Yr 6 SATS Support the Teachers?

[lupino]

Im just wondering, now that the teachers are going to ballot on boycotting the SATS, whether and how we can support them? There seem to be rational arguments both for and against SATS but, in my view, the teachers are best placed to judge what is best for our children - when they are not being pressurised by the powers that be to produce quantifiable results. So - lets give the people best placed to judge some real clout by backing them up. The question then becomes how best do we do this?

I think the only way this year's assessments can be stopped now is if the government do it themselves.

How can it be too late to write to MPs when this is abt something only recently made public?

Someone up thread said that resits won't apply to Y6 taking SATS this year. I'd read that somewhere else, but at our(alarming) school SATS meeting we were told firmly that if they failed this year they'd have to resit. Does anyone know for sure one way or the other?

I've got a Y6 child who was above age related expectations for everything in Year 5 (and Y2 SATS), At a recent parents' evening I was told he "should" pass everything though it's not guaranteed and there are a few things he can't do in the just-released writing guidelines as they are much harder than expected. Just how many children are going to fail? Are the government really planning for a high fail rate just to make some political point?

Resits start next year, so the current yr5. However, secondary schools can chose whether they use resits this December for the current yr 6.

It isn't to late to write to your MP. It's too late for schools to arrange a boycott of this year's SATs. Also it's the NUT, unless the head teacher's unions boycott, it probably doesn't really matter what the NUT vote for.

The head teacher is the person who has the legal responsibility to ensure the tests are administered.

I don't think many secondaries will be doing resits this year, we haven't even begun to get our heads around the KS2 changes and the effect this will have on next year's Y7.

There's too much change at once, we don't have the capacity.