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Froebel Partnership launches pilot phase of new CPD package

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The DfE has updated guidance on the two -year-old check
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Updated guidance for early years practitioners on two-year-old check

Early Years Curriculum
Children starting school this year have to take tests in English and Maths before the October half-term PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Teachers brand new tests for four- and five-year-olds 'a waste of time'

Provision
Foxes Nursery at Woodlands Primary. Many children have missed out on time in nursery due to the pandemic leading to head teachers questioning 'the efficacy and validity' of data from the Reception baseline
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Analysis: Schools question need for the new Reception Baseline

Reception Baseline
Parents say that children settling in and making friends are important factors for children starting school
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Reception Baseline: Overwhelming majority of parents reject testing children starting school - survey

Reception Baseline
The International Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study looks at children at age five
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Low birth weight an indicator of delayed development at age five - study

Child Development
Dr Alice Bradbury led the research
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Autumn phonics check ‘pointless’ in pandemic, most teachers say

Child Development
More Than A Score campaigners have called for the Reception Baseline to be axed
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Reception Baseline on hold until September 2021

Coronavirus
Margaret Greenwood MP, shadow schools minister
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Labour schools shadow calls for baseline assessment to be cancelled

Observation, Assessment & Planning
Children are expected to take the Reception baseline in the first few weeks of starting school
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Call to scrap the Reception Baseline

Reception Baseline
Low-income families often can’t afford ‘middle-class’ activities, so their children are at a disadvantage from the start
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International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study: Why some children are running to catch up

Child Development
Julian Grenier
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Revised Development Matters to begin trial

Early Years Curriculum
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Reception baseline provides 'accurate' assessment for children's progress

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Reception baseline: 'children scared of getting it wrong', say teachers

Policy & Politics
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DfE confirms EYFSP publication date

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Almost 200 schools drop out of Baseline pilot

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