{"id":341,"date":"2025-01-23T14:24:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heptonstall.familyoflearningtrust.co.uk\/hps\/?page_id=341"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:02:05","slug":"phonics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/heptonstall.familyoflearningtrust.co.uk\/hps\/phonics\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonics"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Heptonstall, we value reading as a key life skill and are dedicated to enabling our pupils to become lifelong readers. We believe that reading is key for academic success and progress in a number of curriculum areas therefore we provide our pupils with the skills and confidence to deal with printed language from a very early age. We provide children with a structured scheme, ELS, that will lead to children becoming fluent readers so that at the end of their primary education with us, they are able to read a wide variety of texts easily.<\/p>\n

As we hold reading for pleasure at the heart of reading, we ensure children develop a real love and thirst for reading a range of genres by providing them with an ELS story book which they are reading in class, an ELS story book to read at home and a reading for pleasure book from our school library. The ELS reading books match the individual child\u2019s phonic ability in order for them to practice at home what they have learnt in school, building on their confidence and fluency as readers.<\/p>\n

We, as a school, are determined to provide the best phonics teaching to our children and therefore ensure all staff members teaching ELS sessions are regularly up-to-date with the correct training. Miss Dodd our phonics lead, checks in weekly with all staff and holds regular \u2018bite-size\u2019 training sessions to ensure the teaching remains at a high level. All of our staff members have access to all of the training videos to recap different areas of the sessions they deliver.<\/p>\n

We also ensure our parents and carers are kept up-to-date too by sharing ELS resources, information and \u2018how-to\u2019 videos in order to support their children at home.<\/p>\n

You can find more information on our phonics scheme at: https:\/\/home.oxfordowl.co.uk\/reading\/reading-schemes-oxford-levels\/essential-letters-and-sounds\/<\/a><\/p>\n

To find out more about how phonics is taught at Heptonstall then please read our school Phonics policy<\/a><\/p>\n

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Take a look at our parent guides to support the teaching and learning of phonics at home. These guides highlight the graphemes taught throughout our programme and the pictures and rhymes that we use alongside them.<\/p>\n

Phase 2 Sounds<\/a>
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You can find more information on our phonics scheme at:
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ELS Parents Information<\/a>
\n<\/em>Although we follow the ELS scheme for phonics there are still many other resources you can use online and at home to support your child\u2019s reading skills. Some websites include:<\/p>\n