NURSERY SCHOOL & CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Nursery school can play an important part in your child’s early development. Here, we look at a few of the most common advantages of nursery.

The human brain develops the majority of its neurons in the first five years of a child’s life, which is why a baby’s brain development is so crucial. During this time, a child’s brain undergoes rapid development; building the child’s cognitive skills, social-emotional capacity, gross-motor skills and executive functioning – which includes everything from impulse control to problem solving. The intake of new information is critical to the formation of these neural pathways, and as such early education is hugely important.

Research has shown that children who attend early learning programmes demonstrate improved social skills, higher levels of school achievement, and enhanced attention spans. Children taught how to speak a second or third language during their early developmental years will also show higher levels of academic achievement across all subjects in later years.