In a video interview about how St George’s School in Battersea achieves its excellent results, headteacher Janet Hilary says, ‘What is the nonsense of "we play all day in the early years?" I’m not saying that we shouldn’t have hours of free play, but there is plenty of time in the school day for structured teaching. At St George’s we do structured teaching from three.’
Ms Hilary, who is now executive principal of Floreat Academy Trust, goes on to tell the interviewer, Derrie Clark, an educational psychologist, that every three-year-old in their nursery speaks in full sentences.
The interview has been posted on YouTube by Reading Reform Foundation UK, a lobbying campaigning and teaching body.
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