Driffield Church Of England Voluntary Controlled Infant School

What a hot week it has been! The children have been amazing, despite the high temperatures. We hope you enjoyed our Stay and Play session on Wednesday afternoon. Thank you for supporting these sessions throughout the year, the children enjoy them so much.

This week the children have spent some time in their new class, with their new teacher. All the Hedgehogs will be moving to Starfish class in September and their teacher will be Mrs Jackson.

I hope you enjoyed reading your child’s end of year report. If you have any questions about the contents of the report, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Next week, we will begin our end of year food technology project. The children will taste different toppings and then design their own mini pizza. The children then make these pizzas in Week 6 and then evaluate the taste.

On Monday it is our Early Years end of year disco. If your child is coming to the disco, they need to bring a change of clothing to change into. The disco ends at 4.30pm, please collect your child from the front garden gate as normal, at this time.

On Friday it is our school Summer Fair. The children can be collected from the front garden gate at 2pm. You can then take your children round to the back playground where you will find a range of stalls, games and activities for the whole family. The fair will end at approximately 3.30pm, when the raffle will be drawn.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend with your family. Next week is Mrs Lawrence’s last week with us. We all wish her well as she starts her teaching career in September.

Many thanks for your continued support,

Mrs Dean, Mrs Lawrence & the Hedgehog Team

This week in Kestrel class, the children have been learning about water safety and what to do if they get into difficulty. They listened well to the volunteers from the RNLI. 

In Art this week, we were looking at observational drawings and each child chose a different real life object to draw. They took their time with their drawings and did a super job! 

In Science, we looked at parents and their offspring, the children had great knowledge of this and could match them up well!

In Maths, we continued looking at pictograms and the children had to look carefully at the key to see how many the symbol represented. They used their knowledge of counting in 2's, 5's and 10's to help them work it out. 

I hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Miss Dean.

This week the children took part in a water safety workshop that was run by volunteers from the RNLI. It was super to see them putting their knowledge to the test and impress with their understanding of how to stay safe around water. 

This week the children have loved lots of water play both inside and outside of the classroom! We have paddled, sprayed and poured! 

Our Nursery Rhyme Time has been lovely and the children, as always, have enjoyed joining in with the actions. For our Maths we have enjoyed lots of singing too and counting both forwards and backwards with our communication boards. 

Thank you for the donations for the Summer Fair. 

I have sent an email about the focus for Tapestry this week so please do read that.

Have a lovely weekend. 

Bumblebee Team

What a warm week it has been!

The children have been great staying safe in the sunshine, always remembering to wear their hats and refilling their water bottles.

Our book of the week has been Duck in a Truck by Jez Alborough. We enjoyed looking at different rhyming words, and the children showed great understanding of the book.

This week, the children enjoyed visiting their new class! Please find your child’s school report in their bookbag- they went home on Thursday evening.

Next Monday is our school disco! Please ensure your child has disco clothes in a named carrier bag- we will get them changed in school at the end of the day. Please collect your child from the main entrance at 4:30pm.

Next Friday is our Summer Fair. This takes place in the school playground and school hall. Please collect your child at 2pm from the EYFS front garden (where hedgehog children usually enter/exit school). If you are unable to collect your child at 2pm, they will remain in school with Mrs Wood. Once you have collected your child, make your way around to the playground to take part in our Summer Fair! We will have lots of stalls including a tombola stall and a raffle. We will call the raffle at 3:30pm. We look forward to seeing you all there.

If you have any questions about any of the upcoming events over the next few weeks, please ask us before/after school.

Have a great weekend,

Miss Corrigan and Mrs Chapman

What a great week we’ve had since our last app post.

We all really enjoyed Kingsmill, we went on a tree ID hunt, we saw some solidified tree sap – which at first some of us thought was honey. We learned about cuckoo spit and how it is protecting the insect eggs of the froghopper. We also saw hundreds of native orchids and buttercups. Finally, we went to see the ducks, geese, coots and moorhens, we took 2 bags of frozen peas as this is better for them than bread. A few Starfish also seemed to enjoy the peas too.

Yesterday (Tuesday) we had a fabulous day at Sewerby Hall – we spent the morning looking at all the different animals and birds in the zoo. In the afternoon we were inside the hall with the education team consolidating our learning about Amy Johnson.

Phonics is reviewing previous learning

- daughter naughty caught taught four pour your board roar score more snore before

sneeze breeze freeze dance choice chance worse please noise horse

thumb lamb gnash climb knock sign

large bridge badge ledge change plunge energy gym

move improve parents shoe thought whole who

In Maths we will be moving on to Time. Next weeks focus will be - Before and after, days of the week, months of the year and hours, minutes and seconds.

At the summer fayre Starfish are doing the “Pull a Bottle” stall. Please can you support us by sending a bottle into school. Any bottle at all, we tend to get everything from wine to tomato sauce, water to bubble bath. All we ask is that it is unopened and in date – so please have a rummage in your cupboards.

Finally, we can’t believe there are only 3 more weeks after this one. Thank you for all your support. Let’s hope for a slightly cooler week next week.

Starfish Team

What a busy week!

The Kestrels started the week learning all about first aid. They had lots of knowledge and answered questions well. Our visitors were very impressed!

On Tuesday, we visited the Methodist Church and took part in some activities all about peace.

In Maths, we have been looking at statistics and how we can record data using a tally, tables and pictograms. They have done a great job at this so far!

In English, the children have written their own acrostic poems all about Tigers! They were very creative and used lots of super adjectives. 

In History, we had our history mystery and worked out that we will be look at the Vicytorian Era over the next couple of weeks. They were very interested in this and knew lots of facts already! 

Hope you all have a lovely weeked, see you on Monday for another busy week!

Miss Dean

What a hot day to finish a busy week!

The children have enjoyed making lemonade at the lemonade stand in the shade this morning.

We started the week by learning all about keeping safe near water as part of Drowning Prevention Week.

In phonics this week we have been learning to read and write words ending in 's' and 'es'. Words including: floats, crowds, paints, spoons, splashes and crunches. We have continued to practise writing dictated sentences, using our phonics knowledge to support our spelling.

If you would like to practice some captions or sentences at home, try some of these:                                    caption - pat a dog                                                                                                                                              sentence - I went to the book shop.                                                                                                                       more challenging sentence - He went to the big fun fair. 

In maths this week, we have started some daily recording of our maths work to get us ready for Year 1. This week we have looked at the composition of the numbers 6 and 7. Many of the Hedgehogs were wonderful at this work, but we found writing our numbers a little bit tricky (many back to front numbers). We will continue to practise this in school, but any extra practise at home will really help your child to build confidence and independence.

Next week, we invite you for one last Stay and Play session. Hedgehog parents/carers are invited into school at 2pm on Wednesday 24th June. We will go straight into 'Busy Time' and then we will finish the session with a reflection of all of our favourite parts of the past year. We really hope you will be able to join us.

We hope you have a lovely weekend with your family.

Thank you for your continued support,

Mrs Dean, Mrs Lawrence & the Hedgehog Team

This week, the Seals have been very creative! In English, we planned our own stories, following a similar format to The Hundred Decker Bus. We learned why authors use repetition and discussed a variety of amazing adjectives to describe our characters and settings. Now that our sequencing templates are finished, we are excited to write our stories next week! We have been planning in Art, too, because we will soon be visiting Kingsmill to create our own land art. Because great artists sketch their work first, we made drawings of the natural materials and patterns we are planning to use in our designs. In History, we created moth designs for Amy Johnson and decorated them with significant events from her life. Finally, in PE, we have been practising our athletics skills through relay races and hurdles!

Another week done! It goes so quickly!

We have, as usual fitted such a lot in, we have enjoyed lots of outdoor play on the bikes, visited the Sensory Bus, played with a range of construction materials and enjoyed lots of group time singing sessions to name just a few things.  

The Nursery Rhyme for this week and next week is Incey Wincey Spider and the children have really enjoyed this one, sometimes we find a rhyme that everyone seems to love equally and this is one of those for sure! The Rhyme we use can be found with all of the rhymes for our Phonic Curriculum on https://www.littlewandle.org.uk/resources/for-parents/#tabnametabNurseryRhymesVideos 

All of the children have spent time in EYFS outside as usual and some of them are spending more time in the EYFS Unit with ERP staff which is lovely.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to our Family Picnic which is on Friday 10 July 2pm -3pm in The Hive. For those of you who came last year you will know it was a relaxed session where you were able to see where the children spend the school day learning and playing.

On Thursday 2 July we have a drop in session in School with Adele Bratley, Schools and Family Help – if any of you have anything you think Adele may be able to help with or discuss please do drop in between 9am and 10am.

Friday 26 June is non- uniform day in exchange for bringing a prize for the School Summer Fair (if your child prefers to come in uniform this is absolutely fine)

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine.

Bumblebee Team