The following was taken directly from The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) Assessment and Reporting Arrangements 1st April 2025
'The RBA is an age appropriate assessment of early mathematics and early literacy, communication and language. It is delivered in English and administered within the first 6 weeks of a pupil starting reception.
The assessment has 2 components, each consisting of questions the pupil responds to by interacting with a touchscreen device, verbally with the teacher or, in some of the mathematics questions, by using toy bears.
The system will mark some questions automatically. For other questions, the practitioner will need to mark them. This depends on the type of response needed.
DfE will use the data from the RBA to create primary school progress measures, which will show the progress schools make with their pupils from reception until the end of key stage 2 (KS2).'
All parents received the following leaflet in their welcome packs prior to children starting school with us in September.
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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