RWI NEWS
HOT OFF THE PRESS
This year, the Pre-Prep teaching team fully embraced the Read Write Inc (RWI) Phonics programme by Oxford University Press, which was introduced last year - a high-quality phonics programme designed to lay the foundations for children to succeed in English. The students are divided into eight levels and tagged by different colours - Red, Green, Pink, Purple, Orange, Yellow, Blue, and Grey - according to their English competence. These are preceded by sounds and ditties groups where the children learn the sounds of the English language and followed by our Literacy and Language (L&L) programme, which is pitched at the level of native English speakers aged 7 and above.
We have completed our first cycle and are delighted to announce some fantastic results!
Important Results to Share
There were 175 children on the RWI program. 144 (82%) of them made one or more levels of progress.
In normal circumstances we would expect this much progress from most children in two cycles, but in our school, most have managed it in one!
29% of children in pre-prep (51/175) have made 2 or more RWI levels of progress (accelerated progress), improving at above expected rates. Typically we would expect this number to be around 20%.
We have seen excellent progress at the top and bottom ends of our programme - all children in the Sounds group moved onto harder things (note there are several sub-groups in sounds, all children moved from lowest to highest, or exited the sounds phase altogether) and the children in our top two tiers increased from 43 to 63, representing a 9% improvement in this area in just 7 weeks!
We are excited that 44 children are now in our Language and Literacy group, meaning that approximately 1 in 5 of our children are accessing an English curriculum designed for native English speakers aged 7 years or older.
As so many children move into more challenging groups this week, we are delighted with the achievements that they are so proudly talking about and are thrilled at the way our differentiated and personalised approach is already yielding results for our children.
We would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for working so hard to achieve these excellent results, including our teachers who have embraced the programme and worked tirelessly to deliver great results, parents who have supported the children with their reading practice at home and the children who have worked so hard to achieve their success - all indispensable for the rapid progress we have seen!
Congratulations to everyone!
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