Don't send children to school at four, warn experts | Education | guardian.co.uk: "Plans to lower the mandatory school starting age to four could trigger a wave of stress and anxiety among children according to new research which suggests starting formal lessons so early can damage some youngsters' education for life.
A government-backed review recommended last year that children start school at four instead of five because of concerns that summer-born babies get fewer terms of schooling and their achievement suffers permanently as a result. Many local authorities already take children at four."
Interesting article - worth a read about issues to do with socialising and schooling for young children.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
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Hi Tina, this is way off the point, but would you consider following this guy:
http://alan-whiteman.blogspot.com/
who writes on music, musicians, and the music industry. He writes well (although his spelling and his syntax are a bit off piste, but that's education for you!) and informatively. Anyway, I just thought I'd ask because you are interested in music of all sorts. Love, Alec
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