Reception baseline assessments if the child is absent?

[Ihavepixies]

My dd's school have said they will be testing them this week to work out their baseline assessment which they seem to have been doing, at least in part, via computer based tests (dd doesn't know what they are but has told me she has been asked to sound out words and identify letters etc). Unfortunately she has picked up a nasty chest infection only a few days into the new term; the doctor thinks it is RSV. Does she miss her baseline assessments completley? Aren't these meant to help schools work out her progress? Does she have a chance to do hers when she gets back as I believe it is a statutory requirement and made up of a range if obervations? I'm just worried she will have blanks in her record or her assessments will be inaccurate, especially as we will be moving schools in a year and this record goes with her.

She will be able to do the baseline when she returns to school. Schools try to assess each child as soon as possible so the data they get from the assessment is "raw" as children in reception make progress from the second they step foot in school, and the data collected from the baseline will follow them all the way up the school.

TBH they have so many baselines to get through, it's probably to their benefit that she does hers later.

The reception baseline assessment takes about 20 minutes per child, so it seems likely that she has already been assessed. It has to be completed within the first 6 weeks so there is plenty of time. Hope she feels better soon.