Schools minister Nick Gibb has confirmed that this year’s spelling, punctuation and grammar tests for six- and seven-year-olds will now not go ahead, and apologised for the error.
Yesterday it came to light that a teacher at a school taking part in the trial had discovered that that the spelling paper all Year 2 children in England were due to take next month had been accidentally published online by the Standards and Testing Agency.
The spelling test is included in one of three tests that children take. The paper had been published online as one of the practice papers that can be used by teachers and children several months ago.
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