Nursery World - Invest more in early years to improve primary results, say teachers

Eight in ten teachers think investing more in the quality of early years education would improve primary school results, finds a new survey.

Of the 504 UK primary school teachers surveyed by Save the Children – a member of the Read On. Get On. campaign - 79 per cent believe investing more in nursery and pre-school provision would reduce the number of children starting primary school without the speech and language skills they need to learn in the classroom.

Seventy-five per cent of primary school teachers surveyed said that children were arriving in Reception struggling to speak in full sentences

Eighty-one per cent of respondents reported seeing children start school struggling to read words or sentences and 65 per cent witnessed children experiencing difficulties following simple instructions.

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