Recently Ofsted report has revealed that young children, around three to five year olds, are failing to get a good education in half the nursery and primary classes.
Consequent upon which, they are making unsatisfactory development in language and literacy. Girls are however, making progress in dealing with creative pursuits but boys could be seen running after each other in ‘raiding’ games.
The outcome of the survey has posed question to the new curriculum forced on nursery classes by the Government in 2003. Children are expected to meet around 117 ‘early learning goals’ in six subject areas, including mathematical, physical development, communication, language and literacy.
Teachers were supposed to record the children’s progress with the aid of cameras and tape recorders but only one third of them took account of the reports.
The report further postulated that in a third of schools, nurseries standards in communication, language and literacy were lower than expected and speaking, and listening skills were very poor.
The most troublesome feature of report was the emerging gap between girls and boys. Girls achieved better than boys across all the areas of learning. Boys did not speak with as much confidence or show an awareness of the listener.
Hence, the need of the hour is to take the issue seriously and try to create new atmosphere or the kids so that they could enhance their cognitive abilities right at the tender age. Otherwise, they might face problems in the long run with respect to their careers.
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