Here’s a tricky communications issue that I’d appreciate comments on.

How do you explain to a 10 or 11-year old facing SATS next week that they must sit the tests even though they’ve read and heard on the radio that “the majority of teachers […] didn’t want the SATS to go ahead.”

According to the CBBC web site “around 600,000 [10- and] 11-year-olds in England are due to take their Maths and English SATS [...]”

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) says that half of primaries in England will take part in the boycott organised by the NUT and and National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT).