After the disruption of coronavirus to pre-school children's lives, they should not be expected to take the Reception Baseline in September, argues Nancy Stewart Nancy Stewart: 'The baseline idea is ...

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 ...

Almost 100,000 parents and professionals have called on the government to scrap formal assessments of four-and five-year-olds impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Tests could impact children's ...

The government is claiming that controversial testing of reception-age children can help improve their attainment at the age of seven, despite widespread concerns about the validity of the assessments ...

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 ...

The 20-minute assessment is supposed to be carried out within six weeks of the new term (Danny Lawson/PA) School leaders are calling on the Government to abandon its plans to assess four and five-year ...

School leaders have welcomed the Government’s decision to postpone its Reception Baseline Assessment plan until September 2021 (Joe Giddens/PA) The Government has postponed plans to assess four and ...