A survey shows that British children starting school can barely communicate, repond to simple instructions, recongnise their own names or count to five, reports REBECCA SMITHERS.
THE speaking and listening skills of children starting UK schools have deteriorated to the extent that few now enter the classroom able to recite or sing the simplest nursery rhymes or songs, according to a majority of teachers questioned in a new survey.
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