Joy at primary pupils' success in key exams

Primary School pupils in Bath and Wiltshire are celebratingexcellent results in a key set of national tests for 11-year-oldchildren.

Overall, the results for Key Stage 2 are Bath and North EastSomerset's highest to date.

They show local schools performing in the top ten per centnationally for science and exceeding the national averages in Englishand maths.

The results for writing were also the highest in the south west.

Cllr Chris Watt, cabinet member for children's services, said: "Ithink the results bode very well for those children moving on throughto taking their GCSEs.

"I think they reflect the hard work that the authority schools andparents …