The EYFS sets standards which reflect the personal experience that parents provide their children with. As such we are in a partnership with parents to compliment and enrich their child’s learning. Using the Early Learning Goals defined in the EYFS as a benchmark for assessment we offer activities and learning through play to facilitate evaluation and progression.

Our activities and our facilities are designed to help young children achieve the outcomes of being healthy, staying safe, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution and achieving economic well-being.The requirement for doing so is set in law by the Children Act 2004, the ten year childcare strategy Choice For Parents, The Best Start For Children and the Childcare Act 2006. Since September 2008 a framework for delivering high standards of care and education called The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) has been mandatory for all childcare providers.

The EYFS aims to help children achieve by laying a secure foundation for learning and development. Under the EYFS activities throughout the nursery and pre-school are structured around four distinct but complementary themes upon which effective practice is built on:

A Unique Child
Every child is a competent learner from birth who can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.

Positive relationships
Children learn to be strong and independent from a base of loving and secure relationships with parents and/or a key person.

Enabling environments
The environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning.

Learning and development
Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates and all areas of learning and development are equally important and inter-connected.