Headteachers do not want to see four-year-olds tested and are concerned that a new baseline assessment may encourage “too academic and too formal a curriculum” too early. The National Association of ...

First day at school? Did you prep for the test? Andrew Milligan/PA Archive From September 2016, within five weeks of starting primary school, all children in England will receive an assessment that ...

It’s a plea that teachers have heard from children midway through the Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) - a test that some feel stretches the concentration powers of four- and five-year-olds to the ...