As the message included a query which is a common concern in England, I thought it would be useful to ask Corinne if I could copy and paste her message and also share the results from the school.
Corinne's original message:
My response follows below:Dear Debbie
About two years ago you came to Hereford to do some phonics training for us at Lord Scudamore school. Since then we have followed Floppy's Phonics as our structured phonics scheme and had amazing results. Last year 93% of our 90 children passed the Phonics Screening check.
We are very keen to build on this and move forward. With the introduction of the New Curriculum in English we have noticed that Year 1 are required to teach suffixes. Previously this has been done in Year2 within Phase 6 phonics. Are you able to advise us as to the best way to put this into our phonics scheme. Will it mean that we have to make changes by just moving things around and when do you think it would be best to teach suffixes in Year 1?
Sorry, lots of questions but we would really appreciate your advice as Floppy's Phonics is producing excellent results and we don't want to spoil things!
I look forward to hearing from you
Best wishes
Corinne Benjamin