on December 11, 2015
GOV.UK – This EYFS Profile handbook supports practitioners in making accurate judgements about each pupil’s attainment.
Posted in Early Years, Statutory Assessment |
on October 13, 2015 | updated November 19, 2015
GOV.UK – Early years foundation stage profile (EYFSP) results for the 2014 to 2015 academic year, at national and local authority level.
Posted in Early Years, National Data, Performance Data |
on October 12, 2015
GOV.UK – 2016 Early years foundation stage assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA).
Posted in Early Years, Statutory Assessment |
on September 29, 2015
GOV.UK – Statutory guidance for headteachers and local authority assessment co-ordinators assessing and reporting the early years foundation stage (EYFS) during the 2015 to 2016 academic year.
Posted in Early Years, Statutory Assessment |
on September 11, 2015
Welsh Government – An annual report looking at pupil achievements in English, Welsh, Mathematics and Science, including information by gender and level of achievement.
Posted in Early Years, National Data, Primary |
on September 10, 2015
BBC News Education – Rules that mean children must start school the September after their fourth birthday are flawed and must change, England’s schools minister has said. TES News – Summer-born children to have the right to start school in Reception at the age of 5.
Posted in Early Years, News, Primary |
on July 20, 2015
GOV.UK – Pedagogy in early childhood education and care (ECEC): an international comparative study of approaches and policies.
Posted in Early Years |
on July 14, 2015 | updated September 7, 2015
TES News – A new Ofsted report has cast fresh doubts on the wisdom of the government’s controversial new “baseline” assessments for four-year-olds. GOV.UK – The report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills 2015: Early years.
Posted in Assessment of Learning, Early Years, News |
on July 2, 2015
TES News – Teachers have largely rejected moves to introduce “baseline” tests for four- and five-year-old children in their first few weeks of school. See also: Reception baseline assessment: guide to signing up your school (updated 1 July 2015) Baseline assessment guidance
Posted in Assessment of Learning, Early Years |
on May 7, 2015
Guardian Education – Headteachers are being urged to reject controversial new tests for four and five-year-olds in their first weeks at school, amid concerns they will be both statistically invalid and harmful to children’s wellbeing.
Posted in Assessment of Learning, Early Years |
on March 5, 2015 | updated March 9, 2015
Early Education – Early Education and TACTYC have reviewed the six baseline schemes accredited by the Department for Education, and our considered recommendation remains that schools should not introduce a baseline scheme at all … Nevertheless, we recognise that many headteachers feel under pressure to introduce a scheme, and we have therefore reviewed all six schemes strengths and weaknesses […]
Posted in Assessment Matters, Assessment of Learning, Early Years |
on January 24, 2015
Change.0rg – Early Education online petition to scrap Baseline Assessment, to be delivered to the Secretary of State for Education. The Independent – Baseline tests for new primary school students ‘dragoons children,’ say campaigners calling for them to be scrapped.
Posted in Assessment of Learning, Early Years, News |
on November 27, 2014
GOV.UK – Exploring the effect of integrating the early years foundation stage (EYFS) progress check with the healthy child programme (HCP) check.
Posted in Early Years |
on November 27, 2014
GOV.UK – Early years foundation stage profile (EYFSP) assessments, by pupil characteristics in England, for academic year 2013 to 2014.
Posted in Early Years, National Data |
on November 11, 2014
TES News – Maths teachers have called on education secretary Nicky Morgan to scrap plans to test four-year-olds, claiming the assessments are “costly, inappropriate and flawed”.
Posted in Early Years, News, Statutory Assessment |
