Intent

 At Cherry Tree Academy we are passionate about ensuring all children become confident and enthusiastic readers and writers. We believe that phonics provides the foundations of learning to make the development into fluent reading and writing easier. Through phonics, children learn to segment words to support their spelling ability and blend sounds to read words. The teaching of phonics is of high priority.

Implementation

At Cherry Tree Academy we use ‘Song of Sounds’ for our teaching of phonics.   It is visual, auditory and kinaesthetic, which engages our pupils. They have discrete, daily phonics sessions where they revise previous learning, are taught new graphemes/phonemes, practise together and apply what they have learnt. Phonics is interleaved throughout the day, with opportunities to revisit and apply phonics knowledge in other sessions. 

Impact 

Through the teaching of systematic phonics, our aim is for children to become fluent readers by the end of Key Stage 1. Children can then focus on developing fluency and comprehension throughout the school. Attainment in phonics is measured by the Phonics Screening Test at the end of Year 1.

Song of Sounds - Stage 1 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZfjUQ6IEQs

Song of Sounds - Stage 2 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQHdBMLk-M

Song of Sounds - Stage 2 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwluz7yHW0g