Teachers vow to oppose introduction of baseline assessments

Largest teaching union urges boycott of pilot schemes to test children in first weeks of school

Teachers have vowed to oppose the government’s plans to assess children in the first weeks of school, as the country’s largest teaching union called for a boycott of pilot schemes planned for next year.

The baseline assessments, to be taken at the start of a child’s reception year in primary schools in England, were proposed by the government last year as a replacement for national tests in year 2, when children would be seven years old.

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