A survey of 970 Reception teachers by the National Education Union (NEU) reveals that over 80 per cent disagree that the Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) provides accurate information about a child ...

Many teachers remain opposed to the Reception Baseline Assessment, which became a legal requirement for those children who started school this September. By Catherine Gaunt Foxes Nursery at Woodlands ...

A teachers’ union has criticised the Government’s decision to replace Key Stage 1 SATs with a new one-on-one assessment system for reception-age primary school pupils. The Reception Baseline ...

The 20-minute assessment is supposed to be carried out within six weeks of the new term (Danny Lawson/PA) School leaders are calling on the Government to abandon its plans to assess four and five-year ...

The government is claiming that controversial testing of reception-age children can help improve their attainment at the age of seven, despite widespread concerns about the validity of the assessments ...