Delegates at the teaching union’s Easter conference voted unanimously to support a motion by the NUT’s executive to consider boycotting the tests due to start in 2016.
The Government wants to start formally assessing children from the age of four as a starting point for measuring children’s progress throughout primary school.
Conference voted in favour of motion 47 to 'investigate the possibility of a mass campaign of principled non-compliance with any policies that erode children’s right to play in the early years’.
Commenting after the debate, NUT general secretary Christine Blower said, ‘The emphasis on formal learning and assessment is putting undue pressure on our youngest pupils.
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