St Peter at Gowts CE Primary – Lincoln

“Children who start with no English are reading and applying phonic knowledge by the end of the year, therefore achieving the phonics screening check (PSC).”

Appleton Primary School, Hull

“Our 2021 Ofsted noted the success of our phonics programme and its contribution to our strong reading culture.”

Read Write Inc. Model School leading the way in Cornwall

We know that if the children are confident and accurate readers, it enables them to enjoy books early and that’s what it’s all about… This works for us and our children are fluent readers by the age of 6. if not before

The expectations of the programme are high, and rightly so.

When I started at Waunceirch Primary School, phonics teaching involved bits and bobs from various different programmes and as a consequence, children weren’t learning to read. Across Years 2 – 6, 54% read at expected levels and 70% of children were scoring 84% or above in national tests – most were only on the boundary and weren’t secure. Our teaching was not giving the children the best foundations so it needed
to change.

All children progress – none get left behind

The training was brilliant; if you follow the simple steps, your children learn to read. It’s great to have a comprehensive programme to follow that guides staff and delivers excellent results.

London Borough of Newham narrows

Maryland Primary School started using Read Write Inc. in January 2003. We struggled with raising reading standards even with every available intervention – there were still non- readers by the end of Year 2 and alarmingly, into the junior years as well.

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