Covid lockdowns have delayed children's readiness for primary school, new Ofsted report warns
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  • Apr 4, 2022
Charity's toilet training course aims to help children be 'school ready'
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  • Mar 30, 2022
Half of children not ‘school ready’, say teachers
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  • Mar 14, 2022
Around half of all children ‘not ready’ to start school, survey finds
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  • Mar 11, 2022
Study shows huge numbers of children starting school developmentally delayed
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  • Mar 10, 2022
Half of pupils are not ready to start school at the age of four, teachers say
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  • Mar 10, 2022
Kids ‘starting school in nappies and unable to socialise due to lockdowns’
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  • Mar 10, 2022
Does one more year in kindergarten matter?
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  • Mar 2, 2022
Consultation on deferring school starting age: Have your say
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  • Nov 30, 2021
New reception pupils are the ‘least school-ready’ for generations
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  • Sep 15, 2021
New reception pupils are the ‘least school-ready’ for generations
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School readiness Reception Lockdown
  • Sep 8, 2021
Reception pupils ‘least school ready for generations’ due to pandemic, warns charity
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  • Sep 8, 2021
How to emotionally prepare children for the routine of school
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School readiness Back to school Wellbeing
  • Sep 7, 2021
Children who are the youngest in their class are more likely to get lower grades and suffer depression and drug addiction in adulthood
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Academic achievement School readiness
  • Aug 11, 2021
Summer-born children disproportionately labelled as having special educational needs
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  • May 31, 2021
Summer-born pupils unfairly labelled as SEND – research
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  • May 31, 2021
Summer-born pupils ‘unfairly’ labelled as having special needs
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  • May 31, 2021
Edinburgh parents can now automatically defer children due to start P1
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Scotland Deferment School starting age School readiness
  • May 28, 2021
More councils allow all summer-born children to delay school start
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  • May 28, 2021
Delayed school admissions for summer born pupils (2020)
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  • May 27, 2021
Eleven-year-old boys are too small for big school
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  • May 4, 2021
Raise school starting age to seven, Scottish Lib Dems argue
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Scotland School starting age School readiness
  • Mar 29, 2021
Scotland: Delay school until 7 to give children a flying start
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  • Mar 29, 2021
Play-based stage can reduce attainment gap, say Greens
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  • Mar 28, 2021
Many children lack the motor skills required for learning, says new study
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School readiness School starting age
  • Mar 10, 2021
Children may not be ‘physically’ ready to start school - study
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School readiness School starting age
  • Mar 10, 2021
MSPs bid to raise school starting age to 7
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  • Mar 9, 2021
Push for school starting age in Scotland to be raised to seven in 'historic change'
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  • Mar 9, 2021
Scotland: New move for school starting age to be raised to 7
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  • Mar 9, 2021
Children would start school at seven under Scottish Lib Dem plan
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School starting age School readiness Scotland
  • Mar 9, 2021
School starting age: could it be raised to 7?
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  • Feb 22, 2021
Children should start school at seven years old, propose Scottish Greens
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  • Feb 21, 2021
Children in London ‘at risk’ of falling behind due to the pandemic
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Coronavirus Disadvantaged Attainment gap Learning loss School readiness
  • Feb 5, 2021
Funding plea amid concern children 'forced' to start P1 aged just 4
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Scotland Early years funding Deferment School readiness
  • Jan 28, 2021
Fewer UK children 'school ready' after Covid nursery closures
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Coronavirus Nursery closures School readiness
  • Jan 18, 2021
Gaps in school readiness may increase as parents keep children out of nurseries
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School readiness Coronavirus
  • Nov 26, 2020
It’s not about ‘delay’, it’s about equality: The language of the summer-born admissions policy
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School admissions Summer-born School readiness
  • Nov 13, 2020
Covid: Half of new pupils arriving not 'school ready'
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  • Nov 10, 2020
Over half of boys born in February defer P1 entry
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  • Oct 28, 2020
Research to look at impact of lockdown on Reception children's readiness for school
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School readiness
  • Oct 5, 2020
Leeds Beckett to partner with European-wide project to look at the transition to school
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Transition School readiness
  • Sep 22, 2020
Schools should let children born prematurely start a year later, and not just for academic reasons
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  • Sep 17, 2020
Coronavirus: Option to delay school being explored by UK's largest nursery group
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School readiness Coronavirus Reception
  • Jun 23, 2020
Coronavirus: Group of major providers calls for delayed school start for young children
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  • May 5, 2020
Returning to and starting school in 2020
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  • Apr 30, 2020
Positive results for school-readiness intervention
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  • Apr 14, 2020
Make parents aware of the right to delay school
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School readiness Scotland
  • Nov 28, 2019
School readiness, early years education and neoliberal subjectivities
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  • Nov 19, 2019
Can school readiness tests predict future success in school?
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School readiness Academic achievement
  • Oct 29, 2019
Advice to get children physically ready for school
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School readiness
  • Jun 19, 2019
New plan to get children school-ready
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  • Jun 18, 2019
The competing discourses of school readiness
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School readiness
  • May 3, 2019
Scotland: Let parents decide when a child starts school
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School readiness Parents Scotland
  • Apr 29, 2019
Potty training expert insists it's 'not acceptable' to send five-year-olds to school in nappies
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Toilet training School readiness
  • Apr 17, 2019
Why are more children still in nappies when they start school?
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School readiness Toilet training
  • Apr 10, 2019
Primary school hires a professional nappy changer for children who can't use toilet
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Primary School readiness Toilet training
  • Apr 10, 2019
School forced to hire nappy-changer because pupils aged 5 aren't toilet trained
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School readiness Toilet training
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Walsall infant school employs nappy changer
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Toilet training School readiness
  • Apr 9, 2019
Does school entry age matter?
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School readiness
  • Mar 19, 2019
Ireland: School-starting age should not be a guessing game | Mary McCarthy
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School readiness School starting age Ireland
  • Mar 18, 2019
Ready to learn
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School readiness
  • Feb 28, 2019
Toddlers who cannot use the toilet or dress themselves could be sent on ‘bootcamps’ to get ‘ready for school’
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School readiness
  • Feb 26, 2019
Early schooling helps narrow boys’ disadvantage gap
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Early learning Attainment gap Summer-born School readiness
  • Feb 21, 2019
Boys only suffer from late school start if they’re poor
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School readiness Disadvantaged pupils Summer-born Attainment gap
  • Feb 21, 2019
375 schools and nurseries in the north of England wanted to take part in new trials
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Language Literacy Technology School readiness
  • Feb 20, 2019
Disadvantaged families to benefit from free early learning apps
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  • Feb 20, 2019
Parents should use phone and tablet apps with pre-school children to close literacy gap, education secretary says
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  • Feb 20, 2019
What you need to know about the problems with ‘school readiness’
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School readiness
  • Dec 5, 2018
Potty shaming – why blaming the parents is a political act | Zoe Williams
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School readiness Toilet training Parents Austerity Ofsted
  • Dec 4, 2018
Scotland: Modern nappies blamed as parents fail to toilet train children
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School readiness Toilet training Scotland
  • Dec 4, 2018
School delay call for summer-born pupils in Wales
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Wales Summer-born School readiness
  • Nov 14, 2018
EEF partners with SHINE to improve the home learning environment
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Language Literacy School readiness Disadvantaged
  • Nov 13, 2018
Why we delayed the start of school for our son
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  • Nov 5, 2018
Analysis: Child’s needs must come first – not funding
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School readiness Funding
  • Nov 5, 2018
The impact of full-day preschool on children’s school readiness skills
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  • Oct 2, 2018
"He is too young for full time education" Mum refuses to send son, 4, to school so can spend more time at home
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School readiness
  • Sep 19, 2018
Ireland: Tiny triplets still beating odds on first day at school
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School readiness School attendance
  • Sep 3, 2018
When parents fail they need educating too | Philip Collins
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Primary School readiness
  • Aug 24, 2018
Poorer parents feel patronised by targeted 'school readiness' classes
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School readiness Parents
  • Aug 22, 2018
US study: Effect of preschool home visiting on school readiness
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Best Evidence in Brief School readiness Transition Primary schools
  • Aug 21, 2018
BookTrust: Why reading stories will help prepare toddlers and parents starting school journey this September
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School readiness Literacy Reading
  • Aug 8, 2018
Action, not words, will show how serious the government is to tackling the early years gap | Luciana Berger & Lucy Powell
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Early years Social mobility Disadvantaged School readiness Literacy Funding Childcare
  • Aug 7, 2018
How to prepare your kids for their first day of school: From speaking to toilet training
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School readiness
  • Jul 31, 2018
Number of pupils starting school unable to read 'to be halved'
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School readiness Attainment
  • Jul 31, 2018
Education Secretary vows to end 'scandal' of kids starting school without reading skills
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School readiness Attainment
  • Jul 31, 2018
Education Secretary savaged for rising inequality as new fund for literacy revealed
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School readiness Attainment Inequality Social mobility
  • Jul 31, 2018
Millions of kids have ‘not been taught how to talk before they start school’
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  • Jul 31, 2018
Pupils unable to read is 'a scandal', says minister
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School readiness Attainment
  • Jul 31, 2018
You must teach your children basic speech at home, minister tells parents as he vows to tackle the 'last taboo'
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School readiness Attainment
  • Jul 31, 2018
Read to your children, says Damian Hinds
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School readiness Attainment
  • Jul 31, 2018
Children arriving at school unable to speak or read properly is a ‘scandal’, minister says
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School readiness Attainment
  • Jul 31, 2018
Children starting school 'cannot communicate in full sentences'
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School readiness Attainment
  • Jul 31, 2018
Parents sending children to school unable to speak properly, says Education Secretary
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School readiness Attainment
  • Jul 31, 2018
Hinds hopes ‘communications coalition’ will boost home reading and school-readiness
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School readiness Attainment
  • Jul 31, 2018
Reform needed for early years initiative
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School readiness Research
  • Jul 24, 2018
Poorer parents are less likely to send their child to pre-school nursery even though it is free, study finds
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Nurseries Free childcare Disadvantaged Ofsted School readiness
  • Jun 11, 2018
Video app 'boosts children's school readiness'
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School readiness Technology
  • May 16, 2018
Four in ten infants starting primary not ‘school ready’ in some areas
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School readiness Primary
  • Apr 14, 2018
Educational impact of children's centres 'impossible to measure', Zahawi claims
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Nadhim Zahawi Pupil outcomes Attainment School readiness
  • Feb 23, 2018
Best Evidence in Brief - Fortnightly e-newsletter of education research news
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School readiness Feedback Teachers Teaching Intervention Pupil exclusions
  • Jan 23, 2018
Ofsted expands on Bold Beginnings messages in sector meeting
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Ofsted School readiness Early years Reception
  • Jan 4, 2018
30-hour free childcare plan would widen school readiness gap
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Schools Week Free childcare School readiness Readiness gap Sutton Trust Social inequality Inequality
  • Sep 28, 2017
Sats for seven-year-olds in England to be scrapped
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Guardian SATS Primary assessment Primary schools Multiplication School readiness
  • Sep 14, 2017
Children are less ready for school than five years ago, say school leaders
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NAHT School readiness Primary schools Reception Speech Language
  • Sep 6, 2017
Rising concerns over pupil school readiness
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CYPN School readiness Primary schools Reception Speech Language
  • Sep 6, 2017
Shortage of funding barrier to school readiness
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Nursery World School readiness Funding Childcare Nurseries Early years Primary school Reception Language Speech
  • Sep 6, 2017
Many new pupils not school ready, headteachers say
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Herald Scotland Scotland School readiness Primary schools Reception Language Speech
  • Sep 6, 2017
Too many new pupils not school ready, say head teachers
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BBC Reception Primary schools School readiness Funding Speech Language
  • Sep 6, 2017
Cases of four-year-olds arriving at school unable to speak properly on the rise
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Telegraph Reception Primary schools School readiness Speech Language
  • Sep 6, 2017
Many children are not ready to begin school, headteachers say
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Express Primary schools Reception School readiness Language Speech
  • Sep 6, 2017
Rise in number of children 'not ready' to start school
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TES Primary schools Reception School readiness Speech Language
  • Sep 6, 2017
Children are less ready for school than five years ago, say school leaders
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FCT School readiness Primary schools Reception Language Speech
  • Sep 5, 2017
Early learning and school readiness: research evidence
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CYPN Early years School readiness Transitions Research
  • Jul 26, 2017
In the new edition of CYP Now: School readiness special; new children's minister interview; journey of an unaccompanied asylum-seeking child
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  • Jul 25, 2017
Complete our survey on school readiness
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NAHT School readiness FCT Survey
  • Jul 12, 2017
Tri-borough councils set to recruit volunteers to boost early years services
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CYPN Early years Volunteers Training Social inequality School readiness
  • May 4, 2017
‘EasyPeasy’ parenting app ‘significantly’ improves school readiness skills through games and tips
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Sutton Trust School readiness Social mobility DfE
  • Nov 18, 2016