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Heads oppose new punctuation and spelling test
Published by dchan on May 8th, 2012Head teachers say they will disrupt a new spelling, grammar and punctuation test to be introduced in England’s primary schools next summer. The SPAG test will be sat by pupils at the end of primary school as part of their … Continue reading → Read More
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Heads threaten reading test boycott
Published by dchan on May 8th, 2012Head teachers could boycott a controversial new reading test for six-year-olds in England if it is used as “a stick to beat schools”. The National Association of Head Teachers said the initiative should only be used as a genuine test … Continue reading → Read More
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New Government Policy: five year olds to be tested
Published by dchan on April 12th, 2012Osiris Educational Year 1 Phonics trainer Elizabeth Nonweiler joins Julian Worricker on Call You and Yours to discuss ‘is it right that five year olds will be tested on their ability to read?’ The government in England wants all children … Continue reading → Read More
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Phonics test: NUT may ballot on boycott
Published by dchan on April 10th, 2012A teachers’ union has voted to ballot for a boycott of a new phonics reading test if its results are used in league tables. The new “phonics check” for five and six-year-olds is due to begin in England’s schools this … Continue reading → Read More
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Satisfy trainee teachers in phonics or face Ofsted
Published by dchan on March 16th, 2012Poor feedback will trigger ‘focused’ inspection of PGCE courses According to coalition policy, phonics is the undisputed champion of methods used to teach children to read, and schools have been told in no uncertain terms that they must embrace it … Continue reading → Read More
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Literacy problems show Charles Dickens’s world persists – says Nick Gibb
Published by tburr on February 8th, 2012Poor neighbourhoods in England are still beset by Victorian-era levels of illiteracy, the schools minister has claimed. In a speech on reading, Nick Gibb said that despite two centuries of technological and social revolution, there were “still shadows of Charles Dickens’s world … Continue reading → Read More
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Literacy problems show Charles Dickens’s world persists – says Nick Gibb
Published by tburr on February 8th, 2012Poor neighbourhoods in England are still beset by Victorian-era levels of illiteracy, the schools minister has claimed. In a speech on reading, Nick Gibb said that despite two centuries of technological and social revolution, there were “still shadows of Charles Dickens’s world … Continue reading → Read More
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Essex school gives pupils elocution lessons
Published by mthompson on January 30th, 2012The Telegraph reports that pupils at Cherry Tree Primary School, in Basildon, are being taught to ditch their Essex accents during weekly lessons from a private tutor. Teachers say they have seen a vast improvement in their pupils’ spelling and … Continue reading → Read More
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Essex school gives pupils elocution lessons
Published by mthompson on January 30th, 2012The Telegraph reports that pupils at Cherry Tree Primary School, in Basildon, are being taught to ditch their Essex accents during weekly lessons from a private tutor. Teachers say they have seen a vast improvement in their pupils’ spelling and … Continue reading → Read More
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Warning as schools ‘shun traditional reading methods’
Published by dhutson on January 20th, 2012Ministers warned that children were being left with poor reading skills because of a refusal to use phonics – the traditional system that breaks down words into individual sounds. Today, the Department for Education named and shamed 10 local councils … Continue reading → Read More