Green Party

On Tuesday, hundreds of teachers across Norfolk will be joining other NUT members around the country in a boycott of SATs tests for 11 year olds, and Green Party Deputy Leader and Norwich South candidate Adrian Ramsay is backing them.

Members of the NUT, the biggest teachers union in the country, and the NAHT, will be taking industrial action to protest against the testing of 11 year olds. The unions believe that SATs in their current form disrupt the learning process for 10 and 11 year olds, and are misused to compile misleading league tables.

Adrian Ramsay said:

"The Green Party supports the decision of the National Union of Teachers to boycott SATS for 11 year olds. Testing in primary schools should not be so formalised. Teachers should be freed up from paperwork and a rigid curriculum so they can use their skills to inspire children. We need to ensure better funding for primary schools so that class sizes can be reduced, to help teachers give pupils more individual attention”.

The Greens envisage an education system in which teachers are free to inspire their pupils and not get bogged down in endless paperwork. That’s why their costed manifesto promises to abolish SATs exams for primary school children and to reduce class sizes by spending more on teachers.

SATs are scheduled to take place in schools from 10 – 13 May. Members who are taking industrial action will refuse to follow the test opening, checking and administrative procedures.

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