Ambiguous word divisions are the basis of some of the playground tricks that are so useful in the competitive social environment of the infant school playground.
But the skills required for junior and infant school teaching require careful training.
I believe that there should be a movement towards a full two-year infant school period irrespective of when the birthday falls in the fifth year.
Most of these children have been labelled failures from their infant school stage.
They were welcomed by the infant school teachers, and they really did help.
For example, we inherited a situation where many infant school classes had more than 30 children, and we have resolved that problem.
It would be extremely undesirable to have a situation where denominational schools had large numbers in their infant school classes—much larger than in maintained schools.
The infant school is already under construction and should be finished next year.
