From September 2023, Little Wandle introduced a Phonics and spelling programme Year 2 consisting of daily lessons.

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with two English Hubs, Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. This will be taught in a fun multisensory way and may well involve: writing sounds/ words, songs, actions, pictures, puppets, writing giant letters in the air, using different voices, moving around the room, treasure hunts. Children on track should be secure with phase 4 (be able to read single letter sounds and phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs, words with constant blends ie frog, splash or brain as well as words with 3-4 syllables). Where this is the case, we will support these children by using the Little Wandle Rapid Catch Up Scheme. He's pretty fluent now in the phase 5 so just waiting to see whether these 7+ books are offered next or something else more challenging.Apply - The children will have a go at reading or writing sentences of words that involve the new sound/word they have just learned. They also assess when children are ready to exit the Rapid Catch-up programme, which is when they read the final fluency assessment at 90+ words per minute. By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you. This is a much faster paced and age appropriate version of the Little Wandle scheme which enables children to access age appropriate reading and therefore the full curriculum much more rapidly, and also prepares them for the KS3 curriculum when they move onto secondary school. You can use these with your child at home to help them with their pronunciation of phonemes and recognition of corresponding graphemes.

In Reception, children have access to the reading corner every day in their free flow time and the books are continually refreshed.By the end of Pre-School, children are well prepared to begin learning grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs) and blending in Reception. Pupils in EY and KS1 are given reading books each week, which directly link to the phonics sounds they are being taught so that phonics knowledge is consolidated.