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27th February 2018 - More than a Score Campaign holds Parliamentary Launch
"Baseline is criticised by teachers, researchers, statisticians – and even the by the companies who were involved in the DfE’s last attempt to introduce it in 2015. More than a Score is campaigning to ensure this implausible and much criticised proposal never gets off the ground."
Read the More than a Score case against baseline assessment HERE (dossier)
Watch the More than a Score video HERE
Read the press release HERE.

Government's planned test for four-year-olds will be 'damaging', The Independent, 29/02/18
Campaigners publish case against the baseline, Nursery World, 27/02/18

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Baseline assessment is 'unethical, expensive and threatens children's mental health', TES, 27/02/18
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In November 2017 Ofsted published its 'Bold Beginnings' Reception Report that was received with
​widespread concern from the early years sector. We list some of the media coverage together with
​the responses below.

Sector Responses

Colin Richards - Bold Beginnings: how NOT to write an Ofsted report, Schoolsweek, 17th Jan 2018 
Robert Winston calls on Ofsted to value child-led play
Ofsted's Bold Beginnings Reception Report is flawed - open Letter to the Guardian, 16th Jan 2018
​JAN 2018 Di Chilvers - Being Bold in 2018 18th December 2017 - A Dialogue with Ofsted
TACTYC Response
​Centre for Research in Early Childhood 
London Early Years Forum Blog
Sightlines Initiative 
Dr Pam Jarvis Blog 'Banish Baseline, Beat Poverty Instead'

SCM Too Much Too Soon Response

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Media Coverage

Ofsted finds Reception class teaching 'failing' a third of five-year-olds - Nursery World 30/11/17
Schoolsweek 30/11/17 - 
Ofsted has today published ‘Bold beginnings’, its report into how reading, writing and maths are taught to pupils in the reception year.
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Reception teachers are failing a third of five-year-olds, major Ofsted report finds, Telegraph, 30/11/17
My response to Ofsted's new report on Reception teaching? Best retire now, TES 30/11/17
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'Ofsted must be careful not to lose all its credibility in early years', TES 04/12/17
​Misleading Messages about Maths in the new Ofsted Best Beginnings Report, TES 7/12/17
'Clear political agenda' behind Ofsted Reception report', Nursery World, 8/12/17
Ofsted's Reception report open to misinterpretation, Nursery World 08/12/17
Ofsted’s Reception report ‘narrow and political’, Nursery World 11/12/17
Ofsted chief 'taken aback' by criticism of Reception report
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The DfE wants to change EYFS – and Ofsted has given them the necessary "research" to do so', TES 18/12/17
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