Challenging the System Part 3: Transition from KS2 to KS3

Sorting out unfair grading at GCSE, with its immediate impact on pupil motivation to take a language, incentivisation for schools, and on the narrative of national "failure" is the easiest part of the failed system to put right. The tricky ones are What to do about Transition from KS2 to KS3 and How to Offer Mainstream Language Learning Post-16. And writing about KS2 is tricky for me. Because…