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"We were in Year 8 so we'd done our SATS, made good friends, and GCSEs didn't start until Year 10 so this was the best year of education to miss," he said.

In England, the gap is much closer when looking at Year 6 Sats results for 2024, where girls continued to outperform boys at the expected standard in all subjects apart from maths, where boys outperformed girls by one percentage point.

Cilla is known to calm pupils before their SATs and sparked donations of £5,000 worth of books from social media followers around the world, restocking the school library.

Katie’s primary school said it “always worked hard to reduce the pressure on our children” sitting exams and it “fully supported” her decision not to take Sats.

Harris’s campaign sats that she has already secured more than the 2,350 votes required to lock up the presidential nomination.