Phonics screening

[H34th]

Just wondering if anyone knows and can share what is their school's pass rate for year 1 children with the phonics screen test.

Also, is that information that schools put out anywhere?

Ours was 96%

Going on the " pass mark" from previous years, ours is 93% and 100% for yr 2 retakes

Thank you!

It should become available on the school website but not yet!

And would the previous years' ones be usually on there already?

Might be! There should be a section called performance or similar, look there!

@spanieleyes thank you.

I overheard a teacher excitedly sharing the (estimated) result and although she sounded pretty happy I thought that sounds rather low.

So thought I'd ask to see if my expectations were unreasonably high.

On a bad year, ( lots of SEN and SALT) we get around 82%, in a good year it's 97-100%

National average last year was 75% so numbers being discussed here are particularly high. Anything more than national, I'd be pleased with.

It all depends on the base line of the children that year. My child’s school has above the national average but the intake has high cultural capital and they would be under performing with less. Nationally the level was lower this year and your have to remember these children will have been impacted by covid lockdowns.

I appreciate there would be all sorts of factors.

They were saying 70%.

Unless a child has SEN or English as a second language there is no reason not to pass the phonics screening.

How does your school teach reading OP? Is it pure phonics or do they encourage guessing from first letter / picture / context?

They teach pure phonics.
One form school, 1 SEN (as far as I know) out of 30.
@TeenDivided

Ours has been in the 90s consistently over past few years and the last time it was in the 70s was 2019 so they clearly did something when the test came in properly to make sure they were getting good results. That year group would have had normal schooling during Covid but some disruption re pre-school age but probably weren’t as affected as the two years above them who had home schooling during reception.

It all depends on the demographic of the school if a particular pass rate is good for that school. Two schools could both achieve the national average and for one school that maybe amazing but for another school it could be a massive underperformance.

If they have one child off during the testing period in a single form entry that would make a huge difference too.