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Exploring The World By Numbers And Measurements!

On Wednesday afternoon, Class 8 had an exciting, thought-provoking and engaging maths session all about exploring the different possibilities numbers can describe around the world. Instead of having a question and finding the answer, it was flipped the other way around so we had...
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Our Lives…

On Tuesday morning, Class 8 looked at the key features of a biography in our English lesson. The children went in pairs and took it in turns to ask a series of interesting open and closed questions about each other’s lives so far!  
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Next Week in Class 6

Next Week in Class 6 Next week in English we will be writing newspaper reports about The Blitz. In our topic lesson we will complete our diary writing about Park Grove Primary School during World War II. In our Science work next week, we will learn about how magnets are used in...
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Perfect Presentations!

On the last Friday of half term, Park Grove Year 6’s gave presentations to other Year 6’s about what they did during their trip to either NatWest or John Lewis. The NatWest group presented the range of different activities they did, such as creating their own cafe and to try and...
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Homework Project

Your next homework project will have a P.E. theme. We would like you to write and lead a short warm-up activity of approximately five minutes for a P.E. lesson related to our current hockey unit. You could use existing ideas such as follow the leader or you could make up an...
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Can you feel the Force?

The rehearsals for our class assembly are well underway and we hope you enjoy seeing it next Tuesday morning!
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The Park Grove Fire

As it is the 20th anniversary of the fire here at Park Grove, we had a lesson all about it with Mrs Carr Brion (who was teaching here at the time).  We were able to ask lots of detailed questions about the damage that occurred and how the school was eventually rebuilt.
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Perfect Pancakes

We all took part in a Key Stage 2 Assembly about Lent and Shrove Tuesday this week.  This gave us the opportunity to think about the meaning of Lent and also gave us chance to show off our pancake flipping skills!
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Fascinating facts about Vera Lynn!

Today we created our own short biography on Vera Lynn, whose song ‘We’ll meet again’ we have learnt in music. We used the chromebooks to research about Vera Lynn’s extraordinary life and we were also were practising  our researching, copy and pasting and...
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Library Trip

On Wednesday morning we all went on our exciting trip to York library. Everyone walked so sensibly and listened really well in the library. It was a great experience to see how to use the machines in the library and we have all got a free book as a gift from the library!         
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Playdough Maths

In maths this week we used playdough to create teen numbers and discussed how the ‘1’ represents 10 units. Everyone is getting great at recognising the teen numbers and counting on from 10.      
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Pancake Day

On Tuesday we all made pancakes in the classroom to celebrate Pancake Day. We were all excited to discuss why we celebrate it and thought of different things we could give up for lent. Everyone was excellent at stirring the mixture and we watched the batter beginning to cook in...
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Lightning War

In English this week the children researched The Blitz using the key prompting words who, what, when, where, why and how. They will use their information to create a fact poster about this World War II event and eventually, write a newspaper report about it. Here are some of the...
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The Blitz! 

This week in English we have started researching a key event that happened during WW2…the Blitz! We used fact sheets and the iPads to gather lots of information. We found that the Blitz started on the 7th September 1940 and ended in May 1941. We also found that the...
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Funny Bones

For the next two weeks we will be learning about stories written by Allan Ahlberg and this week we are reading Funny Bones! In English, we read Bumps In The Night which was a story about how the skeletons frequently bumped into each other and injured themselves! Afterwards, we...
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Easter story and pancake making!

Welcome back to Park Grove everyone! We hope you all had a great half term. We loved our first day back in Class 4 as we learnt all about the story of Easter and made our own pancakes! First, we watched Miss Thomas carefully and learnt how to follow the recipe correctly. Then, we...
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