Archive for the ‘Reading in primary schools’ Category
7
Apr
Posted by Frances Laing in Anti-academies alliance, Authors against Sats, Cheshire West Against the Cuts, Coalition Against the Cuts, Criticisms of the EYFS, Cuts in Education, Homework at the age of four, League tables for five year olds, Reading in primary schools, stop league tables for five year olds international petition. Tagged: Campaign for th e Book, Cheshire West Against the Cuts, West Cheshire Unison Easter Strike 2012. 5 Comments
This blog has developed organically over the course of two and a half years. My daughter is now six and a half. We are acutely aware of the damage that has been done by testing young children too much. And too much too soon, as has been evidenced by the mistakes made with the early [...]
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Feb
Posted by Frances Laing in Academies, Anti-academies alliance, Cheshire West Against the Cuts, Christleton High School, Free School Chester, Michael Gove, Reading in primary schools. Tagged: Free School Chester. 5 Comments
Okay I know, I haven’t written on this blog for a good while. Excuse being writer’s block brought on by various events, some or all of which were highly political. Also, being a bit of a blog perfectionist – posts sometimes appeared disparate and unconnected with each other. It made sense to me – but [...]
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8
Jul
Posted by Frances Laing in commercialisation of childhood, Early Day Motion Reading Tests for six year olds, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, League tables for five year olds, Phonics testing for five and six year olds, Reading in primary schools, Reading scores in primary schools, Reading Test at Five, stop league tables for five year olds international petition, Summer born children. Tagged: Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, League tables for five year olds, Phonics test for six year olds, Say No to Phonics Tests for Small Children. 2 Comments
Nursery World publishes a piece on how schools have been ‘bribed’ to use phonics: “In a report into overcoming the barriers to literacy, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Education says that cash-strapped schools are being pushed into using synthetic phonics, because they are offered matched funding if they buy approved phonics products and training. It [...]
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4
Apr
Posted by Frances Laing in Bullying and the under fives, Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Day Motion Reading Tests for six year olds, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, EYFS materials, League tables for five year olds, Phonics testing for five and six year olds, Reading in primary schools, Reading scores in primary schools, Reading Test at Five, stop league tables for five year olds international petition, stop school league tables for five year olds. Tagged: Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, League tables for five year olds, Michael Rosen and Phonics, Phonics test for six year olds, Say No to Phonics Tests for Small Children. 1 Comment
Here is the very sensible Michael Rosen (who signed the international petition to Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds) with his take on synthetic phonics, targets and creating a love of books:
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4
Mar
Posted by Frances Laing in Bullying and the under fives, Early Day Motion Reading Tests for six year olds, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, League tables for five year olds, Phonics testing for five and six year olds, Reading in primary schools, Reading scores in primary schools, Reading Test at Five, stop league tables for five year olds international petition, stop school league tables for five year olds, Summer born children, World Book Day. Tagged: League tables for five year olds, Phonics test for six year olds, stop school league tables for five year olds. Leave a Comment
I spent World Book Day yesterday waiting for news of the tabling of an Early Day Motion in parliament to oppose the Reading Test for Six (and Five) Year Olds which the government is planning to introduce, via a pilot scheme in three hundred schools across the country at an initial cost of a quarter of a [...]
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24
Jan
Posted by Frances Laing in Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, Early Years Foundation Stage, Freedom of Information Act queries, Freedom of Information Act Query, League tables for five year olds, Reading in primary schools, Reading scores in primary schools, stop league tables for five year olds international petition, stop school league tables for five year olds. Tagged: Cost of reading test at age six, Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, Early Years Foundation Stage, League tables for five year olds, parent's guide to the early years foundation stage, stop school league tables for five year olds. Leave a Comment
The international petition “Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds” featured in the Times Educational Supplement this week. In just three weeks we have amassed over a thousand signatures, including those of nursery and head teachers and some very ‘big’ names. In a time of savage cut backs to nursery services we’ve been asking how much such ill advised measures cost. [...]
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7
Jan
Posted by Frances Laing in Early Years Foundation Stage, EYFS media coverage, EYFS profile, Government review of the Early Years Foundation Stage legislation, League tables for five year olds, Reading in primary schools, Reading scores in primary schools. Tagged: Criticisms of the EYFS, Stop league tables for five year olds. Leave a Comment
It started quietly with a solid and thoughtful consensus. It became an international petition. It changed government policy. Aim high. Join us and sign it at the end of this post: “The U.K. government is proposing to begin publishing school league performance tables for England’s five year olds on a school by school basis. We, the [...]
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4
Aug
Posted by Frances Laing in Criticisms of the EYFS, Documenting our request for a parental exemption to the learning and development requirements of the EYFS, Early Years Foundation Stage, EYFS and coalition government, Government review of the Early Years Foundation Stage legislation, Reading in primary schools, Reading scores in primary schools, Writing test results. Tagged: Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Years Foundation Stage, parent's guide to the early years foundation stage, Writing test results. Leave a Comment
I’m currently putting together a chapter for a book about the English Early Years Education system (and it’s shortcomings). The title I am writing to is: “A Parent’s Challenge to New Labour’s Early Years Foundation Stage”. International researchers and academics such as Dr. Sebastian Suggate will also be making contributions to this forthcoming book. You [...]
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