Driffield Church Of England Voluntary Controlled Infant School

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!

Another week has flown by!

In science we have been looking at plant parts that we can eat – our radish and lettuce are ready so we gave them a taste test! The radish got mixed reviews some really liked them whilst others thought they were really spicy! Most enjoyed the lettuce.

We all “shuffled up” on Thursday to meet our new teachers – as you will have seen the Starfish will become Kestrels with Miss.Dean in Year 2. They came back from their visit quite excited.  Also last Thursday we really enjoyed the handwashing session with the school nurse. We had some special gel on our hands, then washed then and when we put them in the light box we could see where we had missed.

Phonics next week

Review sc st wr wh -listen whistle castle science muscle scent

Review /sh/  -session delicious action precious social cautious chef sugar special

Review suffixes –ed and –ing  Suffixes ed: searched walked scared wriggled gnashed itched  Suffixes –ing: chasing sweeping climbing shrieking slamming amazing

Review words with a schwa - different crocodile celebrate difficult animal again

Maths, we will continue with time reading a clock to o’clock and half past.

Thank you for your continued support.

Starfish team.

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