Driffield Church Of England Voluntary Controlled Infant School

Welcome back! We hope you had a lovely half term holiday in the sunshine.

We are now entering your child's last half term in Early Years Foundation Stage. As always, this half term is a busy one, please make sure you check the newsletter for dates for your diary. We will be holding one last Stay and Play session on Wednesday 24 June at 2pm. We will review your child’s first year school with photographs and the children will share their favourite memories from their first year at school. We really hope you will be able to join us in the classroom one last time before the children move up to Year One.

In phonics this half term we will continue to read and spell word with adjacent consonants, with a focus on words contain the Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs. For example, words such as: toast, paint, clown etc. The children will also consolidate all the tricky words they have learnt this year. Just before the half term holiday we sent home the Phase 4 tricky words, please continue to practise reading these words by sight as they can’t be segmented and blended back together. In reading our focus is fluency. Once your child is confident using their phonics to decode encourage them to read simple regular words by sight to improve their fluency. If their home reading book features a character such as, ‘Jack’, encourage them to recognise and read the name, rather than sounding it out every time they come to this word in the book. If you have any questions about this please don’t hesitate to ask.

In maths we are revising all the different elements of the Number and Numerical Patterns Early Learning Goals and assessing the children to see if they are working at the expected level. Please keep practising the composition of numbers to 10 at home, can your child tell you 2 small numbers which add up to make 5, 7, 8 etc.

Our topic this half term is, ‘Let’s Move.’ We have generated a list of vehicles and talked about different ways to travel to various places in the world. Next week we will look in particular at bicycles. The children will look at a modern bike and name the different parts. They will then look at how bikes have changed over time and sort pictures of old and new bicycles. If you have a bike at home, allow your child to have a close look at it and name some of the different parts, such as the brakes, tyres, bell, spokes, chain, seat, pedals etc.

As always if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask.

Thank you for your continued support.

Kind regards

Mrs Dean, Mrs Lawrence and the Hedgehog Team.

Year 2 have had a super week!

They have been practicing for their end of year performance and we are all very impressed! 

In Maths we have started telling the time, looking at o'clock and half past the hour. In English the children have been planning to perfom the poem, 'Elephant.' They have been thinking about the tone of their voice and actions they would include.

Today, we went to the Junior school for multi-skills. We were proud of all children as they let their lights shine and did a great job at all of the stations. 

Thanks, Year 2 Team.

We have had a wonderful first week back and have enjoyed lots of Sensory Play as well as the visit from the Sensory Bus. We have some more visits planned for the Sensory Bus to visit us so that's really exciting. 

We are carrying on with 'row Row Row Your Boat' for our Foundations for Phonics session and we will also be using the signed version of the Nursery Rhyme which can be found on BBCiplayer. 

For our Maths we will be focused on 'Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed' which we are looking forward to. 

Just a reminder that PE is a Thursday and we do ask that all children either wear (or bring) trainers with them please. It is ball skills at the moment so any throwing and cathing you can do at home would be great. We are focussing on throwing balls/beanbags in to a big bucket which is lots of fun! 

Have a lovely weekend, The Bumblebee Team

This week in Science, the Seals enjoyed planting their very own bean plants. They are excited to see how their plants grow and change over time. In History, we have been learning about the famous historical figure Amy Johnson. After finding and discussing important clues, such as Amy's Cup of Courage and her route map, we plotted her flight path from the UK to Australia on our own maps. We even had a go at flying Jason the plane! In Art, we started learning about land art and compared the styles of different artists. After discussing artistic features, we selected our favourite pieces and gave reasons for our choices. It seems there are some promising future art critics in the Seals class!

Welcome back! It's great to have all the children back, and to hear what they have been up to during the half term. 

This half term, our topic is Transport. Over the weeks, we will learn about different modees of transport, we will read a range of books linked to transport both fiction and non fiction, and we will learn all about the history of transport. 

In Phonics, we are continuing to learn new words. Some of the words we have read this week are: joint, smart, bleed, bright. 

In Maths, we have been revising odd and even numbers and double facts. We have also introduced a new mathematical resource called a rekenrek (pictured above). Rekenreks are useful resources for various areas of our number curriculum including subitising and composition of numbers.

In PE, our topic is fitness. This weeks focus was jumping. 

Please ensure you have checked the most up to date newsletter as there are plenty of diary dates to note down over the last few weeks before summer! 

Many thanks, 

Miss Corrigan and Mrs Chapman

What a great first sports day we had! The children were very well behaved and were very supportive of their friends. The children all did brilliantly in their four races: sprint, egg and spoon, beanbag race and balancing a quoit on their heads. Lots of fun had by all. Thank you for all of the adults who came along to support.

This week in Maths we have explored sharing and grouping. Eg we have 12 sheep, and we can have 3 sheep per field, how many fields will we need?

In Phonics, we have revised a selection of words and tricky words that have been taught so far.

The children were very excited to witness not 1, but 3 butterflies emerge from their chrysalis this week! We have really enjoyed watching the life cycle of a butterfly happen in real time.

Have a great week off in the sunshine, and we will see you back at school on Tuesday 2 June.

Miss Corrigan and Mrs Chapman

What a fantastic end to a brilliant half term. One of our butterflies hatched out of its chrysalis last night.  The children were so excited! We decided to let it go this afternoon. We gathered in the front garden and let the butterfly go, it stayed on Mrs Dean’s hand for a short while and then flew off to explore the garden.

Yesterday was a great success! The children all enjoyed their first school sports day and the weather was kind to us. Thank you for coming along and supporting the children in all their races. I’m sure you’ll agree they all did a fantastic job.

I hope you all have a lovely half term in the sunshine!

The children return to school on Tuesday 2 June. Please make sure your child brings a sun hat and a waterproof coat with them every day.

If you haven’t sent in sun cream yet, please make you hand some in after the half term holiday.

Many thanks for your continued support

Mrs Dean, Mrs Lawrence and the Hedgehog Team.

It's hard to believe that we have completed another half-term! 

We have had another busy week, as always, and have enjoyed lots of water play, playing with tubes and pipes as well as our water wheels. 

We are increasingly using our communication boards for different areas of learning and different aspects of the school day. If you think they would be helpful for at home please send an email in to school or note down some of the things you might use them for and we will do our best to support this.

Remember that we love to see what you have been up to when you share things on Tapestry, it can be days out, family visits or something your child has achieved or enjoyed – the children love watching themselves on the Interactive Whiteboard when we share them!

We have a new Nursery Rhyme for next half term which you can find in your Nursery Rhyme pack as well as by following the link https://www.littlewandle.org.uk/resources/for-parents/#tabnametabNurseryRhymesVideos and https://www.littlewandle.org.uk/resources/for-parents/#tabnametabNurseryRhymeDownloads

We hope you all have a lovely holiday and we look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 2 June.

The Bumblebee Team

The year 2 children had a super sports day!

They all persevered and took part in all races. We are really proud of them all and was lovely to see them cheering each other on!

Hope you all have a lovely half term.

Thanks, 

Year 2 Team.

Well, that’s another half term over!

Thank you to everyone that was able to come to Sports Day – we were very lucky with the weather! The children did really well, I’m not sure I could have run around the cricket ground.

This week we have been making our class mascot out of Modroc which is messy but fun. He will dry over the holidays and then we can paint him.

In computing this half term, we have really developed our word processing skills. Next half term we start animations and using the programme Scratch Jnr – this is the beginning of learning to code.

History will see us learning all about Amy Johnson and her travels. We will visit Sewerby Hall and work with the education team there looking at lots of artefacts.

Science will continue to look at plants and observing change and where our food comes from.

For those of you that like to know where we are up to in phonics –

/ai/ eigh aigh ey ea  - eight straight break great [they] grey prey

/n/ kn gn - know knee knock sign gnaw gnash

/m/ mb thumb lamb comb climb crumb bomb

/ear/ ere eer  deer cheer sneer steer [here] meerkat

Tricky words - our their two once busy beautiful pretty hour

Longer words - chasing playful triumphant sweeping shrieking whispering

We hope you all have a lovely half term break and a gentle reminder that we are back on TUESDAY 2 June.

Thank you for your continued support.

Starfish Team