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Phonics
At Beenham Primary School, we use the Monster Phonics Programme.
What is Phonics?
Phonics in the English National Curriculum is taught through a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) approach in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage 1, with statutory expectations particularly in Reception, Year 1, and Year 2. It focuses on teaching grapheme‑phoneme correspondences (GPCs), blending for reading, and segmenting for spelling, as outlined by the DfE.
Phonics is a core component of early reading and writing in the English National Curriculum. It teaches children how spoken sounds (phonemes) map to written symbols (graphemes), enabling decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling).
What is Monster Phonics? 
Monster Phonics is a DfE validated Systematic Synthetic Phonics programme. It is both fun and engaging, perfect for helping children learn phonics skills.
Monster Phonics makes learning to read and spell through phonics easier, by categorising the 44 sounds into 10 categories and each of these 10 categories are represented by a Monster. Each Monster is a different colour, and this colour represents that way of spelling the sound. This makes learning to read and spell much easier and more fun. The child learns through the assignment of colour and the linkage of the sound, as well as seeing the colour, creating more ways of remembering the spelling. Teachers use games, songs and activities that continuously reflect this way of learning, so that structure is constantly seen, heard and experienced by the children. This consistency is critical in ensuring that a complicated language is learnt in the most simplistic way.
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