by admin | Feb 18, 2025 | News
According to a National Literacy Trust survey, ‘more than a third of children rarely or never write by hand in their spare time’. Should we be surprised or worried by this? asked Jonny Diamond on BBC’s The World At One (6th December 2024) in conversation with Melissa...
by admin | Feb 1, 2025 | Case Study, Primary Education
Bialik is a dual-language school (Hebrew and English), which makes it more critical that time spent on English literacy is focused, and follows the best practices in how to teach children to become skilled readers and writers. Poppie Butler, Special Education Resource...
by admin | Feb 1, 2025 | Case Study, Secondary School, UK
Allison Shaw worked as a primary school teacher for over 30 years before becoming a Higher Level Teaching Assistant at Cardinal Hume, an ‘Outstanding’ (Ofsted, 2024) secondary school in the northeast of England. A strong interest in reading and literacy, shared with...
by admin | Jan 1, 2025 | Australia, Case Study, Large school, Primary Education
The leadership team has supported the implementation of Sounds-Write at Springfield Central, a large primary state school outside Brisbane, Australia. Why did you choose Sounds-Write? Our school was in its third year of a large whole school reading inquiry and when...
by admin | Dec 20, 2024 | News, PSC, PSC Aus, PSC UK
When considering the Phonics Screening Check and the code knowledge that needs to be learned, there can sometimes be an urgency to ‘get through’ the scope and sequence.  The beauty of Sounds-Write is that the scope and sequence follow a cumulative nature, meaning you...