Published: Thursday, 24th July, 2008 13:00
Pupils leave school for summer holidays without results
By Annabel Williams
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READING is still counting the cost of the SATs test fiasco.
Nationally, one in five primary schools is missing results or have suffered “appallingly marked” papers, while 23% of secondary English results have yet to materialise.
Jane Moore, headteacher at Caversham’s Thameside Primary School, said key stage two results in maths and science were fine but all English papers had to be re-marked by her teachers.
Mrs Moore said: “It took three of us three whole days. I had to get supply teachers in to cover the classes while we re-marked. If you think a supply teacher for a day is about £200, we’re talking several hundred pounds.
“We got the results fairly quickly but I didn’t release them to the parents because they were so appallingly marked. We found some were perhaps up to 10 marks out, which can give a child the wrong level.
“We re-marked them using teacher assessments, which are more reliable because our teachers know the level each pupil has been working at all year.”
At Highdown School in Emmer Green, headteacher Tim Royle says the marks on “up to 10%” of 600 key stage three science papers just didn’t add up. English and maths papers were affected too.
He added: “We’ve not been able to give parents or students the results yet so we are going to be doing it in September instead.
Mr Royle said: “We don’t disagree with where the marks were awarded, but the adding up on each page looks like it was done in a hurry, and when you do things in a hurry, you make mistakes.”
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