Key Stage 1 tests will effectively be scrapped and made non-statutory from 2023.
Other changes include the introduction of a multiplication tables check from the summer of 2020, to be administered to pupils at the end of Year 4.
Plans to reform primary assessment, announced on Thursday (14 September), include a teacher-mediated assessment introduced in the Reception year to track pupils’ progress.
The Government said that the baseline check, which will be developed in conjunction with the teaching profession, will ensure schools are given credit for all the work they do throughout a child’s time at primary school.
The Department for Education said that the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile will be retained but will be improved, including a review of supporting guidance, to cut teacher workload.
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