Are you fed up of the ‘B’ word? No, not Brexit, but Baseline!
There are some similarities, of course. Like Theresa May’s unloved deal, Reception baseline assessment just keeps coming back, regardless of the fact that it has already failed more than once, few would vote for it and hardly anyone thinks it is fit for purpose.
Yet baseline marches on, with trials completed last year, following which scant information was released bar the decision that self-regulation would be dropped from the assessment, leaving maths, language, communication and literacy, and fuelling further criticism of the value of the baseline in trying to predict children’s later outcomes at this stage with such narrow parameters.
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