SIXTY children will never know the results of one of their exams after the papers were lost.

Pupils in Year 6 at Scotts Park Primary School, Orchard Road, Bromley, sat their SATs in English, maths and science in May and were expecting the results in July.

The National Assessment Agency, which was launched in 2004 to safeguard and modernise the delivery of exams, tests and assessment, has now told the school that pupils will not receive their English results.

Headteacher Amanda Buck only found out the papers had been lost when she rang the assessment agency to find out where they were.

She said: “Obviously we are disappointed, especially for the children. But I understand SATs papers go missing nationally every year.

“It’s sad it has happened to us. We intend to report to parents teacher assessments so they can understand how well their children could have done.”

Irate mother of one of the pupils, Lisa Sweet, said her daughter worked really hard for her exams.

The 43-year-old of Prickley Wood, Hayes, said: “It makes me so mad. She will never find out what she attained for English.

“If this was done at degree level can you imagine how people would feel? It was quite intense for 11-year-olds to sit through a week’s worth of exams.

“Now I am in a position six months down the line where I have to turn round to my daughter and say you will never get your English result.”

She added: “I think it's dispecable, the government should be made accountable. There must be some form of tracking to find these 60 papers.”

Exam papers are also yet to be sent back to 60 pupils at St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School, Goddington Lane, Orpington.

It is not known whether the science papers, which were sat by Year 9 boys in May, will be returned.