Campaign kit

No Forced Academies

The Tories have declared war on state education their real aim is; to destroy local democracy, ‘shrink the state’ and then allow ‘for-profit’ schools – like ‘Charter’ Schools in the USA. But this may well be over reach by the Government. It is up to us to build the biggest alliance and make this real possibility a fact.

KS1 & KS2 SATs & Teacher Assessment: Further Information & Campaigning

Please see inside some useful links to articles which I think Primary teachers will find interesting.

Cambridge Primary Review website calling for a boycott of SATs
An article written in the journal Education for Liberation concerning SPAG
An open letter published in the TES to Nicky Morgan which is getting a lot of publicity
An online petition calling on the SATs to be cancelled which now has over 47,000 signatures and is still growing

Cancel The Tests: Lobby the DfE Thurs 17th March 5pm

The Government testing system is in chaos. Primary teachers are struggling with:
Changes to the curriculum
contradictory advice
forcing children to jump through hoops
Come and tell Nicky Morgan what you think (and bring your marking) Thursday 17th March 5pm onwards Department for Education, Great Smith Street, London SWI 3BT