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In September, schools all over the country will be opening their doors to the next cohort of four-year-olds ready to start their journey through formal education. It is the same every year, but in 9,612 schools there will be a new element to take into account. These are the schools that have signed up to pilot the Government’s baseline assessment programme.
DEVELOPING BASELINE
The Department for Education has been keen to establish a national baseline assessment process for a number of years. The Government wants to create what it says will be a fairer progress measure for primary schools, by taking a snapshot of children’s abilities when they begin school, and using this as a baseline to measure progress made by Year 6.
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