Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Harris Academy / Downhills caught cheating in SATS test
Year 6 pupils at Harris Academy Philip Lane in Tottenham, north London, were given too much help in their English reading and maths reasoning Sats, according to the Standards and Testing Agency (STA).
As a result, pupils’ scores in those papers have been expunged and they will receive scores only for their spelling, punctuation and grammar tests.
Read on: Guardian
Sorry for those with students there, though this should have no effect on their moves to next schools. Will they be confident to go to another of Harris' empire?
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Permalink Reply by JulieB on
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I don't think it should affect the children at all, most secondary schools re-asses new year 7 children in September anyway. If there is any wrong doing then it is the school that is at fault not the children.
I remember the fight the parents and teachers at that school put up against the Govt forcing them to becoming an Academy. Such a shame they lost.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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If the schools all do their own assessments then why do they need to do SATS tests? Is it only for ranking schools against each other?
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It's a silly system. Gove made changes to Ofsted so primary schools are only judged on their yr 6 SATs. It can be a miserable year 6 for the children (my daughter has just gone through it) who just learn how to do well in Sats rather than learning a more varied and interesting curriculum.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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From the Guardian article
The Harris Federation said it was “shocked and dismayed to hear of the over-aiding”
The Harris Academy certainly get no points for their use of plain English. I don’t think over-aiding is the word most of us would use to describe what happened.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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The problem is that we don't know what actually happened. Was it " cheating " as Pamish describes it, ie deliberate, or was it an innocent misinterpretation of the rules for the exams ?
I agree that " over-aiding " sounds like an attempt to minimise the offence; rather like " mis-spoke " in place of " lied ".
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Children at private schools are FAR more likely to be allowed extra time in exams (Granuiad). Cheating?
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Permalink Reply by Martin (Woodside) on
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Exam rooms with digital clocks on the wall, apparently some children cannot understand analogue clock-dials.
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Would you fail someone who couldn't use a slide rule ?
The sooner analogue clocks are phased out the better
although they do give a good idea of how much time has elapsed / is left.
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Agree
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I have terrible problems with sundials and hour glasses but it doesn’t mean I’m thick!
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