Delegates at the National Union of Teachers conference in Harrogate agreed to a commitment to encourage schools not to sign up to the pilot of the scheme from September and to ballot members for a boycott of the tests before September 2016, when they will be brought in for all schools in England.
Campaigners will be writing to all head teachers in England to urge them not to take part in the pilot.
Schools that intend to take part in the pilot year have to choose one of six providers of the baseline assessment before the end of this month.
Sara Tomlinson, a primary teacher and chair of Lambeth NUT who proposed the motion, said the vote was ‘unanimously’ passed.
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