Finches Class

Welcome To Finches Class

Our Class Teacher:  Mrs Farr

Our Class TA: Mrs Fitzgerald

At St Mary’s we work hard to ensure the children make excellent progress through fun and engaging play-based learning. We want the children to have excellent experiences, in which they learn lifelong skills and gain an amazing, positive start to their education.  

In Reception, our curriculum is carefully planned to provide a happy, stimulating start to school life. We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), focusing on 7 areas of learning:

• Communication and Language
• Physical Development
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Literacy
• Maths
• Understanding the World
• Expressive Art and Design

Learning is play-based, allowing children to explore, discover, and learn at their own pace through hands-on experiences.

The children are encouraged to use both the inside and outside learning environments, which are set up with continuous and enhanced provision. Continuous provision is the resources which are set up all the time in the environment and our enhanced provision is weekly resources or learning experiences which are set up and link to our topics or termly curriculum overview.

All provision is carefully planned to ensure children’s skills are individually developed and learning opportunities are personalised to ensure every child makes excellent progress in their learning journey.

Alongside this the children are taught through adult-directed lessons or group activities. These include lessons such as RE, Phonics, Maths, PSHE, PE and more. Through these inputs we teach the children new skills which they can then apply independently through their play. 

What we are looking forward to

We are really looking forward to settling in school life. We are looking forward to making new friends, exploring exciting activities both indoors and outdoors, and learning through the joy of play every day.

Autumn Learning 2025