A triumph of Government policy driven through since 2010, championed by Michael Gove and the school’s minister, Nicholas Gibb (and in the teeth of opposition from education unions) was the widespread reintroduction of ‘phonics’ as the method for teaching Children to read.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating: our children have graduated from being amongst the worst readers in the western world to the very best.
I remember my frustration when my children came home with little cards with words them that they had to memorise, instead of learning the phonic code that would enable them to spell out any word.
I had to teach them myself. Now this simple method is back in the classroom, and it works.
“Simples!”