Phonics

St. George’s is a learning community where everyone can prosper and flourish in God’s wisdom and where each person  is known, loved and valued.

Teach children how they should live and they will remember it all their life. Proverbs 22:6

Phonics and Early Reading Statement

We teach phonics using Sounds-Write, a structured synthetic phonics program. 

We use the Sounds-Write and Dandelion reading schemes which follow our phonics programme. 

Training School

We are very proud to be one of the few Sounds-Write Training Schools providing phonics teaching for training purposes and offer taster mornings introducing the Sounds-Write program to other schools and English Hubs. Feedback from visiting schools has consistently been positive.

National Phonic Screening

All pupils in Year 1 have a national phonics screening check which is carried out in June each year. Any pupil who does not attain the required standard repeat the screening in Year 2. This is to ensure that all pupils have a secure foundation upon which to build their reading skills in Key Stage 2.