Government urged to scrap plans to assess youngest primary kids

School leaders warn tests would be unfair and the results rendered useless' by disruption caused by Covid

• Letter: Tests for four-year-olds will disrupt their learning

The government is under pressure to scrap plans to formally assess the abilities of four- and five-year-olds in their first weeks of full-time schooling, after primary school leaders warned results would be rendered useless" by the disruption caused by Covid.

Almost two thirds of primary school leaders (64%) who took part in a YouGov survey of 234 senior staff, shared exclusively with the Guardian, said they believed the government's controversial reception baseline assessment (RBA) should not go ahead this year.