Finally, teachers across England are waking up. What took them so long to reclaim their classrooms? However, changing a system is always difficult when you are part of it, stuck in it so to say. I am glad we never opted in!! Anyway, here is what's going on, and I am proud of them for speaking up!
"Primary school heads will press ahead with a boycott of Sats tests for 10- and 11-year-olds next month, Britain’s biggest teaching unions confirmed today, potentially throwing league tables and assessment regimes into chaos.
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) confirmed after a meeting of their executives that their members would take industrial action and would not adminster national tests in maths and English.
The decision means the next government is heading for a clash with headteachers, who will be boycotting the tests on the first day of a new administration.
The tests are due to be sat by 600,000 children in their last year of primary school between May 10 and May 13.
Last Friday, headteachers in England voted overwhelmingly to boycott the tests.
The unions said Sats in their current form 'disrupt the learning process for children in Year 6 (aged 10 and 11), and are misused to compile meaningless league tables which only serve to humiliate and demean children, their teachers and their communities'. They said they supported a system of assessment that “highlights what children can do rather than focussing on failure”.
Christine Blower, general secretary of the NUT, said: 'Not only are we boycotting Sats, but we are saying to schools that this is finally the opportunity to do the exciting things you always really wanted to be doing in the classroom. We can make sure Sats week is a really brilliant week, a creative week, which is what we would want every single week of the year to be.'"
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