I agree with Irene Russell's opinion (In My View, 25 August) that most children who turn four in August are not ready to start school in September. However, please let us all be aware that they are not the only ones in their classes to suffer.
It is my experience, over the past 12 years, that those children who turn five during the first term are ready for the challenge of a new class and a new pace of learning. Too often they find they are just offered the same activities at the same level as during the previous year and are expected to wait for the younger children to 'catch up'.
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