The new Foundation Stage Profile, which was introduced this term to replace the 90-plus baseline assessment schemes (see box), is the result of a nationwide consultation exercise with the early years profession and reflects the wishes of practitioners who participated in that consultation.
As requested by over 90 per cent of those practitioners involved in the nationwide consultation in 2000, the Foundation Stage Profile is a single national system with children's assessment at the end of the reception year, based on practitioners' observations and covering all areas of learning.
The vast majority of those consulted agreed with the proposed primary purpose of the Profile: to provide a fixed reference point in a continuous process of assessment for learning throughout the Foundation Stage. More than 90 per cent agreed with the subsidiary purpose: to provide a picture of attainment in relation to the early learning goals at the end of the Foundation Stage at local and national level.
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