What is the Year 1 Phonics Check?
ACT primary schools will do a mandatory Year 1 phonics Check from 2025. Maribyrnong Primary School is one of the first schools to begin using the check in 2024 ahead of the rollout. Principal Andrew Beusnel talks about how the phonics screening works and benefits of the check.
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00:00In this activity, I'm going to ask you to read some words aloud.
00:04You may have seen some of the words before and others will be new to you.
00:09You should try to read each word, but don't worry if you can't.
00:13If it helps you, you may sound out the letters before you say the word.
00:19Let's have a go at reading some words.
00:22And on the side, some of them are not real words.
00:25You see this little monster, okay?
00:27That means they are nonsense words.
00:31Now we're going to start reading the words in the activity
00:34and I'm going to take some notes, okay?
00:37Can you read the words for me?
00:41So the Year 1 Phonics Check is an online check that is done for all Year 1 students.
00:46It consists of 20 questions of real words and 20 questions of pseudo words
00:52or made-up words that give us an idea of how a student decodes.
00:57We're going to get that data in real time, which is really helpful.
01:00We've got a number of assessment processes set up here at Maribyrnong,
01:03but this will add another layer of data that we'll be able to access
01:06and better meet student needs.
01:08Yeah, so there's about 20 schools that are part of the pilot,
01:11but all ACT schools will be on board next year doing the Year 1 Phonics Check.