Early Years' Assessment

[Guest]

Hello,

 

We have done general assessments and observations on children when they enter Nursery and Reception. However, we are wondering what other people do in their settings? Does anyone do an assessment like the baseline assessment?

[Guest]

Hi

We still do a baseline that involves some of the green stepping stones for PSED, CLL and MD it is only a rough guide and we use are own judgement as well to set targets for the children. Hopefullly it will be phased out next year when we start moderating internally however the nursery profiles are a bit unpredictable at the minuite so thats why we use them.

hope this helps

probably not!

Cat

[Guest]

Not sure about Baseline, but in our nursery we assess along similar lines to the stepping stones. We look at things like, do they separate from carer, can they manage clothes, are they toilet trained, which colour/numbers/shapes do they know, do they join in with art (and other specific) activities.