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“Groove”-Stock

Consensus (after much debate, which confirmed the verdict unanimously + 1 person) amongst the Governors, Teachers, Parents and children: Best – School – Fair – Ever!!! Well done to the PTA, to everybody who helped, participated and/or simply enjoyed it. Rumours...
Posted On 22 Jul 2016
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Governor Class Visit Class 3

What a difference a year makes! I had the pleasure of joining Class 3 on Thursday 7th July for an art lesson. The class were following their seaside theme and painting beautiful scallop shells. I first met Class 3 at the beginning of the year with Mr Gardiner, and I almost didn’t...
Posted On 22 Jul 2016
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Health and Fitness in Outer Space, with Class 6

I had the great opportunity for another visit to Class 6 to learn, what the children had been working on over the last months. Due to my own background we concentrated for almost an entire lesson on Health and Fitness of Astronauts, and how physically challenging it is to become...
Posted On 16 Dec 2015
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Baking with Class 2

I visited Class 2 recently…what a busy classroom! First of all the children were doing ‘Guided Reading’ and I had the pleasure of listening to a child read. Next, there was lots of excitement as the children had the opportunity to bake gingerbread men and create...
Posted On 03 Dec 2015
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Class visit Class 2

I recently visited Class 2 for the first time this term to say hello to the children. My goodness what a busy class! It was science enrichment day and the classroom was a hive of activity. Children making planets, writing passports to go to space and designing aliens were just...
Posted On 09 Nov 2015
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Class visit Class 4

Recently I visited Class 4 and their teacher Aimee Thomas – this is the class that I have been allocated to and I couldn’t be more pleased. I spent playtime and a full English lesson with them and it was a real pleasure. The children were polite, respectful and engaging. The...
Posted On 09 Nov 2015
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My first assembly as a school governor at Park Grove Primary school

I arrived at the school for my first ever assembly just as the children were entering the hall. Each class entered in single file and in silence, they were all so well behaved. The best thing though was a large number of them were walking tall and looking so very proud of...
Posted On 16 Oct 2015
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Good work assembly 1

I attended Friday assembly today and was delighted to share in the celebration of children’s work, sporting and cycling achievements. Parents, children, staff and governors were impressed with the children’s work and the children’s pride in their achievements...
Posted On 16 Oct 2015
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Class 4 assembly

Class four held its class assembly on the `6th June. The theme was the seasons. The children had each ben assigned to a season and came dressed appropriately. June 16th was not a typical Summer’s day and those wearing woolly hats and scarves had a bit of an advantage on the...
Posted On 24 Jun 2015
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Class 1 visit

My first visit to Class 1 at the start of a day and it was great to see so many mums and dads joining in the Early Bird Activity with their children which was reading a book together. Some parents stayed on for Stay and Play and their children were so pleased and proud to show...
Posted On 22 Jun 2015
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Maths & English information evening

I thoroughly enjoyed attending the maths and English information evening this week! Parents were offered a great range of workshops to attend and learn more about the types of teaching methods used in school. As a parent of a Key Stage 1 child, I was particularly interested in...
Posted On 12 Jun 2015
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Branston Pickles and Marmite class visit!

Fabulous class visit at Class 7 to witness the enrichment day on Staffordshire! Apart from very impressive creative displays and creations by the class I noticed how much the children had apparently in depth researched and learned about the region and could talk about and present...
Posted On 10 Jun 2015
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Class 1 Assembly

It was a real pleasure to attend Class 1 assembly when the children shared their learning to a packed school hall. The children spoke and sang with confidence and enthusiasm and were word perfect. Well done Class 1, you are all stars! You should be very proud and the smiles of...
Posted On 06 May 2015
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Park Grove Speed Quiz

It was great to see so many parents and friends of Park Grove at the Speed Quiz organised by Park Grove PTA last week. These high-tech quizzes are created by PG parent Alan Leach and involve I-pads, picture and music clues, with subjects ranging from politics to the date of the...
Posted On 12 Apr 2015
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Class 7 Assembly

Just attended a very impressive Class 7 Assembly about archeologists, Norse gods, Viking warriors, labourers and peasants, who described, in good detail, what important jobs they were all doing and how proud they were in their professions and so much more. There was great...
Posted On 17 Mar 2015
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Music enrichment day

I had the great honour of making my visit to Class 1 on Music Enrichment day. I managed to see the children in Class 1 work on a song that they had learnt in a very short time and when they sang in a round it sounded lovely. I even got to attend the end of day assembly where the...
Posted On 13 Feb 2015
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Class 8 assembly

I attended the Class 8 class assembly this week and really enjoyed it. There was some great singing and dancing going on, with contributions from everybody. It was fabulous to learn interesting and exciting things about the different pupils in the class, and the great diversity...
Posted On 06 Feb 2015
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Visit class 1

I visited class 1 today and joined the children and Ms Lamb in the Forest School. We had great fun doing a dragon dance and the children joined in with enthusiasm. I hope I played the tambourine at the right time!! There’s so much for the children to explore and create in...
Posted On 03 Feb 2015
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Extreme Reading competition

Over the Christmas holiday Teachers, Governors, Parents and Children were encouraged to submit examples of “extreme reading (i.e. reading in unusual places or moments) with photographic evidence. The results, many of them rather breathtaking, some almost a little...
Posted On 29 Jan 2015
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Governor training

Some of the new governors at Park Grove attended a training session at the City Council this week – “Welcome to Governance” gave us a very useful introduction to the world of being a school governor, and also some very interesting information about schools and...
Posted On 29 Jan 2015
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Nativity!

Loved the Early Years and KS1 Nativity performance this week. The children sang with gusto, looked as though they were enjoying themselves and seemed very relaxed about it all. Now it feels like Christmas! Thanks to all the children and staff for their hard work to put the...
Posted On 13 Dec 2014
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Class 9 Special Assembly

I attended a great Class 9 Special Assembly yesterday, which was the first of the year, so set the benchmark for the rest! Very varied content based around a “flashback” of all that’s occurred since the children started Year 6. Good singing, loud and clear...
Posted On 26 Nov 2014
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A successful open evening

On 12/11/2014 the school provided an open evening for parents to get information and to talk about important aspects of the school. This included the roles and activities within the School Governing Body, the academic performance of the pupil community at the school and how key...
Posted On 21 Nov 2014
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Class 1 visit

I visited class 1 recently to meet the children and staff and join in with their work. What a wonderful time everyone was having. So many exciting things for them to do and after they has asked me some questions, including ‘what does it mean to be a governor?’, the...
Posted On 21 Nov 2014
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Autumn term 2014 observations

It is great to see that the school is in full swing straight after the summer break! Apart from an apparently enthusiastic start into the usual school curriculum, there are many other additional activities: for example, the running club is up again (with similar numbers of...
Posted On 29 Sep 2014
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After school running club conclusion

I believe that nobody could have predicted the amazing and truly enthusiastic response to the offer of an after-school running club this summer. All in all 66 children (nearly a quarter of the entire school) joined in and participated for at least one of the four sessions. The...
Posted On 21 Jul 2014
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Dragons’ Den

The Dragons’ Den Final on Monday (14 July) was fantastic. I went along with three of the other Dragons, David, Judith and Adrian and we all amazed at the incredible amount of money that the children had raised. It was a great ending to the original competition when we were...
Posted On 16 Jul 2014
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Reception class assembly

It was great to attend the second reception class assembly this year – it proved that taking over the stage is not too big of a task for them, even at their young age. The large audience could witness lots of involvement of all the children, and in how many ways they could...
Posted On 24 Jun 2014
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How to enrich a day of madness with fun

It shows that you can effectively and methodically enrich a learning day by using fun and the odd “mad science”: school children with goggles, gloves, gowns, bio-hazard warning badges, more goggles (e.g. heart-shaped and water-proof) etc. etc. were spotted today...
Posted On 17 Jun 2014
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After-school running club!

I was very impressed by the spirit of the first ever after-school running club event today. The idea was only set in motion in the last couple of two weeks and more than 65 enthusiastic children (that is about a quarter of the entire school!!) took part – possibly with more...
Posted On 13 Jun 2014
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Year 3/4 Performance!

This evening I was invited to the year 3/4 production at school and what a great production it was!!! Every child spoke so clearly and I was able to hear all the brilliant ‘punchlines’ to the jokes – and there were many! The singing was clear and the soloists...
Posted On 02 Apr 2014
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Class 2 assembly

I am really looking forward to Class 2’s assembly on Tuesday!
Posted On 21 Mar 2014
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I’m a new governor!

I thought I would make my first blog post to introduce myself to you all. My name is Ian Wilson and I have recently joined the school governors. I am really interested in mathematics, science and computing and currently work as a tutor at York St John University where I support...
Posted On 16 Feb 2014
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What an exciting “Monkey Hunt”!

Im lucky enough to be the link governor for class 2 and had a great visit on Tuesday which was Enrichment Day. Mr Baines took all of us on a “Monkey Hunt” – we had to pack our ruck sacks, get on a plane, fly to a rainforest – and none of us were scared!...
Posted On 12 Feb 2014
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New Governors Letter to Parents

New Governors Letter to Parents – Letter to parents sent out Thursday 6th February introducing the new governors.
Posted On 10 Feb 2014
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Xmas Fair

Governors had a great time at the Xmas Fair. Loads of stalls (including our own, this year), music, drink and good company. Money raised on our Tombola and Play Your Cards Right will be spent on something for the children/school. Decision to be made next week and result blogged....
Posted On 08 Dec 2013
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class 6 visit

I had a great visit to Class 6 this week! Thank you to Bo and Alexander for writing to me and inviting me.  Many thanks also to Louie, Kian and Joshua who all read to me. Can’t wait to read the next lot of books about x-bots / micro-kids / inventions! Miss Tilbury –...
Posted On 08 Dec 2013
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Visits to school

Lots of governors have been visiting their classes in the last couple of weeks. The children have really enjoyed meeting and getting to know their class governor. Thank you especially to Judith from class 4 for sewing all afternoon with 29 children. They were all delighted with...
Posted On 01 Dec 2013
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Christmas tree decorating!

what a wonderful and smiley time we had watching the children decorate the school christmas tree today and well done to gary for getting the tree up! It was great to watch the excitement, and mayhem, as the children fought for best position to hang their baubles… though as...
Posted On 28 Nov 2013
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Tissues!!!

A couple of Ahh Bless! / heart bursting with pride moments last week. First, the reports of excellent behaviour by KS1 on their trip to Castle Museum and by KS2 in their Shakespeare Workshops. Then, have you seen the school song lyrics on Class 8’s blog?!! And then the...
Posted On 17 Nov 2013
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Class 5 Macbeth workshop

Wow! What a morning with class 5 at the De Grey Rooms on Monday as their linked gov’. The pupils were so enthusiastic and willing to participate in the drama activities relating to the “Scottish Play”. I really enjoyed Stop, go, Jump, clap but was not very good...
Posted On 05 Nov 2013
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A good time was had….

I went in to school on Tuesday 22 October to Miss Plew’s class. It was the children’s enrichment day and they were learning how to do interviews. It was a good exercise and one which I enjoyed as much as the children if not more. I’m a bit concerned that I may...
Posted On 25 Oct 2013
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Class governors

Timo mentioned in his blog of 10 October that governors were going to be linked to classes at school. I’ve been linked with class 3 and am looking forward to my association with the pupils. I’m going into school tomorrow morning to meet them for the first time and...
Posted On 21 Oct 2013
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Parents’ evenings

Just a quick reminder about parents’ evenings next Tuesday and Wednesday (22nd and 23rd October). The governors will be providing refreshments as usual and hope you will take the opportunity to chat over a cup of tea or coffee. I shall be there for at least one of the...
Posted On 20 Oct 2013
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Class linked Governors

Thanks to Mrs Steel (Staff governor) we can announce that as of this week all non staff governors will be linked to a specific class. The idea is that governors can write to, blog, attend assemblies of, go on trips with, or come into school to spend time meeting and speaking to...
Posted On 10 Oct 2013
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Blog 8 October 2013 Phonics evening

Hi everyone I went to the parent’s evening last night which consisted of a presentation by the school staff on phonics. It was very well attended by parents and by staff and I thought the quality of the presentation was excellent. It was interesting, it was fun, it was...
Posted On 08 Oct 2013
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Governor’s Christmas Fair Stall Ideas!

Right Governors, thinking and creative caps on please! We are taking a stall at the Christmas Fair this year and we need a theme or an idea for it. The stall will be manned by Governors and it has to be interactive, raise money and just be a good bit of fun! Here are a few...
Posted On 02 Oct 2013
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Chair’s blog

As you may see, we are trying to get all governors blogging rather than just me so the site should be a bit more fun.  Thanks to Timo for his contribution.  As Timo says, there were some laughs, many of which were at my expense – so what’s new? On a slightly more...
Posted On 26 Sep 2013
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First meeting this year from Timo Little

Tonight we had our first full Governors meeting of this year. We talked about lots of serious stuff but also had lots of laughs as well.
Posted On 24 Sep 2013
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Governor blog 13 September 2013

Hi everyone.  This the first governor blog of the new school year and my first on the new website.  I may be tempting fate having my first go on Friday the 13th in 2013 but I’m not superstitious.  So fingers crossed, touch wood here goes. I hope everyone is as impressed as...
Posted On 13 Sep 2013
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