Government works on digital tool for assessments of reception pupils
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Digital assessment Reception
  • Mar 8, 2022
EYFS: Third of primaries yet to sign up for catch-up scheme
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EYFS Catch up tuition Reception Education recovery
  • Mar 7, 2022
New reception pupils are the ‘least school-ready’ for generations
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School readiness Reception Lockdown
  • Sep 8, 2021
Reception pupils ‘least school ready for generations’ due to pandemic, warns charity
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Reception School readiness
  • Sep 8, 2021
Children starting Reception face 'the most challenging school start for generations'
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Reception Pupil support Learning loss
  • Sep 8, 2021
Children's transition into Reception impacted by Covid
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Transition Reception Coronavirus
  • Sep 3, 2021
Sikh boy, 5, has ‘sacred hair cut by bullies’ in shocking attack at South London school
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Bullying Reception
  • May 26, 2021
Every school with Reception class offered early language training
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Reception Early language training Teacher training
  • May 13, 2021
Every state school with reception pupils can now apply to receive the Nuffield Early Language Intervention
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Reception Early years Early language intervention
  • May 13, 2021
Coronavirus: ‘Concerning’ impact on language development and PSED among four-to five-year-olds
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Coronavirus Language Reception
  • Apr 29, 2021
62,000 reception-age pupils in England to take part in early language programme
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Reception Language Literacy Coronavirus
  • Apr 27, 2021
Two-fifths of primary schools sign up for DfE-funded speech and language programme
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Reception Language Literacy Coronavirus
  • Apr 27, 2021
62,000 reception-age children in England to take part in Nuffield Early Language Intervention
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Reception Language Literacy Coronavirus
  • Apr 27, 2021
Covid leaves Reception pupils struggling, teachers warn
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Coronavirus Reception Learning loss Language Communication
  • Apr 27, 2021
Reception kids ‘more likely to die from lightning strike than Covid’ as PM urged not to wait until March to open schools
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Coronavirus Primary Covid safety School reopening Reception Covid outbreaks
  • Feb 2, 2021
Thousands of five-year-olds to get extra language help after Covid disruption
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Coronavirus Language Pupil support Catch up tuition Reception
  • Dec 16, 2020
Schools begin teaching reformed Early Years Foundation Stage
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EYFS Reception
  • Sep 3, 2020
'Catch-up' language programme announced for Reception classes
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Catch up tuition Languages Reception
  • Aug 27, 2020
Attainment gap 'stagnant' for early years, says new research
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Attainment gap Early years Reception
  • Aug 26, 2020
Government allocates £9 million to Nuffield Early Language Intervention as part of the National Tutoring Programme
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School funding Languages Reception
  • Aug 24, 2020
Covid-19: £9m to help Reception pupils' language skills
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Reception Coronavirus Languages School funding Catch up tuition
  • Aug 24, 2020
Early years support package to help close Covid language gap
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Early years Reception Languages Coronavirus School funding
  • Aug 24, 2020
Ministers accused of 'dumbing down' reception classes by abandoning an assessment that helps to identify the brightest children when they start school
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Reception Assessments
  • Jul 12, 2020
Revised EYFS unveiled for 'early adopter' schools to implement in September
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EYFS Early years Reception
  • Jul 1, 2020
The DfE’s reformed early learning goals for reception pupils from 2021 revealed
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EYFS Early learning Education reforms Reception
  • Jul 1, 2020
Coronavirus: Option to delay school being explored by UK's largest nursery group
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School readiness Coronavirus Reception
  • Jun 23, 2020
School reopenings should kickstart an EYFS fightback
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Coronavirus School reopening EYFS Reception
  • May 13, 2020
Nuffield Early Language Intervention could help close the ‘disadvantage gap’
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Language Reception Literacy Attainment gap
  • May 1, 2020
Nuffield Early Language Intervention boosts young children’s language skills by three months
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Language Reception Literacy Attainment gap
  • May 1, 2020
Short catch-ups could boost early years post-shutdown
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Reception Language Literacy Attainment gap
  • May 1, 2020
New evaluation reports: catch-up programme boosts young children’s language skills by +3 months
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Language Literacy Attainment gap Reception
  • Apr 30, 2020
Remove incentives to ‘depress or inflate’ early years outcomes, Ofqual urges DfE
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Ofsted Reception Pupil performance EYFS Consultation
  • Feb 5, 2020
Ofsted: 'No need to teach phonics before Reception'
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Phonics Reception
  • Jan 15, 2020
Requests for late entry for summer-born plateau
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Summer-born Reception School entry Late entry
  • Oct 21, 2019
DfE to bring baseline assessment in-house
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Baseline assessment Reception Primary
  • Oct 18, 2019
Teachers brand P1 tests 'a waste of time'
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P1 Baseline assessment Primary Reception
  • Aug 30, 2019
P1 tests are waste of time, say Scottish teachers
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P1 Scotland Reception Baseline assessment
  • Aug 30, 2019
Teachers brand Scottish P1 tests ‘meaningless’
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Scotland Baseline assessment Reception P1
  • Aug 29, 2019
Families lose legal challenge against Reception baseline
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Reception Baseline assessment Primary Legal actions
  • Jul 31, 2019
Testing of four-year-olds facing family action over fears it will ‘harm’ pupils
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Reception Baseline assessment Anxiety Stress Mental health Legal action Primary
  • Jul 23, 2019
Government to face high court legal challenge against Reception baseline
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Legal action Reception Baseline assessment
  • Jul 23, 2019
Testing four-year-olds to begin in September – but parents kept in dark
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Reception Baseline assessment Primary
  • Jul 23, 2019
Baseline ‘harm’ fears to be heard by High Court
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Reception Baseline assessment Anxiety Stress Legal action
  • Jul 22, 2019
EYFS: Do we still need a staggered start to the year?
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EYFS Reception School hours
  • Jul 15, 2019
The reception baseline assessment pilot
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Reception Primary assessment Reception Baseline Assessment RBA
  • Jul 7, 2019
Why government request for early years experts to develop Reception Baseline is too little too late
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Baseline assessment Reception
  • Jul 3, 2019
Controversial P1 tests to continue with modifications, Education Secretary says
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Scotland P1 Primary assessment Reception National testing
  • Jun 11, 2019
P1 assessments to continue with 'important modifications'
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Reception Primary P1 National testing Scotland
  • Jun 11, 2019
Testing of five-year-olds should continue, review says
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P1 Scotland National testing Primary assessment Reception
  • Jun 11, 2019
Scottish Government to continue P1 tests after backing from independent review
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P1 National testing Scotland Reception Primary
  • Jun 11, 2019
John Swinney to make statement on P1 assessments
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Scotland Primary assessment P1 Reception
  • Jun 11, 2019
Education Secretary urged to use speech to scrap P1 tests
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Scotland Reception P1 Primary assessment National testing
  • Jun 11, 2019
Schools 'discourage' admission of pupils with SEND
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SEND Special needs School admissions Reception Primary School nurseries
  • Jun 10, 2019
Special needs children who attend school nursery less likely to get reception place amid funding cuts
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Special needs Vulnerable Transitions School nurseries School places Funding Reception
  • Jun 10, 2019
New tests are useful, say majority of primary leaders
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Primary National testing Baseline assessment Reception Scotland
  • May 31, 2019
Scotland's largest council backs right of headteachers to scrap P1 tests
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Scotland P1 National testing Reception Primary
  • May 16, 2019
7000 schools opting out isn't a ringing endorsement for Reception Baseline
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Baseline assessment National testing Reception Pilot study
  • May 14, 2019
Number of primary schools registered to take part in the pilot of the Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) falls
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Baseline assessment Primary Reception Pilot study
  • May 14, 2019
Baseline pilot snubbed by more than 7,000 schools
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Baseline assessment Reception Pilot study
  • May 14, 2019
Changes to assessments in primary schools
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Reception Baseline assessment
  • May 14, 2019
Thousands of schools to pilot new reception class check-up
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Reception Baseline assessment Pilot study
  • May 14, 2019
Thousands of schools signed up to pilot the Reception baseline
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Reception Baseline assessment Pilot study
  • May 14, 2019
9,600 schools sign up to baseline assessment pilot
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Baseline assessment Pilot study DfE Reception
  • May 14, 2019
Baseline trial data censored in FOI release
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Baseline assessment DfE Reception Statistical data
  • May 13, 2019
March of the four year olds by more than a score
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Protests National testing Baseline assessment Reception Primary
  • Apr 26, 2019
Baseline tests 'will mean pressure on two-year-olds'
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Baseline assessment Reception Primary Mental health
  • Apr 25, 2019
Parents and children march against plans to test four-year-olds
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Baseline assessment National testing Primary Reception Protests
  • Apr 25, 2019
Hundreds of children and parents march against Reception baseline
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Protests Reception Baseline assessment Primary National testing
  • Apr 25, 2019
Primary school Sats: Pupils and parents protest
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Protests SATs Baseline assessment Primary Reception National testing
  • Apr 25, 2019
Four-year-olds in Westminster protest
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Protests Primary Reception Baseline assessment National testing
  • Apr 25, 2019
As a teacher, I know parents are right to march against unfair tests for under-fives | Holly Rigby
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National testing Reception Primary Baseline assessment Parents Protests
  • Apr 25, 2019
'Ludicrous' and 'flawed' - why some schools are already boycotting baseline
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Reception Baseline assessment National testing Unions Boycotts Primary
  • Apr 24, 2019
The baseline assessment isn't perfect, but supporting it makes sense
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Baseline assessment Primary Reception
  • Apr 17, 2019
Labour will scrap Reception baseline and SATs
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Politics Reception Baseline assessment Primary SATs
  • Apr 17, 2019
Heads asked to sign pledge against pressurised testing
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SATs National testing Primary Headteachers Reception Baseline assessment
  • Apr 15, 2019
Parents protest at reception tests: ‘Four-year-olds should be making friends instead‘
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Reception DfE
  • Apr 14, 2019
Pre-school children to march on Number 10 in baseline protest
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Protests Early years Baseline assessment Reception
  • Apr 10, 2019
Baseline assessment: four-year-olds prepare to march
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Baseline assessment Protests Reception
  • Apr 8, 2019
Baseline assessment: will early childhood education be further commercialised?
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Baseline assessment Reception Primary National tests
  • Apr 2, 2019
Baseline assessment: will early childhood education be further commercialised?
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Baseline assessment Primary National tests Reception
  • Apr 2, 2019
Baseline testing: Education requires brave politicians
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Baseline assessment Primary Reception Policy
  • Mar 20, 2019
Schools call for overhaul of primary school testing
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Primary Baseline assessment Reception Education reforms
  • Mar 19, 2019
Self-regulation dropped from Reception baseline
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Reception Baseline assessment Self-regulation
  • Mar 15, 2019
Need to know: Reception baseline assessment
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Baseline assessment Reception Primary
  • Mar 11, 2019
Speaking out against baseline
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Baseline assessment Primary Reception
  • Mar 8, 2019
The baseline test won't work - just look at my kids
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Baseline assessment Reception Primary National testing
  • Mar 6, 2019
Reporter's take: can the latest Baseline assessment win over critics?
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Baseline assessment Primary Reception National testing
  • Mar 5, 2019
Reception baseline assessment: national voluntary pilot sign-up
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Reception Baseline assessment Primary National testing
  • Mar 4, 2019
Reception baseline assessment: NAHT’s position
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Primary Baseline assessment Reception National testing
  • Mar 4, 2019
Baseline pilot go-ahead sparks outcry
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Baseline assessment Pilot study Reception Primary
  • Mar 4, 2019
Reception baseline provider defends the ‘robust assessment’
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Baseline assessment Reception NFER Primary
  • Mar 1, 2019
DfE promotes baseline assessment in new video
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Baseline assessment Primary Reception DfE
  • Feb 28, 2019
The new baseline assessment is fairer than what we have
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Baseline assessments Reception Primary
  • Feb 28, 2019
Plans to broaden baseline beyond maths and literacy dropped
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Primary Reception Baseline assessment Maths Literacy
  • Feb 27, 2019
‘Pointless’ baseline assessment pilot for 4 year olds announced by Government
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Baseline assessment Primary Reception
  • Feb 27, 2019
Schools invited to pilot Reception baseline as opposition against it grows
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Reception Primary Baseline assessments Pilot study
  • Feb 27, 2019
Baseline 'unfair', say three-quarters of primary heads
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Primary Reception Baseline assessments Pilot study
  • Feb 27, 2019
Schools invited to sign up for controversial baseline pilot
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Baseline assessment Pilot study Reception Primary
  • Feb 27, 2019
Testing of under-fives goes ahead despite teaching union objections
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Baseline assessment Primary Reception Pilot study
  • Feb 27, 2019
Schools sought for autumn 2019 baseline pilot
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Baseline assessment Pilot study Primary Reception
  • Feb 27, 2019
Gap widens for poorer pupils at age 5
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Poverty Disadvantaged pupils Free school meals FSM Reception Primary schools Attainment gap
  • Nov 29, 2018
'We’re turning our Year 1 pupils off school'
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Reception
  • Oct 30, 2018
Early years assessment: More reception pupils achieve 'good' development
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Early years assessment Reception
  • Oct 19, 2018
Children continue to achieve a good level of development at the end of Reception
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EYFS Reception ELGs Primary schools
  • Oct 19, 2018
How to build positive relationships in early years
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Reception Relationships
  • Sep 15, 2018
DfE and NFER on baseline testing: Do they know what they do?
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Baseline assessment Primary Reception
  • Sep 4, 2018
Dear Damian Hinds, plans to test little children are ‘flawed and unfit for purpose’ | Michael Rosen
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Reception Baseline assessment
  • Aug 28, 2018
One of the UK’s best teachers found in Sussex
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Teachers Reception Primary
  • Aug 16, 2018
Call for trials of small Reception classes
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Reception Class sizes Pupil numbers EPI
  • Aug 8, 2018
Testing five-year-olds is not child’s play | Lesley Riddoch
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National tests Primary Reception Mental health
  • Aug 6, 2018
12 organisations shunned baseline bid
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Baseline assessments Reception Primary Progress
  • Jul 30, 2018
Prince George’s artistic flair revealed as school show off dragon ‘made by the young royal’
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Art Reception
  • Jul 29, 2018
A baseline without basis: The validity and utility of the proposed reception baseline assessment in England
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Baseline assessment Primary Reception
  • Jul 13, 2018
Trials of controversial baseline checks to start in September
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Baseline assessment Reception Primary
  • Jul 11, 2018
More details of Reception Baseline confirmed
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Reception Baseline NFER RBA
  • Jul 11, 2018
Damning report finds Reception Baseline not fit-for-purpose, unethical and damaging
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Reception Baseline BERA
  • Jul 4, 2018
New early-learning goals to be trialled in 25 primary schools
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Primary schools Reception
  • Jun 22, 2018
Jan Dubiel profile: ‘We’re doing early years wrong? You try teaching Reception'
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Reception
  • Jun 9, 2018
Reception baseline trial will take place in September
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Reception DfE Baseline
  • Jun 6, 2018
NAHT rejects Bold Beginnings approach to early years learning
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Bold Beginnings Reception Primary Early years
  • May 29, 2018
Lord Agnew responds re the findings by TeachFirst that one in three children are not 'school ready' when starting primary school
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School-ready Reception Lord Agnew Teach First Primary schools
  • Apr 30, 2018
'Testing has become like crack cocaine to the government'
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Baseline assessment Reception Primary
  • Apr 25, 2018
'The baseline must be drawn here – this far, no further'
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Baseline assessment Primary Reception
  • Apr 23, 2018
One in three reception children aren’t ‘school ready’, warns Teach First
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Reception Teach First
  • Apr 14, 2018
Primary assessment in England
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Primary Baseline assessment Reception
  • Apr 11, 2018
New measure for fairer recording of primary school performance
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Reception Baseline assessment Primary
  • Apr 11, 2018
ASCL comment on Reception baseline assessment
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Baseline assessment Primary Reception
  • Apr 11, 2018
Daily roundup 11 April: Loneliness, prosthetics, and baseline assessments
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Funding Baseline assessment Primary Reception
  • Apr 11, 2018
More Than A Score coalition comments on baseline announcement
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Baseline assessment Primary Reception
  • Apr 11, 2018
Government unveils controversial plans for testing four-year-olds
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Baseline assessments Primary Reception
  • Apr 11, 2018
NFER to deliver reception baseline test
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NFER Baseline assessment Reception Primary
  • Apr 11, 2018
Reception baseline assessment to be developed by NFER
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Reception Baseline assessment NFER DfE
  • Apr 11, 2018
Teachers vote in favour of opposing the new Baseline
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Baseline assessments Reception Assessments Primary
  • Apr 3, 2018
Union plans to scupper national tests for 4-year-olds
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Unions Reception Baseline assessments Primary SATs
  • Apr 3, 2018
Teachers prepare to strike in protest at 'immoral' exams for four-year-olds
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Teachers Strikes Protests Unions Literacy Numeracy Reception SATs
  • Apr 3, 2018
How teachers plan to 'smash' primary testing
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Primary assessment Teachers DfE Unions Primary Reception Baseline assessments
  • Apr 3, 2018
Children are so hooked on iPads and smartphones that they are trying to swipe when given books to read
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Reading Technology Reception Books
  • Apr 3, 2018
Infant pupils try to swipe left when they turn a page
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Technology Reception Reading Books
  • Apr 3, 2018
Infant pupils 'swiping left' when they pick up books
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Literacy Reception
  • Apr 2, 2018
Kevin Courtney calls for 'profound change' in the way we assess primary children
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Primary Assessments Unions Reception SATs
  • Mar 29, 2018
Investigation: Another school set to close as accountability system crumbles
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Accountability School closures Finances EBacc League tables Ofsted Progress 8 Reception Academies
  • Mar 16, 2018
Almost one in six Reception staff 'are unpaid volunteers'
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Reception Volunteers Early years Qualifications
  • Mar 14, 2018
Reception staff ‘increasingly unpaid and underqualified’, warns EPI
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Reception Qualifications Volunteers EPI
  • Mar 14, 2018
DfE should track out-of-school children and six other key messages from Ofsted chief
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DfE Ofsted Amanda Spielman Education Select Committee Faith schools MATs Academies Illegal schools Early years Reception Inspections
  • Mar 7, 2018
Banning teachers’ preferred method of baseline assessment will relieve 'burden', says minister
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Baseline assessment Early years Primary Reception
  • Mar 6, 2018
The early years sector must deliver a visceral response to Ofsted's caricatures and tropes
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Ofsted Primary schools Reception
  • Feb 18, 2018
Let's not sacrifice play-based learning for a more structured reception experience
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Reception Early years Curriculum Literacy Numeracy Ofsted
  • Feb 5, 2018
Bold Beginnings: getting the message over
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Ofsted Reception Early years Numeracy Literacy
  • Feb 5, 2018
Teacher Alexander Eldridge guilty of child sexual offences
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Sexual abuse Reception Primary
  • Jan 31, 2018
What's wrong with Ofsted's Bold Beginnings report?
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Ofsted Reception Curriculum EYFS Literacy Numeracy
  • Jan 30, 2018
Ofsted forgets our four-year-olds are not GCSE apprentices | Michael Rosen
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Ofsted Reception Damian Hinds Primary Curriculum Literacy Numeracy
  • Jan 30, 2018
Pupils taught well in Reception class do better in their GCSEs
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Reception Pupil outcomes Pupil performance Primary Secondary GCSEs Exam results
  • Jan 23, 2018
Ofsted's Gill Jones begins drive to clarify Bold Beginnings report
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Reception Early years Ofsted reports Literacy Numeracy EYFS
  • Jan 23, 2018
DfE to assess the value of nursery schools
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DfE Nurseries Childcare Early years Reception
  • Jan 19, 2018
Early years teachers call on Ofsted to publish Bold Beginnings clarification
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Early years Ofsted Reception Literacy Numeracy
  • Jan 18, 2018
Outrage over each new education policy does nothing but harm | Richard Russell
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Ofsted reports Early years Reception Primary Literacy Numeracy
  • Jan 18, 2018
Early years anger over Ofsted's Bold Beginnings report 'impossible to reconcile'
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Ofsted reports Reception Early years Primary Literacy Numeracy
  • Jan 17, 2018
Bold Beginnings: how NOT to write an Ofsted report
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Ofsted reports Reception Primary Literacy Numeracy
  • Jan 17, 2018
Learning through play is plane easy | Letters
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Early years Primary Reception Teaching Literacy Numeracy Curriculum
  • Jan 16, 2018
Campaigners against formal learning in Reception call for controversial report to be withdrawn
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Reception Primary Ofsted Literacy Numeracy Narrow curriculum
  • Jan 16, 2018
Ofsted's Bold Beginnings report is 'flawed' and should be scrapped, says open letter
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Ofsted reports Reception Primary Literacy Numeracy Narrow curriculum
  • Jan 16, 2018
Ofsted's call for more teaching in reception year prompts backlash
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Ofsted Reception Assessment Literacy Numeracy
  • Jan 16, 2018
Proposed tests for reception children ‘verging on the immoral’
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Reception Assessment Literacy Numeracy Ofsted
  • Jan 16, 2018
Ofsted’s Bold Beginnings report on reception class curriculum is flawed
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Ofsted Reception Assessment Literacy Numeracy Narrow curriculum
  • Jan 16, 2018
Long read: The battle for Reception
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Reception Primary Early years Teachers Ofsted
  • Jan 12, 2018
Bold Beginnings: Ofsted publishes methods behind controversial report
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Reception Early years Ofsted
  • Jan 8, 2018
Reception curriculum in good and outstanding primary schools: bold beginnings
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Ofsted Reception Primary Curriculum
  • Jan 5, 2018
Being bold in 2018
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Reception Primary Nurseries Early years Childcare EYFS
  • Jan 5, 2018
Ofsted expands on Bold Beginnings messages in sector meeting
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Ofsted School readiness Early years Reception
  • Jan 4, 2018
A dialogue with Ofsted on the Bold Beginnings report
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Primary Ofsted Reception
  • Dec 18, 2017
Reception classes should be reserved for the best teachers, says study
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Reception Attainment Early years Primary Pupil outcomes
  • Dec 15, 2017
The best teachers should be put in reception classes to have biggest impact on a child’s education, study finds
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Reception Teachers Teaching Education outcomes
  • Dec 15, 2017
Put best staff in reception class for GCSE success, heads told
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Teachers Reception Attainment Pupil outcomes
  • Dec 15, 2017
Pupils taught well in Reception Class do better in their GCSEs
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Reception GCSEs Primary Secondary Pupil outcomes Attainment
  • Dec 14, 2017
Social mobility: £120m pledged to tackle early years 'word gap'
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Social mobility Funding Early years Reception
  • Dec 14, 2017
Spielman: Ofsted report into Reception curriculum is 'as controversial as custard'
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Ofsted Reception Curriculum Amanda Spielman DfE Early years Inspections MATs Primary Secondary RSCs
  • Dec 13, 2017
Ofsted chief 'taken aback' by criticism of Reception report
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Ofsted Reception 30-hour childcare Early years Childcare Nurseries
  • Dec 13, 2017
Ofsted’s Reception report ‘narrow and political’
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Ofsted Reception Primary Curriculum
  • Dec 11, 2017
Calls to boycott new baseline assessment trials – which won’t even start until 2019
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Boycotts Baseline assessment Primary Reception
  • Dec 7, 2017
Reception baseline tests: 'Parents could boycott the trials'
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Reception Baseline assessment Primary assessment Boycotts Early years Primary DfE
  • Dec 7, 2017
Parents of summer born children will be given the option of delaying when their children join reception
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Summer-born Reception Primary School admissions
  • Dec 5, 2017
Reception – a missed opportunity for too many children
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Reception Primary schools Ofsted Disadvantaged pupils Attainment Reading Writing Maths
  • Dec 4, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 1 December 2017
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Industrial strategy Skills Summit Skills T-levels Technical education IoTs Employers Brexit Productivity Technology Social mobility Social Mobility Commission Reception Baseline assessment Ability streaming Academic ability International students Collaboration VFM English Maths GCSEs Resits Apprenticeships Apprenticeship starts End point assessments ESFA Assessment Teacher training Accountability Computer science Ofqual AQA Ofsted ASK Mental health Primary schools Secondary schools Colleges Universities Training providers
  • Dec 1, 2017
Children as young as three are grouped by ‘ability’ to prepare for Phonics Screening Check and Key stage 1 SATs
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Ability streaming Academic ability Phonics Primary Reception Attainment Social mobility
  • Dec 1, 2017
Ofsted report on the Reception Year: a hit and miss affair
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Ofsted Reception Early years Primary Disadvantaged pupils EYFS SEND Summer-born
  • Nov 30, 2017
Reception - a missed opportunity for too many children
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Reception Ofsted Early years Primary Disadvantaged pupils Social mobility Reading Writing Maths Phonics
  • Nov 30, 2017
Comment on Ofsted report on reception education
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Ofsted Reception Primary Early years Assessment Reading Writing Maths
  • Nov 30, 2017
Gap between disadvantaged children and their peers remains at the end of reception
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Reception EYFS Primary schools Disadvantaged pupils Attainment gap
  • Nov 30, 2017
Summer-born children twice as likely to miss early years benchmark
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Summer-born Early years Primary Reception Benchmarks Pupil performance
  • Nov 30, 2017
Teach Reception children how to grip a pencil, says Ofsted
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Reception Primary schools Writing Ofsted Reading Literacy
  • Nov 30, 2017
First year of school can be a waste of time, says Ofsted because basic reading and maths are not taught well enough
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Ofsted Curriculum Reception Early years Primary schools Reading Writing Maths Teacher training Disadvantaged pupils
  • Nov 30, 2017
Ofsted reception curriculum report: The 15 recommendations
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Ofsted Reception Curriculum Primary schools Reading Writing Maths
  • Nov 30, 2017
Ofsted: Reception year a 'false start' for too many children
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Ofsted Curriculum Reception Primary schools Early years Reading Writing Maths
  • Nov 30, 2017
OFSTED Report: Reception curriculum in good and outstanding primary schools: bold beginnings (31 Nov 2017)
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Ofsted Reception Primary schools Curriculum
  • Nov 30, 2017
Ofsted finds Reception class teaching 'failing' a third of five-year-olds
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Ofsted Curriculum Reception Primary schools EYFS Reading Writing Maths
  • Nov 30, 2017
Reception teachers are failing a third of five-year-olds, major Ofsted report finds
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  • Nov 30, 2017
Schools chief says third of pupils are failed in first year
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  • Nov 30, 2017
Reception year is critical - but policy must be evidence based, says NAHT
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Reception Curriculum Primary schools Teacher training Evidence Disadvantaged pupils Ofsted QTS
  • Nov 29, 2017
Early Excellence not in running for new baseline tests
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Baseline assessments Primary schools Reception ECE EYFS
  • Nov 29, 2017
Early Excellence pulls out of bid for 'unworkable' Reception baseline test
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  • Nov 29, 2017
Six reasons why Baseline the sequel will be a harder sell
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Baseline assessments Reception Primary schools
  • Nov 29, 2017
Give child 'super-spreaders' flu vaccine, say experts
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Nurseries Primary schools Reception Early years Childcare Health Wellness
  • Nov 27, 2017
Give children flu spray, parents urged
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  • Nov 27, 2017
DfE invites bids to develop and run £10m Reception baseline
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DfE Reception Baseline assessment Early years Primary assessment
  • Nov 22, 2017
DfE planning to spend £10m on Reception baseline test
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  • Nov 21, 2017
Assessment: Reducing children to numbers
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  • Nov 13, 2017
Delivering a reception baseline assessment - why a standardised administration is fairer than an observational approach
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  • Oct 19, 2017
EYFS profile figures show rise in results for five-year-olds
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Nursery World EYFS Reception Development
  • Oct 19, 2017
More reception pupils have ‘good’ development, and 4 other findings from EYFS results data
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Schools Week EYFS Reception Attainment Development
  • Oct 19, 2017
More children hit government's benchmark at end of Reception
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TES Reception Primary schools EYFS Early years Assessment
  • Oct 19, 2017
Greening announces plans for reception-age baseline checks
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CYPN Justine Greening Reception Primary schools Baseline assessment Primary assessment Progress
  • Sep 15, 2017
DfE publishes their response to the consultation on primary assessment in England
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NFER Primary assessment DfE Baseline assessment Reception Attainment Primary schools SATS Accountability
  • Sep 15, 2017
Reception baseline assessment: dangerous, inappropriate and flawed data
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IoE Reception Baseline assessment Primary schools EYFS Attainment Performance measures
  • Sep 15, 2017
Nine-year-olds to be tested on times tables as Sats scrapped
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  • Sep 15, 2017
SATs for pupils aged seven will be scrapped
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  • Sep 14, 2017
SATs for seven-year-olds scrapped from 2023
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  • Sep 14, 2017
KS1 SATs will only be scrapped if baseline works
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Early Education condemns government decision on baseline assessment
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  • Sep 14, 2017
The government is listening to school leaders’ concerns about assessment policy, says NAHT
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NAHT Primary assessment SATS Reception Baseline assessments
  • Sep 14, 2017
Primary assessment overhaul is good for children and schools
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ASCL Primary assessment Baseline assessment Reception SATS
  • Sep 14, 2017
New tests are of no educational benefit to children
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Greening: New “teacher-mediated” baseline tests for 4-year-olds
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Schools Week Justine Greening Reception Primary schools Assessments Primary assessment
  • Sep 14, 2017
New baseline check for Reception and revised early learning goals
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Sats for seven-year-olds to be scrapped from 2023
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TES SATS Primary schools Baseline assessment Reception Primary assessment Maths Reading
  • Sep 14, 2017
'I have worn lots of uniform': primary pupils on their first day of school
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Guardian Schools Primary schools Reception School uniforms
  • Sep 14, 2017
Pity poor Prince George – discouraged from having a best friend at school | Mark Vernon
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Guardian Primary schools Reception
  • Sep 8, 2017
Prince George is not allowed a best friend at exclusive school, according to insider info
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Express Primary schools Reception
  • Sep 8, 2017
Prince George looked far more nervous than dad William and Uncle Harry on their first day at school
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Mirror Primary schools Reception
  • Sep 7, 2017
Prince George arrives for first day at £18,000-a-year prep school
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Guardian Primary schools Reception
  • Sep 7, 2017
Kate to miss Prince George's first day at school as she suffers morning sickness
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Express Primary schools Reception
  • Sep 7, 2017
Children are less ready for school than five years ago, say school leaders
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NAHT School readiness Primary schools Reception Speech Language
  • Sep 6, 2017
Rising concerns over pupil school readiness
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  • Sep 6, 2017
Shortage of funding barrier to school readiness
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  • Sep 6, 2017
Many new pupils not school ready, headteachers say
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  • Sep 6, 2017
Too few reception pupils are ready for school, heads claim
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  • Sep 6, 2017
Too many new pupils not school ready, say head teachers
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  • Sep 6, 2017
Cases of four-year-olds arriving at school unable to speak properly on the rise
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Telegraph Reception Primary schools School readiness Speech Language
  • Sep 6, 2017
Many children are not ready to begin school, headteachers say
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Express Primary schools Reception School readiness Language Speech
  • Sep 6, 2017
Rise in number of children 'not ready' to start school
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TES Primary schools Reception School readiness Speech Language
  • Sep 6, 2017
Children are less ready for school than five years ago, say school leaders
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FCT School readiness Primary schools Reception Language Speech
  • Sep 5, 2017
How to survive your child's first day at school
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Telegraph Primary schools Reception
  • Sep 5, 2017
Prince George will be taught to “be kind” at new £17,600-a-year private school
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Mirror Primary Private schools Reception
  • Sep 4, 2017
Where will Prince George go to school? Where is Thomas's Battersea?
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Express Reception Primary
  • Aug 2, 2017
Education experts unhappy with DfE primary testing plans
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  • Jun 23, 2017
Final response to Primary Assessment consultation
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Early education Primary assessment Early years EYFSP Primary schools Accountability Reception
  • Jun 21, 2017
Best starting point for measuring pupil progress is an age-appropriate, standardised baseline assessment in reception year
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NFER Progress Baseline assessment Primary schools Reception Primary assessment
  • Jun 21, 2017
Department of Education primary assessment in England government consultation: NFER response
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NFER DfE Primary assessment Reception Primary schools
  • Jun 21, 2017
Teachers disagree with government over best year for baseline assessment
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TES Teachers Baseline assessment Primary schools Early years SATS Reception
  • Jun 21, 2017
Teachers share grassroots views on teaching in Reception
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Nursery World Teachers Reception EYFS Headteachers
  • May 28, 2017
Review calls for Reception Year to stay in EYFS
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Nursery World Reception Early years Primary schools EYFS Literacy Numeracy
  • May 19, 2017
What the manifestos say on early years
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  • May 19, 2017
Formal learning starts too young, say early years teachers
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TES Early years Primary schools Research Pedagogy Teachers Reception EYFS Summer-born Maths Literacy Phonics DfE
  • May 18, 2017
Formal learning starts too young, say early years teachers
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  • May 18, 2017
Gibb fails to resolve summer-born admissions despite promises
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Schools Week Summer-born School admissions Reception Primary schools
  • May 14, 2017
Every Reception child to be given picture book 'The Bumblebear'
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Nursery World Reception Books Charities Primary schools
  • May 9, 2017
MPs urge 'caution' over introducing Reception baseline
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  • Apr 30, 2017
Greening proposes scrapping KS1 SATs
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Schools Week SATS Assessment Primary assessment Reception
  • Mar 30, 2017
Campaigners slam reception baseline plans
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Nursery World Early years Primary schools Primary assessment EYFS Assessment Reception SATS Teachers DfE
  • Mar 30, 2017
Call for re-introduction of baseline check
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Nursery World Reception Primary schools Assessments
  • Jan 19, 2017
End tests for seven-year-olds and bring back Reception baseline assessment, say heads
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TES Exams Primary SATS NAHT Reception Assessment Unions Primary assessment
  • Jan 18, 2017
Reception practice report ‘flawed’
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Nursery World Reception TSC EYFS Early education Pedagogy
  • Nov 14, 2016
Teachers call for Foundation Phase Adult-Pupil ratios to be made statutory
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NASUWT Reception Pre-reception Wales Foundation phase
  • Nov 13, 2016
Early years experts challenge recommendation for review of reception
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Early education DfE Reception Teachers
  • Nov 8, 2016
Reception year: 'could do better', report finds
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Nursery World Reception
  • Nov 4, 2016
Primary experts call for reception year review
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Schools Week Primary Reception Teachers DfE
  • Nov 2, 2016
Primary experts say Reception year needs overhaul to improve pupils' learning
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TES Primary Reception TSC
  • Nov 2, 2016
More pupils achieve ‘good development’, and 6 other findings from reception assessment data
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Assessment Reception EYFS Gender inequality
  • Oct 20, 2016