#early-years-education

#early-years-education

Childhood doesn't end the day you turn five, Ruth Lue-Quee said to me on the phone as she shepherded her son to the playground this half term. Playing is what children are born to do. It's innate in them. It is how they learn. The former deputy headteacher's petition to make play-based pedagogy a core part of the key stage 1 (KS1) national curriculum in England has garnered almost the required 100,000 signatures for debate in parliament.

Early years teachers in England will be offered tax-free payments of £4,500 to work in nurseries in disadvantaged areas to attract and retain qualified staff.