English Next week in English we will be looking in more detail at balanced arguments. Year 6s – Remember to complete page 15 in your CGP English book. Spellings This week we have looked at spellings with the suffixes -ancy and -ency. You have been given ten spellings to learn for your test next week. Please remember to practise...Read More
In science you have been learning about electricity. As you know, electricity can be very dangerous if people don’t use it safely and with respect. For your next homework project, we would like you to design a bright and eye catching poster to warn other children of the dangers of electricity. Your poster could be...Read More
This afternoon, we learnt about the 6 main elements of music, which got us into a very musical mood. The musicians in the class felt so inspired they wanted to perform a bit of their own music to us – so we had a mini concert in our classroom! Class 9 – Can you remember...Read More
This afternoon, we imagined going back in time to what Park Grove would have been like in the Victorian era. We thought about the similarities and differences between schools then and now, before going into character of a Victorian Park Grover. We also tried a bit of Victorian schooling and attempted to learn a Victorian...Read More
What an exciting morning we had at Park Grove today, taking part in our own Ready, Steady, Cook style food competition! Not only was this fun, but we also learnt about the important food groups, what we should (and shouldn’t) eat a lot of and we even got to taste some of the food the...Read More
What a fantastic class assembly this morning Class 9! You should all be so proud of yourselves for creating an entertaining, enjoyable yet also educational assembly, showcasing some of the interesting things we have learnt in our Victorians topic. I’m so proud of you all! Miss Platts x Read More
In our grammar session this morning, we focussed on conjunctions and the different word classes. We even created a class human sentence, using a coordinating conjunction to link two clauses and improving the sentence by adding in our own adjectives and adverbs. Remember – conjunctions are connectives but not all connectives are conjunctions! Read More
Project The 500 words competition has been launched for 2016 on Radio 2. Lots of you have been asking us about it and are clearly already very excited! We will look at the competition in more detail in our English lessons on Monday so don’t worry if you haven’t entered before. Normally our homework projects...Read More
Maths In Maths, we will be focusing on reading and converting between measures accurately. We will also be using our mathematical skills to solve number problems. English Next week in English, we will be exploring the active and passive voice in writing, as well as continuing to read Street Child. What will happen to Jim Jarvis...Read More
This week we have started reading Street Child in our English lessons, which links with our Victorians topic. We’ve been introduced to the main character, Jim, and his family who are living in poverty in Victorian Britain. In the chapter, Jim’s family are thrown out of their cramped, dirty, cold room by…the Stick Man. To...Read More
Over the past couple of weeks, we have using the software Scratch to program our own maze games based around a Victorian theme. We have games involving Queen Victoria searching for her crown, an poor Victorian trying to escape from a debtors prison and even an Oliver themed game! It’s been so much fun, and...Read More
Today in our RE session, we considered the words ‘justice’ and ‘freedom’ and what they mean to us. We had a great class discussion about different examples of justice and freedom and then, in groups, we created acrostic poems to represent these words. What does justice and freedom mean to you? Read More
Heaps of creative ideas were flowing around Class 9 this afternoon as we well and truly got stuck into our (already amazing!) class assembly practice. We can’t wait to show the rest of Park Grove next week!Read More
What an absolute treat we had in class 9 this afternoon! We have been lucky enough to actually touch a bit of Victorian history and looked at some real Victorian coins, an actual Penny Black from 1840 (plus a super rare Tupenny Blue!) and an old musical box called a Symphonium, which still played its...Read More
Maths In Maths, we will be looking at decimals and rounding a range of different numbers up to three decimal places. English Next week in English, we will find out more about the 500 words competition. Start to have a think about what yours could be about? Who will the main characters be? Where will...Read More
The 500 words competition has been launched for 2016 on Radio 2. Lots of you have been asking us about it and are clearly already very excited! We will look at the competition in more detail in our English lessons on Monday so don’t worry if you haven’t entered before. Normally our homework projects don’t...Read More
No, not nasty hockey – but finding the mean from a range of data about hockey scores! It was quite challenging task in our problem solving maths session today, as we had to interpret data from a bar chart to find the mean number of goals scored by hockey players. Read More
We’ve been feeling very hopeful that Spring is on it’s way as the sun came out this morning, and wrote our own creative poems describing what the Spring season is to us. What do you like most about Spring?Read More
In our English lesson this morning, we were looking at an extract from Roald Dahl’s book ‘boy’ about the disgustingly described Mrs Pratchett. Our task was to write an opposite character description using interesting and exciting word choices. Class 9 – What opposites did you describe? Can you remember any of that vivacious vocabulary you...Read More
As part of our Topic Enrichment day today, all of KS2 have looked at decorative patterns of flowers, leaves, birds and all beautiful forms of nature through the work of artist William Morris. Everyone created their own mini piece of Morris inspired art using watercolours, and the results have definitely been worthy of the Morris...Read More
Today the whole of KS2 got another certificate for their amazing involvement and contributions to the Astro Science Challenge, which saw them complete challenges to coincide with Tim Peake’s blast off to the ISS. The happy faces show just how much we enjoyed it! Class 9 – What was your favourite challenge?Read More
In Maths, we will be multiplying and dividing proper fractions by whole numbers as well as developing our understanding of the mean as an average. Next week in English, we will be focusing on descriptive vocabulary to write character descriptions. On Tuesday 26th January, we will be having our Topic Enrichment day. Please feel free...Read More
Remember for your next homework project we would like you to choose one famous Victorian to write about in an information booklet. We will display and use the information booklets during lessons this term. You can write about any of the famous Victorians, scientists or inventors we have studied in class or somebody completely different....Read More
Linking both our topic and maths this week we have done a Victorian investigation, answering and calculating word problems about Queen Victoria and the Victorian era using different methods. We had to make sure we calculated all questions accurately as most were linked to each other, so one incorrect answer could have ruined the whole...Read More
This afternoon in science we have been learning about famous scientists and inventors who are linked to both electricity and our topic, Victorians. We’ve been researching important scientists such as Thomas Edison, Michael Faraday and Nikola Tesla. Miss Platts even brought in some of her own neon lighting and explained how she knew about Tesla...Read More
Today in PE we explored the Industrial Revolution through dance. We looked at a brief history of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his major engineering feats and then translated these into pieces of group, improvised dancing. In our groups, we explored movement in canon and also in unison. Do you know what these words mean? Read More
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 know that Victorian children could do? What would you rather do, go to school or...Read More
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? Read More
What a fantastic first, full term we’ve had in Class 9. We’ve been so busy and achieved a great deal already since September! What has been your favourite event or memory from this last term? Also, not forgetting, Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!!!Read More
All of Key Stage 2 visited Class 9 this morning to take part in a huge art project! Everyone in classes 5 to 9 created a little piece of space-y art to add to a space themed collage, which we then displayed in the hall during our Christmas party. It was out of this world!!...Read More
This afternoon saw the highly anticipated final of Park Grove’s table tennis ladder league take place, with a fantastic finalist, Jake, from Class 9! The hall was full of excitement as the finalists displayed what everyone could agree was the best table tennis final in the history of Park Grove! Lucy won by a whisker...Read More
Today, in maths, we were given an exciting mission to complete! We had to look closely at the Apollo Missions and convert between days and hours to see which of the 17 missions lasted the longest. We had to beat the clock but, luckily, all of us completed it so mission accomplished!! What do you...Read More
They sure do here in class 9 when playing our new, original, maths card game, created by some of our own class-members! We had a great time being taught this new game and ‘debugging’ it to make improvements for when we play it during some of our maths starters. What do you think makes a...Read More
We got very dramatic in Class 9 today, creating our own performance pieces based on the poem ‘Snow’ by Carol Ann Duffy. It’s a very interesting poem and has lots of powerful imagery, so it was perfect to create some effective and powerful pieces of drama to! What did you think to our performance?Read More
We’ve just completed our Astro Science Challenge mission all about coding, it’s been great fun and we’ve all learnt a lot – including Miss Platts! You can check out our work on the Mission displays out in the main atrium, but here’s a taster of some of our fantastic web pages made about Tim Peake,...Read More
We’ve been looking a little bit closer at the Moon this week – in particular the 8 phases on the Moon. Last night we saw the First Quarter and now we are moving into the Waxing Gibbous! Have a look outside now – can you see the Moon? What phase is it in? Look at...Read More
What an amazing experience we had this afternoon! We were lucky enough to have the Cosmodome from York University at school today, and we had such a fantastic time in the blow up planetarium looking at star constellations in the night sky and exploring the solar system – as if we were in space! Can...Read More
This afternoon we’ve explored our solar system through a information sharing activity and discovered the key features of the different planets. What do you know about the planets? Can you name them in order from the Sun?Read More
Today, we took a giant leap into our space topic by exploring an extract from a science fiction piece of writing. We identified many features found in the science fiction genre, which will help us when writing our own. What Sci-Fi features do you know?!Read More
I think it’s safe to say we had a fantastic time in Class 9 during the enrichment day on Tuesday! Who and what can you spot in pictures below?!Read More
What’s been going on in Class 9 this week? “This week we’ve been writing a persuasive letter for a potential exciting school project. We’ve been writing to lots of companies to persuade them to help us!” “On Wednesday, we were visited by CEOP and had a very thought-provoking assembly about E-safety. It was very informative.”...Read More
This week we have very busy looking at persuasive writing, and yesterday learnt about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his ‘I have a dream’ speech! Here are a few ‘dreams’ of our own that relate nicely with our marine conservation theme… “I have a dream that the oceans will survive.” “I have a dream that...Read More
This afternoon we learnt all about Hernan Cortés and the fall of the Aztec Empire. Did you know that when Cortés first arrived the Aztecs thought he was a god? They also thought that when the Spanish came over on horses they were one whole crazy creature! Ask Class 9 to tell you more about...Read More
What have we been doing this week? “Bikeability has started this week and those tyres are screaming!” “I really liked explaining the correct use of apostrophes because it gave us a chance to show Mrs Steel the level we’re at for writing.” “I enjoyed the swimming relay we did during our last swimming session!” “This...Read More
Use the 24 hour clock to tell me what you have been up to and what time it happened at. e.g. 20:00 I watched the Great British Bake Off’ final.Read More
Every week, we’re going to try and give you a little taste of what we’ve been doing here in Class 9. Here are a few sentences to sum up this week! “We started off the week with a splash! In swimming we were diving under hoops to retrieve a brick from the bottom of the...Read More
This week we continued our exploration theme by learning about the life and work of Jacques Cousteau…an underwater pioneer! We created some fantastic freeze-frames to represent the important events from his life…Read More
Although it is our first week in Class 9, we have been doing a range of exhilarating activities. In English, we have recapping our VCOP skills to write about what we have done in the summer holidays. On Wednesday afternoon, we began to investigate our fascinating new topic: Exploration. We have written a timeline about...Read More
We are looking forward to the recipes you design for your homework. Good luck to all the Year Sixes who are doing their SATs next week. Have a restful weekend and come in at 8:00 for your breakfast.Class 9 newsletter 8.5.15Read More
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