State funded schools with a reception cohort will be able to participate in the national voluntary pilot of the Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) starting in September 2019.

Schools will have received a communication from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) on 1 March 2019 containing information about how to sign up for the pilot. The recruitment window opened on 1 March and closes on 5 April 2019.

Follow the links below for further information about the RBA:

• Reception Baseline assessment to measure progress in primary schools from 2020

• Reception baseline framework

• Information about the new reception baseline assessment for schools and local authorities