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Heads say wait until age six
By Laura Marcus,
Nursery World,
10 October 2007
Children should learn through play and not begin formal schooling until at least the age of six, according to a headteachers' union.
The National Primary Headteachers' Association (NPHA) accused the Government of being in an 'obscene rush' to get children doing academic work, in a submission to the biggest review of primary education in 40 years. The Primary Review is a two-year Cambridge University study approaching its midway point. The first interim report will be published this week. The NPHA report called for nursery and reception class 'fun learning' methods to be extended over the first year of primary school,...
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