More on the 3K

Here are the Phonics programmes that have ('not') been 'approved' by government so far. These are the programmes that have provided a self-assessment of what their programmes contain.
http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/pedagogy/a0010235/publishers

'Primary schools will be able to claim up to £3,000, if they match that funding, to spend on materials which meet the Department for Education’s criteria for an effective phonics programme.

A list of approved resources – including phonics products for teachers and pupils and training for teachers – will be published by the Department by September although some products and training will be available by the end of June. Schools will decide which of the resources will help them to deliver high-quality phonics teaching for their pupils and will be able to buy products and training with the match-funding any time up to March 2013'.


Please note that the procurement of approved products and training for the catalogue is a separate process from the arrangements for publishers’ self-assessments of their phonics programmes. The list of self-assessed programmes on the Department’s website is not an ‘approved’ list and the programmes in the list are not automatically eligible for match-funding. Schools should not, therefore, assume that the list in the catalogue of approved products will be the same as the self-assessed list already on the website.

Self-Assessed List

'All self-assessments that appear on the site have been scrutinised by independent evaluators to make sure they provide an accurate reflection of the products they represent. Settings and schools should note that this does not constitute an endorsement of the products themselves and should not be regarded as a list of approved programmes or resources.

Full programmes:
•Phonics International – Debbie Hepplewhite
•Read Write Inc – Oxford University Press
•Sound Discovery – Synthetic Phonics Ltd
•Jolly Phonics – Jolly Learning Ltd
•Floppy’s Phonics Sounds and Letters – Oxford University Press
•Phonics Bug – Pearson
•Letters & Sounds – DfE
•Sounds-Write – Sounds-Write Ltd

Supplementary resources:
•Project X phonics – Oxford University Press
•Songbirds – Oxford University Press
•Read Write Inc. Fresh Start – Oxford University Press
•Bug Club – Pearson
•Reading Corner Phonics – Hachette Children’s Books'

I recognise many of the names associated with these schemes, don't you? Can I buy shares? ; )