Ofsted has called upon the government to “consider" whether the end of primary school target of Level 4 is sufficiently high to provide an adequate foundation for success at secondary school.
A report from the inspectorate says that it is not good enough that 80 per cent of children achieve Level 4 in literacy by the end of primary school.
Speaking this week, chief inspector Michael Wilshaw said this still meant that 100,000 pupils last year (one in five) did not reach the benchmark and that this rises to one in three of those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
He added that last year 45 per cent of pupils who achieved the lower end of Level 4 at age 11 did not achieve a Grade C in their GCSE English.
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