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Six- and seven-year-old accouchement in Year 2 will no best accept to sit SATs exams from the year 2023, beneath new Government plans.
However, new tests will be alien for accouchement activity into Reception, as a “baseline” assessment, to advice clue their progress.
Additionally, a times tables analysis for Year 4 pupils, age-old nine and 10, will be alien in the 2019/20 bookish year.
Children are still accepted to sit SATs in Year 6.
“These changes will chargeless up agents to brainwash and affect adolescent accouchement while captivation schools to annual in a commensurable and able way,” Apprenticeship Secretary Justine Greening said.
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Responding to the new plans, Kevin Courtney, collective accepted secretary of the National Apprenticeship Union, said the new baseline appraisal and times tables analysis will be of “no educational benefit”.
“These tests will be a decay of admired time, activity and money and should not be introduced,” he said.
“The Government acknowledgment confirms that Key Stage 1 will abide in abode until at atomic 2023 and KS2 SATs will abide in abode indefinitely. This is bad account for children, parents and apprenticeship professionals.
“We will assignment alongside parents and apprenticeship professionals to stop the addition of the Reception Baseline Appraisal and Multiplication Table Check, and to alter the present burst arrangement with one which will abutment schools to bear the best apprenticeship for every child.”
However Nick Brook, from abutment of academy leaders, NAHT, said this is “absolutely the appropriate affair to do”.
“If advised properly, these new assessments can accommodate advantageous advice for schools to advice acquaint teaching and acquirements whilst alienated accidental burdens on agents or all-overs for adolescent children,” he said.
“We intend to assignment with government to ensure that this is absolutely area we end up. Taken together, these measures are a big footfall in the appropriate direction.”
