Guest Posted October 15, 2013 Posted October 15, 2013 Can't believe that she wants testing at 4 and has hinted that they will use 2 year progress check to compare and check progression, unbelievable Thoughts ladies and gents Quote
Guest Posted October 16, 2013 Posted October 16, 2013 ????????????????????????????????????????????? Need to check ut what you're talking about though its hardly a shock at how stupid some people are. . . . . . . . Quote
Rea Posted October 16, 2013 Posted October 16, 2013 (edited) Saw it yesterday. Someone had linked to a newsnight conversation where Truss said it wouldnt happen. Kirsty Wark: "You have started putting kids into test situations at the age of five." “We’re absolutely not doing that. There’s already an early years profile done at age four or five to see where the child is. We do that through the current system. What we’re doing is saying that schools can have a choice between using that and using alternative methods to see where a child is.” This is the whole conversation with a tongue in cheek take on what was really being said, by Sue Cowley http://suecowley.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/truss-translated/ I actually cant add my thoughts, the only word I can think of derives from Germanic, Dutch and maybe Norwegian and Swedish. Its frowned upon these days! Edited October 16, 2013 by Rea 3 Quote
Pimms o'clock? Posted October 16, 2013 Posted October 16, 2013 I actually cant add my thoughts, the only word I can think of derives from Germanic, Dutch and maybe Norwegian and Swedish. Its frowned upon these days! What ever this word is I'm sure it will be strong enough for me to agree with Rea <_< 2 Quote
sunnyday Posted October 16, 2013 Posted October 16, 2013 What ever this word is I'm sure it will be strong enough for me to agree with Rea <_< I'll second that! Quote
flowlow Posted October 16, 2013 Posted October 16, 2013 can only agree this woman just leaves me speechless ...! Quote
Rea Posted October 16, 2013 Posted October 16, 2013 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Everything-I-know-about-teaching/dp/1492912417 Cheer yourselves up with this. I'm looking forward to the Liz Truss book 'Everything I learnt about Early Years from visiting 5 UK settings and 7 French ones'. Any other titles? 4 Quote
SueJ Posted October 16, 2013 Posted October 16, 2013 As suspected the 2 year check has nothing to do with children and everything to do with backdoor benchmarking I'm with you Rea on the expletives ******** **** Not sure about the book title for Liz's book though - shouldn't it be "Everything I taught the Early Years sector having sat in a couple of early years settings for a few moments" - subtitle "Nanny Knows Best". :huh: 3 Quote
sunnyday Posted October 16, 2013 Posted October 16, 2013 'How I alienated the entire early Years workforce' - no too long-winded....... :rolleyes: 3 Quote
catma Posted October 16, 2013 Posted October 16, 2013 Told you...the consultation for assessment in Primary schools was a back door to changing the EYFS. 1 Quote
catma Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 Proposals:5.6Introduce a baseline at the start of reception Key stage 1 tests, at the end of year 2, are not a genuine baseline for primary schooling. Measuring a baseline from the end of key stage 1 gives schools no credit for the crucial work they do in reception, year 1 and year 2. There is also a perverse incentive for schools not to focus resources on early interventions, in order to maximise their progress measures. We could instead take a baseline shortly after pupils entered reception. Progress measures would therefore reflect the whole time that a pupil spent in a school, and would reward schools which taught well from the very start. It could also provide valuable national information on the effectiveness of different types of early years provision. July 2013............it was all there looking us in the face. The consultation is now closed so it is probably too late for the gnashing of teeth. Quote
Upsy Daisy Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 The thing is, Catma, to fight them we have to think like them and I'm not sure that's a price worth paying. Quote
Guest Spiral Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 Well maybe I should try to fit my differently shaped children into a small box.....! We are not the 'same' and once again all children will be measured to see if they are the same! Maybe we should consider going on strike...but with whom, seeing as each of our staff and settings are so different we don't fit in a box! Spiral :-) Quote
sunnyday Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 July 2013............it was all there looking us in the face. The consultation is now closed so it is probably too late for the gnashing of teeth. Oh but I enjoy a bit of 'teeth gnashing'!!! Quote
flowlow Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Everything-I-know-about-teaching/dp/1492912417 Cheer yourselves up with this. I'm looking forward to the Liz Truss book 'Everything I learnt about Early Years from visiting 5 UK settings and 7 French ones'. Any other titles? actually I feel rather surprised that its so big.. I mean how many pages/words does it take to say nothing!!!! 1 Quote
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