A naive non-parent asks: if it's a mass-organised thing could parents organise childcare together? Like on a school trip, a few parents volunteer to care for multiple children?
Why not?
I just don't see what taking kids out of school for one day achieves. I think a more coordinated effort led by the teaching staff would make a louder noise and carry more weight. Our school head has spent the last 12 months rightly complaining about the curriculum change and ill thought out way in which the SATS have been introduced yet tells parents that the school will not support them in taking their kids out for the day next week which I find disappointing.
Using words which don't exist is part of the Y1 tests werv did last year, he had to work out which ones were words and which were nonsense
I so wish this wasn't a spelling test.
Won't taking the kids out of school for the day and telling them that they are striking encourage them to do it again?
For this reason alone I'm massively against a name change or switching to an alternative action.
Teaching primary-school children how to go on strike constitutes a huge improvement in educational standards.
Kids if a certain age will get an understanding of striking and the reasons about it and how empowering it is. I think that is what was meant by stuff_it.
Have they? I don't know a single parent who thinks KS1 testing is anything other than a steaming pile of shit
totally this. hated it when i was a kid and hate it now...massively anti all of this forced bullshit. I think it's as simple as following more of a Scandi idea of education...it really does work there.
So has my daughter but it's not just about the SATS, it's about the restriction in teaching generally and about further pointless, testing that does nothing but stress children out.
TBH, I can sort of understand why people do that - how else do you judge how good a school is? Unless you know people who's kids attend (and I think that's far better than any Ofsted report or test), you go for a look around and the kids and teachers smile and they all say the right things. They all look the same.
A lot (most?) primaries do breakfast for Y6 during SATs week - apart from feeding them, it makes sure they're at school on time, ready to be tested...At my son's school, apparently the whole of year 6 has been invited in to free breakfast club because the head is worried that some kids aren't having breakfast (she'd be right). It's pretty cynical to care about the kids' nutritional needs just during SATs IMO but we didn't get the highest results in the district last year so she's keen to fix that
Hence the bizarre situation of walking into a Y1/2 class to see children being 'taught' words that don't exist... Christ, saying to a Y4/5 yo ,'is 'glerg' a real word?' 'Erm in my limited experience of all the words there are, can I say possibly?'
God, really? Urgh
