Archive for the ‘stop league tables for five year olds international petition’ 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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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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1
Apr
Posted by Frances Laing in Cheshire West Against the Cuts, Coalition Against the Cuts, Coalition government, Conservative Party, Conservative party policy on reading test, 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 and coalition government, Government review of the Early Years Foundation Stage legislation, History of opposition to EYFS learning and development targets, League tables for five year olds, Phonics testing for five and six year olds, stop league tables for five year olds international petition. Tagged: Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, Early Years Foundation Stage, EYFS review, League tables for five year olds, Phonics test for six year olds, Say No to Phonics Tests for Small Children. 6 Comments
Front page Times Educational Supplement today we find an interesting piece by Helen Ward entitled: “Phonics knocked off it’s perch by EYFS review”. in which Helen appears to be highlighting how the findings of the government-sponsored review panel appear to directly contradict coalition government policy on the reading test for five and six year olds. I’m saying ‘coalition government’ policy [...]
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30
Mar
Posted by Frances Laing in Cheshire West Against the Cuts, Coalition government, Criticisms of the EYFS, Documenting our request for a parental exemption to the learning and development requirements of the EYFS, Early Day Motion Reading Tests for six year olds, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, EYFS, History of opposition to EYFS learning and development targets, League tables for five year olds, parent's guide to early years foundation stage, Phonics testing for five and six year olds, stop league tables for five year olds international petition, Summer born children. Tagged: Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, League tables for five year olds, parent's guide to the early years foundation stage, Phonics test for six year olds, West Cheshire Council. Leave a Comment
The results of the Early Years Foundation Stage Review have been announced today. Rest assured readers, I do intend to share my thoughts with you all on this front – as soon as I can. However, in the meantime – I’m sharing this photograph – sized up so that you can see the detail of [...]
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22
Mar
Posted by Frances Laing in Academies, Anti-academies alliance, Cheshire West Against the Cuts, Christleton High School, Cuts in Education, Early Day Motion Reading Tests for six year olds, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, Freedom of Information Act Query, League tables for five year olds, Phonics testing for five and six year olds, Reading Test at Five, stop league tables for five year olds international petition. Tagged: 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, March Against the Cuts, parent's guide to the early years foundation stage, stop school league tables for five year olds. Leave a Comment
What started out as a quiet week last week quickly became public and intensely political. Since my daughter was born five years ago – I’d scaled down public appearances and focussed on building a strong virtual presence. This blog has attracted the attention of national mainstream press in recent months and years as regular readers will know. In [...]
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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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10
Feb
Posted by Frances Laing in Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, League tables for five year olds, stop league tables for five year olds international petition, stop school league tables for five year olds. Leave a Comment
As a real mum of a real five year old I have real issues to deal with. This week Babes was off school ill with a bad cough which gave us a chance to pull back a little to reflect. Left to her own devices (and without the unnecessary pressures of tedious homework worksheets) Babes writes whole [...]
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