Driffield Church Of England Voluntary Controlled Infant School

What a year it has been! The Kestrels have had a super year and have worked very hard. They have been a pleasure to teach and they will be missed by myself and Miss Brough. I'm sure they will continue to let their lights shine and do us proud.

I wish them all the best of luck as they move into Year 3!

Have a lovely summer!

Miss Dean. 

What a fantastic final week we have had! 

We want to say a huge thank you to all parents and carers for all of your support this year. It has been great getting to know you all.

It has been a pleasure to teach the Badgers this year. We are very proud of the progress each child has made this year in all areas of learning. They have started off their school experience in the best possible way, and we look forward to seeing them shine in Year 1. 

Have a brilliant summer holidays, 

Miss Corrigan and Mrs Chapman 

Here we are on the last day of Year Two. It has been a pleasure teaching the Puffins this year and I know that Mrs Murray, Mrs Atkinson and myself will miss them all. Thank you for the support throughout the year and for allowing us to take care of your children. 

To our little pufflings, you have worked so hard and really persevered with different challenges across the year. We are so incredibly proud of you all and wish you lots of luck and adventures in the future. Enjoy Year Three and keep letting your lights shine! 

#TeamPuffin

Where has the year gone? It doesn’t seem two minutes since the Seals were starting with us and now here we are; the last day of Year One! Mrs Sanders, Mrs Hill and I have loved seeing all of the Seals grow, learn and laugh over the year. Throughout the year, everyone has shown oodles of enthusiasm and they have worked extremely hard: thank you Seals. Thank you to all families for your support too; it has been a pleasure to get to know you all. We wish everyone a wonderful summer ahead and look forward to watching the old Seals letting their lights shine, as new Puffins, in September.

Thank you for a wonderful year in the Starfish classs. Time has just flown!

Have a lovely summer and we will see you all again in September when you are in Year 2. 

Thank you for all your support this year. 

Mrs.Jackson

Week 6 complete!

This week, we continued with our DT project and we made and tasted our pizzas. The children followed the plan they had created last week. They spread the tomato sauce onto the English muffin base, added their toppings of choice referring back to their plan and used kitchen scissors to cut the toppings up to put onto their base. Finally, they sprinkled on some grated cheese ready for the adults to put into the oven. In the afternoon, the children tasted their pizzas. Each child evaluated their pizza, discussing with an adult what they liked, what they didn’t like, and things they would change if they made it again.

This week we have completed individual phonics assessments. We are very proud of the progress the children have made.

The children enjoyed cakes and biscuits in the EYFS playground this morning as a celebratory picnic, celebrating nearly a year of our wonderful outdoor area with some special visitors.

Next week will be our final week in school! I can’t believe we’ve made it to this point in the year already!

The children will have lots of opportunities to share their favourite parts of the year and celebrate being a badger for one more week! We will have a whole school celebration on Friday morning.

Thank you for your continued support, have a great weekend.

Miss Corrigan and Mrs Chapman

We have had another brilliant week in The Hive and have enjoyed lots of water play (again) to help us keep cool!

We are enjoying the various number songs for Messy Maths as well as our Little Wandle Nursery Rhymes. Phonics will be a little bit different next year but we will still use the same Nursery Rhymes. If you need a new book of Nursery Rhymes providing please speak to a member of staff or pop a note in your child's book bag and we will make one to be sent home. 

This afternoon saw The Hive very busy with parents who came to spend time with us for our Family Picnic - we all had a lovely time! 

Have a lovely weekend.

Only one week to go - The Bumblebee Team. 

What a fantastic week it has been!

We have continued with our daily phonics and completed our end of year phonic assessments. I am over the moon with the children’s reading of both decodable words and tricky words. They have all worked so hard and this deserves to be celebrated.

In maths this week, we have looked at the composition of the number ten. We have used the rhyme Ten in the Bed, tens frames & counters and whole & part models to reinforce pairs of numbers which total 10.

On Wednesday, we made the pizzas we designed last week. The children showed great care and control over the tools to make a small, individual pizza. After lunch, we tasted our pizzas and then we evaluated them. Everyone loved their pizza and most of us ate it all up in school, a few children decided to take half home to eat later. The children then thought about any changes they could make to improve their pizza.

Today, we celebrated the end of term with a special tea party in the outside area. We invited some special guests to out tea party, we welcomed some of our governors, Mr Tim Dewhirst and Mr Charlie Dewhirst MP. The tea party was a celebration of a year playing in our new outside area, which was generously supported by donations from The Sandy Dewhirst Foundation, JS and EC Rymer, The Joseph and Annie Castle Trust and the East Riding Council.

Please don’t forget the ‘Meet Your New teacher’ drop in on Monday 13 July (3.15 – 3.45pm). Once you have picked your child up, go around the back of school and in through the Year 1 entrance to meet Mrs Jackson in Starfish Classroom.

This will be my last weekly update, as next week is the last week of term. I just wanted to take this opportunity to say a massive ‘Thank You’ for all your continued support throughout the year. I have loved this year with the amazing Hedgehogs!

Have a lovely weekend and try to stay cool!

Kind regards

Mrs Dean

This week the children have been practising different sketching techniques. They worked on creating different lines and using coloured pencils and sketching pencils to explore shading. 

This week, the Seals have been working thoughtfully and carefully to create paintings of 'beautiful butterflies'. This is the painting competition for Y1 for Driffield Show and some will be selected to be displayed there. All children applied the painting skills they have learned this year, extremely well; making tints for the background, colour mixing, sketching an idea and precise brushwork. They should all be proud of their finished pieces.