It comes just days before schools can sign up to take part in a pilot of the controversial assessment, starting this autumn.
The video (see below), posted on the Standards and Testing Agency’s YouTube channel, features a Reception year class and teaching staff.
It explains that the RBA [Reception baseline assessment] is ‘not a test’, there will be ‘no pass mark’ and it will ‘not be used to label children’.
It claims, ‘It will be ‘similar to the on-entry assessments many schools already carry out.’
Also, it says that ‘children should find the assessment engaging because it will be carried out in a familiar environment.’
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