Teaching Performance
Oral Answers to Questions — Education
2:30 pm
Nick Gibb (Minister of State (Schools), Education; Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Conservative)
The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Getting reading right in primary schools is fundamental to children’s future education. That is why we have introduced match funding for primary schools—£3,000 per school for new training and materials—and why every six-year-old will undergo a phonic check this June so that we can ensure that we spot the children who are struggling with reading. We are determined to end the scandal of one in 10 boys leaving primary school with a reading age of seven or less.
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John Connor
Posted on 17 Apr 2012 6:39 pm (Report this annotation)
A phonic check for 6 year olds will not be able to determine the influence of home over school at such an early stage in a pupil's schooling. As such it's not worth doing. How much of the £3,000 will go to the Ruth Mishkin scheme that the department is pushing?