Driffield Church Of England Voluntary Controlled Infant School

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

For our Heart Smart lesson this week, the children in Hedgehog Class need to bring in something from home that is special to their family. It could be something cultural, religious, sporting, historical, anything that will tell the other children something about their family. 

We need these items on Wednesday morning, for our lesson in the afternoon. They will be returned to you on Wednesday at home time.

Many thanks for your continued support,

Mrs Dean

This week we have been thinking about a contrasting location. We have been comparing life in Driffield with life in Africa. We have used the book, Handa’s Surprise, to find out about the animals we may find in Africa. The children have also learnt that Africa is made up of many different countries and life is different in the various regions. They have learnt that Africa has hot, sandy deserts, large grasslands, called the savannah and even a rainforest. It also has the mighty River Nile and the huge Mount Kilimanjaro.

The children have also tasted some of the fruits from Handa’s basket. On Wednesday they tasted some of the different fruits and then recorded if they liked them or not. The children brought home their recording sheets yesterday. If may find the results interesting as many of the children tried some new fruits and the majority were very positive. Well done to everyone who tried something new.

In phonics this week, we have been reading and writing longer words, with the endings: ing, ed and est. Words such as swimming, hunted and plumpest. Next week we will be assessing the children’s ability to read some of these longer words by chunking them up and decoding each part using their phonetical knowledge.

In maths this week, we have been using shapes to solve problems, we have used smaller shapes to combine to make pictures and bigger shapes. We have also decomposed shapes by cutting them up. In today’s lesson we cut a rectangle in half to make two triangles, we then used these triangles to make different shapes. We also played a lovely online game to support quick recall of one more than a number, if you would like to play with your child at home, please use the link below:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/robot-more-or-less

Next week is sports day. The children need to come to school in their PE kit as normal on Tuesday, as we will be having a practise of all the races for sports day. Then the Early Years Sports morning is on Thursday 21 May at 9.30am at the Driffield Recreation Ground. Your child will need to come to school in their PE kit on Thursday too. Refreshments will be available to buy at the Recreation Club (cash only). We hope you will be able to join us to support the children in their races. The races should last approximately an hour.

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

Have a lovely weekend with your family,

Kind regards

Mrs Dean, Mrs Lawrence and the Hedgehog Team  

This week, Year 2 have been very busy cooking pasta sauces in DT, learning about staying healthy, visiting church for Pentecost and starting a science investigation about what plants need to stay healthy. They have all worked very hard and shown some excellent listening skills throughout the week.

Just a couple of reminders; it is the last swimming session on Tuesday, so don't forget to bring swimming kits and it is sports day on Wednesday afternoon, PE kits need to be worn! On Friday next week we will be visiting the Junior school to play mini games of 3 in a bucket, if children could come in PE kit for this too, that would be great!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend,

See you Monday.

Thanks, Year 2 Team.

Another week has flown by! 

On Tuesday the class went to church to learn all about Pentecost - they went around various stations and really enjoyed themselves. 

We have been practising for sports day! Don't forget we are on Wednesday morning at 9.30 at the cricket ground! Let’s hope the weather improves. 

We are getting quite proficient at digital writing - we have learnt all about bold, underline and italics keys, changing fonts, sizes and colour of text. We are super great at logging on.

We hope you have a good weekend.

Starfish Team

We have really enjoyed having the parachute out this week, both inside and outside of the classroom – we have used as an activity to sing lots of nursery rhymes with and play with balls.

The children, as always have been really busy and we have got some new sensory equipment in the classroom which they have been enjoying, we have also arranged for a block of sessions for The Sensory Bus to visit us in school again, so that’s something nice to look forward to.

Don’t forget to use the link https://www.littlewandle.org.uk/resources/for-parents/#tabnametabNurseryRhymesVideos to access the Little Wandle Rhyme Time Nursery Rhymes which we use in school as a basis for our phonic lessons.

In Maths this week we have been looking at numbers 1-5 and using the song ‘Five Current Buns’ to support this. This is the version of the song we have been using https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/articles/zm4nmfr

Some of you may have noticed on Tapestry the Paper Based Communication Boards we are using increasingly. If you need one for home for a specific activity or part of a routine please let us know by either sending an email, catching one of us on the gate or popping a note in your child’s bookbag.

Have a lovely weekend

Bumblebee Team