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 ...
(1 March) to pilot the Reception baseline assessment, which starts this autumn. All schools with Reception classes have been invited to take part in the voluntary national pilot of the assessment, ...
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 ...