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Statutory Reception Baseline assessment delayed until autumn 2021. There's a surprise! Schools can be 'early adopter' in Oct 2020, if they wish (?). Assessment will be AFTER half term and won't be used for prog measure.
This thing is hanging by a thread https://www.gov.uk/guidance/reception-baseline-assessment?utm_source=6fa9947d-3631-4d13-b923-64d83f26a072&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate
This thing is hanging by a thread https://www.gov.uk/guidance/reception-baseline-assessment?utm_source=6fa9947d-3631-4d13-b923-64d83f26a072&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate
Not sure why any school would choose to be an early adopter. They had that opportunity last year. This is like Early Adoption 2.0.
This potentially interferes with plan to scrap KS1 in 2023. Idea was for RBA to take over, but if 2020 YR intake do not have RBA then will KS1 be retained in 2023 for prog measure? Or scrapped as planned leaving a cohort without any form of baseline?
This has become such a mess. I still believe - as uncomfortable as this may be for many schools - that the best option is to scrap progress measures.
Reform the performance tables: https://www.sigplus.co.uk/2019/12/reforming-the-performance-tables/
RBA and the junior school question: https://www.sigplus.co.uk/2019/06/junior-schools-the-reception-baseline-and-a-big-question-about-the-future-of-accountability/
Should progress measures be scrapped? https://www.sigplus.co.uk/2019/05/should-progress-measures-be-scrapped-for-primary-schools/
RBA and the junior school question: https://www.sigplus.co.uk/2019/06/junior-schools-the-reception-baseline-and-a-big-question-about-the-future-of-accountability/
Should progress measures be scrapped? https://www.sigplus.co.uk/2019/05/should-progress-measures-be-scrapped-for-primary-schools/
It's not looking good right now for RBA, and for other forms of statutory assessment. Think the government should seriously consider sampling assessment from say 10-20% schools per year. Make effort to reduce high stakes, improve reliability and scale back accountability regime.
RBA, along with entire primary accountability system, is really wobbling now. This is a great opportunity to overhaul the system: frequency and volume of statutory assessment and data collection, progress measures, performance tables, use of sampling. Everything!
Well that clears that up. Scrapping of KS1 will now be pushed back to 2024 to ensure the 2020 YR intake have a baseline for KS2 progress measures. FFS!
Unless of course it's infant school. As stated in my blog, Infant/First schools will have to administer RBA but will have no progress measures based on it. And Junior/Middle schools will have no prog measures either. Only all through primary schools. All very logical 
To sum up:
2015: RBA v1.0 multi providers fails
2019: Trial RBA run before half term. No prog measures.
2020: 'early adopter' RBA to run AFTER half term. Non-statutory. No prog measures
2021: RBA statutory
2024: KS1 scrapped (pushed back from 2023)
2028: first RBA-KS2 measures
2015: RBA v1.0 multi providers fails
2019: Trial RBA run before half term. No prog measures.
2020: 'early adopter' RBA to run AFTER half term. Non-statutory. No prog measures
2021: RBA statutory
2024: KS1 scrapped (pushed back from 2023)
2028: first RBA-KS2 measures
