What is it about?
This article explores the experiences we need to offer children in their early years to ensure they are ready not only for school, but for a lifetime of enriched and meaningful learning.
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Why is it important?
At a time of over regulation and assessment in young children's lives we can lose sight of the importance of deep executive functioning in children. With an overly academic focus on literacy and numeracy skills that are best suited to the older child, we can miss this tremendous opportunity of instilling in children the executive functions of curiosity, imagination, self-motivation and courage that have a tremendous impact on the dispositions and choices that they will carry through the rest of their lives.
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Throughout my time in early years practice I would be asked to focus more and more on the product that was the 'school ready child'. With every battle to retain each child's identity and with each attempt to bring a focus back to the diversity and potential of childhood, the importance of this topic became more important to me. With the writing of this article, the publication of my book and my current PhD studies, I hope to trouble more like minded people into challenging current practices, and stand up for a future society as diverse as the beautiful children that will be adults within it.
Kathryn Peckham
Centre of Research in Early Years - CREC
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This page is a summary of: Supporting effective school readiness in all children, Journal of Health Visiting, July 2017, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/johv.2017.5.7.342.
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