2007 key stage 2 results

Commenting on the primary school national test results in England Steve Sinnott, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Britain’s largest teaching union said:

“Everyone should celebrate this year’s Key Stage 2 results. By any measure they paint a picture of success in primary schools.

“But the national test results conceal the downside of tests, targets and tables. We surely must be able to come up with a better system than one which encourages the hot-house pressures of teaching to the test at the expense of the rest of the curriculum and unrealistic national targets whose very existence feeds the prejudices of those determined to find failure. 

“I urge Ed Balls to take the opportunity to initiate an independent review of testing which takes a hard look at the impact of the current high stake testing regime on primary schools”.