Schools: Examination Assessments Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Schools: Examination Assessments

Lord Storey Excerpts
Tuesday 12th October 2021

(2 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Storey Portrait Lord Storey (LD)
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My party would like to welcome the Minister to her new role and wish her well. We also pass on our best regards to her predecessor. My question to the Minister is about summer-born children; she will know that children who are born in the summer could miss a year, 11 months, 10 months or nine months of schooling. Why is no consideration taken of this fact in the guidance regarding assessment?

Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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I know that the noble Lord has been a champion of summer-born children, and I understand that he is one himself. As I am a winter-born child, obviously we might not see eye to eye on this. But we have had to take into account multiple elements in thinking about the adaptations for this summer, and we have tried to reach the fairest possible point in both adaptations to the system and in grading.