I have a contact form that resides on my page.php with the follower fields

    public function ContactForm() {

            $fields = new FieldList(

            new CheckboxField('Teacher'),
            new CheckboxField('Scientist'),
            new CheckboxField('Artist'),
            new CheckboxField('Writer'),
            new TextField('Name'),
            new EmailField('Email'),
            new TextareaField('Message'),
            new CheckboxField('Newsletter')
        ); 

Is there a way that I can add an additional text above the four check boxes saying something 'Like You are a;'
I know it's possible to do this from the html but is it possible to add text in the form function itself?

Yes you can add LiteralField as below.

        $fields = new FieldList( 
			new LiteralField (
			   $name = "literalfield",
			   $content = '<b>some bold text</b> and <a href="http://silverstripe.com">a link</a>'
			),        
            new CheckboxField('Teacher'),
            new CheckboxField('Scientist'),
            new CheckboxField('Artist'),
            new CheckboxField('Writer'),        
            new TextField('Name'), 
            new EmailField('Email'), 
            new TextareaField('Message')
        ); 

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Thanks Thomas, that's exactly what i needed.
Rob