PLAYTIME is not sufficiently encouraged in early years and primary school curricula, the National Education Union (NEU) said yesterday.Delegates passed a motion warning that time to play “is being eroded in our current education system which focuses heavily on formal learning, phonics, commercial schemes and testing.”They backed a campaign to remove the Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA), describing the statutory mathematic and language tests as “a negative distraction from play, settling in and relationship building.”

PLAYTIME is not sufficiently encouraged in early years and primary school curricula, the National Education Union (NEU) said yesterday.

Delegates passed a motion warning that time to play “is being eroded in our current education system which focuses heavily on formal learning, phonics, commercial schemes and testing.”

They backed a campaign to remove the Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA), describing the statutory mathematic and language tests as “a negative distraction from play, settling in and relationship building.”

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