Phonics screening check: administration

Check administration guidance for headteachers and teachers administering and scoring the phonics screening check.

This collection of webpages is the ‘check administration guidance’.

Use this information to:

• understand your statutory requirements relating to the phonics screening check
• plan for the check
• administer the check
• submit your school’s check results

Guidance

1. Key stage 1: phonics screening check administration guidance
   • 29 April 2019
   • Guidance
2. Phonics screening check: sample materials and training video
   • 29 April 2019
   • Guidance
3. Key stage 1: administering the phonics screening check to year 2 pupils
   • 7 September 2020
   • Statutory guidance

Test dates

1. Key stage 1 and key stage 2 test dates
   • 9 January 2020
   • Guidance

Monitoring visits

1. Key stage 2 tests and phonics screening check: monitoring visits
   • 29 April 2019
   • Guidance

Maladministration

1. Key stages 1 and 2: investigating allegations of maladministration
   • 8 May 2019
   • Statutory guidance

Published 9 April 2014
Last updated 7 September 2020 + show all updates

1. 7 September 2020

   Added link to the Key stage 1: administering the phonics screening check to year 2 pupils to guidance.

2. 24 June 2019

   Removed the phonics screening check threshold mark for 2019. We have agreed with Test Development colleagues that this is only being published on the ‘Phonics screening check: 2019 materials’ page.

3. 26 June 2017

   2017 threshold published
4. 27 June 2016

   2016 phonics screening threshold mark added.

5. 5 April 2016

   Updated to add guidance for the 2016 test cycle

6. 14 July 2015

   Now includes the 2015 phonics screening check materials.

7. 24 March 2015

   Content revised for the 2015 phonics screening check administration period.

8. 13 October 2014

   Planning wall chart updated for the 2014 to 2015 academic year.

9. 9 April 2014

   First published.

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