I’d like to know these things about children education before school in UK:

1. types of preschool institutions;

2. statictics (how many parents choose to bring up children at home and how many lead them to kindergartens);

3. what criterion is applied, when children in kindergartens are divided into groups (for example, in my country children are grouping by their age);

4. the content of education (aims of education, methods, curriculum, education tools, etc.)

5. are children evaluated and if yes, then in what way? do they get marks or something analogous?

6. who’s funding preschool education? is it government, or a department for education, or maybe parents?

7. how does a day in UK’s kindergarten look like? (for instance, at what time children come there, how much time do they spend there, are they going outside often, do they sleep and eat in kindergarten, etc.