My Sunflowers Day 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.

My Sunflowers Day 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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

Involves guiding children to making sense of their physical world and their community through opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places technology and the environment. 

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.