abstract:Key Stage 2 is the legal term for the four years of schooling in maintained schools in England and Wales normally known as Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6, when pupils are aged between 7 and 11. The term is applied differently in Northern Ireland where it refers to pupils in Year 5, Year 6 and Year 7 (pupils aged 8 to 11).
"For the purposesof the Englishgrammar, punctuationandspellingtest, an exclamation is required to startwithWhatorHow, " the guidance forKeyStage1 and 2nationalcurriculumtests states.
KeyStage2 test markers, who are practising or retired teachers, receive thorough training and undergo a number of quality checks through the marking process.
Mr Read, an independent education advisor, also said Sherwood was one of the bottom nine schools in Kent in terms of repeated poor KeyStage2 results over four years, and was being taken over by an as-yet-unnamed academy group.