Nick Brook, deputy general secretary, school leaders' union NAHT
YES
There are potential benefits to introducing an effective baseline assessment at the point at which children start school. It is much better to measure school effectiveness by the progress children make, rather than their attainment alone - and to get an accurate measure of progress, we need some form of baseline.
Currently, the baseline to measure primary progress takes place at the end of Key Stage 1 (KS1). While a reception baseline presents a number of challenges, in principle, it is better to measure progress from the start of school than the end of KS1. It makes little sense to take a baseline measure for progress midway through the primary years at the end of Year 2. A measure that considers progress from the start to the end of primary school takes into account a child's whole primary journey.
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