Excelling in practice which fulfils the themes of the EYFS earned Highbury Lodge Day Nursery in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, an 'outstanding' last December - and also helped it to scoop Nursery World's 2010 Pre-school of the Year award.
As far as staff are concerned, its in-house nursery training programme, which had been running in all Childbase nurseries since 2006, more than paved the way for the EYFS. Named SOUND Foundations, this was originally the brainchild of Childbase founder Mike Thompson and was developed by early years consultants including Jennie Lindon, Sue Overton and speech and language therapist Terry Gilligan.
The five key elements of the former programme - Seek, Observe, Understand, Nurture and Decide - were given a positive response from Professor Ted Melhuish before the EYFS was officially launched in 2008.
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