A PROBE has been launched at Poole High School after an angry parent accused examiners of over politicising selection tests for 11-year-olds.

Poole High, a partially selective school, holds 11 plus-style aptitude tests for primary school students hoping to join the secondary’s top academic stream.

However, after the test on Saturday, November 26, in which there was a question on yesterday’s controversial public sector pension walkout, the Daily Echo can reveal at least one parent complained.

Among the tests was a question asking pupils to imagine they were writing a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron on the subject of public sector pension cuts, said the angry parent.

Another parent, who wanted to remain anonymous, said: “Surely this is far too political, especially at the moment, for 11-year-olds to be questioned on.

“I believe a number of the children even had to ask what a pension was.”

The selection tests are administered according to local authority regulations.

Poole High School deputy head Mrs F Heafield, who learned of the complaint on Monday, told the Daily Echo: “The school has received a complaint.

“It is being investigated in line with our complaints policy and when a report is written it will be referred to the chair of governors.”

Poole High was one of the hundreds of UK schools closed yesterday as up to two million public sector workers went on strike over pensions.

More than three quarters of Poole High School’s teachers belong to the National Union of Teachers, National Association of Schoolmasters and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, which all voted to strike against the government’s proposed pension changes.