RRF Anne Glennie gives evidence in official Scottish inquiry

[Debbie Hepplewhite]

RRF committee member, Anne Glennie, has fought tirelessly to draw attention to the fact that teachers in Scotland are not routinely trained in evidence-informed systematic synthetic phonics practices and that this is contributing to the low literacy levels in the country.

Anne initiated a Scottish petition which was signed by people with a wide variety of roles and responsibilities including Sir Jim Rose. Subsequently she was invited to give evidence in light of her petition.

Read about this here - and note there is live streaming on Thursday 9th November 2017 at 10am:

http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewto ... 1699#p1699

[chew8]

You can watch this morning's proceedings here:

https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeti ... ber-9-2017

You need to fast-forward to about 10.17.

Well done to Anne and her team.

Jenny C.

[James Curran]

Thanks Jenny. A big thank you and well done to Anne, Sarah and Gordon, great advocacy for Synthetic Phonics. A must see presentation which needs as wide an audience as possible.

[Debbie Hepplewhite]

Here is a direct link to youtube video footage showing only the hearing of Anne's petition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mzciIZ ... e=youtu.be