Sunflower Pre-School

A church address and a term-time calendar give Sunflower Pre-School its practical identity. Based at St Albans Church on Albert Road in Ilford, it accepts children aged 24 to 60 months and has 50 places in total.

No Ofsted inspection has been published for this setting yet.

For parents, the clearest starting point is its preschool age range and school-holiday closure pattern. These make the calendar an important part of deciding whether the setting fits family life.

A literacy coordinator role is attached to the Albert Road preschool's management. This gives literacy a specific organisational responsibility, although the role alone does not establish the content or quality of children's activities. For a family choosing preschool provision, the useful distinction is between having responsibility assigned and seeing how that responsibility shapes the day.

Albert Road's management responsibilities also include health and safety and a deputy safeguarding lead role. These are arrangements for organising care; they do not provide an inspection judgement about safeguarding effectiveness.

The literacy and safeguarding responsibilities sit alongside preschool management. Parents can therefore frame a visit around both sides of provision: how children's learning is organised and how their care is managed.

The address is St Albans Church, Albert Road, Ilford, IG1 1HS. Opening hours are 9am to 3pm, Monday to Friday, during term time, with closure during school holidays.

That daytime window matters for working arrangements, while the holiday closure matters for the rest of the year. Families needing care across school holidays would need another arrangement for those periods. The opening window should also be considered separately from the attendance pattern a family wants to book.

• Term-time calendar. School holidays are closure periods. Consider whether that matches your work and other childcare arrangements throughout the year.
• Ages and group organisation. The setting accepts children aged 24 to 60 months and has 50 places in total. On a visit, ask how children are grouped and how the day is adapted across that age range.
• Attendance pattern. Opening hours run from 9am to 3pm on weekdays. Ask which booking patterns can fit within that window.

Sunflower Pre-School suits families seeking term-time, daytime preschool provision for children aged 24 to 60 months. Its calendar gives parents a concrete basis for assessing practical fit. A visit is the next step in assessing the nursery experience, alongside the absence of a published inspection judgement.