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Direct linkDrummond, Mary Jane – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2004
In the past, there were no four-year-olds to be found in infant or primary schools. The statutory school age of five had been established in 1870, after a hurried and confused debate in the House of Commons; one hundred years later, it was a regulation still honoured in practice. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, children started school in the term…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Primary Education, School Entrance Age, School Policy
