Agroup of two-year-olds and their parents are standing on a jetty in the beautiful coastal village of Walberswick in Suffolk, dangling lines into the water. Although it is only 33 miles from their homes in Ipswich, most have never been there before, or experienced the common East Anglian pastime of crabbing. Some have never left the town.
The trip was organised by Bows and Arrows, a charity which owns six nurseries in Ipswich located in areas of deprivation, using money obtained from the Opportunity Area funding scheme.
More than 8 per cent of Ipswich’s population is under the age of five, and half of all the children in Suffolk who do not speak English as a first language live in the town. While the percentage of Ipswich children achieving good development at the end of the EYFS is in line with the national average, one quarter of disadvantaged children do not meet the expected level in the speaking Early Learning Goal.
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