In my continued quest for documented research evidencing improved outcomes for children and young people, I don’t always start with the Daily Telegraph – though I always read it, just in case. Today it paid off with the startling headline on page 10 ‘Breast-feeding boosts mental ability until secondary school’. This led me to speculate about the nature of the research itself; was it, for example, a double-blind trial? And how were the mothers persuaded to carry on breast-feeding so long? But the research provides a straightforward strategy for primary schools wanting to improve their position on the Key Stage 2 assessments, although the question is then open as to what happens in secondary school … perhaps this is a social intervention too far!
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