Teachers at school in Kent are under investigation over claims they allowed pupils to cheat on SAT exam papers
Staff at Leesons Primary School in Orpington, Kent, were said to have let up to 30 nine and ten-year-olds amend their papers one lunchtime
TEACHERS are being investigated over claims they let pupils change their exam answers to bump up the marks.
The staff were said to have allowed up to 30 nine and ten-year-olds amend their SAT papers one lunchtime.
But the cheating came to light when the children told their parents.
The results have been annulled while staff at Leesons Primary School, in Orpington, Kent, are now under investigation.
Checks are being made to see if the same thing happened in previous years at the school.
Parents say their children told them they were called into an office and given the correct answers.
One dad said: “Loads of the parents got together and found out almost every child in the class was asked to do it.”
Parents were told in a letter there had been “significant shortcomings”, while the Standards and Testing Agency annulled all the pupils’ results.
The trust which runs the school said: “Steps are being taken to ensure that the pupils will not be disadvantaged by the decision.”