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29% of children scored full marks in their Multiplication Table Check in 2023, up from 27% in 2022.

• Updated: 23 November 2023

Primary school pupils show improvement in their reading ability as attainment in this year’s reading assessment increases since last year.

• Updated: 12 October 2023

Videos for practitioners assessing children’s development at the end of the early years foundation stage (EYFS).

• Updated: 6 October 2021

All new primary school pupils will take the reception baseline assessment from September

• Updated: 27 February 2020

Free schools achieve highest results for six and seven-year-old pupils for the fifth year in a row

• Updated: 26 September 2019

Stonewall and NAHT welcome guidance to help ensure children have the knowledge they need to grow up healthy, happy and safe

• Updated: 25 June 2019

Almost 10,000 schools sign up to pilot the Reception Baseline Assessment – the 20-minute check that will mean Key Stage 1 tests are removed.

• Updated: 14 May 2019

Three new subjects will be universal from 2020 to ensure school prepares pupils for the modern world - health education, relationships education and RSE

• Updated: 25 February 2019

As the world’s education leaders gather in London, a Shanghai - England teacher exchange shows the power of international collaboration.

• Updated: 25 January 2019

Expert panel to devise model music curriculum to help schools deliver world-class teaching and £1.3million funding boost for successful music education hubs

• Updated: 11 January 2019

New £84million National Centre to improve the teaching of computing and drive participation in computer science

• Updated: 7 November 2018

Official figures show 163,000 more six-year-olds are on track to become fluent readers than in 2012 thanks to our focus on phonics

• Updated: 27 September 2018

The first round of £7.7million Curriculum Fund will make it easier for teachers to find and share high-quality lesson plans and resources

• Updated: 26 July 2018

Revised measures to boost every child's early language and communications and give teachers more time to interact with their pupils, ahead of full consultation

• Updated: 22 June 2018

School Standards Minister names preferred provider to deliver Reception Baseline Assessment.

• Updated: 11 April 2018

School Standards Minister Nick Gibb announces £96 million to support talented music, drama and dance pupils kick-start their career in the arts.

• Updated: 10 April 2018

An academy in south London has been helping to shape the future guidance on Relationships and Sex education for other schools

• Updated: 8 February 2018

HM Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman discusses science education and the quest for knowledge.

• Updated: 8 January 2018

School Standards Minister speaks at a presentation of England's successful Progress in International Reading Literacy Study results at the British Library

• Updated: 5 December 2017

Announcing the government response to the consultations on primary assessment and the recommendations of the Rochford Review.

• Updated: 14 September 2017