What is keystage 3?

What is keystage 3?

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Keystage 3 is a complete irrelevance. It runs from age 11 to age 14 and mostly consists of teaching children nothing much at the beginning of secondary school. It's one of the real problems in the English school system because it's not an examination focused in the way that the legislators are, and nor is it really broadening and providing a basis for children's education in the way that keystage 1 and 2 have been. In many schools, it's a wasted period. It can be used for an immense broadening of what the children's experience has been, but it tends not to be. It tends to be a time when children lose their trust in education, have to learn to find their own way because it's not focused.