Funzo's Phonics

Such a perfect day for the book launch📚

11 nurseries. 80 children. The Loyd Mayor. My team. My family and of course our alien mate Funzo 💚👽

Overwhelmed and grateful to be in this position.🥰

Thank you so much for everyone who attended and made it such a special day and thank you to everyone else for your ongoing love and support🫶

30 days to go… 📚💚✨
We’re so excited to finally share this with you…
Our 12-book Funzo Phonics series launches April 24th 📚
Designed to make phonics fun, engaging and exciting for little learners.
Pre-order link coming soon 👀
Which one looks like your favourite so far? 🤓👇

🚨 145th out of 152.

Last year, Liverpool ranked 145th out of 152 local authorities in the UK for children achieving the Early Learning Goal in Reading at the end of Reception.

Let that sink in.
145th.

That’s not a reflection of our children.
It’s a reflection of the foundations they’re (not always) given early enough.

And foundations start in Nursery. NOT Reception.

At Funzo’s Phonics, we specialise in:
✨ Listening & attention
✨ Oral blending
✨ Sound discrimination
✨ Early letter sound confidence

Because when children walk into Reception already secure in Phase One skills, they don’t just cope…
They thrive.

Liverpool deserves better than 145th.

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🚀 So excited to share this…

Kiddicove are now officially testing Funzo’s Online — our brand new digital version of Funzo’s Phonics! 👽📚✨

This is a huge step as we begin trialling the platform in a real nursery setting, gathering feedback, and making sure it’s as practical, fun, and impactful as possible for the team.

Funzo’s Online will be available to ALL nurseries from September 2026, bringing:
⭐ teaching videos
⭐ staff training
⭐ full lesson plans
⭐ printable resources
⭐ Funzo’s storybooks
⭐ and the complete Funzo Core 12 journey

Thank you to Kiddicare for being part of the very start of something special.

The future of early phonics is coming… and Funzo’s just getting started 🪐💫

EarlyReading

Funzo's Phonics First Training Seminar

Today, I held my first external training for Funzo's Nurseries.

We had a deep dive into:

Phase One Phonics - the fundamentals before learning letters
How to assess phonics in Nurseries - which identifies children that need support for speech and language
Funzo's Phonics - the first phonics programme specifically designed for Nursery.

The feedback was brilliant and I cant wait to offer this training to more nurseries and maybe parents if you'd be interested?

Thanks so much to everyone who attended!