A Unique Child: Twins - Take two

Nursery World, 24 October 2007

Practitioners with twins in their settings need to be aware of particular issues within their learning and social development. Ruth Thomson discovers why. Photograph by Mark Waugh/Manchester Evening News.

Last year, five sets of twins made up half the class at the Flying Start playgroup at Pembroke Dock Community School, Wales. This year, five sets have entered reception at Ramsey Spinning Infant School, Peterborough, while the number of sets at the 1,140-pupil Grange School in Cheshire has risen to 20. But with around one UK child in 35 a twin, is it time all early years settings became familiar with...

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