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- School runs Sat test holiday camp - BBC, Wednesday April 5, 2006
A school in Northampton is running extra classes over the Easter holidays to help pupils do well in their national curriculum tests next month.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School poetry teaching too limited, Ofsted says - The Guardian, Friday December 7, 2007
Children in England are studying too many lightweight poems in primary school while dull and repetitive teaching at GCSE is harming pupils' enjoyment of the genre, the education inspectorate, Ofsted, says today. Many teachers, especially of younger children, do not know enough about poetry, leading to a limited range of work by poets such as Spike Milligan, Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear being taught.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School poetry slam: rhyme with a reason - The Guardian, Tuesday June 28, 2011
Video: teachers at Kingsbury high, in north London, take to the stage to rap the year 9 poetry syllabusLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School play love scene 'ban' fear - BBC, Friday February 17, 2006
Pupils could be barred from acting out love scenes in school plays if draft guidelines are followed, warn teachers.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School movie clubs 'to inspire' - BBC, Friday February 16, 2007
Thousands of films are to be made available to schools to inspire children about the stories they tell and careers in the movie industry.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School literacy scheme attacked - BBC, Friday November 2, 2007
Costly literacy schemes in England have not paid off, with children's reading skills barely improved since the 1950s, an independent inquiry suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School leavers lacking basic skills, says report - The Guardian, Wednesday June 29, 2005
School leavers lack basic literacy and maths skills even when they have a string of good GCSEs, London employers reported today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School leavers 'lacking three Rs' - BBC, Sunday August 21, 2005
The education system is failing to ensure enough school leavers master the "three Rs", a survey has suggested. The CBI said 42% of the employers it surveyed were unhappy with reading, writing and numeracy skills.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School introduces compulsory grammar lessons - The Guardian, Tuesday October 10, 2006
Teenagers starting at a top fee-paying school face compulsory lessons in spelling, punctuation and grammar - from classics rather than English teachers. Richard Cairns, the head of Brighton College, said that too many English departments had neglected to teach the basics, opting for the "instant gratification" of lessons in literature.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School internet 'over-regulated' - BBC, Thursday July 6, 2006
Pupils in the UK do not get enough access to the internet at school, a study by London University's Institute of Education has suggested. ... And the focus on information retrieval had eclipsed the communication aspect of ICT, Andrew Burn said.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School governors 'should scupper Sats boycott', says Ed Balls - Daily Telegraph, Wednesday April 28, 2010
The Schools Secretary told primary school governing bodies that they had a legal duty to make sure exams for 11-year-olds were staged next month. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School exam costs 'getting worse' - BBC, Friday March 9, 2007
Rising exam costs mean some schools are spending more on putting pupils through exams than on books, head teachers say.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School curriculum to make room for new subjects - The Guardian, Thursday July 12, 2007
A slimmed-down curriculum for secondary schools in England would give teachers greater freedom in the classroom, the head of the government's exams watchdog said today. Ken Boston, chief executive of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), said teachers would be able to make choices over how to use up to a quarter of the school day but traditional core subjects would be retained.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School curriculum quango abolished - The Guardian, Thursday May 27, 2010
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Scheme aims to get boys reading - BBC, Wednesday May 16, 2007
Secondary schools in England are being given free books for their library, in an attempt to get teenage boys reading. Schools will be able to select 20 books from a Department for Education and Skills list drawn up by librarians.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Say what? A parents' guide to UK teenage slang - BBC, Thursday March 11, 2010
We are all British, right? We all speak the same language, surely? Not according to a very unscientific survey carried out by BBC News School Report.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats: Why things can only get better - The Guardian, Thursday August 7, 2008
The exam fiasco has at last forced the government to accept the principle of sampling rather than mass testing.
Ed Balls has confirmed that the publication of the key stage 3 Sats results will go ahead on Tuesday as planned - despite the fact that one in six papers for English is still missing.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats: Fall in Sats results for 14-year-olds - The Guardian, Tuesday August 12, 2008
Nearly a third of 14-year-olds fail to reach the required standards in English, maths and science – a worse performance than last year, according to today's key stage 3 Sats results.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - SATS yer lot - The Sun, Wednesday October 15, 2008
NATIONAL school tests for 14-year-olds were scrapped yesterday in the wake of this year’s marking fiasco.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats tests shift more to teacher assessment - BBC, Monday July 18, 2011
Primary school Sats tests in England will use more assessment by teachers, as the government accepts the review carried out by Lord Bew. The review called for the English creative writing test to be replaced by a composition which will be assessed by teachers, rather than outside markers.
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