The long-term plan provides a roadmap for learning across the Reception year. Staff use their knowledge of the children and strong pedagogy to adapt the curriculum when needed, responding to their developing needs and interests.

We follow a different theme each half term, using carefully selected core texts to engage children, develop vocabulary and make meaningful links across the curriculum.

Phonics and Early Reading at Southfields Primary School 

At Southfields we believe that the teaching of a high quality systematic synthetic  phonics programme  is the approach to becoming a fluent reader and writer.

We teach phonics using the ‘Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised’ to plan and teach our daily Phonics lessons.  In Phonics we teach children that the letters of the alphabet represent different sounds and that these sounds can be put together in different combinations to make different words. Children are taught to recognise these different combinations so they can use them in their reading and writing. 

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Please click on the link below for more information about how Phonics is taught. 

https://www.southfieldsprimary.co.uk/page/?title=Phonics+and+Early+Reading&pid=541