Almost a third of children now play outside for 30 minutes or less a day - that is less access to the outdoors than a high-security prisoner receives.

I support the ‘Let Our Kids Be Kids’ campaign. As teachers, we want to foster a love of learning and not a fear of failure. We want all children to become lifelong learners.

A SIGNIFICANT percentage of children will start school in September below age-related expectations.

In the academic year 2014-2015, 73.4% of girls and 58.6% of boys achieved the Government’s benchmark of a Good Level of Development (GLD) at the end of the Foundation Stage. This means a significant number of children are starting Year 1 when they are not ‘school ready.’