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Student trainee nursery teachers cannot spell

Thu, 03 Aug 2006
Students studying PGCE courses at university in order to qualify as childcare workers must reach a minimum standard for their respective courses.

According to childcare and teachers’ leaders, too many students beginning training courses in childcare are unable to spell.

This statement came from Mrs Deborah Lawson, the chair of the Professional Association of Teachers.

According to Lawson, an increasing proportion of students are dressing and behaving inappropriately for a nursery school setting.

However, The Department for Education &Skills has rejected this criticism as inappropriate and that students and young staff do in fact dress and behave accordingly and to meet unwritten standards.

Mrs Lawson also commented on how some nursery staff have discussed, in the audience of toddlers, how hung over they were after nights out drinking. According to many current PGCE students, this sort of talk is rife, fueling speculation that those less able are training to be nursery school staff.

Although Mrs Lawson did not want to ban drinking, Mrs Lawson insists that certain conversation is inappropriate discussion in front of young children.

Mrs Lawson, although not wanting to trivialise the situation, insists that we could easily be creating a generation of Vicky Pollards.