Driffield Church Of England Voluntary Controlled Infant School

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

This week the children were invited to the Methodist Church where they watched a Bible story being acted out by members of the church community. During the performance the children watched 'Jesus' calming the storm, and this encouraged the children to think about ways to be calm when life gets busy. After the story the children completed some fun activites which would remind them of their visit. 

Week 3 complete!

This week our focus has been trains. Our story this week was The Train Ride by June Crebbin. The children used their imaginations to explain what they might see on a train journey. We have also compared trains in the past compared to trains now, focusing on how trains were powered in different ways.

In Phonics this week, we have been learning new words ending in -s (floats, sports), words ending in s making a ‘z’ sound (crowds, trains), words ending in -es (splashes, dresses) and some longer words (balloon, perfect).

In Maths, we are practising completing our work at tables, completing sheets and working on our number formation in preparation for year 1!

In PE, we worked on balance and coordination skills.

Next week, is our final end of year stay and play! Parents are invited into school to come and play alongside their children, and we will end the session by reflecting on the year, looking at a slideshow of pictures and discussing our favourite memories of EYFS.

Next Friday is non uniform day. Please bring in a tombola prize as a contribution to our Summer Fair (this could be toys, chocolate, gift sets etc.)

Have a great weekend in the sunshine,

Miss Corrigan and Mrs Chapman

Another exciting week has been had in the Starfish class.

Sorry for any confusion last week it is tomorrow Thursday 18 June that we are going to Kingsmill to look at different trees, do some leaf ID, observe minibeasts and learn about looking after our local environment. Forecast looks good but please cover legs and bring wellies if they aren’t already in school.

Yesterday (Tuesday 16) we did our environmental art inspired by Andy Goldsworthy in the playground – I’m sure those of you who saw it think they did a splendid job.

Coming up next week –

Tuesday – trip to Sewerby Hall where we will look at the various animals in the zoo (links to our science) and then a session in the hall with the education team learning more about Amy Johnson. Children do need their uniforms on.

Thursday – the children will be spending a session with the school nursing team to learn all about hand washing. After that they will spend some time with their new teacher for next year in their new classroom……. Exciting!

Another reminder for those that do not have sun cream in school – please sign it in the office. Hopefully we might see some summery weather soon – a sun hat is also needed in school, it does get very hot in the playground.

Phonics will be a review of the GPC’s sh – ti, ci, si. Ssi

Maths money – recognising coins & notes and their values. So please empty purses and wallets out and let them explore and count in 2s,5s,10,s with the coins.

Another busy week! 
This week we have continued to take part in activities based on our nursery rhyme row row your boat.

We enjoyed another visit from the sensory bus! The children loved playing with the gel fishes and the slinky, and they had great fun testing out the spongey floor panels.

Next week, our new nursery rhyme is Incey Wincey spider

Next week in maths, we will look at the nursery rhyme 5 little monkeys.
Have a great weekend,

The Bumblebee Team 

We have had another busy week in Hedgehog Class. We have continued with our learning about transport. This week we have learnt all about bikes. Miss Chambers very kindly let us borrow her bike and we looked at all the different parts of a modern bike. We then looked at photographs of old and new bicycles and sorted them. This started a great discussion about how bikes have changed over the years.

Our Book of the Week has been Mrs Armitage on Wheels by Quentin Blake. The children loved learning all about the different thing Mrs Armitage added to her bicycle and they came up with some brilliant ideas of things their bike could have. 

We have continued to read and spell words and sentences containing Phase 4 words in our phonics lessons. Our reading sentences have included:

The frogs croak and sing in the night.                                                                                             I can see a crack on my screen.                                                                                               The cat is stuck up the tree.                                                                                                  Three foxes ran out into the street.

In maths this week we have been revising and assessing all the different parts of the Number and Numerical Patterns Early Learning Goals. This information will be used to inform our end of year data which we are collecting over the next few weeks. Please keep practising number bonds at home, which two small numbers can add together to make a larger number (up to 10). Hit the button is a great game for practising number bonds to make 10 and also for practising doubles. If your child would like to play it at home, please use the link below:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

We are hoping for a drier week next week. But we have manged to enjoy the sunshine we have seen this week. The children have really enjoyed large scale construction outside. The photo shows some of the den making which was happening this afternoon.

Have a lovely weekend with your family.

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

Kind regards

Mrs Dean, Mrs Lawrence and the Hedgehog Team.

The Year Two children have had a great time at their sleepover. From archery and curling to circus skills and dance, they have tried and enjoyed it all. We finished our afternoon with a film and snacks and we think that there will be some sleepy children returning home tonight.