Coronavirus: £2.7m cost of shredding cancelled SATs papers revealed https://schoolsweek.co.uk/coronavirus-2-7m-cost-of-shredding-cancelled-sats-papers-revealed/ @schoolsweek @JohndickensSW
Nice #coremaths link to the height of the Eiffel Tower. But I can't get the numbers to add up.
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£2.7m cost of shredding cancelled SATs papers revealed

The government was concerned about the potential degradation of the papers and the costs of storing them for later use after exams were cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic

https://schoolsweek.co.uk/coronavirus-2-7m-cost-of-shredding-cancelled-sats-papers-revealed/
The 7 papers that Y6 students get have a total of 136 sides, so that's 68 pieces of paper. About 0.6 million Y6s take the tests.
KS1 papers: 100 sides, so 50 pieces of paper. I assume about 0.6 million Y2s take the tests.
Phonics: I think just 1 page per pupil.
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If you multiply these up, you get a total of 71.4 million sheets of paper, which would be a pile 7.4 km high (nearly 25 Eiffel Towers).
(Have I missed something here?)
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