Driffield Church Of England Voluntary Controlled Infant School

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.  

We are now into single digit days in Starfish class – where has the year gone? One minute we are singing about conkers the next we are doing pictures for Driffield Show!

The curriculum has been taught, work completed, assessments done.

So – there is no phonics next week or anything to practise at home.

Please can they bring in a plastic carrier bag next week (NAMED) and we will be sending things home with them. Wellies and waterproofs will also be sent home.

Thank you for your support over the academic year.

Mrs.J and team.

What a busy week it was last week!

We started off with our summer disco, last Monday. The children had a great time, showing off their dance moves and playing different party games. Well done Noah and Felicity for your 'best dancer' awards!

On Wednesday, we tasted different pizza toppings and designed our own individual pizza. I was very proud of how everyone had a go at tasting the different toppings, many of us chose to have all 4 of the toppings on our pizza. This week, we will make, taste and evaluate the pizzas, we can’t wait!

It was Mrs Lawrence’s last week with us as a student teacher and we enjoyed a special day on Friday to say ‘Goodbye!’

Friday was also the Summer Fair. Thank you to everyone who contributed a prize or cakes and came along to support the event. It was lovely to see so many of you there and we even had some winners from the Treasure Map game from our class.

It is going to be another hot week this week, please ensure your child brings a hat and water bottle to school every day.

Once again thank you for your continued support. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Kind regards,

Mrs Dean and the Hedgehog Team

Week 5 news!

We started off the week with our Summer school disco! The children had some brilliant dance moves and had a great night.

This week in Phonics, we have learned more words ending in -er (painter, brighter), and words ending in -est (greenest, sweetest). Next week, we will asses the children on the words we have learned over the last five weeks.

In Maths, we have continued to secure our knowledge of composition of numbers up to 10, completing worksheets and practising our number formation.

This week as part of our DT, we have started to plan and design our own pizzas. We learned all about what a pizza is and how they are all different and we looked at where they originated on a map. Then, the children each had the opportunity to try various toppings including mushrooms, red peppers, ham and sweetcorn. They used their design sheet to tick or cross whether they wanted each topping on their pizza. Then, they drew what their pizza will look like. Next Wednesday we will make our pizzas, cook them, taste them and evaluate them. The children are very excited for this!

Thank you so much to everyone who came to our Summer Fair! It was a great afternoon.

Have a great weekend,

Miss Corrigan and Mrs Chapman

The Seals have had a fun-filled week of learning. We have been busy telling the time to both the hour and half past the hour in Maths. In English, we finished writing our stories based on The Hundred Decker Bus! Our bean plants were finally ready to go home so we completed our last diary entries in Science. We also went on a class trip to Kingsmill woods where we identified trees, flowers and created our own land art!

This week the Year Two children have been completing the final rehearsals for our show ‘Eddie the Penguin saves the world’. They have worked so hard learning their parts and are excited to perform next week. Just a gentle reminder that performances are on Wednesday 8 July at 6pm and Thursday 9 July at 2pm. Please can the children return to school at 5:30pm on Wednesday 8 July for us to get them ready for the evening performance.

Thank you!