SATS BOYCOT INFO
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SATS BOYCOT INFO
Hi. My daughter is taking her KS2 sats today (Bucks area), some local schools are boycotting them. Does this mean the schools who aren't doing them now will do them at a later date and will they take exactly the same paper or do them have a different paper. It seems unfair to have an advange if they have the same exams paper, plus they have more revision time.
My daughters school are boycotting them. Totally. They won't be doing them later. The children are sitting exams this week, but they are internal exams, marked by the teacher and are only for the school to record their progress.
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According to the news some schools have chosen to sit last years papers rather than this years so that they can still give results to the parents but not have them included in any league table.
However as anyone who wants to can download last years papers from the internet presumably several of the children will have seen them before - potentially some abnormally high scores I think!
However as anyone who wants to can download last years papers from the internet presumably several of the children will have seen them before - potentially some abnormally high scores I think!
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Glad DS is not doing that, he sat the 2009 papers in preperation for these ones and already scored high level 5's! I feel that would have been cheating to get them to re sit the same test. His school are doing them 'officially' so he told me this morning, was not impressed and last week asked me if I could vote for the party who would abolish testing, but he wasn't sure which one it wasMinesatea wrote:According to the news some schools have chosen to sit last years papers rather than this years so that they can still give results to the parents but not have them included in any league table.
However as anyone who wants to can download last years papers from the internet presumably several of the children will have seen them before - potentially some abnormally high scores I think!
DS's school is going ahead with them too so what's he doing this week? Playing in 2 cricket matches and taking part in some athletic trials, that's what! The downside is that next year it will be a shock to his system when he realises that he will actually have to revise for exams and that we won't be so relaxed about it all. Have we shot ourselves in the foot?
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