DD starts reception in September, she will be 4.6.
We've been told that they will be doing baseline assessments in the first couple of weeks, but no idea what that will consist of and whether DD will meet whatever the expected standard is.
At the moment she can:
Write her first name
Knows all letters and numbers
Doesn't know any phonics (I've deliberately kept away from them for fear of getting it wrong) she can however recognise quite a lot of random words, around 100 I'd estimate. But not reading at all.
Can draw a face but nothing else
Can count to 20 herself and further with prompting
Can do some simple arithmetic
Knows shapes, days of the week, months of the year, colours.
Does that sound okay? We think she's quite a bright child but deliberately haven't hothoused her with things like phonics and writing - partly because haven't wanted to introduce them the wrong way, and just really felt what was the point - she'll be taught it at school.
But now I'm starting to worry that she'll be assessed as being behind...what if she is tired / distracted / feeling shy when they do the assessment? I assume that can be seen beyond? What if other children have all been taught phonics at home?
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Baseline assessments - what is expected of children starting reception?
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temperato · 20/07/2015 11:53
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