The research, carried out by YouGov on behalf of education organisation KindredSquared, shows on average 50 per cent of primary school pupils were not ‘school ready’ and 88 per cent of teachers and teaching assistants had to spend additional time with those children not achieving their developmental milestones.
The study, which attracted nearly a thousand responses from primary school teachers and staff, also revealed that 90 per cent of teachers had at least one child in their class that was not toilet trained.
Nine out of 10 teachers surveyed also reported at least one pupil that did not have basic language skills and almost all teachers said they had at least one child that could not listen or respond to simple instructions.
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