Puzzling baseline assessment

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Dd has just finished nursery. Her ongoing assessments throughout the year have been good and her end of year report was also good, with ticks in the highest benchmark for a large proportion of categories.

Her baseline assessment is pretty bad, with a large proportion of categories being marked as "emerging". She is summer-born, so at first glance I thought perhaps that was the reason. But when I looked more closely it really didn't make much sense to me, as skills which are long-established have been marked as "emerging".

Her nursery profile says she can count to 30 and can go beyond with help. (She can go to 100 without much promoting).
Her baseline assessment however says that counting just from 1-10 is "emerging".

When she was 27 months her nhs assessment recorded that she could walk easily up stairs but her 48 month baseline assessment has this as "emerging".

She is very confident with colour recognition and days of the week but these have also been recorded as emerging.

It would be easy to say it doesn't matter but I feel worried that she is being labelled as backward, based on info which is clearly wrong. I am not being a proud mum who refuses to accept a bad report, I am just puzzled because the nursery ongoing assessment and nursery report are in conflict with the nursery's own baseline assessment.

Sounds like a good plan, hope the meeting helpful.

It may be that that is the maximum they can give/test to. I know we had a chuckle on dd1's first preschool report which stated she could count to 10 (she could multiply by that point) and could identify individual letters (she was fluently reading).
They were a touch embarrassed when they asked me to sign it as they explained that was the maximum they tested to at that stage, and they were perfectly aware she could do more.

But if that were the case, they would have ticked established or exceeding.
Her report said she can count easily to 30 (and she can go far beyond30) but the baseline assessment said "emerging" for counting to 10.

Can I ask if it's a computer generated report?
I was talking to our EY coordinator and she was telling me our new system had set targets from the Birth to 20 months section. she hadn't gone that low (our children are 3 when they start) and the system failed to recognise that if later stages were mastered the early stages must also be. We see it as a flaw (a lot if wasted time going through all the early statements).

I had a very productive meeting with the Head of the nursery today, who was very apologetic. They have now amended the baseline assessment, so DD has 28 exceedings out of 77 categories. She now only has 5 emergings instead of 49!
I made some videos of DD in areas which had been significantly under-marked, and showed the Head. She was very helpful and kind. It does worry me for the future though. The nursery head is a gracious, lovely lady, but if a more egotistical teacher were to have made mistakes, it could have been very tricky, however diplomatic I was. I guess we have all of this ahead of us....

Was there any explanation though?

I would be very concerned about all of it. Both the incredibly incorrect initial report and the ease with which they changed it.

Does your DD 'show off' her abilities at nursery? I have a 3.5 year old who is very normal/has some areas where he's a bit more like a 4 year old, but who only reflects abilities much lower down the scale at pre-school (so much so, that he'd been talking in sentences at home for a year, but I got called in as they were recommending a SALT referral as it turns out he'd only been using single words at nursery) I showed them some videos and we put a plan together to get DS' confidence up in chatting at pre-school.

There was a sort of explanation which i didn't really follow.
The main thing is that they amended the assessment.
To a certain extent it is true that dd does not show her abilities at nursery, however the head agreed that the assessment was ludicrously inaccurate, particularly because the profile and the baseline assessment recorded wildly contrasted views of her abilities in the same month, in some cases on the same day. It seems that the baseline assessment was filled in hastily and randomly, without any cross-reference to the profile or any observation of dd.