Nursery World - Primary schools awarded grants to spread phonics teaching

New grants have been awarded to schools that achieved top marks in the phonics screening check.

The check is taken by all six-year-olds in maintained schools, free schools and academies at the end of Year 1.

Eight primary schools have been awarded grants of £10,000 each to work with local primary schools in their area, as part of the Government's drive to eliminate illiteracy.

Each of the schools receiving the funding had more than 93 per cent of six-year-olds passing the check, is a high-performing school and has a track record in leading improvement.

The money will be used by groups of schools to develop models to improve phonics teaching that have the potential to work for other schools.

The Government sees phonics as the best way to teach children to read.

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