School starting age in Scotland could be raised to six after SNP members back policy change

👉 The age at which children formally start school in Scotland could be raised to six after SNP members approved the plan at the party’s conference in Aberdeen

A motion passed by delegates said Scotland and the rest of the UK are ‘outliers’ by starting formal education at four or five

Instead, it said the Scottish Government should create a statutory “play-based kindergarten stage” for three to six-year-olds,The policy would mean that children would not begin at primary school until they turned six, up from the current starting age of between four-and-a-half and five-and-a-half.

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