Sunflower House

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Our garden is wheelchair accessible, we have many outdoor activity choices including a sandpit and wheelchair height vegetable gardens. Minimum of three years working experience with children and their families who experience complex mental health problems.

What we have at Alder Hey is unique and the reason we have been able to deliver such an amazing building is thanks entirely to charitable support. Thank you to all who have contributed in helping us to embrace those innovations that will improve the experiences of our children and young people above and beyond core NHS provision. “ Therapy garden at Sunflower HouseYou can read the latest Sunflower HouseInspection Reporthere.Our Ofsted reference number is: SC409502. To be a team member within the Sunflower House providing a substantial contribution to the clinical work of the team: including accepting, prioritising and assessing referrals of children and their families. Decide (with the help of your child) whether the sunflower house is going to be a square or a circle. Decide the shape of your sunflower house and decide how big you want it to be.

Please ensure that you send in enough clothes for your child’s stay. If your child needs pads please send in enough for their stay. It helps to label your child’s clothes; this should prevent anything getting lost. At Sunflower House we will wash your child’s clothes daily but if you’d prefer that we didn’t wash them then please let us know. Admission to Sunflower House is through referral from the Children with Disabilities Social Work Team. Next, create the house outline by sprinkling flour on the ground to mark the perimeter of the house where the sunflower “walls” will grow. Clear the weeds and grass in a 6-12” wide area along this perimeter line to form a planting bed.

You can read the latest Sunflower House Inspection Report here. Our Ofsted reference number is: SC409502. How to apply for a place at Sunflower House Once you build this awesome kids' fort, you get to watch it grow all summer (and enjoy the variety of birds who feast on the seeds in the fall!). You can plant your kids' garden any time after your region is frost-free.Most of the smaller sunflower seeds take about two weeks to germinate, while the larger giant and mammoth seeds can take up to twenty-one days. So we've generally planted late May forearly June plants. Encourage your kids totake on the responsibility of watering the outdoor playhouse if there isn't enough rain and the soil is dry. 3 — Watch the sunflower house GROW, GROW, GROW. Ofsted inspects Sunflower House once a year. This is to ensure that Sunflower House meets the needs of the children and young people who use this service.