May I ask what your schools are doing with regards to testing children.
My DD is in year 3 and has been coming home in tears about tests.
Investigations (confirmed by the head) tell me that 6 times a year (minimum) each child, (from year 1-6) is having a written test (As in sit in silence, work on your own...timed pressure) in Comprehension, spellings, grammar, maths and mental maths, as well as doing some assessed writing. This is in addition to weekly spelling tests and mental maths tests. The head assures me this is now very normal.
Friends in real life with children in other schools do not seem to think this is what their schools are doing, and it is certainly not what the school I work in is doing, so I wondered if it was becoming more of a thing in general?
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Testing in year 3?
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hels71 · 11/03/2016 19:03
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