I am increasingly disturbed by the wrong attitudes being fed into our childrens mind about what sucess looks like and what the currculem does to enable all children to achieve their potential. My child has just started in reception class where she had to sign a contract about her behaviour?! They also have child of the week and a gifted pupil scheme. Learning through play is being heavily push out and they are being crammed with homework and reading. My child and many others will not sit still to learn, is not interested in reading, she just wants to be a child, have fun and learn about the world through play. Children are more happy and free not being told what they need to be to be sucessful. There is plenty of time for them to become a grumpy disatisfied and unhappy adult, lets not rob their childhoods - lets make learning aboutr the world fun again and stop all the rules, targets and policies. The paperwork alone for it is ridiculous. They should be alllowed to show us who they are and learn in their own good time and all be made to feel gifted and special but all different and unique and that should be celebrated!
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