Heads call in pupils for SATs revision during Easter holidays

Hundreds of head teachers are calling 11-year-olds into school during the Easter holidays to revise for the SATs, union leaders revealed yesterday.

The NASUWT said the ‘growing trend’ over the past five years reflected the desperation of schools for good results to boost their league table positions.

It claimed the practice could be harming children’s ‘mental health’ as they should be playing with family and friends during their time off.

Union leaders revealed head teachers are calling 11-year-olds into school during the Easter holidays to revise for the SATs. The NASUWT claimed the practice could be harming children’s ‘mental health’

Union leaders revealed head teachers are calling 11-year-olds into school during the Easter holidays to revise for the SATs. The NASUWT claimed the practice could be harming children’s ‘mental health’

Schools across the country have boasted on Twitter about their Easter revision classes over the past two weeks, with one even rewarding pupils with McDonald’s Happy Meals. 

Children are due to sit the tests next month in maths, reading, writing grammar, spelling and punctuation.

The results are used by the Government to judge how well a school is doing, and to compile league tables for parents.

The NASUWT represents 300,000 school staff – mostly ordinary classroom teachers.

Last week, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced Labour would scrap SATs over claims they are ‘damaging’ to children and create too much work for teachers.

Darren Northcott, a national officer at the NASUWT, said the trend for Easter revision sessions was ‘relatively recent’ and had become ‘increasingly prevalent over the last five years’. 

Browney Academy in County Durham even tweeted a photograph of a class of children holding Happy Meals, with the caption: ‘Well done to our superstars in Year 6 who attended our Easter revision session yesterday. The McDonald’s was well deserved!’

Browney Academy in County Durham even tweeted a photograph of a class of children holding Happy Meals, with the caption: ‘Well done to our superstars in Year 6 who attended our Easter revision session yesterday. The McDonald’s was well deserved!’

Speaking at the union’s annual conference in Belfast, he claimed that ‘several hundred schools’ had ‘almost certainly’ adopted it.

While the lessons are voluntary, schools make clear to parents that children are expected to attend for their own

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