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Bold Beginnings: Ofsted publishes methods behind controversial report

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Faced with a number of Freedom of Information requests, Ofsted has bowed to pressure and published more information on the methodology of the Bold Beginnings report.

The report on Reception class teaching was published at the end of November and has continued to attract widespread criticism over its depiction of Reception class teaching.

On Friday (5 January) Ofsted updated the web page where the report is published by adding Annex C, which it described as ‘a technical document to accompany the report “Bold Beginnings: the Reception curriculum in a sample of good and outstanding primary schools”.

Ofsted said that there had been a number of FOI requests requesting similar information, which had led the inspectorate to conclude that there was interest in the background of the report.

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