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Reception: Diamond

Miss Stewart, Mrs Harrison, Mrs Hilton

& Mrs Smith

We are thrilled that you have come to visit (we always love visitors!).

Prepare to see us sparkle!!!

If you are visiting this page with a view to making a school choice for your child (scary times I know!) please come and visit us, see the school in action, meet the children and staff and ask any questions that may be relevant to you and your child.

Please give us a call, we can arrange a suitable time and I look forward to meeting you.

Read all about what we do in Early Years by following this link: Early Years for Parents and read about what to expect in the Early Years Foundation Stage: a guide for parents by following this link:  What-to-expect-in-the-EYFS

You can look at our curriculum by following this link: Early Years Curriculum Plan

Information regarding the 2024/25 Baseline assessment information for parents of children in Diamond Class (Reception Year) can be read here: Information_for_parents_reception_baseline_assessment

Summer Term 1 2025

Welcome to the sunshine (we hope), welcome to the new term. It is lovely to see the children back, refreshed, excited to see each other and full of smiles. They are also full of enthusiasm for their new learning, let the questions and enquiries begin.

Please click on the link to read our summer term class newsletter: Diamond Summer 1 newsletter

Team Diamond

 

About Diamond Class – Reception 

     

In Diamond class we like to believe the sky is the limit if we only try our best!

We love to be busy in our classroom, maybe working with an adult, maybe exploring with our friends or maybe developing our own ideas. Whichever it is, there is never a dull moment! Our classroom needs to feel like home and it needs to feel like ours. We proudly display our work, models and pictures and love to be surrounded by colour to brighten our days. We like learning about lots and lots of things and have very inquisitive minds. In fact sometimes our teacher has to talk about something completely different than she planned, when little people have questions we need to find answers!!!  But that’s what makes Diamond fun, having chance to investigate the things that interest us, the things that inspire us and in this way our days can be filled with learning and exploring together. Even the village ducks are keen to see what is happening beyond the classroom door!!

Love the outdoors? We have our all weather area with free flow to a range of activities all day long , our garden area gives opportunity to den build and get messy in the mud kitchen. Just beyond the garden we love the environmental area where we have chance to find some of our favourite things. Bugs, bugs and more bugs! (though we sometimes need to remember to leave them where they are as they are not full time class members!) The school field is close by too, feeling energetic and we can go for a run, kick a ball or play hide and seek. Feeling exhausted then there are daisy chains to be made or we can relax in the shade with a story. There really is plenty to choose from!

Our fantastic outdoor areas are central to learning in Diamond Class. We are lucky enough to have a garden area for den building and mud play and an area that we can use in all weathers. Free flow between the classroom and our enclosed playground happens daily, with children having opportunity to access all areas of learning both inside and out.  We love being on our climbing frame, playing in the water, dressing up and pretend play.  The village ducks will often waddle by and when Mummy duck has her babies, it seems they have to come come to school too!   They help us to develop our maths work, but we have to count so many times as they never keep still for long!!

 

We also love the world beyond our classroom. We are very proud of our school and village. We love visiting the park, Horseshoe Hollow, local shops and thinking about how we can take care of the many special people and places in our lives.

We love our class outings. We have enjoyed super days out to Belton House, Yorkshire Wildlife Park, Tattershall Farm Park and Sundown Adventure Land. At Christmas we love our visit to the pantomime with the rest of the school, oh no we don’t, oh yes we do!!!

We like to take part in events and we love the sporting opportunities that come our way through our partnership with Carre’s Grammar Outreach. We also enjoy Remembrance, Children in Need, Comic Relief and World Book Day to name a few.