Spelling with the Jungle Club

Swing into the Jungle Club for a spelling adventure!

What is Spelling with the Jungle Club?

Spelling with the Jungle Club is an online platform that provides fun and engaging spelling lessons. The fully planned interactive sessions based on phonics, morphology and etymology are easy to use and loved by teachers and pupils.

Year 2, 3 & 4

*The programme artwork and theme will be further developed for Year 5/6.

Interactive spelling lessons

Aligned with the DfE writing framework and rooted in evidence-based research. Spelling with the Jungle Club is a unique spelling adventure that ensures spelling, an essential transcription skill, sticks.

Spelling with the Jungle club is included in a subscription to Success for All Phonics or Spelling & Reading programmes, but it can also be used alongside any systematic synthetic phonics programme.

How to use it

Take a quick video tour.

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Key features

Improve spelling by simply logging in and teaching your lessons!

daily cycle of review-teach-practice-apply

builds seamlessly on from a completed phonics programme

rooted in theory and evidence-based pedagogy

secures spelling skills using phonics patterns, etymology and morphology

easy to use and fully engages pupils

What schools are saying

Daily online lessons are so easy for teachers

We have been using the FFT Spelling with the Jungle Club platform for a year now and what a difference it has already made! The daily online lessons are so easy for our teachers to use and the children love the engaging activities. The fact that spelling is in focus every single day is, I am sure, at the heart of the success of this programme.

Dictation, as recommended by the DfE's new Writing Framework, forms an integral part of the sessions and the children also learn to edit writing which is invaluable. We would whole heartedly recommend this programme. An additional bonus is the exceptional customer care that you will receive from FFT - they really go out of their way to help and support you as a school.

Kati Cock

Lower School Phase Leader & Curriculum Manager, Beaumont Primary School

Have seen the impact first-hand

Our Year 2 class took part in the Spelling with the Jungle Club trial, we have seen first-hand the impact that it can have.

Gemma Neal

Phonics Lead, Victoria Road Primary School

Impact on pupils day to day writing

We have loved using the Jungle Club. We have seen this as a natural progression moving on from the phonics scheme from reception and Year 1 and the children absolutely love it. They look forward to seeing which animals we will be working with today, they are hugely engaged and the direct SPaG focus is beginning to have an impact in their day to day writing as they remember more of these rules. The incorporation of reading each session, along with the FFT readers, means they have daily practice and this is positively impacting how confident the children are becoming with their reading.

David Cox

Assistant Headteacher, John Henry Newman Academy

More confident in spelling

I love the Jungle Club spelling lessons, I feel my spelling has improved and I know the rules that I need to apply. I am more confident with my spelling this year and this helps me enjoy writing more in my lessons.

Pupil

Wilsden Primary

We believe in the scheme

‘We have invested heavily in resources and all resources show fidelity to the scheme. We are proactive in moving forwards with phonics, reading and spelling; our Y2 class took part in the Spelling with the Jungle Club trial and we provided feedback for this. Because we have invested time and effort into the scheme, we have seen first-hand the impact that it can have; we believe in the scheme and want to support other schools to do the same.

Gemma Neal

Phonics Lead & KS1 Manager, Victoria Road Primary School

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FAQs

About the programme

The daily lessons are all accessed via the platform for display on an interactive whiteboard or other digital device, including iPads. There are carefully designed accompanying lesson resources in Pupil Workbooks, provided in PDF format, that can either be printed by schools or ordered for a small cost.

The colour A4 workbooks 1, 2 & 3, (one for each term) are available as a class set of 30 for £180.

Using the programme

The platform is designed for daily use in the classroom for, on average, 10-20 minutes a day, each day of the week. 36 weeks of content is provided, meaning you can revisit skills or take a break from teaching the content.

The pedagogy ensures that children are fully engaged during the whole lesson. A wide range of fun activities are embedded in the platform which pupils engage with as a whole class, in groups and partners.

There are many ways you can adapt the programme to both support and challenge learners. For instance, children who need support can work with a more able partner or teachers can modify the amount and way the materials are presented. Teachers can also choose words they focus on based on pupil assessments. Our materials are flexible and freely accessible digitally for teachers to customise. Our training and support provide further advice to those using the programme.

Get Spelling with the Jungle Club

Spelling with the Jungle Club is included in FFT's Spelling & Reading or Phonics packages.

See Spelling & Reading

See Phonics