Pre-school pupils perform better at primary school, says report

GUILT-RIDDEN parents who agonise about sending their children to nursery should take heart from new research showing pre-school pupils perform better at primary school, according to Britain’s children’s minister Margaret Hodge.

In the first study of its kind, researchers found children who had access to nursery education before school age gained better results at school at the age of seven.

And the study found higher quality provision and starting earlier improved intellectual development until the end of Key Stage One, at seven years old.