Ofsted’s 2015 report Key Stage 3: The Wasted Years? claimed that key stage 3 is not a high priority for secondary schools in many aspects. Among its conclusions, the report states that, although developing pupils’ literacy skills is usually a priority, the same level of urgency is not evident in numeracy.
Although Ofsted says that many schools have a clear focus on literacy at key stage 3, there is always room for improvement. Department for Education research suggests that, by the age of seven, the gap in the vocabulary known by children in the top and bottom quartiles is something like 4,000 words (children in the top quartile know around 7,000 words).
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