Parents and teachers have been left infuriated after this week’s SATs exams left children in tears. The National Association of Head Teachers, which represents heads at the majority of primary schools ...

The Tory drive to combat ‘dumbing down’ in schools has fuelled a rise in Year Six SATs results, official figures show. Data from this spring’s tests shows results have been boosted by an improvement ...

The Year 6 SATs are taking place this week. Children are being tested in maths, English grammar, punctuation, spelling and reading. We've adapted maths SATs papers set by the Department for Education ...

A lot of us adults love a challenge - especially one which asks us to 'pit our knowledge' against a child's. And recently, with the spotlight on SATs and the general appetite for brain-teasers and ...

Discussing their Year Six pupils’ response to their final assessment at the end of four days of testing, teachers on the TES forum shared that it had been a particularly emotional time. “For the first ...

Parents are puzzled over a maths question that is aimed at Year 2 pupils taking their SATs exams. Mum Louise Bloxham tweeted a photo of the task that involved working out how many people were on a ...

The pass mark in SATs tests has fallen sharply since Labour came to power, figures show. Youngsters needed to score just 43 per cent to make the grade in English last year and 45 per cent in maths to ...

The exam question, aimed at Year 2 pupils, has caused a debate about the correct answer online - but is it as hard as it first looks? Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing ...