🌟 Welcome to Diamond Class! 🌟

Hello and welcome to Diamond Class! 💎

We are a class full of brilliant Reception children and I am so excited to begin this wonderful year together! I am the class teacher - Miss Harley and we are also very lucky to have Mrs Philips, who teaches Forest School once a week. 🌳

I am really looking forward to getting to know each and every one of you and watching you grow, learn and shine throughout the year. I know you will produce some amazing work, make lots of wonderful memories and, most importantly, have lots of fun along the way! ✨

Our class newsletter is attached below and contains some further information about what to expect from your days in school, as well as some useful information to help you settle into life in Diamond Class.

Here’s to a fantastic year together! 💎🌈

Helping your child at home:

Reading: Children will not initially come home with a reading book as they will be starting the Read Write Inc. Phonics scheme. When children are ready, they will come home with reading ditty and progress to a reading book. Please read regularly at home with your child, every day if you can, but aiming for a minimum of 4 times per week when children start to bring books home. Allow your child to listen to you read, as well as listening to them reading aloud to you. Children will all have a reading folder with a diary and book relating to their weekly Phonics lessons as they progress in Phonics. Reading records must be signed every time the children read at home and reading records will be checked weekly. Enjoy sharing exciting stories together as the children will love listening to you read to them and I am sure that you will also enjoy sharing a story with them!

Writing: Use lots of opportunities to write; shopping lists, cooking and baking, writing instructions and letters. Any mark making is valuable to children forming their letters. Don't be afraid to get messy with it! Children love to write in shaving foam, sand, paint or anything else that is messy!

Maths: Practise counting anywhere you can. Try applying numbers to real life and daily objects. Counting steps is a great way to get children counting! Try forming letters and numbers out of natural objects such as pine cones or leaves! Patterns are also a fantastic focus so please use different items make your own patterns!

Thank you very much!

Miss Harley :) 

iharley@woodcockswell.cheshire.sch.uk