Friday 15 June 2012

Upping the Standards to Meet the Rest


Education demands have raised in primary schools and a lot more will be expected of the younger children. In maths they will by the age of nine will have to have learned their 12 times tables and their maths skills in general will have to rise to higher levels so that they are ready for secondary school and can intake more information.
The sciences will also get harder as they were input further, deeper studies into space and the universe and the lives of famous scientist will be looked at, such as Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton.

But the demand is not only on the sciences: by the age of seven every child would have had to started a second language. This could change the whole way education is viewed at in primary schools because the bar needs to be raised to match the standards of countries such as Singapore who’s children can read the numerals.

By Tanya Kuzmich