Curriculum Specific Requirements EYFS/KS1

English

Please see below for information on how we teach English at West Rise Primary School EYFS/KS1.

At West Rise we use Little Wandle as our phonic scheme, as approved by the Department for Education. Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, draws on the latest research into how children learn best; how to ensure learning stays in children's long-term memory and how best to enable children to apply their learning to become highly competent readers.

Our core reading scheme is Collins Big Cat which links to the Little Wandle programme.

Our non-phonic reader scheme is the Oxford Reading Tree.

For KS2 learners for Spellings and Phonics - we use No Nonsense Spellings across the school to deliver a progressive spelling curriculum.  For children that have yet to pass their KS1 phonics screening test, we use the No Nonsense Phonics programme.

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