Testimonials

Our focus children in Yr 1 have developed their auditory and visual skills. It has made Phonics so much more meaningful for them with some of the group now able to read and write simple CVC words as well as orally segmenting and blending words – a huge improvement from their starting points.

Our children start nursery, working well below ARE & have some quite complex needs that specifically require support with smaller steps to learning. LP has supported this greatly. The broken-down skills guide can be used for precision targeting, personalised to the needs of groups and individual children. There is a range of strands within the framework, including vocabulary, auditory, visual, and memory which draw on these direct links with early literacy skills.

We realised very quickly that there was a group of children whose auditory memory was actually the barrier. Rather than doing any blending interventions, we stopped and took the time to put the auditory memory provision in place first. After blending interventions, children flew! It was amazing to see the pace of progress for this group.

The LP small steps and ideas for activities and strategies are great in particular the sequencing for support with CVC words.

We have seen progression with blending and speech sounds and some progress with sentences

We have found that our Nursery children are already beginning to blend and they have retained more sounds than in the past.

Our children in EYFS are ready and able to access their phonics programme and children within the wider EYFS make better than expected progress with smaller gaps.

One of the clearest indicators of LP’s impact is when we compare Reception children who have come through our Nursery using LP with those joining us from other settings – the difference in their readiness and skill development is striking.

We have a large selection of special needs children with EHCP’s & we use it to pinpoint where their gaps are in phonics, to help build on these skills to make them phonics ready.

I believe the listening and attention skills have been embedded prior to phonics.

We use LP with FS1 children and FS2/ Yr1 children who cannot access phonics as yet.

Children leaving Nursery are more “flashcard ready” for Reception & we can hit the ground running with Synthetic phonics, due to our strong, consistent teaching using the LP skills framework.

Our reading and writing were highly praised by Ofsted in our inspection in May 2025. The way we teach is quite precise and individualised – LP is part of this approach.

At the start of the year we had 18 children on Launchpad and in the recent phonics screening 16/18 have all scored 32 and above. The remaining two children who are SEND still scored 9 or above.

The Launchpad has completely transformed our understanding and teaching of pre phonics skills across EYFS.

Children in nursery have made good progress using LP & enter Reception with a greater readiness to learn, stronger communication skills, and a more secure grasp of pre-literacy foundations. This has resulted in a notable increase in the number of children achieving a (GLD) & improved outcomes in the Yr 1 PSC.