NUT: Key Stage 2 SATs a credit to teachers and pupils
Commenting on this year Key Stage 2 SATs Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers’ union, said:
“The improvements in pupils reading and Maths results are a credit to the hard work of teachers and pupils in Year 6 and throughout the primary sector.
“Pupils clearly have well-honed skills in reading for meaning and, let us hope, pleasure as well. Unfortunately, pupils lower down the primary system, being drilled for the Year One Phonics Screening Check, may be less proficient in these skills as they move through the school and the pressure to ‘decode’ text outweighs understanding.
“The increased scores in writing, through the use of teacher assessment this year, have proven that it is a more accurate and fair way of assessing pupils’ ability. The NUT has long called for national curriculum tests at Key Stage 2 to be scrapped and replaced by teacher assessment which, when moderated well, is as robust an indicator of pupil achievement and progress as the current tests”.
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For further information contact Caroline Cowie on 0207 380 4706/ 07879480061
Caroline Cowie
NUT Press Officer
Hamilton House, Mabledon Place,
London WC1H 9BD
0207 380 4706 or 07879480061
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