The Department for Education has released new research claiming the Reception Baseline Assessment provides an accurate starting point for measuring children’s progress. Following pilots across the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Government has postponed plans to assess four and five-year-old children in their first few weeks of school, amid the Covid-19 ...

A survey of 970 Reception teachers by the National Education Union (NEU) reveals that over 80 per cent disagree that the Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) provides accurate information about a child ...

School leaders - including a West Yorkshire head teacher - are calling on the Government to abandon its plans to assess four and five-year-old children in their first few weeks of school in the wake ...

School leaders are calling on the Government to abandon its plans to assess four and five-year-old children in their first few weeks of school in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. Some head teachers ...

A teachers’ union has criticised the Government’s decision to replace Key Stage 1 SATs with a new one-on-one assessment system for reception-age primary school pupils. The Reception Baseline ...

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