MOVING baseline assessment to when children begin formal schooling could make it a test for five-year-olds, according to the National Union of Teachers.
Government plans to replace the 90 assessment schemes that schools use when children start reception class with a single natinal assessment at the start of Year 1 are out for consultation at the moment. The union has warned that the proposal could mean the assessment, used to establish a child’s learning needs, will instead become a test of how schools have implemented the new foundation stage.
