I found out by letter on the last day of term that DS hadn't passed the phonics test re-sit in Year 2. He wasn't even close to passing, scoring 22 correct responses. He reportedly sat the test in June, but we only found out about it when school had finished! It wasn't mentioned in his end of school report or the Summer parent consultation. Over 90% of Year 1's at the school passed the phonics test, but not my Year 2 DS. No information given about what will happen now to support him in Year 3.
I've had nobody to speak to at school all Summer about his phonics test result and obviously upset by how and when we were told. I'm planning to speak with his class teacher and maybe SENCo at the start of Year 3 to find out what they plan to do.
How can I support his reading at home?
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DS didn't pass the phonics test re-sit in Year 2 - what do I do now?
homeappliance · 03/09/2016 11:10
He will sit it again in year 3 and the school will almost certainly put interventions in place to support this. Yes, you need to arrange to go into school and meet with class teacher and senco to discuss the way forward. Does your child read reasonably well? Or is this a weakness generally. It may be worth asking them to test for a root cause (dyslexia?) if it's a general weakness, however if he's generally a good reader then it could be that those alien words are confusing him as he thinks they always have to be real words. This has happened with several children that I taught and is easy to get around. Also, a score on it's own isn't very helpful, you need to ask which words he got right and which he got wrong (ask them to re test using an old test if they can't produce this information) because that will tell you which blends he struggles with or if he doesn't understand the concept of the alien words.
Sorry you had that experience regarding the results. Schools can be a bit thoughtless and sometimes assume that parents won't understand or aren't interested in test results 
Not good enough really and I'd suggest telling them how you felt so that they can change their practice.
Good luck.
He will sit it again in year 3 and the school will almost certainly put interventions in place to support this. Yes, you need to arrange to go into school and meet with class teacher and senco to discuss the way forward. Does your child read reasonably well? Or is this a weakness generally. It may be worth asking them to test for a root cause (dyslexia?) if it's a general weakness, however if he's generally a good reader then it could be that those alien words are confusing him as he thinks they always have to be real words. This has happened with several children that I taught and is easy to get around. Also, a score on it's own isn't very helpful, you need to ask which words he got right and which he got wrong (ask them to re test using an old test if they can't produce this information) because that will tell you which blends he struggles with or if he doesn't understand the concept of the alien words.
Sorry you had that experience regarding the results. Schools can be a bit thoughtless and sometimes assume that parents won't understand or aren't interested in test results
Not good enough really and I'd suggest telling them how you felt so that they can change their practice.
Good luck.
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