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June 11, 2016
June 11, 2016

Maths Games

This week in maths we have developed our mental multiplication skills by learning a method to calculate quickly and mentally. In order to extend our multiplication facts recall, develop other areas of maths and link into the upcoming Euro 2016 Football championship, we spent part of the morning creating our own maths games that we...
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June 11, 2016

The enchanted forest

This morning in English, we imagined we were travelling through the enchanted forest from A Midsummer Nights Dream as different characters to get our creativity flowing in describing the forest through our senses. Class 9, what descriptive and expanded noun phrases did you think of to describe the forest?
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June 11, 2016

Democracy and the EU referendum

Wednesday afternoon saw Class 9 develop their understanding of democracy, comparing Ancient Greek democracy with the modern day. This gave opportunity to lots of interesting discussion, including a debate on the oncoming EU Referendum! Class 9, what did you learn from this session? What did you find most interesting?
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June 11, 2016

Homework Project

As our current KS2 topic is Going for Gold, your next homework project will be to find out about the capital city of one of the countries taking part in the 2016 Olympics. You should research your chosen capital city carefully and could include details about the population, geographical features, places to visit or any...
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June 11, 2016

Next week

English and Maths Next week Year 5 will have their assessment week in maths, reading and spelling. Remember this is a good chance for you to show all the wonderful skills you have learnt this year. Year 6 will be writing a narrative from an intriguing video clip you will find out more next week!...
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June 11, 2016

Next week

English and Maths Next week Year 5 will have their assessment week in maths, reading and spelling. Remember this is a good chance for you to show all the wonderful skills you have learnt this year. Year 6 will be writing a narrative from an intriguing video clip you will find out more next week!...
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June 11, 2016

Homework project

As our current KS2 topic is Going for Gold, your next homework project will be to find out about the capital city of one of the countries taking part in the 2016 Olympics. You should research your chosen capital city carefully and could include details about the population, geographical features, places to visit or any...
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June 11, 2016

Multiplication skills

This week in maths we have developed our mental multiplication skills by learning a method to calculate quickly and mentally. In order to extend our multiplication facts recall, develop other areas of maths and link into the upcoming Euro 2016 Football championship, we spent part of the morning creating our own maths games that we...
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June 11, 2016

Critical Friend

This week in Class 8 we introduced a critical friend to help with editing a letter we wrote last half term. As a critical friend, you helped your partner improve their writing by listening, looking and discussing areas to develop. Did you find this activity beneficial? If so, what elements did you feel you used...
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June 11, 2016

Euro 2016 Countdown

<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16738" src="https://parkgrove.ebor.academy/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/og-default-640×336.jpg" alt="og-default" width="640" height="336" / The start of the European Championships is on Friday! We had a very exciting class draw on Monday where you each got drawn a team participating in this tournament. Remember if your country wins you will receive a replica of the 2016 ball! What facts can...
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June 11, 2016

Democracy and the EU Referendum

Class 6 learnt about democracy in Ancient Greece and how the system worked. They then discussed how democracy works in the UK today. The children were asked if they should have the chance to vote in elections which brought about a very interesting discussion! Finally the children learnt about the European Union and carried out...
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June 11, 2016

Biscuits and law

Year 3 and 4 both had a fantastic first day on their respective Law and Biscuit projects. The Year 3s learnt words of the law, discussed what criminals and victims look like and used role play to act out certain crimes. The Year 4s completed a biscuit survey, sampled a large selection of biscuits and...
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June 11, 2016

Homework Project

As our current KS2 topic is Going for Gold, your next homework project will be to find out about the capital city of one of the countries taking part in the 2016 Olympics. You should research your chosen capital city carefully and could include details about the population, geographical features, places to visit or any...
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June 11, 2016

Someone call 999

On Wednesday a crime took place at Park Grove and we called the police to help us investigate. We helped the police gather evidence and we all had to give our fingerprints in too. Hopefully we will be able to help the police solve the crime that took place! Well done Year 3 for being...
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June 11, 2016

Next week in class 6

Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we are going to continue looking at homophones. We have given you 10 spellings to learn. Please also complete the activity on your spelling sheet to help you be prepared for your test next week. Maths In maths next week we will be looking at...
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June 11, 2016

Swimming

On Monday class 5 went on their first swimming lesson to Yearsley Swimming Pool. We had lots of fun and can not wait to go back next week to do more swimming! We also had a lovely walk there and back in the beautiful sunshine.
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June 11, 2016

Somebody call 999

On Wednesday a crime took place at Park Grove and we called the police to help us investigate. We helped the police gather evidence and we all had to give our fingerprints in too. Hopefully we will be able to help the police solve the crime that took place!
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June 11, 2016

Baking Biscuits

This week the children in Year 4 have been designing, creating and evaluating their own biscuits. They have worked really hard and the biscuits look great!
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June 11, 2016

Homework Project

As our current KS2 topic is Going for Gold, your next homework project will be to find out about the capital city of one of the countries taking part in the 2016 Olympics. You should research your chosen capital city carefully and could include details about the population, geographical features, places to visit or any...
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June 11, 2016

This week in class 5

Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we are going to continue looking at homophones. We have given you 10 spellings to learn. Please also complete the activity on your spelling sheet to help you be prepared for your test next week. Maths In maths next week we will be looking at...
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June 11, 2016

Next week in class 4

What a busy first week back we have had! We have really enjoyed starting to learn about our seaside topic and we wrote some really effective descriptive pieces about our senses at the beach. Next week we will be completing various pieces of written work based upon the story of The Lighthouse Leepers Lunch. In...
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June 11, 2016

Homework

This week we have done lots of phonics revision. Spellings will focus on the split digraph variations for all five vowel sounds, as we feel the children need to practice these the most. Please encourage your children to also use these words in a sentence.
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June 11, 2016

Seaside Art

We did some printing this afternoon to create seaside shell artwork. We first drew a shell shape on polystyrene then we painted over the top. Look at how effective it was!
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June 11, 2016

Temperature Investigation

We made the most of the sunny weather and conducted an experiment to describe and measure temperature in different places. We placed thermometers inside the classroom, in the shade and then in direct sunlight. It was fun making predictions and revealing how hot it was inside and outside!
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June 11, 2016

Welcome back

What a lovely first day we have had after our half term break, we hope you have all had a well deserved rest! Today we began learning about our new topic, Beside The Seaside! We had to think of things we might see there and label these correctly with a friend. Here is an example
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June 11, 2016

Playing at the seaside

We are having so much fun playing on our beach. We are making very large sandcastles and wearing our rubber ring to keep us safe when we swim in the sea.
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June 11, 2016

Sharing

The Reception children are solving problems using sharing. They have to share out lollipops from our Ice Cream Parlour between some monkeys. They worked it out and solved the problem. Well done Class 2
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June 11, 2016

Data interpretation on the computer

The children are looking at data interpretation using Purple Mash and Topmarks on the laptops. They are looking at tally charts, pictograms and bar charts. Great work Class 2
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June 11, 2016

Spellings

We are revising the following sounds. ee ie oe ue
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June 11, 2016

Next Week

In English we will be reading The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch and exploring the characters and setting. In Maths we will be looking at position and direction. In Science we will be looking at seasonal change and making a wind measuring machine
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June 11, 2016

Ice Cream

Welcome back everybody, I hope you all had a fantastic half term break. This week we have started our new topic Beside the Seaside. We have opened up our own ice cream stall outside and have had lots of fun in the sun pretending to eat our delicious ice creams.
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June 11, 2016

exploding Volcanoes

This week in Forest Schools we have learnt about the warning signs that show danger in nature. We all created brightly coloured safety sticks to create a warning. We then searched for the volcanoes and then used our magic potion to make them bubble and explode.
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June 11, 2016

Pirate Phonics

Lots of children have worked hard in phonics this week playing our new board game. We have been practising real words, alien words and segmenting the sounds in the picture cards. The winner collects the most gold.
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June 11, 2016

Homework

This week our homework is a maths challenge! Can you add the numbers together on a car registration plate? Try writing it as an addition sentence in your homework book.
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June 11, 2016

Next Week

Next week we will be continuing our seaside topic by reading the story The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch. We will also be practising our number bonds to 10 in maths. Our class assembly is fast approaching so we will be preparing for it with lots of rehearsals. On Thursday we will also be cheering on England...
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June 11, 2016

The Last Half Term!

So here we are, the last half term. For the next seven weeks the topic for the children will be Beside the Seaside and we have lots of Summery activities planned. We hope the sun shines warm and bright throughout!
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