Following on from the news that teenagers have been marking the SATs the Tories are now going to have their own review of the SATs fiasco alongside Labour’s review. Ed Balls has also written a letter to the Chair of the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee, Barry Sheerman, to update him on developments in [...]

Taken from a National Paper: “If he wasent doing enthing els heel help his uncle Herry at the funfair during the day. And had stoody at nigh on other thing he did was invent new rides.” 8/12 for composition. 5/8 for Sentence Structure! “Quickly, it became apparent that Pip was a fantastic rider: a complete [...]

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 [...]

The head of one of the NAHT, Mick Brookes, says the SATs test results, which are already expected to fall by 2%, may need to be annulled. He said some schools had not had their children’s test scripts returned, some had had them returned unmarked, some had been returned to the wrong schools. But the [...]

According to the BBC Head teachers are reporting “widespread problems” with the quality of marking in the delayed Sats test results being returned to schools in England. “The row is only beginning,” says Mick Brookes, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers. Mr Brookes is urging heads to give parents the assessments of teachers, [...]

This year’s Sats results have been delayed by a week following marking problems. Ed Balls wrote to the Chair of the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee, Barry Sheerman, to inform him that the National Assessment Agency (NAA) expects there to be some delays to the release of Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 [...]

Primary schools in England should not be inflicting stress on seven-year-olds by treating national tests like exams, the children’s secretary has said. Ed Balls said SATs days should be like any other and that pupils should not be aware that they were being tested. In May, a Commons committee said inappropriate testing of children at [...]

From the Guardian: The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, pledged to scrap national Sats tests and called for a shorter school curriculum in a speech attacking the government’s “one-size-fits-all” approach to education. In a speech at the CentreForum thinktank, Clegg said that the money saved from scrapping key stage tests for seven- and 14-year-olds would [...]

Schools and markers say there are problems with this year’s Sats according to the BBC. Some schools could not access the registration system (including us) they needed to complete so that markers know which pupils’ work they should have. Markers’ complaints include a lack of organisation and communication by the company running England’s school tests [...]

At last – this is something that has been needed for a long time, especially after the poor Literacy marking last year. Taken from the Guardian: “People marking the national tests pupils sit at age 11 and 14 will be required to pass exams themselves to do so, under new plans to improve the quality [...]