Phonics

At The Giles Nursery and Infants’ School, phonics is taught through our own bespoke systematic synthetic phonics programme. The teaching of letters and their sounds, letter names, alternative pronunciations and alternative spellings is broken down into phases:

Further information is available in our Phonics Policy and Phonics Curriculum Journey.

Phonics can be confusing at first! We regularly host Phonics Workshops to support parents/carers who are new to this method of learning to read. Dates are listed in our Weekly Newsletter.

There is lots of information about phonics available online. We recommend these two videos as a useful introduction to the terminology of phonics and the pronunciation of letter sounds:

Phonics Terms Explained for Parents:

Phonics: How to Pronounce Pure Sounds:

There are a wide range of online games and applications that support phonics learning. In school, we use Phonics Play to support teaching and learning. There are free games available here:

The National Literacy Trust recommends applications to support reading here. Please note, some of these applications incur a cost.