85% of heads believe the phonics check should not be compulsory. 90% say it gives them no useful information about pupils. It’s just another pointless test imposed by the government. It’s time to drop the nonsense words, and the phonics check. #phonics #morethanascore

Education Secretary Damian Hinds, must guarantee proper funding for the long term and ensure no more nursery schools are forced to close because of insufficient budgets. #schoolcuts neu.org.uk/funding/save-m…

New research commissioned by National Education Union and carried out by UCL has exposed the problems with the new Reception Baseline Assessment. ✳️ 50% of teachers believe that Baseline has had a negative impact on children. Read the report in full here👉bit.ly/382tmEO

In a new NEU survey, 85% of teachers said their school already has on-entry assessment in Reception, providing them with better information than the new Baseline test. #NoToBaseline Read the report in full here👉 bit.ly/2PGjMBx

77% of teachers don’t think the Baseline test gives them useful information about their pupils which they wouldn’t otherwise have, NEU research has found. #NoToBaseline Read the report in full here👉 bit.ly/390LT61

.Sir Gavin Williamson CBE MP. By instinct and by nature all great teachers assess their children. They don’t support a tick box exercise that is a monumental waste of time. bit.ly/2PnXTq7 tes.com/news/williamso…

Despite new research showing 85% of reception teachers say their own assessments provide them with better information than government tests Department for Education are still pressing ahead with baseline! What did the children who were tested think? #morethanascore #playnottestsat4

What is at stake in the introduction of Baseline is an entire model of early years education, long one of the most admired features of English education, and now put at risk by the same dogma that has damaged our primary schools. See our new RBA research neu.org.uk/media/9116/view

A maths and literary test for 4-year-olds: research shows these young children know they are being tested. A bad call at any time. Totally insane in the light of Covid-19. morethanascore.org.uk/reception-base… Guy Roberts-Holmes #rba #receptionbaseline #morethanascore

Listen to my podcast on the dangers of the Reception Baseline national standardised Test for 4 year olds in the context of Covid-19 ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2020/…

bit.ly/2Z314Yl Question asked in Parliament yesterday about RBA. IF this test is still policy in September let's hope courageous ethical Primary Heads refuse to implement this Gov's cruelty.

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Here's the first of two blogs about my new book with Peter Moss published today blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2021/04/28…

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Great seminar yesterday from ⁦Guy Roberts-Holmes⁩ & Peter Moss on pernicious spread of neo-liberalism in ECE- resist GERM! Read blog for more..⁦Julie Fisher⁩ ⁦Di Chilvers⁩ ⁦@KeepEYsUnique⁩ ⁦@nikkifairchild2⁩ ⁦⁦CREC⁩ blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2021/05/04…

Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education: Markets, Imaginaries and Governance (2021) Guy Roberts-Holmes and Peter Moss Routledge. Slides about the book are here drive.google.com/file/d/157j6cQ… And the recording is available here drive.google.com/file/d/1sZrDYQ… thanks Guy

60,000 school days lost to Reception Baseline Assessments #ScrapBaseline

The girls are ready to head into Downing Street #scrapbaseline

Heading into No.10 #ScrapBaseline