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04 Early years detectives

Gareth Betts-Davies and his colleagues are collecting evidence to develop meaningful assessment for learning in their Suffolk children’s centre. Find out how and why.

06 American adventurer

Sarah Hovington is off on the trip of a lifetime to find out how pre-school education in the US compares to that in England.

08 Tech tools

How do you assess the progress of children in ICT classes, especially when they’re working in pairs? Matt Bradley offers some suggestions.

10 Just let us teach!

What sort of assessment should replace the much-maligned SATs? Tina Humber explores the options and gives her personal view.

12 Sitting SATs out

Kari Anson explains how, with the agreement of her school, she used her opposition to SATs to devise cross-curricular activities for her Year 5 class.

14 Life after SATs – workload dream or nightmare?

 How has the abolition of SATs in Wales affected teachers’ workoad? Torfaen teacher Helen Robbins reports.

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