We are finally over the time of year when Year 6s must do their SATs and are into the era known as: TRIP TIME! (At least, this is how it feels to those of us who working in cities now inundated by children in hi-vis).
But how did SATs season go? It does appear that things were more stressful – with almost twice as many of you saying that most of your pupils showed visibly signs of distress due to the SATs. We don’t know how much of this down to the longer and harder reading paper. But given it prompted a lot of news stories, it probably made some impact.