Sunflowers Nursery School

Activities: Staff carefully consider each child's needs to create thoughtfully planned activities. Children are highly motivated and eager to learn.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children demonstrate a deep love of books, which staff have thoughtfully placed throughout the setting.

Communication: Staff now ensure that parents and children have a similar experience to school during the last term of nursery.

Community Building: Parents comment that staff have 'captured the heart' of their children. They feel their children are more than ready for school.

Programs and Resources: The manager and special educational needs coordinator work closely with parents and external professionals. They monitor the individually targeted plans and use regular assessment to ensure children make the best progress from their starting points.

Staff Training: Staff have expert knowledge of children's abilities and development, including children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff are excellent role models. Children, in turn, have learned how to positively manage their own behaviours and negotiate with others.

Safeguarding Training: Staff are up to date with their safeguarding training and paediatric first aid.

Play and Learning Integration: Staff provide an abundance of activities to support children's small-muscle skills. This supports their readiness for early writing.

Transition to Primary School: Parents fed back that when their children started school, they were not prepared for the reduction in communication and pick-ups at the door.

Child Safety Management: Staff know what to do if they have concerns about a colleague. Staff are up to date with their safeguarding training and paediatric first aid.

Teaching Personal Safety: The manager makes sure that safer recruitment checks are conducted to ensure the ongoing suitability of staff working with children.

Happiness and Settling: Children's emotional well-being is of the highest priority. Staff expertly model emotional language and use children's prior knowledge of a monster who changes colour according to how they are feeling to encourage them to say how they feel.