EYFS Rationale: At Finham Primary we believe children learn best through practical, hands-on experiences and interactions with their environment. Play provides opportunities for children to consolidate and extend skills and concepts learnt. It allows children to take risks, make their own choices and practice actions. Play underpins our Early Years Curriculum at Finham Primary. 

EYFS Intent: At Finham we aim to provide motivating first-hand experiences to enable children to learn more and remember more. We also encourage children to build resilience, ambition and a lifelong love of learning whilst also learning how to look after their own mental health and well-being. We aim to build on the wealth of knowledge children already have and are actively developing relationships with feeder settings. We recognise that all children are unique, celebrating and welcoming differences within our school community. Therefore, our curriculum is developed and adapted each year to follow the interests and fascinations of the children in the current year group whilst also building specific knowledge, identified through the areas of learning. We recognise how learning builds sequentially – by building knowledge, skills and learning behaviours from what the children already know and can do towards identified end points or outcomes. Our curriculum design will ensure they are ready for the transition to Year 1. We embed a language of learning based on the characteristics of effective learning; ‘Making Our Learning Fly’, out whole school approach, enables children to understand and talk about their learning experiences.