A survey of schools and private nurseries, which generated 510 responses, found that 37 per cent of nurseries spent more than three-quarters of their time on general play activities, while only 11 per cent of schools did the same. Private nurseries also spent less time teaching using traditional resources, with 40 per cent of nurseries devoting less than one quarter of the day using them, compared with 29 per cent of nursery units.
Only a handful of schools and nurseries were making extensive use of ICT in any single week. The biggest difference in the type of ICT resources used was with interactive whiteboards. While 89 per cent of teachers in schools had access to interactive whiteboards, only 28 per cent of practitioners in nurseries could say the same.
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