This month all over England there will be training for early years practitioners in reception classes on the Foundation Stage Profile (see box, opposite), the new statutory assessment for the Foundation Stage.
The FSP replaces baseline assessment, which measured children in the first few weeks in the reception class, when they were barely settled into the routines of school. Although baseline assessment was also statutory, there were more than 90 different Government-approved baseline schemes from which a school could choose, each with its own requirements on how the assessments were to be carried out.
Now, at last, the Government has decided that every child in England should be assessed in a similar way and that this should take place during the final term in the Foundation Stage.
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