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More Groovy Grovers
Here is another ‘ice lolly fest’ picture with the ‘Groovy Grovers’
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Next week in Class 5
Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we are going to be writing our own biographies about a famous Olympic athlete. Spellings This week we have looked at some more homophones. We have given you 10 spellings to learn. Please also complete the activity on your spelling...
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Homework Project
A reminder that your current homework project is 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...
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Order, order!
On Wednesday the year three children went to visit York university as part of their law project. They did a range of activities, which included using a court room to hold their own trial. We then had to decide if the person was guilty or not guilty!
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Ready for Euro 2016…
Euro 2016 started last week, and already it’s been a hot talking point in class 9. We’re doing our own sweepstake so everyone is involved in supporting it in some way! (Fingers crossed for Iceland, Miss Platts’ team!) We’re also very lucky to be able to...
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The show must go on!
This afternoon the year 6’s got to read through the production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the first time. Excitement was rife as the cast list had been given out on Monday, so there were lots of eager actors and actresses ready to get to grips with their roles....
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Landscapes
In groups, the children created some wonderful seaside landscapes using a range of different materials. They were all really proud of their work.
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Temperature
This week in science the children completed an experiment all about temperature. First they estimated the temperature in the shade and out of the shade and then carried out the experiment. Who can remember what the results showed?
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Data handling
We used the laptops to create our own bar charts to display our results from last week’s data collection lesson. It was really fun experimenting on 2Graph to transfer our tally information to different bars. We were also able to view our results as a pie chart and a...
Posted On 15 Jun 2016
Groovy Greeks and Grovers
Members of the PTA committee surprised KS2 children with an impromptu delivery of ice lollies during their post ‘Groovy Greeks’ theatre trip picnic. As you can see, all ices were greatly received by these ‘Groovy Grovers’
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Year 4 Olympic Learning
As the Year 3 children were at York University completing their Law learning, Class 5 and 6 Year 4s stayed at Park Grove to complete a day of learning about the Olympics (linked to their Ancient Greek topic). The children completed a variety of tasks related to the Games...
Posted On 15 Jun 2016
Sticker Swapping…
Euro 2016 is up and running and that means sticker swapping season is in full swing in Class 8. Every Friday lunchtime you have the opportunity to swap stickers with each other and Mr Mastrelli to try to complete your albums before the end of the tournament. The first edition was...
Posted On 15 Jun 2016
Groovy Greeks
On Tuesday morning we were very lucky to go to The Grand Opera House to see the Horrible Histories production of “The Groovy Greeks”. It was a quite fabulous performance with the children learning lots about life in Ancient Greece and enjoying the entertainment!...
Posted On 15 Jun 2016
Story writing…
While the Year 5’s have been doing their tests this week, the Year 6’s in Class 8 have been writing a narrative based on the short video clip story of Alma. This video clip created a lot of debate and was the stimulus for some super planning, editing and writing!...
Posted On 15 Jun 2016
BBC News – Education
- Birthday card delivered almost nine years lateA father says his 10-year-old son was "gobsmacked" to receive a birthday card almost nine years late.
- Going to university 'transformed my life'Dr Suzella Palmer dropped out of school aged 14, but returned to education and is now a lecturer.
