Children will be assessed using a baseline check when they start Reception, and the EYFS Profile will no longer be compulsory, the Department for Education has confirmed. However, schools will be able ...

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 new Foundation Stage Profile is different in significant ways from the baseline assessment system that it replaces This month all over England there will be training for early years practitioners ...

Baseline assessment does not accurately reflect what four-year-olds can do and disrupts their start to school when many are in education for the first time, according to research* carried out for ATL ...

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