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Right priorities
Nursery World,
12 December 2002
Right priorities I don't disagree at all with Helen Marshall's conclusion that pre-school child development is a mixture of learning and play (Letters, 28 November). But recently my son's nursery tried to get him to complete a simple number worksheet. My boy thought this a nonsensical waste of his valuable time, especially when the plastic volcano in the corner was erupting and there were trapped people to rescue. He subverted the whole exercise to such an extent that the nursery was moved to write, 'He showed no understanding at all of what he was supposed to do.'
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