Alphablocks is excellent and is also now accompanied by Numberblocks, which was developed in conjunction with the National Centre for Excellence in Teaching Mat

Alphablocks is excellent and is also now accompanied by Numberblocks, which was developed in conjunction with the National Centre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics. There was a big push by the Conservative government as soon as they got into power to get all primary schools to teach synthetic phonics. Before then, whole word teaching was quite common.