Archive for April 2025
LBC: Kindred Squared Director, Felicity Gillespie, speaks to Nick Ferrari about the Starting Reception website
Kindred Squared Director, Felicity Gillespie, speaks to Nick Ferrari about the Starting Reception website. Listen to the interview here [from 2:25:00] and the listener phone-in [from 2:38:00]
Read MoreThe Spectator: It’s not the government’s job to prepare kids for school
On Primary School offer day, Cristina Odone writes about whose responsibility it is to prepare children for Reception, quoting information from the Starting Reception website.# Read the full article here.
Read MoreNursery Management Today: Government backs school readiness website
NMT shares a link to the Starting Reception website, reporting that organisations involved in the website include Kindred Squared, National Day Nurseries Association, the Early Years Alliance, LEYF Nurseries, Busy Bees, Ark Start and Pacey. NMT notes that the Department for Education is promoting the website. Read the full article here.
Read MoreTES: Why school readiness is the most important equality issue in society
Kindred Squared Director, Felicity Gillespie, writes in TES magazine on school readiness is the most important equality issue in society, “because so many of the economic and social gaps in later life stem from these early years”. Read the full article here.
Read MoreThe Independent: New website to help parents teach basic skills amid concerns over children’s school readiness
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson told The Independent new School Readiness website will teach skills such as going to the toilet and putting on a coat. Read the full article here.
Read MoreThe Spectator: There’s an obvious reason pre-school children are falling behind
Kristina Murkett writes in The Spectator about school readiness including statistics and information from the Kindred Squared School Readiness report 2024, and links to the Starting Reception website. Kirstina concludes that: “The answer is, of course, screen time”. Read the full article here.
Read MoreNetMums: Is your child reception-ready? New website teaches parents how to toilet train and prepare their child for school
On National Primary School Offer Day, Netmums shares a link to a new initiative to help parents prepare their children for school. The Starting Reception website developed by a coalition of leading early years experts, is being shared widely with parents and carers from today. Read the full article here.
Read MoreThe Times: Children should be using cutlery before school age, parents told
Ahead of Primary School Offer day, The Times article reports on the “government-backed checklist” that sets out the skills children are expected to have before starting reception, amid concerns over falling levels of school readiness. Read the full article here.
Read MoreThe Financial Times: Nearly half of English councils cut family support spending last year, data show
The FT quotes Kindred Squared Director, Felicity Gillespie in this discussion on UK Government funding for family support services. The article also shares statistics from Kindred Squared annual School Readiness Report 2024. “Parents are our children’s first educators. The lack of funding to educate and enable them is a shocking indictment of a societal blind…
Read MoreThe Spectator: Showing Adolescence in schools lets parents off the hook
Cristina Odone quotes Kindred Squared Director, Felicity Gillespie, in this article discussing UK parents reaction to the Netflix drama, Adolescence. “The relationships children need to help them navigate their teens are rooted long before they get their first iPhone. Strong familial attachments from birth lay the foundations for our social, emotional and physical development.” Read…
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