Nursery World - Management: EYFS - Perfectly co-ordinated

Getting staff to embrace and implement the changes of the EYFS is a challenge managers grasp in different ways, as Mary Evans hears.

Nursery managers are putting their leadership and management skills to the test as they prepare staff for the challenges of implementing the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Although managers may tackle the task in different ways, the common theme is to adopt a positive approach. 'The way to approach this is to accept that there is going to be change, and move with it,' says Fran Connell, proprietor of Southlands Nurseries in Newcastle, Staffordshire. 'We have to positively embrace it.'

At Circus Day Nursery in Cheltenham, manager Sophie Rollin says, 'I believe that if you are negative about something, then the staff pick up on it and are negative too. Negativity creates a bad working environment. The EYFS is coming. My deputy and I are positive about it, so the staff are too.'

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