Little Wandle

Let’s talk about Little Wandle. At Middle Park we use Little Wandle as our synthetic phonics programme as we teach our children to read. Yesterday, our school’s Improvement Partner came to see how we implement the programme in school. She saw several staff delivering whole class phonics teaching, she saw how we use ‘flooding’ to continue teaching reading in small groups several times a week and she looked at how catch-up sessions support children who might benefit from some over-learning. We introduced Little Wandle in January 2022 and it is having a significant impact on our children’s reading – the gateway to so much of their future learning.

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