Primary schools have failed to return to pre-lockdown standards across reading, writing and maths, new figures reveal. The Telegraph has more.
Key stage 2 Sats results, which assess attainment in literacy and maths for Year Six pupils in England, showed only 61% of pupils achieved the expected level in the three core disciplines this year.
While up one percentage point compared to 2023, it is still significantly off the 65% achieved in 2019, before the Covid pandemic and controversial lockdowns.
The new figures add to the mounting evidence of the harm to children caused by the physical closure of schools in 2020 and 2021.
The current crop of 10 and 11-year-olds “experienced disruption to their learning”, the Department for Education said on Tuesday, “particularly at the end of Year 2 and Year 3”.
In individual subjects, scores were higher than last year, or the same.
In total, 74% met the expected standard in reading, up from 73%, and 72% met the expected standard in writing, up from 71%.
More than four in five – 81% – met the expected standard in science, up from 80%.
Overall, 72% met the expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling, which was the same as last year, and 73% reached the expected standard in maths, which is also unchanged.
However, only just over six in 10 pupils showed a satisfactory standard in each of the three disciplines reading, writing and maths.
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Well, what a surprise. And will the T publish an article blaming the former Gov? (I’m not going to hold my breath for that).
Lockdowns as called for by all mainstream parties, including and especially Labour, and as supported by I think all of the Labour supporting Trade Unions, especially the teachers union.
Basic Maths question for the children: How does a finite variable appear on a curve to infinity?
OK, I’ll bite. I think I’m OK at arithmetic but probably not at ‘maths’.
This might be a question to which the kids these days are taught the answer. I was for example, perplexed when my granddaughter started talking about ‘split digraphs’ and ‘level 3 phonics’ – and then discovered that she was talking about the letter ‘i’ being pronounced ‘eye’ if the word ends in a letter ‘e’ (like) and ‘ea’ being pronounced ‘ee’ under some circumstances (tea often springs to mind).
So at a guess. If the variable represents a finite value and the curve goes to infinity, the point representing the variable must be on the base line. (edit: on the origin).
How did I do?
SoR (aged sixty-something – I’ve lost count).
Reeling and Writhing of course… and the different branches of arithmetic: ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.
creation of the Epsilon breed is going well it seems, Conservatives and Labour must be very pleased, as I am sure are their controllers in the WEF, and the U.N