PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Primary Education: Assessments (18 March 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish his plans for the baseline assessment testing of four year olds to be undertaken within six weeks of such children joining a reception class.

Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)

The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) will be overseeing a national voluntary pilot of the reception baseline assessment (RBA) starting this September. The pilot registration window is currently open to state-funded schools with a reception cohort, and will close on April 5 2019.

On February 27 2019, the STA published the RBA framework and a supporting document. The assessment framework provides details about the assessment for the pilot year, including information about the content of the assessment and its design. The supporting document provides further information on the development process, content and format of the assessment. These documents can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reception-baseline-assessment-framework.

Answered by:
Nick Gibb (Conservative)
21 March 2019