Nurseries are increasingly confident about setting and promoting their own curriculum, drawing from a range of theories and approaches. Kids Planet, for example, blends thinking from Montessori, Steiner, Froebel and others to create its pedagogy. Bright Horizons placed wellbeing at the core of its curriculum in 2021. And it is not just the big chains – smaller groups and single settings are also creating, embedding and communicating their own pedagogies.
While settings have to follow the EYFS framework, the approach they take and the curriculum they use is up to them. There is an increasing realisation that the guidance Development Matters is non-statutory, says Stuart Graham, strategy and operations director at Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries.
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