EYFS
EYFS at Dunstall Hill Primary School
At Dunstall Hill we believe in providing all children with a safe, stimulating and nurturing environment where they can develop a love of learning. Each child’s success is celebrated, no matter how big or small. Through both indoor and outdoor play, the children are encouraged to use their own initiative and become independent learners, enabling them to reach their full potential. We strive to maintain effective partnerships with parents and carers to ensure the best possible start to school life for our children.
Our EYFS Team
Nursery Team
Mrs Hodgkiss – EYFS Leader
Miss Sond – Nursery Practitioner
Miss Machin – Nursery Teaching Assistant
Reception Team
Mrs Hodgkiss – EYFS Leader
Miss Steele – Teacher
Miss Grainger – Teacher
Mrs Llewellyn – Teaching Assistant
Miss Elliot – Teacahing Assistant
Mrs Dehar – Teaching Assistant
Our Nursery Timetable
Morning Nursery Monday to Friday
- Gates open 08:30am
- Nursery finishes 11:30am
Afternoon Nursery Monday to Friday
- Gates open 12:30pm
- Nursery finishes 15:30pm
Our Reception Timetable
Monday to Thursday
- Gates open 08:30am – 8:40am
- School finishes 15:25am
Friday
- Gates open 08:30am – 8:40am
- School finishes 13:20pm
What is the Early Years Foundation Stage?
The Foundation Stage for children covers seven areas of learning – all areas of learning and development are important and inter-connected.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Building Relationships
- Managing Self
- Self-regulation
Communication and Language
- Listening, Attention and Understanding
- Speaking
Physical Development
- Gross Motor Skill
- Fine Motor Skills
These three areas are particularly crucial for igniting children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, and for building their capacity to learn, form relationships and thrive.
They lay the foundations for children’s success in all other areas of learning and of life.
Literacy
- Comprehension
- Word reading
- Writing
Mathematics
- Number
- Numerical Patterns
Knowledge of the World
- Past and Present
- People, culture and Communities
- The Natural World
Expressive Art and Design
- Creating with Materials
- Being Imaginative and Expressive
The Foundation Stage for children covers seven areas of learning – all areas of learning and development are important and inter-connected.
Supporting your child's reading
At Dunstall Hill Primary School, our children’s reading journey commences through Read, Write Inc Phonics.
We start this journey in Nursery, where children start to explore intial sounds. In Reception, children start the RWI programme.
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Videos for Parents
Understanding Phonics
How to say the sounds
What is sound blending?
EYFS Curriculum Overview
Click on the link below to see our curriculum overview.
Handwriting
Handwriting is a physical activity that involves movement and recognition skills that need to be learnt and become automatic. To achieve this, Dunstall Hill has chosen the Kinetic Letters handwriting programme.
Handwriting is important to educating our pupils because pupils who do not learn to read and write fluently and confidently are, in every sense, disenfranchised. The mastery of automaticity in handwriting is therefore one of the key priorities of the school.
Click here to see some videos about supporting your child’s handwriting.
Characteristics of Effective Learning
The Characteristics of Effective Learning describe behaviours children use in order to learn. To learn well, children must approach opportunities with curiosity, energy and enthusiasm. Effective learning must be meaningful to a child, so that they are able to use what they have learned and apply it in new situations. These abilities and attitudes of strong learners will support them to learn well and make good progress in all the Areas of Learning and Development.
Playing and Exploring (engagement)
- Finding out and exploring
- Playing with what they know
- Being willing to have ago
Creating and Thinking Critically (thinking)
- Having their own ideas
- Choosing ways to do things
- Making links
Active Learning (motivation)
- Being Involved and Concentrating
- Keep on trying
- Enjoy achieving what they set out to do
Useful Links
Below are some links that you may find useful at home:
- Link to Development matters – Development Matters – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
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Link to Birth to 5 matters – Birth To 5 Matters – Guidance by the sector, for the sector
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Link to Reception baseline assessment parent leaflet – Reception baseline assessment: information for parents – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
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Link to book trust reading with your child – Tips for reading with your child | BookTrust