Early Years

Reception baseline assessment validity report...

Early years foundation stage profile results: 2018 to 2019...

‘Schools are killing curiosity’: why we need to stop telling children to shut up and learn...

What do the latest Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results show?...

Fears that new tests will damage four-year-olds ‘unfounded’...

Early Years Foundation Stage reforms...

Early Years Foundation Stage Profile pilot...

DfE - Statistics: early years foundation stage profile....

DfE - Early years foundation stage profile (EYFSP) results for the 2017 to 2018 academic year, at national and local authority level....

Relationship between reception baseline assessment and KS1 attainment...

School heads criticise new reception tests for five-year-olds...

Testing four-year-olds to begin in September – but parents kept in dark...

Changes to assessments in primary schools...

STA - An assessment for pupils in reception to measure their progress in primary schools from 2020. STA - Information about the development of an assessment for pupils in reception to measure their progress in primary schools from 2020....

DfE - Research into the impact of early education at ages 2 to 4 on child outcomes at age 4, and the importance of the early years home environment....

British Educational Research Association (BERA) - This report sets out the case against the government’s proposal to use a baseline assessment test of pupils in reception to hold schools in England to account for the progress that pupils have made at...

Materials and links for the EYFS Profile Pilot 2018-2019 DfE/Foundation Years - EYFS pilot framework. DfE/Foundation Years - EYFS Profile pilot handbook. Education Endowment Fund - Early Years Foundation Stage Profile pilot. Foundation Years - The EYFS Profile Pilot. Nursery World - New Early Learning Goals released, as...

STA - Information leaflet for schools about the new reception baseline assessment....

TES - Last week, the NEU vowed to disrupt the baseline assessments of four-year-olds. This week, the government announced that NFER had won the contract to begin testing in September 2020. Battle lines have been drawn....

STA - Information about the development of an assessment for pupils in reception to measure their progress in primary schools from 2020. DfE - New measure for fairer recording of primary school performance....

TES - Early years minister Nadhim Zahawi explains why teacher observations have been ruled out for the new Reception baseline assessment....

The Guardian - Robert Winston among signatories of letter warning against moves to increase formal maths and literacy teaching. The Guardian - Ofsted’s Bold Beginnings report on reception class curriculum is flawed. TES - Ofsted's Bold Beginnings report is 'flawed' and should be scrapped, says...

Ofsted - This report looks at the Reception curriculum in successful schools and how well it prepared 4 and 5 year olds for the rest of their education and beyond. TES - 'My response to Ofsted's new report on Reception teaching? Best retire now'. TES...

TES - Department for Education says it wants to see an assessment of pupils' 'self-regulation', alongside communication, literacy and maths.  The new baseline assessments for primary school pupils will cost up to £10 million to develop, the government has revealed....

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Learning and Development Requirements: Guidance on Exemptions for Early Years Providers...