Welcome to Water Class!

We are taught by Mrs Handford and our Teaching Assistant is Mrs Pilcher. 

There are currently 19 children in our Reception class. 

Even though we are the very youngest children in the school, we are always very busy! We are very lucky to have wonderful outdoor and indoor areas to enjoy.

In Water Class, we are kind to each other, we are learning to listen carefully and we try our best in everything that we do. 

Keep checking the class page for updates and photographs of the different things that we have been doing each week. 

Dear God

Help us to love and care,

To be gentle and fair.

Help us to work and play together.

Help us to live and grow together.

To always be glad to help each other.

Let us stay happy in your loving care.

Amen

Water Class Key Information

• Your child's individual Purple Mash login can be found stuck in the back cover of their Learning Log books. Please click the Learning Log Star below for more information about using Purple Mash at home. 
• Please practice putting on coats, shoes, jumpers, zips and buttons at home.
• Please bring Reading books to school every Friday. They will be changed and sent home every Monday. Each child will have a book from our reading scheme and another book. 
• Read this link for ideas to help you and your child read a wordless picture book
• https://www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading/raise-a-reader-blog/reading-without-words-why-and-how-wordless-books.html#:~:text=Reading%20Without%20Words%3A%20The%20Why%20and%20How%20of,tell%20your%20story%20with%20dramatic%20...%20More%20items
• Packed Lunches! Please try to ensure that your child can open the food that you put in their packed lunch box EG: packets of crisps, cheese strings, yoghurt lids. 
• PE is on a Monday. Please wear your PE kit to school with your school fleece or jumper/cardigan on this day. If it is cold then tracksuit bottoms can be worn. 
• W/B Monday 28th September 8.50am- 2.50pm until further notice
• WELLIES !! Please bring a pair of wellies to school that are named. They will need to stay in school.  
• Unfortunately, your child is not allowed to bring anything to school from home. 
• Learning Logs will be sent home on Friday with different activities for you to do at home over the term. More information can be found by clicking the star below called Learning Logs 

If you have any queries or would like to speak to me, please email:

rebecca@stjosephs-aylesham.org. I will aim to reply within 24 hours. If it is urgent do telephone the school office. 

Water Class have had an amazing first two weeks together and the children have grown in confidence and made new friends! They coped extremely well in their new environment and played happily together.

Over these two weeks, we have really enjoyed a new book called 'Here We Are' by Oliver Jeffers which is part of a whole school project. There have been lots of fun, creative and engaging activities that have given us plenty to talk about together we have shared some fantastic thoughts and ideas. See below for photographs of us playing and exploring our new environment.

Hello Water Class

We are really looking forward to seeing you all on Monday morning at 9.10am. We have lots of fun things ready for you to do and we know that you are going to have a great time. 

We hope that you are looking forward to starting school and making new friends. Our PE day will be on a Monday but we won't start wearing our PE Kit to school until 28th September. 

If you have any questions please contact the school office who will be able to help you. 

See you soon 
Mrs Handford and Mrs Pilcher