Park Grove Primary Academy » 2016 » January

Work, terrible work!

Today we’ve delved a little more into life as a Victorian child, looking closely at what jobs they did (as some children didn’t go to school!) and also treating ourselves to a bit of Horrible Histories! http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/music/p00hbc4q What jobs do you...

Posted On 13 Jan 2016

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Chinese Zodiac story

In English we looked at the story behind the Chinese Zodiac and discovered how the cheeky rat won first place in the Jade Emperor’s race. It appears that most of the children in the class were born in either the year of the ox or the year of the rat. Mr. Gardiner was born...

Posted On 13 Jan 2016

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Measuring

A lot of activity in Class 2 today deciding how to measure objects. We looked closely at the best unit to use. A metre, cm or mm.

Posted On 13 Jan 2016

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Tuesday Hot Seating

The children loved hot seating our story Handa’s Surprise. We explored the character and how she was feeling. We even balanced a basket full of fruit on our heads!

Posted On 13 Jan 2016

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Chinese Zodiac Story

Great fun today learning about the Zodiac story and which animal represents each year. Do you know which animal 2016 is?

Posted On 13 Jan 2016

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Phonics games

Here’s a few photos of us playing phonics games this morning. These included rhyming games, alphabet jigsaw puzzles and Phonics Play activities on the interactive whiteboard. What a lot of fun! ...

Posted On 13 Jan 2016

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Chinese Zodiac story writing

We read the Chinese Zodiac story today and we learnt about why each year is named after an animal. The children wrote some amazing recounts and blew Miss Thomas away with their writing skills such as using adjectives, sentence openers and paragraphs! Look out for some of these...

Posted On 13 Jan 2016

, By class4

Bike It!

What a super fun morning we have had in maths today! We were visited by Sustrans who delivered an exciting and interactive maths activity based all around bikes. What was your favourite part of the Bike It session?

Posted On 13 Jan 2016

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ICT

This afternoon we have been practicing using the laptops to play some ICT games. We have used ‘All Day to Play’ to learn about some shapes in maths. We have also used ‘2paint’ to draw a picture which we can then print out. It has been lots of fun using the...

Posted On 13 Jan 2016

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Writing in the style of Beatrix Potter

This week in class 5 we have been planning our own short stories in the style of Beatrix Potter. We are now writing them in books we have made! We are looking forward to showing you the final products!

Posted On 13 Jan 2016

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Forest Schools

Today in Forest Schools we were all surprised to see some daffodils have started to grow, we think this might have been because the weather was warm and wet in December. Hopefully the cold weather of January won’t stop them from flowering. We also all searched for something...

Posted On 13 Jan 2016

, By class1

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