Phonics Questionnaire - December 2017

Name:

School:

Please circle the most appropriate answer:

Are you the … ? Phonics Phonics Other

Champion Champion (please specify)
Teacher Teaching
Assistant

Which Hub do you belong to? N Wilts S Wilts W Wilts Swindon Nexus
Excalibur Pickwick Pickwick
Salisbury Corsham

1. What is your skill level in Excellent Good Satisfactory Needs

teaching phonics? Improving

2. How would you rate your Excellent Good Satisfactory Needs

current level of confidence in Improving
teaching phonics?

3. How confident would you Very Confident Confident Not

feel to train other colleagues confident on my own with confident
how to teach phonics? on my support
own

Do you …

4. have a working ability to Yes Some of No

sound out all of the phonic them
sounds?

5. have a clear understanding of Yes Some idea No

what is covered in each
phonics phase, and how
pupils progress from one to
another?

6. have a clear understanding of Yes Some No

how phases link with
 spelling patterns? idea

7. feel confident in teaching, or Yes Sometimes No

supporting, pupils to apply
their phonics in their
writing?

8. feel confident in making Yes Sometimes No

links to phonics across a
range of subjects?

For your class ….

9. this term, do you know

which phonic stage each
pupil is working at?

9a. In YR Yes Not for No I don’t teach

every pupil this class

9b. In Y1 Yes Not for No I don’t teach

every pupil this class

9c. In Y2 Yes Not for No I don’t teach

every pupil this class

10. are there clear expectations

of progress against the stages
of the phonics programme -
for the majority of pupils at
 the end of the following
years?

10a. In YR Yes Some No I don’t teach

expectations this class

10b. In Y1 Yes Some No I don’t teach

expectations this class

10c. In Y2 Yes Some No I don’t teach

expectations this class

11 is there a robust system to

assess ongoing development
in phonics, reading, writing,
speaking and listening ?

11a. In YR Yes A system No I don’t teach

exists but it this class
is not robust

11b. In Y1 Yes A system No I don’t teach

exists but it this class
is not robust

11c. In Y2 Yes A system No I don’t teach

exists but it this class
is not robust

12 is there a system for the

systematic tracking of pupil
progress?

12a In YR Yes Not sure No I don’t teach

 this class

12b In Y1 Yes Not sure No I don’t teach

this class

12c In Y2 Yes Not sure No I don’t teach

this class
In your school…

13 would you consider the

teaching of phonics All of the Some of the Never Not sure
multisensory, active and time time
participatory?
14 are phonics resources used
effectively in the school to All of the Some of the Never Not sure
deliver a systematic daily time time
discrete phonics teaching
session?
15 how confident do you think
all practitioners in FS and Secure Secure in Depends on Not sure
KS1 feel in teaching reading across all some phases the
and writing, particularly phases practitioner
phonics?
16 how confident do you think
all practitioners in KS2 feel Secure Secure in Depends on Not sure
in teaching reading and across all some phases the
writing, particularly phonics? phases practitioner
For pupils not making
sufficient progress…
17 in Y1 are there systems in
place to identify them? Yes Some of the No Don’t know
time
18 are you confident in planning
targeted intervention? Very Confident Fairly Not
confident confident confident
but some
support
needed

19 is adequate support provided Yes Some of the No Don’t know

to ensure they make time
progress?

20 are these interventions Yes Some of the No Don’t know

monitored? time

21 are there identified Yes Some of the No Don’t know

 interventions for Y2 pupils time
who did not pass their Y1
phonics screener?

Parents …
22 do parents and carers know
about the school's approach to Yes Not sure No
the development of reading and
writing and phonics in
particular?
23 does your school help
parents/carers support their Yes Yes No Not sure
children with reading and All parents Some parents
writing?
24 does your school hold specific
parent information sessions to Yes Yes No Not sure
help them support their child’s Some parents
phonics learning?
25 if the answer to 25 is yes to the
above question, what More than 61% - 80% 40%- 60% Less than
percentage of parents attend 80% 40%
these events?

Training …

26 have you received any training Yes No

in teaching phonics?

27 if the answer to 27 is yes, when In the past Between 12 More than n/a
did this training take place? 12 months and 36months 36 months
28 in the past year has your school
held any development sessions Yes Not sure No
(CPD) to support the
assessment, planning and
teaching of phonics?

29 do you feel all staff members

are appropriately trained to Yes, all of Some of them Not sure
deliver high-quality phonics then
teaching?