Ants or grasshoppers?

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The one where the grasshopper fiddles and plays all summer long, while laughing at the ants out collecting food and preparing for winter. Then come winter, the poor old grasshopper realises that he is woefully ill-prepared, and is saved by the ants who take him in.

What has this to do with anything? Well the children starting some schools at the moment put me in mind of the grasshopper.

They ‘play’ and ‘fiddle’ all Reception (or, I should say, Early Years) long and then find they are woefully ill prepared for the next stage of their school lives.