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How to vote in the SATS ballot?

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

schoolnewsI am really undecided about this.

I don’t think SATS are really benefitting my pupils anymore, and most of my colleagues are definitely only concerned about how they affect our league tables. Not our standards. All the work we do in school is to make sure the average of our SATS are good enough so we beat the rest of the schools in the area; not that each child is achieving what it should be.

To be honest, they don’t work for the schools, and I’m not sure they work for the pupils either.  But is there a better alternative?

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Kids are doing it for themselves.

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

austenAccording to this story, I don’t need to do my job anymore. My pupils are now learning to write by blogging and social networking. Awesome.

And of course, they really are learning to write well and pass their exams. This will surely be a good example of how much they’ve learnt: “Liz Bennett, imho, is not a heroine cuz she is 2 proud and judgemental, lol.”

God help us.

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