Curriculum

At Loughton Manor we use a Phonics scheme called Monster Phonics. It's used as the main tool to enable our children to learn to read and write. Monster Phonics has been validated by the Department for Education (DfE). 

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To discover more about how the scheme works, please follow this link to the Monster Phonics Parent Letter.

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It’s important that we take an approach that is rigorous, systematic, used with fidelity (any resources used match the Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence (GPC) progression of the approach), and achieves strong results for all pupils.

Validation status indicates that a programme has been self-assessed by its publisher and judged by a panel with relevant expertise and that both consider it to meet all of the DfE criteria for an effective systematic synthetic phonics programme.

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A complete systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme is one that provides:

• all that is essential to teach SSP to children in reception and key stage 1 years of mainstream primary schools

• sufficient support for children in reception and key stage 1 to become fluent readers

• a structured route for most children to meet or exceed the expected standard in the year one phonics screening check

• all national curriculum expectations for word reading through decoding by the end of key stage 1