Voting is now open for the Alexandra Park Community Group to win £25,000 in the Aviva Community Fund 2016. The group, which is raising funds to regenerate the...
Jumble Trail is coming to Kingston for the first time on Sunday 2 October (11am to 4pm), with the support of Recycle for London, the South...
Surbiton residents are urged to have their say and let Kingston Council know their view on a 20mph speed limit for the Surbiton area. Kingston Council has...
The international spotlight was on Kingston’s excellent childcare as a delegation of Korean health and welfare MPs visited Advantage Day Nursery in Surbiton last month. Experts...
With the final A-level results now in, Kingston students are to be congratulated on continuing the borough’s record of exceeding national standards. In line with the national...
Kingston Council has this week unveiled a new folding bike hire scheme at Surbiton station as part of its work to encourage cycling in the borough....
The debate will take place in Westminster Hall at 9.30am on Tuesday 12 July – it is open to the public and will be live streamed on www.parliamentlive.tv/Commons James Berry writes: We sometimes think of education as starting only at primary school or once children have reached their fourth or fifth birthdays, but this is far from the case. Even the very youngest children are learning all the time and a growing body of research shows that this early learning is vitally important. Early education and childcare have been longstanding priorities of mine because of the important role they play in children’s life chances. Unless children start school with the building blocks of learning, particularly early language development, they may struggle to pay attention in the classroom, follow lessons, interact with their classmates and develop key skills like reading and maths. The research shows that children who start behind, stay behind. Roughly nine in every ten three and four year olds currently attend some sort of childcare each week and I am proud that the government has passed legislation to double the amount of free child care working parents can claim from 15 to 30 hours each week. Indeed this was a policy launched right in the heart of my constituency at the Advantage Children’s Day Care Nursery in Tolworth. But whilst an additional 15 hours free childcare will be an enormous help to parents in Kingston and across the country, we must use this opportunity to look at what actually goes into this childcare. We need to make sure that early years education really does get our children ready to have the best possible start at school and prevents any child from falling behind. Compared to the national average, children in the Kingston borough perform well in speech ...
