EARLY SCHOOL NOT RIGHT FOR BOYS?
After reading the letter regarding school entry and the 15-hourentitlement (26 July-8 August), I am prompted to write about thesituation here in Suffolk. Next term all children have been offered thechance to take up a full-time place at school during the year in whichthey are five, bringing us into line with the rest of the country. Thisis instead of the part-time offer parents had in the past, when nearlyall children stayed with us.
This has had a big effect on our provision as it has for many others.Most parents have taken up the place as it represents cheap childcarefor working parents, and for us it has changed the age range of ournursery (our oldest child next term will not be four until October).This means we will no longer take children to the local school each weekand we will only take children out for forest schools in the summerterm.
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