The skills are divided into four areas: growing independence, building relationships and communication, physical development and healthy routines. (Getty Images) If your child is starting reception ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Staggering number of children starting reception not toilet trained, study finds Around one in four children who started reception ...

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has launched a website to help parents teach their children the basics to get them ready to start primary school. The new Starting Reception website, developed ...

Schools are "picking up the pieces" as more children start reception without key skills such as speaking in full sentences or using the toilet independently, teaching unions have told the BBC. A third ...

Children are increasingly starting primary school struggling to communicate, teachers have warned. In a new survey, nine in ten primary school teachers said that children’s speech and language issues ...

Almost a third of children who started reception last year were not able to use books correctly, sometimes even trying to swipe or tap them like a smartphone, a survey has found. Around one in four ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The skills are divided into four areas: growing independence, building relationships and communication, physical development and ...

Around one in four children who started reception in 2025 were not toilet trained, a survey of teachers has found, amid warnings more children are struggling with basic life skills. In an annual ...

Around one in four children who started reception in 2025 were not toilet trained, a survey of teachers has found, amid warnings more children are struggling with basic life skills. In an annual ...