Phonics
The Academy uses the Sounds-Write Phonics Programme. Sounds-Write is a sound-to-print approach which means that it is based on and structured around the sounds of speech. Sounds-Write provides a phonics curriculum. This means teaching explicitly the essential phonemic awareness skills, conceptual knowledge, and code knowledge needed for students to learn to read and spell. Sounds-Write relies on explicit instruction and is a highly structured, cumulative, multisensory programme, and we teach both reading and spelling in every single session.