Primary Education: National Curriculum Tests
(asked on 8th June 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much notice her Department gave schools of the changes to primary school SATs tests in 2016.
This question was answered on 15th June 2016
The new primary national curriculum was published in final form in July 2013. It came into force in September 2014. The new national curriculum tests at Key Stages 1 and 2 were first announced in March 2014. Since then schools have been provided with further information to help them adapt to the assessment arrangements. In addition to sample questions published in summer 2014, complete sample tests were published in summer 2015.