Key Stage test results show improvement

23 August 2005

Commenting on the key stage test results published today, Steve Sinnott, NUT General Secretary, said:

“Despite the Government’s crude mechanism for measuring primary children’s achievement the underlying message is that primary teachers have sustained and secured further improvements in pupil performance.

“This is very real cause for celebration.

“The Government is now rightly distancing itself from the targets it had previously plucked out of the air. Parents can be confident in the quality of education provided in their local primary school.

“Public concentration has been on children’s reading but this has continued to improve with more than 80 per cent of boys and girls at Key Stage 2 meeting the Government’s expectations.

“In science too, boys and girls are doing well with no significant gender gap with 86 per cent of boys and 87 per cent of girls achieving Level 4.”