Furze Infant School
To access the PARENT page for Little Wandle Resources, please click here.
Both of our parent information Powerpoints can be found below...
Our Little Wandle parent workshops were held on...
Thursday 26th September for Year 1 and Year 2 parents
Thursday 3rd October for Reception parents
Thank you to all those who attended. Please see a copy of the powerpoints below. Please contact the office for a copy of the handouts.
Our Reception Powerpoint - 3.10.24
Our Key Stage 1 Powerpoint - 26.9.24
At Furze Infants, we are passionate about ensuring all children become confident and enthusiastic readers. We value reading as a key life skill and are dedicated to enabling our pupils to become lifelong readers, we also encourage the zest for learning and reading by delivering high quality phonics lessons. We believe reading is key for academic success. Phonics provides the foundations of learning to make the development into fluent reading and writing easier. Through daily, systematic and consistent high-quality phonics teaching, children learn to segment words to support their spelling ability and blend sounds to read words.
In EYFS and KS1 we use the approved government scheme Little Wandle. Through this scheme we intend to develop the children’s phonological awareness, ability to segment and blend words and read tricky words by sight in order to become fluent readers.
Aims of the phonics programme:
-
For children to become secure in their phoneme knowledge from Phase 2 to Phase 5, learn alternative sounds and be able to apply this in their reading and spelling.
-
Deliver high-quality phonic teaching which secures the crucial skills of word recognition that, once mastered, enable children to read fluently and automatically enable them to concentrate on the meaning of the text.
-
To establish consistent practice, progression and continuity in the teaching and learning of phonics and spelling throughout the school.
-
To support pupils with targeted, differentiated phonics and spelling work, in addition to the whole class teaching, so that all children are given sufficient support to progress and experience challenge at a level at which they can succeed.
-
To give children word work strategies that will enable them to become fluent readers and confident writers.
Creating a LOVE of reading....
At Furze Infant School, we believe that all young children should have access to as many fantastic books as possible.
Please check out the links below to find books that are recommended for children to have experienced by the end of their year group. If you would like to buy them, you can find links to purchase them on the links too.
Nursery...
https://www.thereaderteacher.com/nursery
Reception...
https://www.thereaderteacher.com/reception
Year 1...
https://www.thereaderteacher.com/year1
Year 2...
Little Wandle Progression Chart
Supporting your children at home
To find out more about the scheme and how you can support your children at home please explore the Little Wandle website: https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/#tabnametabSupportForPhonics
Here you will be able to see how we teach certain aspects of the programme, the pronunciation of the sounds and what sounds your children will be learning in each term.
Collins eBooks
Furze Infant subscribes to Collins eBooks which enables all children and adults to have access to an online platform. Collins Big Cat books are linked with our phonics scheme, Little Wandle. Children will be assigned books weekly that focus on the phonemes they have been learning. The online library will be books that they have already been exposed to, therefore, we strongly encourage you to continue reading daily with your children to enable them to become fluent readers and to be able to answer a range of comprehension questions based on the text. This online platform enables our teachers to allocate books to individual pupils for home reading which will assess their progress instantly.
DEAR TIME :
At Furze, we have DEAR Time (DROP EVERYTHING AND READ) to encourage the love of reading and promote discussion about characters and stories. At a fixed time the school community drops everything and reads.
Reading Guidance for Parents:
Reading Buddies:
Peer mentoring is a powerful, underused tool in schools. One study suggests that partnering with peers can have a positive influence on a child's learning, and children who are older, more capable readers can be these peers for young children.
With this in mind Furze introduced Reading Buddies, pairing Year 2 pupils and Nursery pupils. Our Y2 children visit our school nursery to read with the younger ones on a regular basis. This has proved quite successful and is enjoyed by both sets of children.
Furze-Warren
Hard Federation
On behalf of the staff, pupils and governors of Furze Infants and Warren Junior School I would like to welcome you to our federation. We are two schools working together under one Governing Body for the benefit of our pupils and the success of the community we live in.
We believe our schools gain from working collaboratively, more importantly, we strive to provide a seamless transition for our pupils between the two schools.
Mr. G. Wilder OBE
Executive Consultant
A WELCOME FROM THE EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT A Welcome from the Chair of Governors
Furze Infant School
To access the PARENT page for Little Wandle Resources, please click here.
Both of our parent information Powerpoints can be found below...
Our Little Wandle parent workshops were held on...
Thursday 26th September for Year 1 and Year 2 parents
Thursday 3rd October for Reception parents
Thank you to all those who attended. Please see a copy of the powerpoints below. Please contact the office for a copy of the handouts.
Our Reception Powerpoint - 3.10.24
Our Key Stage 1 Powerpoint - 26.9.24
At Furze Infants, we are passionate about ensuring all children become confident and enthusiastic readers. We value reading as a key life skill and are dedicated to enabling our pupils to become lifelong readers, we also encourage the zest for learning and reading by delivering high quality phonics lessons. We believe reading is key for academic success. Phonics provides the foundations of learning to make the development into fluent reading and writing easier. Through daily, systematic and consistent high-quality phonics teaching, children learn to segment words to support their spelling ability and blend sounds to read words.
In EYFS and KS1 we use the approved government scheme Little Wandle. Through this scheme we intend to develop the children’s phonological awareness, ability to segment and blend words and read tricky words by sight in order to become fluent readers.
Aims of the phonics programme:
-
For children to become secure in their phoneme knowledge from Phase 2 to Phase 5, learn alternative sounds and be able to apply this in their reading and spelling.
-
Deliver high-quality phonic teaching which secures the crucial skills of word recognition that, once mastered, enable children to read fluently and automatically enable them to concentrate on the meaning of the text.
-
To establish consistent practice, progression and continuity in the teaching and learning of phonics and spelling throughout the school.
-
To support pupils with targeted, differentiated phonics and spelling work, in addition to the whole class teaching, so that all children are given sufficient support to progress and experience challenge at a level at which they can succeed.
-
To give children word work strategies that will enable them to become fluent readers and confident writers.
Creating a LOVE of reading....
At Furze Infant School, we believe that all young children should have access to as many fantastic books as possible.
Please check out the links below to find books that are recommended for children to have experienced by the end of their year group. If you would like to buy them, you can find links to purchase them on the links too.
Nursery...
https://www.thereaderteacher.com/nursery
Reception...
https://www.thereaderteacher.com/reception
Year 1...
https://www.thereaderteacher.com/year1
Year 2...
Little Wandle Progression Chart
Supporting your children at home
To find out more about the scheme and how you can support your children at home please explore the Little Wandle website: https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/#tabnametabSupportForPhonics
Here you will be able to see how we teach certain aspects of the programme, the pronunciation of the sounds and what sounds your children will be learning in each term.
Collins eBooks
Furze Infant subscribes to Collins eBooks which enables all children and adults to have access to an online platform. Collins Big Cat books are linked with our phonics scheme, Little Wandle. Children will be assigned books weekly that focus on the phonemes they have been learning. The online library will be books that they have already been exposed to, therefore, we strongly encourage you to continue reading daily with your children to enable them to become fluent readers and to be able to answer a range of comprehension questions based on the text. This online platform enables our teachers to allocate books to individual pupils for home reading which will assess their progress instantly.
DEAR TIME :
At Furze, we have DEAR Time (DROP EVERYTHING AND READ) to encourage the love of reading and promote discussion about characters and stories. At a fixed time the school community drops everything and reads.
Reading Guidance for Parents:
Reading Buddies:
Peer mentoring is a powerful, underused tool in schools. One study suggests that partnering with peers can have a positive influence on a child's learning, and children who are older, more capable readers can be these peers for young children.
With this in mind Furze introduced Reading Buddies, pairing Year 2 pupils and Nursery pupils. Our Y2 children visit our school nursery to read with the younger ones on a regular basis. This has proved quite successful and is enjoyed by both sets of children.
Furze-Warren
Hard Federation
On behalf of the staff, pupils and governors of Furze Infants and Warren Junior School I would like to welcome you to our federation. We are two schools working together under one Governing Body for the benefit of our pupils and the success of the community we live in.
We believe our schools gain from working collaboratively, more importantly, we strive to provide a seamless transition for our pupils between the two schools.
Mr. G. Wilder OBE
Executive Consultant
A WELCOME FROM THE EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT A Welcome from the Chair of Governors
Furze Infant School
To access the PARENT page for Little Wandle Resources, please click here.
Both of our parent information Powerpoints can be found below...
Our Little Wandle parent workshops were held on...
Thursday 26th September for Year 1 and Year 2 parents
Thursday 3rd October for Reception parents
Thank you to all those who attended. Please see a copy of the powerpoints below. Please contact the office for a copy of the handouts.
Our Reception Powerpoint - 3.10.24
Our Key Stage 1 Powerpoint - 26.9.24
At Furze Infants, we are passionate about ensuring all children become confident and enthusiastic readers. We value reading as a key life skill and are dedicated to enabling our pupils to become lifelong readers, we also encourage the zest for learning and reading by delivering high quality phonics lessons. We believe reading is key for academic success. Phonics provides the foundations of learning to make the development into fluent reading and writing easier. Through daily, systematic and consistent high-quality phonics teaching, children learn to segment words to support their spelling ability and blend sounds to read words.
In EYFS and KS1 we use the approved government scheme Little Wandle. Through this scheme we intend to develop the children’s phonological awareness, ability to segment and blend words and read tricky words by sight in order to become fluent readers.
Aims of the phonics programme:
-
For children to become secure in their phoneme knowledge from Phase 2 to Phase 5, learn alternative sounds and be able to apply this in their reading and spelling.
-
Deliver high-quality phonic teaching which secures the crucial skills of word recognition that, once mastered, enable children to read fluently and automatically enable them to concentrate on the meaning of the text.
-
To establish consistent practice, progression and continuity in the teaching and learning of phonics and spelling throughout the school.
-
To support pupils with targeted, differentiated phonics and spelling work, in addition to the whole class teaching, so that all children are given sufficient support to progress and experience challenge at a level at which they can succeed.
-
To give children word work strategies that will enable them to become fluent readers and confident writers.
Creating a LOVE of reading....
At Furze Infant School, we believe that all young children should have access to as many fantastic books as possible.
Please check out the links below to find books that are recommended for children to have experienced by the end of their year group. If you would like to buy them, you can find links to purchase them on the links too.
Nursery...
https://www.thereaderteacher.com/nursery
Reception...
https://www.thereaderteacher.com/reception
Year 1...
https://www.thereaderteacher.com/year1
Year 2...
Little Wandle Progression Chart
Supporting your children at home
To find out more about the scheme and how you can support your children at home please explore the Little Wandle website: https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/#tabnametabSupportForPhonics
Here you will be able to see how we teach certain aspects of the programme, the pronunciation of the sounds and what sounds your children will be learning in each term.
Collins eBooks
Furze Infant subscribes to Collins eBooks which enables all children and adults to have access to an online platform. Collins Big Cat books are linked with our phonics scheme, Little Wandle. Children will be assigned books weekly that focus on the phonemes they have been learning. The online library will be books that they have already been exposed to, therefore, we strongly encourage you to continue reading daily with your children to enable them to become fluent readers and to be able to answer a range of comprehension questions based on the text. This online platform enables our teachers to allocate books to individual pupils for home reading which will assess their progress instantly.
DEAR TIME :
At Furze, we have DEAR Time (DROP EVERYTHING AND READ) to encourage the love of reading and promote discussion about characters and stories. At a fixed time the school community drops everything and reads.
Reading Guidance for Parents:
Reading Buddies:
Peer mentoring is a powerful, underused tool in schools. One study suggests that partnering with peers can have a positive influence on a child's learning, and children who are older, more capable readers can be these peers for young children.
With this in mind Furze introduced Reading Buddies, pairing Year 2 pupils and Nursery pupils. Our Y2 children visit our school nursery to read with the younger ones on a regular basis. This has proved quite successful and is enjoyed by both sets of children.
Furze-Warren
Hard Federation
On behalf of the staff, pupils and governors of Furze Infants and Warren Junior School I would like to welcome you to our federation. We are two schools working together under one Governing Body for the benefit of our pupils and the success of the community we live in.
We believe our schools gain from working collaboratively, more importantly, we strive to provide a seamless transition for our pupils between the two schools.
Mr. G. Wilder OBE
Executive Consultant
A WELCOME FROM THE EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT A Welcome from the Chair of Governors