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Wednesday, September 18, 2019

| Nursery World

Almost 200 schools that initially signed up to the Reception Baseline pilot have dropped out.

Digital Documentation - Time to think

Monday, September 16, 2019

| Nursery World

How can practitioners use digital documentation systems in a way that recognises every child’s capacity and potential, ask Dr Rosie Flewitt and Dr Kate Cowan

EYFS best practice in schools: Baseline – Know better?

Monday, July 8, 2019

| Nursery World

The new baseline assessment programme is being trialled by schools from September. Charlotte Goddard examines what it involves and the concerns surrounding it

Ofsted: best practice guide - Planning for challenge

Monday, April 15, 2019

| Nursery World

Bristol-based setting The Nursery has won praise for its approach to planning to best challenge children and taking into account their next steps. By Hannah Crown

Supporting transitions: Effective partnership working between families, carers and practitioners

Knowledge Bank

Monday, April 8, 2019

| Nursery World

SPONSORED FEATURE Elizabeth Thomas explores how parents and carers can work with practitioners and teachers to ensure children enjoy a successful transition from nursery to school.

Ofsted: best practice guide - Monitoring and Evaluation

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

| Nursery World

In the first of a series presenting models of best practice for inspection, we look at monitoring and evaluation processes at Poppy and Jack’s. By Hannah Crown

EYFS training: Part 3 – Observation, assessment and planning - Good looking

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

| Nursery World

How should practitioners best be observing children, assessing progress and letting this knowledge inform their planning, asks Charlotte Goddard

Schools call for overhaul of primary school testing

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

| Nursery World

Senior teachers want a 'complete review' of the way pupils are assessed as they say the current regime is ineffective and puts unnecessary stress on children.

DfE promotes baseline assessment in new video

Thursday, February 28, 2019

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has uploaded a new YouTube video on the Reception baseline assessment explaining how it will work.

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 4: A New Evaluation Framework - Self-assessment

Monday, May 28, 2018

| Nursery World

Following her article last month on monitoring and evaluation systems, Pennie Akehurst looks at how to develop a new system of self-evaluation

Improve your observation and assessment skills

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Thursday, May 3, 2018

| Nursery World

Observation and assessment is a vital but often misunderstood area of early years practice. Expert advice is on hand at Nursery World North.

All about… EYFS documents

Monday, April 30, 2018

| Nursery World

While many are calling for EYFS guidance to be updated, others believe now is not the right time to do so. Annette Rawstrone unpicks the arguments from sector experts

Editor’s view – Falling on deaf ears

Monday, April 16, 2018

| Nursery World

It seems that the Government has not been listening to the strong case against the REception Baseline, says Liz Roberts

Desperate measures

Monday, February 19, 2018

| Nursery World

Assessment has become a political game, says Michael Pettavel

Ins and outs of IELS

Monday, February 19, 2018

| Nursery World

Long-awaited details of 'Baby PISA' have not been met with much acclaim, says Liz Roberts

'Baby PISA' study to go ahead in autumn

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.

Don't let assessment drive the curriculum

Monday, January 15, 2018

| Nursery World

Getting the right balance between assessment and curriculum in the EYFS is tricky - but who said it was going to be easy? Dr Julian Grenier and Lydia Cuddy-Gibbs, head of early years at Ark, give their views

DfE invites bids to develop and run £10m Reception baseline

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has put the contract out to tender for a supplier to develop, pilot and oversee the Reception baseline.

Assessment: Reducing children to numbers

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

EYFS Best Practice: All about… action research