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At the chalkface: Little Stan and the SATs

Teaching staff
Is it the Maths SAT by mistake? Sheep aren’t noted for jumping over mushrooms? Shouldn’t “walnut” be plural? Maybe said sheep or the examiners have been on the magic mushrooms?

Stan is in training for his SATs English exam – year 6 KS2. He’s been in training for the whole year. The class don’t do English anymore. They do SATs. Stan is brilliant at English. He’s rubbish at SATs. He’s very worried about getting things wrong. So is his very lovely teacher. She’s knee-deep in the stuff. SATs drives her bats. She’s been “plugging the gaps” for the exam. Opportunities for this are near infinite, especially as The Gove made the tests tremendously “more rigorous”. Blue murder.

Now more can feel like failures.

Management have popped in to up the infant stress levels.

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