Plans to introduce a baseline assessment for Reception pupils are being delayed a year to September 2021. The Department for Education has written to all primary schools in England following ...
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 ...
Peter Shreeve, Assistant District Secretary of the NEU, said the assessment places unnecessary pressure on children at a ...
Pupils as young as four will soon be tested before they finish reception year under new Government plans announced today. The Department for Education has announced plans for a new reception-year ...
Dr Alice Bradbury and Dr Guy Roberts-Holmes of UCL Institute of Education argue that the policy to bring back the Baseline is discredited and that Government should abandon these plans. Dr Guy Roberts ...
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