Little Wandle Code: Supporting students in Key Stage 3 with phonics gaps

For the last 3 years, Little Wandle, one of the most widely used primary phonics programmes in England, has been piloting an assessment and intervention programme designed to identify and fill gaps in students' phonics knowledge.

This webinar will be of interest to any secondary teacher, teacher, teaching assistant, librarian or anyone involved in supporting students' transition to secondary school.

In the webinar you will find out:

• What the pilot has learned about the profile of these students
• Strategies to support older learners with phonics
• How schools support struggling readers outside of the intervention

Before the webinar, please explore:

• 'The teen reading crisis - and the plan to start fixing it' by Jessie Ricketts, tes (30 April 2025)
• 'Focus on reading in secondary years to drive up standards', Department for Education press release (15 October 2025)

After the webinar, you'll receive the recording of the webinar; a list of suggested further reading; and a series of reflection questions/writing prompts to support you in linking the content of the webinar back in to your practice.

Speakers

Sarah Paxton, Programme Developer, Little Wandle

Plus a teaching colleague, TBC