Early years experts have hit out at a report by the Teaching Schools Council (TSC) which calls for the Government to carry out a review of the Reception year.
Dozens of signatories have accused the TSC, which authored the Effective Primary Teaching Practice report, of being ill-equipped to make such a recommendation on the early years.
The TSC called for the review after observing ‘inconsistencies between practice in Reception and Key Stage 1 (KS1)’, which it said could isolate Reception teachers and harm children’s progress.
A strongly worded response to TSC chairman Andrew Warren, co-ordinated by charity Early Education, is critical of the limited number (20) of schools visited by the advisory group.
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