The use of our systematic synthetic phonics programme ensures that all our children get off to a flying start with their literacy skills: reading, writing and spelling. Our phonics provision allows us to ensure that all children ‘keep-up’ as opposed to ‘catch-up’. Good quality phonics teaching will ensure that children have the skills to decode and encode words, as well as be able to read texts with fluency and comprehension. When children exit our phonics programme they will have the necessary reading skills to support them in succeeding in other areas of the curriculum delivered at our school, and they will develop a love of reading.
 
We expect that all learners will become confident, able readers before they Intack Primary School. 
  
Additionally, we aim to nurture children in becoming enthusiastic readers that enjoy learning to read and become independent with using their reading skills to support their wider learning. 
 
 
                                              Assessment
Assessment is used to monitor progress and to identify any child needing additional support as soon as they need it.
    

                                   Assessment for learning is used:

• daily within class to identify children needing keep-up support
• weekly in the review lesson to assess gaps, address these immediately and secure fluency of GPCs, words and spellings.

                                  Summative assessment is used:
every six weeks to assess progress

• to identify gaps in learning that need to be addressed
• to identify any children needing additional support
• to plan the keep-up support that they need the following half term
• by SLT and the Reading Leader and scrutinised through the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised assessment tracker
• to narrow attainment gaps between different groups of children so that any additional support for teachers can be put into place, for example live coaching etc.

 
 
                                                                Statutory assessment
Children in Year 1 sit the Phonics Screening Check. Any child not passing the check re-sits it in Year 2.