West Hill Primary School

The Phonics Journey Begins...


Phonics is a key part of our teaching approach here at West Hill Primary School. Foundation Stage and Key Stage One pupils take part in regular phonics and reading streaming sessions weekly with help from our friendly monsters.

Today both Foundation Stage classes were working on initial sounds and blending them together to read. They then moved onto sounding out ( segmenting ) simple words and practiced reading their high frequency words.

Phonics is a pre cursor to reading, writing and spelling providing essential foundations on which children will develop crucial literacy skills to carry them throughout life. High quality teaching makes them better readers and writers and helps them to engage in their learning.

Its lots of fun too!