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Labour schools shadow calls for baseline assessment to be cancelled

Thursday, May 14, 2020

| Nursery World

Shadow Schools Minister Margaret Greenwood is pressing Nick Gibb, School Standards Minister, to abandon the Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) to support emotional well-being as children return to school after the coronavirus lockdown.

Building Your Curriculum: Knowledge, Part 1 - A matter of fact

Features

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

| Nursery World

In the first part of her article on early years curriculum, Professor Elizabeth Wood explains why a broader approach is needed

Call to scrap the Reception Baseline

News

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.

International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study: Why some children are running to catch up

News

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

| Nursery World

What can we learn from the OECD’s International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study? Dr Martina Street explains criticisms of the research, findings, and what future studies should focus on

Revised Development Matters to begin trial

News

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.

Reception baseline: 'children scared of getting it wrong', say teachers

News

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

| Nursery World

Teachers have reiterated a call for the Reception baseline to be scrapped, after a survey found that many believe it harms children and is not an accurate assessment.

Reception baseline provides 'accurate' assessment for children's progress

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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has released new research claiming the Reception Baseline Assessment provides an accurate starting point for measuring children’s progress.