Dear Parent/Carer
As part of our continued commitment to our policy of ‘every student a reader’, we regularly review the progress of all pupils who have been identified as needing additional support.
To ensure we have accurate reading ages for your child, we will be re-testing your son/daughter using the New Group Reading Test (NGRT). The test is a standardised, adaptive assessment to measure reading skills against the national average. The benefits of NGRT are as follows:
- It is adaptive and responds to a pupil’s ability as they complete the test, so more able readers are challenged, and weaker readers remain engaged.
- It provides us with a Standard Age Score and a Reading Age – both of which we will use to ensure your child receives the most appropriate, targeted, and timely support.
- It is widely used in Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) reading intervention projects.
The test will take approximately 30 minutes and is completed on a computer. Your child will be supervised, and if they have an identified special educational need(s), an additional adult will be in the room to support them with logging onto the programme and can answer any questions they may have. Please be aware that as it is a test of reading comprehension and decoding, your child will not be able to have words read to them.
Your child’s form tutor will inform them of the time of their test – all of which will take place on the week of the 6th March. All that we ask of you, as parents/carers, is that you reinforce the importance of reading and encourage your child to try their best throughout the test.
Once we have the results, we will then make sure your child is getting the most relevant support to meet their reading needs.
If you have any questions or concerns about the test itself or would like to know more about our reading and whole school literacy programme, please contact send@lymmhigh.org.uk.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kind regards
Miss K. Yates