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Phonics

Phonics at Ryhall CE Academy was a key focus for improvement in 2017-18 following two years of results below national.  We wanted to ensure the children had a consistent learning journey throughout their primary school education with high standards of attainment and progress and for them to also gain lots of fun and enjoyment from it. As a result, 92% of Year 1 children undertaking the national Phonics Screening Test in June 2019 have achieved the expected standard. (93% in 2018). Note: each child equates to 4%.  We have continued on this journey to developing our standard in reading. Although there are no published results in 2020 and 2021, we have continued to maintain these high standards through our own internal assessments using the 2019 Phonics Screening Check. 

We follow the Read Write Inc programme to teach phonics and use a wide range of resources to support our teaching in this area. We use fun rhymes and actions to learn the sounds required for children to develop the necessary skills for reading.  These sounds are split into three sets and the children learn a set at a time at their own pace and according to their ability.  Rhymes and actions are used to introduce each sound until the children learn to read the sound.  The children then move onto reading the sound within a word before moving onto writing the word and using it within context. 

The children also learn the common exception words (CEW) for their year group during spelling and phonics sessions.

Phonics is taught every day for 20 minutes as a whole class session.  We have found that teaching it as a whole class allows for the skills taught in these sessions to be more transferrable to other lessons.  Teaching assistants and teachers lead phonics interventions for any children that need extra support or to catch up from a particular session or learning of a specific sound.

When the children reach Key Stage Two, if phonics sessions are still needed, they are taught by both teachers and teaching assistants alongside the spelling program.

During the academic year, beginning in the Autumn Term, we run 'Phonics for Parents' workshops - these are informal sessions which help parents and carers to give the right support to their child in reading at home.  We hope you can join us. You can also get more help by clicking on the videos below, reviewing the booklets for parents (scroll down) or view the links to the left. 

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Ryhall CE Academy

Church Street

Ryhall Stamford

Lincs

PE9 4HR