Testimonials

Launchpad has a positive impact on the children in our school. First, the children find Launchpad enjoyable and look forward to taking part in this intervention. We have noticed a significant impact on helping children begin to blend and develop their overall confidence in their phonics and our phonics is developing each year in school. Many of the activities have also been taken on board and used within a full classroom setting – especially developing auditory […]

GLD – Launchpad has a positive impact on our outcomes in EYFS because it supports us to focus on the fundamental aspects of early literacy development. This deepens our children’s understanding and ability to apply those skills across the curriculum. Phonics & PSC Data – Launchpad principles underpin our phonics teaching from the earliest point in our children’s learning journey. As a result we can identify barriers to learning early and adapt teaching and learning accordingly. […]

I know that Launchpad has supported increased outcomes in Phonics: 2026 – 83%, 2025 – 78%, 2024 – 70%,

Launchpad has had a significant impact on our Reception data. We have used the strategies/focuses on identified children who were not at the stage of development to achieve GLD and they now have. We weaved the interventions into our daily practice, ensuring that there was no lost learning time. We have found the newsletters and online CPD really useful in tweaking provision areas to support fine motor skills and all aspects of communication and language. We […]

We have been using Launchpad at Blakehill Primary School (LA) now for a couple of years. We use the Launchpad Skills Framework as a tool to help us to identify and understand gaps in children’s learning especially around Communication and Language and Phonics. Launchpad helps us to identify a point where children have gaps in their understanding and allows us to provide targeted and specific intervention which can take place within provision. Interventions can be easily […]

Our GLD last year was 54.4 and this year is 60%

Launchpad has had a positive impact on both our reading and writing. We felt that our main concern to children achieving the GLD was reading and writing. We found that the Reception cohort had good code knowledge but we were able to identify those children who were struggling with blending. We watched the relevant CPD sessions on ‘How do I get my children to blend?’ and ‘What do I do if I a child can’t blend?’ […]

As EY lead and reception teacher, having used Launchpad for writing smart targets on our gaps has definitely made a huge impact to closing the skill gaps when we reviewed them. These targets and children were targeted in the provision as we don’t have a person to carry out an intervention. Our EYFSP and PSC outcomes have also been good as we targeted children who were cusps in word reading and writing and all these got […]

Our GLD at the end of this academic year was 78% and our PSC.95%. Embedding Launchpad since we joined WISE Academies and developing the use of it in both Nursery and Reception classes myself, I have seen huge improvements in progress in all areas, most notably phonics and motor skills, and I am much better equipped to assess, plan and target gaps than I have ever been before by using these tools. As part of our […]

Personally, as EYFS lead  I feel that as a team we have really started to find our feet this year using the Launchpad framework. It has definitely helped upskill me personally as a teacher. Even with 11 years’ experience, I still found ways of adapting teaching to help supporting early literacy. We have 73% of children on Pupil Premium and our children start school working ‘significantly below’ typical development and expectations. Therefore, GLD is a little more […]

Next school year I am continuing my closing the gap approach through the Launchpad project. The work completed this year has resulted in more educators becoming confident in using the skills framework. They are now wanting to explore the materials on the platform. We have seen an improvement in our PSC this year. The Trust has beaten its target. We have a pass rate of 85%. The EY team at Lower Meadow have said that Launchpad […]

Launchpad has had a significant impact on a targeted group of Reception children who were not on track within the Prime Areas in the Autumn term. Using the baseline skills framework, we were able to identify precise areas of need and create SMART outcomes within each child’s SEN Support Plan. Targeted support focused on pragmatic communication skills and carefully sequenced small steps, enabling children to make meaningful progress. One child is now on track to achieve […]

Launchpad for Literacy has had a positive impact on children’s attainment and progress across the early years. The programme has strengthened children’s communication, language and early literacy skills, contributing to improved outcomes in Good Level of Development (GLD). Children demonstrate increased confidence in speaking, listening and applying early reading and writing skills across the curriculum. The structured approach has supported stronger phonics outcomes, with children developing secure phonemic awareness, oral blending and segmenting skills, providing a solid foundation for […]

Launchpad to Literacy has had a significant impact on our Year 1 provision and phonics outcomes by strengthening the prerequisite skills needed for successful early reading. Rather than delivering this as a standalone intervention, its principles were embedded throughout the school day to systematically develop the key skills that underpin phonics success. The Launchpad to Literacy skills were used to plan targeted provision activities that directly addressed children’s next steps. Across the year, we focused on […]

In terms of GLD, Launchpad has had a positive effect in terms of looking at the different skills and strands of writing and finding exactly where a child may be having difficulties. It shows a clear developmental continuum with progressive next steps that all practitioners can access through the poster. As the writing and fine motor ELG’s can sometimes prevent a child from gaining GLD, it is clear to see where vocabulary, speech and language, mechanical […]

We have used Launchpad to support heavily in pre phonics, following the steps within visual discrimination building from simple silhouettes to silhouettes/shapes of words linked to phonic knowledge. By using matching pairs and snap our children have really engaged. We have referred to Launchpad frequently to support our highest needs, the small steps are excellent for identification & levels of progression. For progression within Vulnerable Groups we have planned weekly provisional activities linked to Launchpad which has […]