We haven’t – despite us being assured they would be available today! So, if the results are available today now they still won’t go out until the last day of term because of the UNISON strike! It appears we are not the only ones if you read the comments at the bottom of this BBC news article about how there are still test papers unmarked!.

Two of the comments sum this up for me, the first by Paul Heffernan:

“This is verging on scandalous. A tremendous waste of money (any of which has been paid to the contractor must now be repaid to the taxpayer (assuming the contract was correctly drawn up by the brains who devised the whole SATS scheme (don’t hold your breath!)). The system must be scrapped. Let teachers teach – not coach children to pass tests which arguably indicate nothing more than the teachers already know about a given child’s abilities. Year 6 children have little or nothing to gain from the results – the decision on secondary school is generally already made. Year 9 can take internal end of year tests to decide on their subjects/class for year 10 onwards – just as we did years ago. It’s straighforward, immediate, more constructive and significantly cheaper. Can we put the funding where it belongs – with the schools and the teachers, and stop this obsession with outsourcing/centralising/targets etc etc. “

The second by J Redmond:

“My school has no English results or papers for our Key Stage 2 children. No-one seems to know where they are. Unless I’ve missed something, it is the 15th. We were promised all results by the 15th, already a week late and all papers returned. Not a bean. Nothing. Just some very limp apologies and some incredible incompetent people. If I did my job this badly….”