Phonics & Reading
St James the Less uses a variety of resources to teach reading, including the following schemes:
Phonics
Read Write Inc (this is our main phonics scheme)
Letters and Sounds
Smart Kids Phonic Resources
Reading
Oxford Reading Tree (various series)
Jelly and Bear
All Aboard (Ginn)
Phonics Bugs
National Testing at Year 1 and Year 2
Children are tested in Year 1 to see if they are at a particular standard by the end of the year. Those children who were not at the expected standard by the end of Year 1 are retested at the end of Year 2.
Results
2019
Year 1 70% at the expected level
Year 2 93% were at expected level after retesting completed
2018
Year 1 82.8% at the expected level
Year 2 100% were at expected level after retesting completed
2017
Year 1 97% at the expected level
Year 2 100% were at expected level after retesting completed
2016
Year 1 - 90% at the expected level
2015
Year 1 - 86.2% at the expected level