Online resource subscription

Teach Jolly Phonics in a more interactive, engaging way

Jolly Classroom is a web-based digital platform and online resource subscription designed to teach Jolly Phonics through structured, teacher-led lessons, interactive activities, songs, games, worksheets and practical classroom support for children aged 4–6.

What is Jolly Classroom?

Jolly Classroom is a web-based digital platform designed to teach Jolly Phonics in an interactive and engaging way. It provides teachers with structured lessons, activities and resources to help children aged 4–6 develop reading and writing skills through phonics. It includes animations, songs, games and worksheets to make learning multisensory and fun. It follows the paper-based Jolly Phonics programme, with downloadable worksheets available in the app that reflect the content in the Pupil Books.

Structured and teacher-led

Each lesson is carefully designed to provide a complete learning session, supported by teaching notes and planning guidance.

Interactive and engaging

Animations, songs, audio, stories and interactive activities make phonics learning multisensory, enjoyable and effective.

Flexible for classrooms

Fully cloud and web-based, with support for whiteboards, tablets and laptops, plus options for British or American English and print or precursive letters.

How is Jolly Classroom different from Jolly Phonics books?

While Jolly Phonics books are physical resources, Jolly Classroom is a fully online resource subscription that gives teachers everything they need to deliver engaging phonics lessons in one place.

Over 150 lessons aligned with the Jolly Phonics programme
Interactive activities, animations and audio for letter sounds and stories
Worksheets and planning notes for each lesson
Choice of British or American English
Choice of print or precursive letters
Teacher-led lessons designed to provide a complete learning session

What’s included

Jolly Classroom is available as a 6 monthly or annual subscription per school and provides all the tools teachers need to deliver fun, engaging lessons easily and effectively.

Core features

Ideal for use with children aged 4–6 years
Full and extensive year’s programme with more than 150 lessons
Dozens of interactive and exciting activities
Extensive selection of worksheets, templates and games that can be printed and used in class
Inbuilt audio for the letter sounds, Jolly Songs and story option

Teaching support

Teaching notes and planning guidelines for each lesson
Choice of print or precursive letters
Ability to create multiple personalised staff and classroom profiles
Fully cloud and web-based platform
Available across whiteboards, tablets and laptops on PC and Mac

A progressive 3-step programme

With a fresh and vibrant look, Jolly Classroom is split into 3 main steps, covering the 42 letter sounds, alternative spellings and tricky words, along with activities for reading and handwriting practice.

Step 1

Introduce the 42 letter sounds

Step 1 focuses on the five key skills of Jolly Phonics to teach reading and writing.

Learning the main 42 letter sounds
Learning letter formation using multisensory methods
Blending sounds to read and write words
Segmenting sounds within words
Learning tricky words with irregular spellings

Step 2

Build on the initial teaching

Step 2 builds on Step 1 with daily revision and consolidation, while also introducing extension topics for the week.

Main alternative vowel spellings
Capital letters and alphabet work
New tricky words
Guided writing activities

Step 3

Consolidate the teaching

Step 3 reinforces learning from the earlier stages while expanding children’s phonics and reading comprehension skills.

Alternative letter-sound spelling patterns
Additional tricky words
Long and short vowel work
Reading comprehension activities

Subscription options

Choose the subscription that best suits your school’s teaching needs.

Subscription option

Assessments

Gives access to the assessing element of Jolly Classroom.

Core subscription

Assessments & Phonics

The core Jolly Classroom subscription, with access to the phonics programme, lessons, activities and teaching resources.

Extended subscription

Assessments, Phonics & Literacy 1

The core subscription plus the Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation 1 add-on.

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See how Jolly Classroom can support your school with interactive teaching tools and structured phonics lessons.