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Headteachers, we need you!
Stand alongside other school leaders and endorse the IPPR's proposals for primary assessment reform by signing our letter to Lucy Powell today ➡️ tinyurl.com/LucyPowell
Leading thinktank IPPR has today released its recommendations for reform following its landmark report in the summer.
We're asking school leaders to sign our letter to Education Secretary Lucy Powell and Minister for School Standards Georgia Gould endorsing the recommended changes to the SATs system.
Please sign today to show your support ➡️ tinyurl.com/LucyPowell
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📚 | NEW REPORT: Disadvantaged children are nearly three times less likely to achieve the highest marks in Year 6 SATs.
We call for a rethink of primary school assessments to reduce inequality, ease pressure on teachers and create a fairer system for all pupils.
Read here 👇
ippr.org/articles/what-comes…
Leading think tank @IPPR has made an important and timely intervention in the debate on primary assessment. Their recommendations are considered, pragmatic and fair. Most importantly, they would make primary school — and year 6 in particular — a broader and more rewarding experience for our young learners.
Both @andyburnham and @LucyMPowell have said that they want to see an end to the ‘exam factory’ culture in schools. That must also include primary where the negative effects of the current system are particularly harmful to disadvantaged children and those with SEND.
What would life be like without KS2 Sats? @IPPR is recommending the DfE replace them with random sampling from Year 3 onwards
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"I very much hope that we'll get to a situation where the curriculum is broadened – a far wider view of children's abilities and progress, and likely progress in the future, is taken."
If you agree with Lord Mike Watson, please sign the petition to end the exam factory in primary schools ➡️ tinyurl.com/EndExamFactoryCu…
If the government really wants to give ALL children the chance to thrive, they must start by rewiring primary assessments and scrapping SATs.
Sign the petition to end the exam factory culture in primary schools ➡️ tinyurl.com/EndExamFactoryCu…
It couldn't be clearer what school leaders think: more than 9 in 10 say the current SATs system does not support disadvantaged children.
Sign the petition to tell the government what needs to change ➡️ tinyurl.com/EndExamFactoryCu…
"We still see cases of increased anxiety causing undue stress to our pupils, and it also increases school refusal for some of our children, particularly those with SEND."
Assistant head and SENDCo Sadia Tufiq sees first-hand the impact of the SATs system on year 6.
Sign the petition to scrap SATs and end the exam factory in primary schools ➡️ tinyurl.com/EndExamFactoryCu…
It's clear what the government must do now.
If you agree the exam factory culture in primary schools must end, sign the petition today ➡️ tinyurl.com/EndExamFactoryCu…
In year 4, eight- and nine-year-olds spend too much time practising for the multiplication check in the summer term.
Like other primary assessments, these tests are not designed to encourage a love of learning. They exist only so the government can collect pupil data and judge schools against each other.
Sign the petition to end the exam factory culture ➡️ tinyurl.com/EndExamFactoryCu…
Almost 40% of year 6 pupils are leaving primary school with a badge of failure.
Think the exam factory culture in primary schools needs to stop? Sign the petition today ➡️ tinyurl.com/EndExamFactoryCu…
SATs exams dominate children’s final year at primary, with months spent cramming in English and maths and practising old SATs papers.
Sign the petition to end the exam factory culture ➡️ tinyurl.com/EndExamFactoryCu…
"Children (facing adversity) often leave year 6 with a false sense of having not met the standard when actually, if half the country was able to show the levels of resilience these children have, then they'd all be in for very bright futures."
Sign the petition to scrap SATs if you agree with headteacher Emma Gale ➡️ tinyurl.com/EndExamFactoryCu…
Headteachers have made their views clear: SATs must change or go completely.
Sign the petition asking the government to end the exam factory in primary schools 👉 tinyurl.com/EndExamFactoryCu…
What do year 6 pupils think about SATs exams?
Sign the petition to put an end to the exam factory culture in primary schools 👉 tinyurl.com/EndExamFactoryCu…
Has your child just started their final year of primary school?
Expect practice SATs papers and cramming for exams to dominate their school days instead of a wide and stimulating curriculum.
Read more in our Parents' Guide to primary testing 👉 morethanascore.org.uk/what-w…
Maths in year 4 is all about preparing for the times tables check in summer: 25 questions with just six seconds per answer.
Read more about primary testing 👉 morethanascore.org.uk/what-w…
Reception year should be an exciting and reassuring introduction to the joy of learning through play.
It should not be about government assessments on a screen.
Read about the Reception Baseline Assessment in our Parents' Guide 👉 morethanascore.org.uk/what-w…
Learning to read is discovering the meaning and joy of words.
But the Year 1 Phonics Check confuses kids with nonsense words and brands 5- and 6-year-olds 'failures' if they don't pass 👉 morethanascore.org.uk/what-w…
