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Primary school has become a "boot camp" for ten-year-olds as teachers spend hours every week drilling them to pass national tests, a union leader warned today.
Hundreds of thousands of ten and 11-year-olds are being prepared for their national curriculum Key Stage 2 - or "Sats" - tests in English, science and maths next month. Mary Bousted, general secretary of the 160,000-member Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said the final year of primary school is now dominated by the pressure to do well in these tests.See the full content of this document
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Attack On Primary 'Boot Camps' ; Education Matters
She told the union's annual conference in Bournemouth: "This is n...
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