Teachers consider boycott over testing of four-year-olds

National Union of Teachers conference debates motion criticising plan for 'baseline assessment' of literacy and numeracy

Plans by the government to test children as young as four as soon as they start formal schooling could be challenged by teachers in a mass campaign of non-compliance.

A motion to be debated by the National Union of Teachers annual conference in Brighton on Monday argues that too much emphasis is being placed on assessment, which forces children and teachers to prepare for tests.

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