The DfES has funded Screen Learning, in partnership with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, to look at how the series of 14 Smart Cats computer games can help teachers assess children at the end of the reception year.
A recent study found that native Turkish-speaking four- and five-year-olds who do not have English as a first language scored significantly higher in emotion-recognition skills when they were assessed in their mother tongue playing the Happy Cats game (News, 18 January).
Up to 100 schools will take part in the research with a smaller focus group of 12 primary, infant and nursery schools and six special schools.
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