This half term, to tie in with British Science week, it has been our STEAM Week! It’s been all about science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics. It was an incredibly busy but highly enjoyable week, with lots of varied and exciting activities happening in the different classes through school. Here are just a few...Read More
What a super, cosy and fun-filled day for World Book Day. It was wonderful to see all children in the different classes in their pjs! In EYFS/KS1, each class explored a different traditional tale ranging from Goldilocks and the Three Bears to The Enormous Turnip. In Class 3, they were reading the Three Little Pigs and...Read More
As part of our Topic of ‘Around the World’, we got on board ‘Park Grove Airlines’ and began our journey to 4 different countries. Each class visited Brazil, Egypt, India and Australia. For each country, there were a range of different activities taking place. In Brazil we were making carnival masks, in Australia we made...Read More
The EYFS and KS1 children have recently had the pleasure of visitors coming to deliver a range of workshops inspired by our topic of ‘Around the World’. We have participated in a Drama workshop called ‘How to make an Apple Pie and See the World’. The story took us on an adventure around the World...Read More
In Key Stage 2 this half term, we are learning all about the Ancient Egyptians. We kicked off our learning journey with some exciting drama workshops, lead by the fantastic Mud Pie Arts, which were based upon the brilliant Egyptology book by Dugald Steer. Each class was transported back to 1926, exploring the desert with...Read More
This year was Park Grove’s fourth year taking part in Young Voices, now the worlds largest school based choir. After weeks of hard work and rehearsal time put in by our own choir, we set off on January 10th 2019 for the fantastic concert at Sheffield arena. It is such a brilliant day for everybody...Read More
This year, we have changed the way our Playground Buddy system works which all came from our pupils’ feedback at a school council meeting at the end of last year. We now have two Playground Buddies from classes 2-9 to help support other children during breaktimes and lunchtimes. Miss Slater and Miss Ford spent the...Read More
KS1 Nativity The KS1 children have done 3 fantastic performances of their Nativity – ‘Prickly Hay’. They worked so hard to remember their lines and all the words to the songs. It was great fun all round and they did themselves very proud. We hope those who came and watched enjoyed it just as...Read More
On Wednesday 12th December, Key Stage 2 had a really interesting and important assembly all about e-safety, and we had special visitors to talk to us about being Google Internet Legends! We learnt to Think Before You Share (Be Internet Sharp) and think carefully at what you post on the internet. We thought about making sure to...Read More
One of Park Grove’s pupils; Phoebe, was inspired by her new school to write an award-winning journalism piece for a competition she found in The Week junior magazine. When she had to move from a school she loved (Clifton with Rawcliffe School) because her parents were moving house, one thing that made the move more bearable was...Read More
Our KS1 Nativity performances will take place on Tuesday 11th December at 9.15am and on Thursday 13th December at 5.30pm. Tickets are now available.Read More
In the first half term, classes 8 and 9 were involved in a new and exciting opportunity, creating a unique dance experience as part of the York Mediale 2018. In the sessions, the classes explored dance with professional practitioners Hannah and Drew as well as combining coding and science elements within the sessions. We learnt...Read More
Early Years and Key Stage 1 We had a fantastic day celebrating our Topic for Autumn 1 – It’s A Bug’s Life. As a way to draw our Topic to an end, we had a carousel of different activities in each classroom with each teacher. The children baked some spider crispy cakes, went on a...Read More
The Year 6 children came down to meet their Reception Buddies for our first official meetup on Friday 19th October. The Reception children were delighted to show their Buddies around the outdoor classroom area and enjoyed having some time to play and catch up with them. We had many exciting activities going on such as...Read More
Over the last couple of weeks, the Early Years and Key Stage 1 children have been busy practising many Harvest Festival songs in the run up to the celebration in the church on Tuesday 16th October. Not only did we sing as a whole choir, but each class also had their own class solos of...Read More
After a tough and closely fought election campaign, the results are finally in. Park Grove children have been battling it out amongst their peers, with clearly thought out statements and promises to consider the needs of all class members and have everyone’s best interests at heart! This week the victorious children were presented with the...Read More
Well what a fantastic time the Year 6’s had at their residential! Our Year 6’s started off their final year at Park Grove by getting stuck in to a full week at High Adventure, an outdoor education centre near Skipton. The week was filled with a range of exciting yet challenging activities, with each one...Read More
Our new children are settling in brilliantly to school life at Park Grove. Here are some of our new reception children from Class 2 enjoying some time outside on our lovely new bench! All the children have returned to school eager to learn after their 6 week break. Our Early Years and KS1 children are...Read More
Well done to all our Year 5s for their fantastic performance at the York Theatre Royal! The Year 5s have been working hard on this playhouse project for weeks, and on the evening of July 9th, all their efforts were realised when they brought their performance of Ginger Jones and the Sultan’s Eye to life....Read More
All four classes thoroughly enjoyed a wonderful day seeing the many sights of Whitby! We saw the whale bone arch, the Captain Cook monument, the Endeavour, Whitby Abbey, the 199 steps and most importantly we all enjoyed an ice cream, thanks to the PTA! All of the children behaved wonderfully and made us so proud...Read More
Near our Insect Fields garden, you may have noticed something very bright and colourful pop up in the corner of our school field! This collective artwork was created by all members of Class 8 and 9, who worked with a real artist to represent the chaos and visual language related to Natural Disasters, their class...Read More
On Tuesday 22nd May, the whole of Park Grove enjoyed a fantastic enrichment day that was organised by the School Council representatives from classes 1 to 9. There were so many different activities for all of KS1 and KS2 to choose from and all were ideas from the children themselves!Read More
This term Key Stage 2 have a new topic, Football Focus, and each class are exploring this theme through studying a different country that are, or have been, involved in the World Cup. One of the first things we all wanted to explore was the food from that country. See below to find out more!...Read More
At Park Grove, the incredibly snowy weather wasn’t going to cool off how excited we were for World Book Day 2018, and it proved to be a fantastic day across the whole school! Here’s what each class were up to… Class 1 “We all went in different costumes like pirates, fairies and ‘Dorothy’s. We made...Read More
All of the children in Early Years and Key Stage 1 have been involved in a drama workshop run by Thea Jacob this week about flooding. We loved having the opportunity to discuss flooding including why it happens, who can help us when it floods and what we can do to stay safe and be...Read More
On the last day of Spring term 1, every class at Park Grove enjoyed a fantastic musical treat: a whole day dedicated to exploring and celebrating music! Students from York University joined us for some music workshops each linked to the class’ topic. Through these workshops, each class explored different sounds they could create with...Read More
For the third year in a row, Park Grove Academy has enjoyed being part of the fantastic Young Voices Choir at Sheffield arena. It is such a brilliant day for everybody involved…and here is a superb, descriptive report of the day by choir members Annabelle and Dinithi: Young Voices On the 17th of January 2018...Read More
Throughout this half term, all classes at Park Grove have been lucky enough to visit the York Theatre Royal for an exclusive backstage look! Whilst the classes were there, they had a very informative tour of all the different parts of a theatre and learnt about the range of different jobs such as the Deputy...Read More
Our KS1 children wowed the crowds with their rendition of ‘Born in a Barn’, this years nativity play. We had sheep, cows, mice, dogs, cats and even a cockrel, all making room in their stable for a very special baby. While our Year 2 children took on the acting roles, the Year 1 children were...Read More
In Key Stage One and Early Years our current topic is ‘Winter Wonderland’ so we have been thinking about where the coldest places on earth are. One of the cold countries we have been investigating is Canada, so we had a topic Enrichment Day learning about lots of Canadian things. We completed lots of activities...Read More
As part of our Romans topic, all of Key Stage 2 enjoyed a spectacular enrichment day, trekking around the remains of the Roman fortress of York – or as they called it, Eboracum – to find out all about the Roman history in our beautiful city. We explored the streets of Eboracum, finding the ruins...Read More
At the end of our first half term all of the children in Early Years and Key Stage 1 thoroughly enjoyed celebrating our Harvest Festival at St Thomas’s church. Thank you to all of the parents that came to watch and support our celebration. We hope you enjoyed the singing, stories and poetry.Read More
This half term we had a very special visit from an important figure in York: the Mayor Barbara Boyce! Key Stage 2 found out that her full title was The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of York and were given the exciting opportunity to ask her different questions about her life, her inspiration and her important...Read More
As if starting a new school year isn’t exciting enough, the Year 6s at Park Grove always have the added excitement of their school residential to High Adventure in the second week…and this year we had a fantastic visit! We set off on a slightly soggy Monday, but we didn’t let that dampen our spirits...Read More
All of the Early Years team are so impressed with the new starters in Class 1 and 2 who have settled into school fantastically. They have already been very busy exploring the classroom, investigating in the outdoor area and making lots of new friends.Read More
Our Year 5 children performed ‘Animals’ by Atiha Sen Gupta at York Theatre Royal. The children were supported in preparing for the play by Julian Ollive from the theatre as part of the nation wide Playhouse project. The actors were expertly directed by our very own Mr Mastrelli and his fantastic team; Mr Symonds and...Read More
Key Stage 1 and Early Years were very lucky to visit the Yorkshire Wildlife Park to support their current topic ‘In the Jungle’. We all had a fantastic day out, despite the wet weather! We saw many wild animals such as tigers, lions, polar bears and lemurs. Everyone was fascinated by watching the animals and...Read More
As part of our whole school enrichment day, each class spent the day exploring our current topic: chocolate! Activities included using the Chromebooks to create informative, interactive presentations all about chocolate, tasting a range of different chocolates (and then creating bar charts of favourite flavours!) and even designing our own Fairtrade chocolate bars and creating...Read More
As part of our topic enrichment day all of Early Years and Key Stage 1 visited the Castle Museum to learn even more about chocolate. All of the children walked there very sensibly with their rucksacks and sunhats in the glorious weather. When we arrived we followed the trail of mice carefully through the museum looking...Read More
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