Teachers back ballot to boycott tests for four year olds

‘Teachers have voted to ballot for a boycott on tests for four-year-olds in England, calling them “disgraceful”.

Delegates at the National Union of Teachers’ conference backed a campaign to abolish the tests which are coming to many schools in September.

Teachers warn the literacy and numeracy tests would stress young pupils.

Schools minister Nick Gibb said it was “extraordinary” that teachers’ unions could not say “a single positive thing about England’s schools”.’