PRESCHOOL
Long-lasting benefits
Research shows that providing your children with a positive preschool experience has beneficial long-term effects on their long-term education. Experts have found that children who attend high-quality preschool settings have better vocabularies and more advanced literacy and math skills than children who don’t.
We at Our Little Sunflowers Nursery strive to provide the best possible environment, enhancing the children's learning, development and growth. A wide range of activities and resources are available to the children daily and focused activities to develop and further their interests and learning.
At approximately 3 years old children will move up to our pre-school room. In this room children will be encouraged to develop skills in line with the Early years Foundation Stage Curriculum. More information on this can be found here
TODDLERS
Foundation for education
At approximately 2 years old children will move up to the toddler room. We as a setting have not set specific age groups to the rooms to allow the children to progress and develop at their own rate. This also allows us to be able to move the children up according to their individual development stage.
The children in this group are able to access freely activities they enjoy and have a wide range of individually planned activities by their key person. Each child is valued as an individual as well as part of a group and monitored by a key person.
In this group children are able to build upon their already learnt skills, progressing and developing further. While also being encouraged with their individual self help skills such as toileting, washing hands and personal independence.
BABIES
Learning Experiences
Our baby group offers an environment where children can feel safe and secure. This cosy space offers opportunities for children to play, learn and develop through playing and exploration.
In this room children will be assigned a key worker who will ensure all daily routines, needs and learning opportunities are provided. We offer lots of sensory play learning experiences and encourage the children to become independent with opportunities to self feed and personal hygiene as they assist with face and hand cleaning.
Staff plan appropriate activities with our baby group ensuring they are accessing a wide range of learning opportunities working with the Early Years Foundation stage guidelines.
OUR PROGRAMME
List of services
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Early Years Foundation StageList item 1
Our Little Sunflowers Nursery follows the government based framework for early learning called the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). This provides a structured approach to the care and development of your child in preparation for their transition into the school system.
Our Little Sunflowers Nursery has used the framework to help develop our training, operational and recruitment processes. We also comply with the reporting standards, which means you receive a summary of your child’s development at age two, and a broader assessment at age five.
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Personal, Social and Emotional DevelopmentList item 2
Involves helping children to develop a positive sense of themselves and others to form positive relationships. Developing respect for others to develop social skills learning how to manage their feelings to understand appropriate behaviour in groups and to have their confidence in their own abilities.
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Communication and LanguageList item 3
Involves giving children opportunities to experience a rich language environment to develop their confidence and skills in expressing themselves and to speak and listen in a range of situations.
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Physical Development
Involves providing opportunities for young children to be active and interactive and to develop their co-ordination, control and movement. Children must also be helped to understand the importance of physical activity and to make healthy choices in relation to food. Personal hygiene and toileting also comes under this area of development.
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Mathematics
Involves providing children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using and using numbers, calculating, catagorising and to describe shapes, spaces and measures.
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Literacy
Involves encouraging children to link sounds and letters and to begin to read and write. Children must be given access to a wide range of other written materials (books, poems and other written materials) to ignite their interest.
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Understanding the World Write a description for this list item and include information that will interest site visitors. For example, you may want to describe a team member's experience, what makes a product special, or a unique service that you offer.
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Expressive arts and design
Involves enabling children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials, as well as providing opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role play and design and technology.