[skiteacher]

who is going to teach them-
well if no money is put into it (which is probable otherwise how the h*ll could they afford it)
then probably their normal teacher, being asked to do extra work like those who already run afterschool clubs? I really can't see them employing extra teachers?

Just to add another side to the science debate - and I am totally with you on needing a broad curriculum, but if children don't have the basic skills of reading, writing, maths to start with, they really aren't goign to be able to do the rest, incl. science. Yes thinking and analytical skills are exceedingly abnd increasingly important in the modern world, but only to those who already have the core skills. Those without the core skills don't even manage to get the housing, pieces of paper and to read the bus timetables the rest of us don't think twice about when we think about living out lives. (yes there are teenagers and adults and not just a
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that do not have the basic skills to be able to read a bus timetable or shopping list)

What is more to the point is why is current primary schooling failing some children and meaning they do have to have these extra classes (excepting SEN) surely it would be better (and more cost efficient) to get the education for everyone right, rather than having to provide boosters for the few. Then schools would be engaging children, and able to provide a broad, balanced exciting curriculum, still ensuing the basics are learnt but also enabling thinking and analytical skills!!

Gosh, that's all a bit much for a sunday afternoon over a cup of tea - back to the cleaning I think - less brain power required!