Bring back levels for assessment and stop labelling our children as failures.

Closed 31 signatures

What the petition asks

Children who don't meet the expected standard for their year group are being assessed as emerging and not 'Year _ ready'. Essentially we are telling them they have failed! Children need encouragement not labelling in this way. Levels mean that progress can easily be seen year on year.

A whole generation of our children risk being labelled failures by the system that replaced levels. Previously a child and their parents would easily see progress during a school year by looking at their levels. Currently they are labelled as 'emerging', 'expected' or 'exceeding' and a child who is emerging is then described as not being ready for the next year group that they move in to. If our children are to achieve their true potential, we need to stop labelling them as failures!

Timeline

28 Jul 2016	Petition opened for signatures
28 Jan 2017	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 31

Status Closed

Opened 28 Jul 2016

Closed 28 Jan 2017

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