Year 1 Phonics Screening Check

Year 1 Phonics Screening Check (Year 1 Pupils)
We are required to administer a phonics screening check to children in Year 1. The 2022 check will take place during the week beginning Monday 6th June 2022.

This test is a series of words – proper and nonsense words which children are asked to read using their phonic knowledge.  If a child in Year 1 does not get the required number of words right to pass the test they are able to revisit it in Year 2.

Phonics Screening Check for Year 2 Pupils who missed the test in 2021
Cancellation of the phonics screening check in June 2021 means pupils starting Year 2 in September 2021 will not have taken the check in Year 1. In the 2021/22 academic year, the DfE have confirmed that it is statutory for schools to administer a past version of the phonics screening check to Year 2 pupils during the second half of the 2021 Autumn Term and return results to their local authority (LA).

The Autumn check is intended to ensure that Year 2 pupils who need support in learning to decode using phonics are not missed.

Year 2 pupils who meet the expected standard in phonics in the 2021 Autumn check will not be required to complete any further statutory assessments in phonics. Year 2 pupils who do not meet the expected standard in the 2021 Autumn check will be expected to take the statutory check in June 2022, alongside Year 1 pupils.

Year 3 pupils, who were due to take the statutory check in June 2021 (when they were in year 2), are not required to take the autumn check. Schools are expected to maintain a programme of support for these pupils but do not need to return phonics data for Year 3 pupils to their LA.