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Reception Baseline on hold until September 2021

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  • Thursday, June 25, 2020
    • | Nursery World
The Reception Baseline has been postponed for a year to autumn 2021 due to the ‘challenging circumstances’ schools face with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government has announced, in a move welcomed by campaigners.

Call to scrap the Reception Baseline

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  • Thursday, April 16, 2020
    • | Nursery World
More than 2,500 people have signed an open letter to schools minister Nick Gibb, calling for the Government to 'urgently' reconsider plans to bring in the Reception Baseline in September.

Revised Development Matters to begin trial

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  • Monday, March 2, 2020
    • | Nursery World
‘Road-testing’ of early drafts of the updated Development Matters is about to get under way as nurseries, childminders and Reception classes start to trial the materials in the next few weeks. They will be available to use from September.

DfE confirms EYFSP publication date

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  • Friday, September 27, 2019
    • | Nursery World
The Department for Education has confirmed the timetable for publishing Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) statistics, after a review.

'Baby PISA' study to go ahead in autumn

    News
  • Wednesday, February 14, 2018
    • | Nursery World
The main study for the controversial OECD International Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study, known as 'Baby PISA', is to go ahead in autumn 2018, following last autumn’s field trial with 450 five-year-old children.

Assessment: Reducing children to numbers

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  • Monday, November 13, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Measures of children’s progress – especially one-off assessments such as the baseline in Reception – are flawed, meaning neither policy-makers nor children benefit, say Alice Bradbury and Guy Roberts-Holmes

Analysis: What is ‘baby PISA’?

    News
  • Monday, May 15, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The OECD’s upcoming international study of early learning outcomes for five-year-olds has raised concerns in the sector. Charlotte Goddard reports

New programme to monitor two-year-olds' progress

    News
  • Tuesday, August 16, 2016
    • | Nursery World
The progress and outcomes of funded two-year-olds are to be tracked from point of entry to the end of Reception in a new project backed by funding from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

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