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The Government needs to catch up with early years professionals

Monday, March 22, 2021

| Nursery World

Early years assessment needs rethinking in light of the pandemic's effects, say Dr Guy Roberts-Holmes, Dr Siew-Fung Lee and Dr Diana Sousa of UCL Institute of Education.

Reception Baseline on hold until September 2021

News

Thursday, June 25, 2020

| Nursery World

The Reception Baseline has been postponed for a year to autumn 2021 due to the ‘challenging circumstances’ schools face with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government has announced, in a move welcomed by campaigners.

International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study: Why some children are running to catch up

News

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

| Nursery World

What can we learn from the OECD’s International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study? Dr Martina Street explains criticisms of the research, findings, and what future studies should focus on

Reception baseline: 'children scared of getting it wrong', say teachers

News

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

| Nursery World

Teachers have reiterated a call for the Reception baseline to be scrapped, after a survey found that many believe it harms children and is not an accurate assessment.

Reception baseline provides 'accurate' assessment for children's progress

News

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

| Nursery World

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

EYFS best practice in schools: Baseline – Know better?

Features

Monday, July 8, 2019

| Nursery World

The new baseline assessment programme is being trialled by schools from September. Charlotte Goddard examines what it involves and the concerns surrounding it

DfE promotes baseline assessment in new video

News

Thursday, February 28, 2019

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has uploaded a new YouTube video on the Reception baseline assessment explaining how it will work.

Editor’s view – Falling on deaf ears

Opinion

Monday, April 16, 2018

| Nursery World

It seems that the Government has not been listening to the strong case against the REception Baseline, says Liz Roberts

DfE invites bids to develop and run £10m Reception baseline

News

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has put the contract out to tender for a supplier to develop, pilot and oversee the Reception baseline.

Readiness for what?

Opinion

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

| Nursery World

Replacing Baseline assessment with a 'school-readiness' check would not be a simple matter, warns Karen Wickett

Baseline protest group calls for assessment review after DfE U-turn

News

Monday, April 11, 2016

| Nursery World

The Better Without Baseline Coalition is calling for a review of assessment and accountability for the early years following the scrapping of Baseline as a progress measure.

Third of schools opposed to new Baseline test, but nearly all plan to implement it

News

Monday, July 27, 2015

| Nursery World

Nearly a third of schools are not in favour of the Reception baseline, new research suggests.

Early years experts review the baselines

News

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| Nursery World

Two leading early years organisations are recommending that schools should not introduce the baseline.

Baseline assessment confirmed for reception children

News

Thursday, March 27, 2014

| Nursery World

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.

Analysis: Teacher-led activities 'produce better results'

News

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

| Nursery World

The upcoming review of the Early Years Foundation Stage needs to look carefully at worldwide studies of effective pre-school approaches, says Oli de Botton of the CfBT Education Trust.

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