonic Phonic Friends is a fully systematic synthetic phonic approach. The scheme includes the Firm Foundations in Phonics, The Basics 2, 3, and 4, The Higher Levels of phonics (5)-Choose to Use Spellings and Switch it Spell sounds.
All children in Reception, Year 1 and 2 will continue with phonics until they have completed each stage of the scheme-the highest stage being Switch it Spell sounds
To teach phonics, we follow Supersonic Phonic Friends-a validated scheme. Supersonic Phonic Friends is a fully systematic synthetic phonic approach. The scheme includes the Firm Foundations in Phonics, The Basics 2, 3, and 4, The Higher Levels of phonics (5)-Choose to Use Spellings and Switch it Spell sounds.
All children in Reception, Year 1 and 2 will continue with phonics until they have completed each stage of the scheme-the highest stage being Switch it Spell sounds
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
END POINTS
Where children are not secure in the basics 5 at the end of year 2, or children who join us below the expected standard in KS2, phonics interventions will continue until each child has successfully completed the whole scheme.
DECODABLE READING BOOKS
All children will receive one book per week that has been carefully selected to ensure it matches to their phonics ability and stage within the Supersonic Phonics scheme. This means children should be able to read this book with very little support-if any. All of the sounds and the majority of the words in the book have been taught to the children through previous phonics lessons. It is important that children are given lots of practice reading books with sounds they have previously learned. All pupils are heard read on a one-to-one basis each week as a minimum.