PSC: Mid-Year Strategies to Ensure Everyone is On Track

PSC: Mid-Year Strategies to Ensure Everyone is On Track

The PSC (Phonics Screening Check) may seem some time away yet but, at Sounds-Write, we recommend that you review what your class has been doing so far to make plans for the months ahead. Let us guide you! In this blog, we’ll explain how you can use the tools we’ve...
Mastering Phonemic Awareness: Your Key to PSC Success

Mastering Phonemic Awareness: Your Key to PSC Success

The PSC (Phonics Screening Check) is as much a test of phonemic awareness skills and conceptual understanding as it is of code knowledge.  This blog will explore why it is so important that these skills are practised to automaticity and what you can do to ensure that...
The Phonics Screening Check 2024: Our Analysis

The Phonics Screening Check 2024: Our Analysis

CEO, John Walker, reflects on the history and purpose of the phonics screening check and shares his advice for educators looking to support their students going forward. Twelve years on and after much initial opposition, English schools have just run the latest...
PSC… Now what?

PSC… Now what?

So your class has just done the Phonics Screening Check (PSC)… great! Now what? After a brief pause to congratulate yourself on that milestone, you will be thinking about what comes next. What can we learn from the PSC to inform the next steps for those...
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