Welcome to Valley Class
Our Valley Class children are our Reception, Nursery and Rising Threes. We aim to provide a fun, inspiring environment where all children feel safe, nurtured and valued and therefore are able to learn and reach their full potential.
We are kind, gentle and we always try our best.
In Valley Class, we learn through a creative and play based approach, which aims to provide a rich, stimulating and nurturing environment that inspires all children.
We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum to develop knowledge, skills and understanding through the 7 areas of learning. These are Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED), Physical Development, Communication and Language, Literacy, Maths, Expressive Arts and Design and Understanding the World. We use Development Matters to shape our curriculum, environment and assessment. Find out more here: Development Matters (Revised, 2021)
Topics and lessons are enquiry based and begin with a question for learning. Our topics ensure curriculum coverage whilst leaving scope to follow the children's interests.
Meet our staff
Mrs Leicester
CLASS TEACHER
Autumn 1
Ourselves
Our overarching theme for our learning throughout the Autumn term will be ‘Ourselves’ as we learn to answer the question 'Who is in my community?'.
Throughout this theme we will learn about the similarities and differences between ourselves, our friends, our families and others throughout our community. We will learn about things our friends enjoy doing with their families and learn to respectfully discuss similarities and differences between different families. We will also have lots of fun getting to know each other, building new friendships and learning how to be a good friend. Following on from this we will learn the roles of people throughout our community who help us including adults who work in our school and throughout Hebden Bridge.
Questions we will learn to answer this half term include:
Who belongs in Valley Class?
What are our promises and why do we need them?
Where do I live?
Who is in my family?
Are families all the same?
What makes me special?
Who helps me at home?
For more information please read our curriculum overview.
Our photo gallery
Class Letters and
Curriculum Overviews
Home Learning
How can you help your child? Each week the children will bring home:
a new phonetically decodable reading book
a book from the school library that they have chosen
new sounds to practise (via class dojo)
Remote Learning
Class Dojo will be used as the main platform for remote learning if part or whole school closure is required. Some resources may need to be uploaded to this class page and we will direct families if needed. Please ensure you login and check Class Dojo every day to access a wide range of cross curricular home learning activities.