The ACT Education Minister secured an extra $35 million in funding for Canberra schools from the Commonwealth, she said on ...

75 per cent in 2018 and 73 per cent in 2019. But researchers warned it was “particularly difficult to examine whether the check may have had an impact at key stage 2, because reformed assessments at ...

The publication of Grant’s research coincides with this week’s government phonics screening check, to measure the progress of over 500,000 second grade (year one) students across the United Kingdom.

The Education Policy Institute said it found no evidence children's reading improved as a result of the 2012 introduction of phonics screening checks during their first year of school. It also found ...

Department for Education figures show 69 per cent of children eligible for free school meals in Wigan reached the required standard in a national phonics check at the end of the 2023-24 academic year.

THE reading skills of the poorest pupils in Essex are worse than before the pandemic and nearly a fifth below the overall rate for all pupils. Department for Education figures show 64 per cent ...

SGS Pegasus School carefully selects songs, rhymes and books which are then shared with pupils in order to develop a love of reading, and the books are matched to the pupils’ phonics knowledge.

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Despite this being a month packed with reminders to schedule your screening, the guidelines on when you should begin making mammograms a part of your annual medical checklist are incredibly unclear.