The test, which is being taken by infant children for the first time, is to be used to set the national standard for Key Stage 1 spelling for future years.

The test paper had been accidentally published on the Department for Education's website The government has been forced to cancel its controversial new spelling and grammar test after it was ...

Ministers are urged to scrap this year's national spelling tests after the actual paper was published on a government website months ahead of the exam.

A national spelling test for Year 2 pupils has been cancelled by the Schools Minister after a teacher spotted it had mistakenly been published online as a practise paper. Charlotte Smiles was ...

Students who completed NAPLAN reading and spelling online were disadvantaged compared with those who sat the traditional pen-and-paper tests, a new document reveals.