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Is Early Schooling too Academic for Children? PARENTS often hear the words "I don‘t want to go to school! " or "I want to play with my toys instead" during their child‘s first few years of school, but do we here in England push children into education too soon potentially causing long term academic harm? I had a chat with a few parents and a Nursery teacher to see what their thoughts were. Children need to be taken into school as early as possible in order to start interacting with other children and to get a heads up on any valuable life skills. Reading to her children at home is a normal activity for Lianne Matthews of Hertfordshire, but she strongly feels that her children are too young to be dealing with the stress of trying to academically learn, and that fun is more important than homework at their young age. The importance of school for Lianne is that of socialising and learning the skills that the children can use in later life, rather than an academic lesson for things such as English or Maths. Dr Richard House, a co-founder of the Open Eye and Early Childhood Action movements, argues that there is sufficient proof that starting school earlier does more bad than good for our children. He claims that children should follow the Early Years Foundation Stage; this is a statutory framework that sets the standard in which all early year care providers must provide in order to ensure that children learn and develop well, whilst also being prepared for school. The three prime areas that the EYFS looks at are: communication and language, physical, social and emotional development. The EYFS is extremely play based and aims to prepare a child for school rather than helping them to get a heads up. Once children have been given this opportunity they will be ready to tackle the academic schooling that faces them. What harm can starting school early do? Those were the words of Nursery teacher, Claire Punter. In her own words "I personally don‘t see any problem with a child becoming academically developed at a younger age. Surely the sooner you start the better? "The children that Claire teaches and looks after learn via playing games, whilst also using academic methods and were described by her and other mums at the nursery as "bright and on-the-ball". Wouldn‘t we all like our children to be described as that? Hannah Aldwinckle
As children are our future, the mummiez & daddiez team thought it would be a great idea if you could you to send us your cute/funny pictures for us to feature here! If you would like your child’s photo featured, please email photos to claire@mummiezanddaddiez.co.uk together with their names.
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