📚 Flip Your Phonics to Ready Steady Phonics – Limited Time Offer 📚 

Are you looking for a phonics scheme that offers comprehensive teaching materials, engaging resources, and proven results? Now is the perfect time to switch to Ready Steady Phonics and transform phonics teaching in your school.

As part of their vision to provide tailored support for their schools, Literacy Counts partnered with CDAT to deliver 'Writing: Getting the Basics Right' – a targeted set of CPD sessions aimed at developing key writing skills. This project focused on: 

Accurate writing assessment is key to improving outcomes for children. In our latest blog, we explore how Moderation Counts supports teachers with authentic writing examples, detailed annotations, and clear progression across year groups. Perfect for any primary school, these resources are designed to bring clarity, confidence, and consistency to writing judgements. Read more to find out how they can benefit your school!

Schools already using Ready Steady Write are seeing the transformative power of a structured, high-quality writing curriculum. By adding Ready Steady Spell, schools can take their literacy provision to the next level, ensuring a seamless progression from effective writing composition to accurate and automatic spelling too. Together, these award-recognised resources provide the perfect combination to improve composition and transcription outcomes for all learners. 

Here’s why Ready Steady Write schools should embrace Ready Steady Spell. 

Discover how Working Walls bring the writing process to life in primary classrooms. From showcasing grammar and vocabulary to tracking writing progression, Working Walls make learning visible, engaging, and collaborative. Explore practical tips and insights to enhance your teaching and improve outcomes for all learners.

Developing strong spoken language skills is essential for children’s confidence, academic success, and lifelong communication. Research shows that prioritising oracy is especially beneficial for disadvantaged pupils. Yet, limited guidance in the National Curriculum makes it challenging to plan a progressive spoken language curriculum. Our new Spoken Language Progression Document bridges this gap, providing year-by-year guidance and practical tools for EYFS to Year 6. Join our free webinar on 21st November to explore ways to enhance oracy in your school.

Today, we are thrilled to announce that both Ready Steady Write and Ready Steady Spell have been shortlisted for the prestigious BETT Awards 2025 in the Primary Digital Learning Product - Language & Literacy category! Literacy Counts: Proud to be recognised by industry-leading awards for making an impact in literacy education. 

Discover the transformative power of Ready Steady Write, an award-winning resource that enhances writing outcomes from EYFS to Year 6. This blog highlights five key reasons to implement Ready Steady Write in your school, focusing on its evidence-based approach, emphasis on oracy, support for diverse learners, and ability to reduce teacher workload. Foster a culture of high-quality writing in your school community!

At Grange Community Nursery and Primary School, embedding Ready Steady Spell has transformed the teaching and learning of spelling. In this blog, you’ll hear from the school’s Leadership Team about the positive changes they've witnessed since introducing Ready Steady Spell. Additionally, we’ll share Pupil Voice testimonials, highlighting how fun and engaging the lessons have been in helping children improve their spelling skills.

We’re proud to reflect on Ready Steady Write being awarded the prestigious Teach Primary 'English' 2023 Award, a recognition that continues to hold significant relevance today. This recognition is a testament to the quality and effectiveness of our resource in supporting whole-school writing improvement. 

The judging panel, led by the UK Literacy Association (UKLA), praised Ready Steady Write for its comprehensive, well-structured approach, highlighting how it enables schools to deliver a high standard of writing instruction across all year groups.

I recently had the pleasure of speaking to Mrs Sara Ritchie, the Nursery Class Teacher and EYFS Lead at Stockton Wood Primary School, Liverpool. I was able to ask all about how they’ve adapted Ready Steady Write (which is well embedded across Reception - Year 6) for their nursery children. It was a delight to speak to Sara, and throughout the call she was clearly passionate about and dedicated to raising the oracy outcomes for her Nursery class. 

On Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024, we hosted a showcase event at one of our Flagship Schools, Mill View Primary in Chester. Literacy curious Headteachers and English Subject Leads from across the country converged to witness how Mill View Primary has seamlessly integrated Ready Steady Write and Ready Steady Comprehension into their entire curriculum. It was a great opportunity for these school leaders to see how our literacy solutions could improve outcomes in their school.

Our innovative phonics program, Ready Steady Phonics, has been shortlisted not once, but twice for the prestigious Teach Primary Awards 2024.

Literacy Counts was a proud sponsor of the Chester Standard Education Awards on Friday, 12th July 2024! Hosting the event was the wonderful Lucy Meacock from ITV Granada. Gareth Davies, our CEO, presented the awards for the categories of Primary School Teacher and Primary School of the Year.

A moderation success story from one of our Ready Steady Write Schools, Arden Primary School, Stockport.

In June 2024, Literacy Counts and Picture News joined forces to ignite excitement in classrooms in preparation for the Paris Olympics. Led by Gareth from Literacy Counts and Jo from Picture News, these ‘Talk About It, Write About It’ webinars aimed to equip educators with valuable resources and insights to enhance oracy and literacy skills through engaging, real-world content.

Read about how our award-winning primary writing resource, Ready Steady Write is research-informed. Find your writing solution today.