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Development Tracker

From the time your child takes those first steps to the moment when the teens sets in, you're in for a lot of change. This year-by-year guide helps you follow your child's development from the toddler years through to GCSEs. You'll find a range of skills for each age and school year, from academic abilities to social development and growth spurts and other developmental milestones.

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    The preschool years
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    Your child officially enters the toddler years on their first birthday, or she will as soon as she takes those first wobbly steps. As the "terrible twos" approach, they become captivating, inspiring and exuberant, as well as mischievous and exasperating. Your relatively calm three-year-old may grow into a loose cannon as a four-year old
     

    Starting school : Reception class
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    This first year of formal school will be filled with opportunities to plant seeds of learning for your child. Sending a child to school may be more stressful for the parents than the child. Take a deep breath, you're going to be fine!
     

    Infant school
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    During the first year in school children do learn many important skills as this exciting year is very diverse in its curriculum. In the second year children become increasingly proficient in every area of basic skills by adding new and interesting information
     

    Junior school
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    In Year Three you will see more detail n your child's work. In Year Four children have a huge appetite for learning about how things work. By Year Five children will start to consider someone else's perspective - this will help them with their transition to senior school in Year Six
     

    Secondary school
    group of teenagers
    That crucial adolescence transition through Year Seven and Year Eight will make way for a calmer Year Nine and Year Ten - just in time for the GCSE crunch in Year Eleven
     
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