Delayed Year 1 Phonics Check
Posted 5th October 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the DfE have delayed the assessment and return of the Year 1 Phonics Check.
In summary the Year 1 Phonics Check will now take place between 1st November and 31st December 2020 and then submitted directly to your LA by end of December 2020 or uploaded to COLLECT by January 22nd 2021. Effectively it’s for those pupils who were in Year 1 but have now moved up to Year 2.
What do I need to do to record the assessments? Your SIMS system has the necessary resources to collect the required data. The currently published AMPARK resources, specifically the “Phonics Screening Year 1 2020” template are still adequate to allow schools to collect the 2 pieces of data (a mark out of 40 and an outcome, Wa or Wt based on whether the mark out of 40 is above or below the threshold value of 32) for the Year 1 pupils who will by then have moved up into Year 2. So you will be recording the Year 1 Phonics assessments in the Year 1 Phonics resources but assign your current Year 2 students to templates to generate the Marksheets. The DfE would like the data to be recorded with a result date when the check is actually completed – not back dated to May / June 2020 when it would normally have been carried out. So please ensure the Result Date in the Marksheet is set as required. What do I need to do to export the assessments? In the SIMS Autumn 2020 release a new CTF export routine will be introduced to export the delayed Year 1 Phonics Data for students currently in Year 2. This CTF option will be called "Phonics Test Results (For Autumn Term 2020 Screening Check Only)"available only in the Autumn Release.
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