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A big welcome back to everyone!!   We hope you all had an enjoyable and restful Summer break.   All the new reception children seem to have settled in well and we wish all the Year 6 pupil’s a great time at High Adventure next week!

Please collect your children at 12 o’clock on Friday (19th July).  We hope the children have a wonderful Summer holiday!

Key Stage 1 sports day is Thursday 27th June from 9:15-11:30.

Sports day for Key Stage 2 is this coming Monday 24th June.  Year 3/4 starts at 9:15 and concludes 10:30, Year 5/6 starts 10:45 and concludes 12pm.

Just a reminder that children cannot come into school on Friday the 28th June as it is a staff training day!

Just a reminder that Flipside Photography are going to be in school tomorrow for class photographs!

  Flipside Photography will be at Park Grove on Friday 21st June, to take class photos.

  Early Years and KS1 children have an exciting trip planned for next week! This will be to Scarborough on Thursday 20th June. We hope the sun shines for you and you all have a wonderful day!

  Our special fund raising event for 2019 will be a sponsored BOUNCE!! This will be held on Wednesday 19th June. Please carry on collecting sponsor money,  as there will be a prize for the class who collects the most money and a prize for the child who manages the most...

  We would just like to remind you that we break up this Friday 24th May at normal finish time for half term. We hope you all have a relaxing week off and look forward to seeing you back at school on Monday 3rd June.

We are delighted to announce that one of our teachers, Mr Gardiner, has made it through to the Final of Test The Teacher on Minster FM!! The final takes place on Thursday 9th May between 8 and 9am. We realise this is dropping off time so we will listen to a recording of the...

Park Grove is closed on Monday 6th May due to a Bank Holiday.  School re-opens on Tuesday 7th May.  See you all then!

PLEASE IGNORE PREVIOUS POST – We actually break up for Easter: FRIDAY 12TH APRIL AT 2:30PM We hope you all have an enjoyable and relaxing break. School opens again on Monday 29th April.

    The NSPCC are coming to Park Grove to deliver their Speak Out Stay Safe assembly to key stage 1 and 2. They will also do an hour long workshop for the year 5 and 6 pupils. These will be on 27th and 28th March.

On Friday 15th March it is Comic Relief 2019.  To celebrate Red Nose Day, we are all wearing something RED!

  Class 6 will be having an assembly on Tuesday 5th February at 9am.   The topic for the assembly will be The Egyptians and Class 6 pupils would love to see as many of their parents there as possible!

  On Tuesday 22nd January Class 5 will be doing an assembly on ‘The Egyptians’. The children have had great fun learning this topic and are looking forward to sharing their ideas with you. We would love to see as many parents there as possible.

  This Thursday 10th January a number of children from Park Grove and Haxby Road Schools will be travelling to Sheffield for Young Voices 2019! This exciting event takes place every year and we are sure the children and parents will enjoy it!

  Next week each child will attend a Christmas Party in School!   EYFS & KS1 will be on Thursday 20th December and KS2 will be on Tuesday 18th December.   We are sure the children will have great fun!

Our Christmas Dinner at Park Grove will be on Wednesday 19th December. We are sure it will be delicious and the children will have lot’s of fun! Please make sure you have brought your slip back to let us know if your child would like a Christmas Dinner or not.

A reminder that we break up for the Christmas Holidays at 12.00 on Friday 21st December, and return to school Monday 7th January 2018.

  At Park Grove we will be providing the children with a Christmas Lunch on Wednesday 19th December. Details will follow shortly.  

    Class 9 will be having a Vikings assembly on Tuesday 27th November at 9am. We hope to see many parents there!

  Class 8 will be having an ‘Anglo-Saxon Power’ assembly on Tuesday 20th November at 9am. We hope to see many parents there!

  At Park Grove we will be providing the children with a delicious Christmas Lunch on Wednesday 19th December. Details will follow shortly.

Please see below our PTA October events coming up soon at Park Grove! AGM – Monday 15th October – 7pm at the Gillygate Pub Everyone is welcome to come to the PTA AGM. We will be discussing committee positions as well as planning events, fundraising ideas/funding...

  EYFS and KS1 will be walking to St.Thomas’ church for their Harvest Festival celebration on Tuesday 16th October.    

We welcome prospective parents to come and look around Park Grove Primary Academy.  Please contact us via email or telephone if you would like to attend either afternoon. Wednesday 7th November 1.30pm-3pm and Wednesday 28th November 1.30pm-3pm.

Parents/Carers are invited into school to discuss your child’s work with their teacher on Tuesday 23rd  October and Thursday 25th October.  Letters to be sent out shortly.

On Wednesday 10th October we are having a Young Minds Awareness day… Young Minds is a charity which promotes positive mental health in children and young people and aims to provide support and build resilience so they are empowered to face whatever challenges life brings....

The Y6 play, Cinderella and Rockerfella is on Tuesday 17th July at 6pm.  The children have been working incredibly hard and have put forward their own fantastic ideas to make this production their own.  We have been overwhelmed by their energy and enthusiasm for this production,...

On Thursday 19th July EYFS and KS1 pupils will be having a pirate themed party to celebrate the ‘Pirates and Explorers’ topic.  They will be singing some pirate songs and chants and they will have some games and activities.

On Wednesday 18th July between 12pm – 1pm we will be having a Teddy Bears Picnic lunch on the field (weather permitting).  Parents are very welcome to join us, please bring your own packed lunch.  Please note there will be no hot dinners available on this day.

Just to remind you all that next Friday (29th June) is a training day so the children will not be in school.

  Next week are Park Grove’s Sports Days. KS1 is on Wednsday 27th June am and KS2 is on Thursday 28th June am. The forecast is good, so we hope the children enjoy it!

  On Wednesday 27th June, Year 5 pupils will be visiting York University for an exciting Science Day! They will be taking part in workshops including DNA, fingerprinting, languages and nursing. We hope you have great fun!  

Next week (21st June) EYFS & KS1 children will be visiting Whitby.   They will learn about geographical features, Captain Cook and have fun on the beach!

  Over the next couple of weeks all KS2 classes will be visiting Bootham Crescent Football Ground.   This is an exciting opportunity for them to have a tour of the grounds, learn more about football and even meet some of the players!

  Next week is Park Grove’s very exciting ‘Enterprise Week’! The children will be involved in various events throughout the week, hopefully raising plenty of sponsorship money for new ICT equipment. We hope you all enjoy it and have fun!    

Before the half term holiday, we received the exciting news that one of Class 9’s entries into the Literacy Film Festival competition had been successful.  Class 9 have been invited to a special screening at City Screen in York on Friday 15th June, where they will be able...

A reminder that on Tuesday 12th June, Flipside Photography will be in school to take the Class photographs.  Photos will then be on display outside classrooms and order forms will be sent home or available from the school office. Best smiles!

We break up for half term on Friday, 25th May 2018.  Hopefully the sun will keep shining.  We hope you all have a lovely break and look forward to seeing you back at school on Monday 4th June 2018.  

  Next Tuesday (22nd May) we are having a School Council Enrichment Day!   This will be a fun day for the children with many activities and games to enjoy!

  Next week is KS2 SATs week. We just want to wish all our Year 6 pupils Good Luck!

  Have you seen our Art Sculpture?!   Class 8 and 9 have been very busy and are having a party this afternoon to celebrate their great work!

    Have fun in the sun, we hope you enjoy the long weekend and we will see you all on Tuesday!!

This week and next Classes 1 to 4 will be visiting the Greenfields Community Garden on Haxby Road. The kind volunteers at the community garden have agreed to work with us on our visit, working in groups planting etc.  Hopefully we will have lovely weather on our visits.

  All Class 2 parents are invited to come and see their children’s exciting assembly on their current topic ‘Field to Fork’.   This will take place on Tuesday 24th April at 9am.

Welcome back to the first half of the Summer Term, we hope you all had a lovely Easter break.

We would like to remind parents that we finish at 2.30pm on the last day of this term. Please collect your children at 2.30pm on Friday 23rd March 2018 Also to remind you that school opens for the pupils’ return on Monday 9th April 2018 Best Wishes  

Last week children from Years 3, 4 and 5 had the chance, as part of the Inspiring Minds Project to visit the National Railway Museum, where Major Tim Peake’s descent module was on display.  Major Tim Peake embarked on the Principia mission to the International Space Station...

    As part of our Inspiring Minds project this term, the Year 6 children have the opportunity to visit the organisation they are working with.  The visit is to support their understanding of creative arts, as well as being an enjoyable day out! Some of the Year 6...

  World Book Day 2018 is taking place on 1st March, however Park Grove will be celebrating on Friday 2nd March.  All children will be given a £1.00 book token to spend.  This year each class teacher has chosen a special author to explore the work of throughout the day.  We...

Before half term we began sorting through our Storysack Area as it was in need of updating and repairing.  We had a very productive morning sorting through everything and will be holding another session on Thursday 1st March, if any parents are interested, we need people who can...

  On our last day of term, Friday 9th February we are having a very exciting music enrichment day. Throughout the day children will take part in a variety of music workshops, which we hope will be lot’s of fun!  

Over the next couple of weeks each of the classes will be visiting York Theatre Royal for a tour of the building.  EYFS & KS1 children will take part in a drama workshop and KS2 children will have a talk on ‘Careers in Theatre’.

  On Wednesday 17th January, the Young Voices Choir will be performing at Sheffield Arena.  Young Voices is the largest choir in the world, where thousands of children all come together to sing.  It is a really exciting event which the children in previous year...

Hi everyone! My name is Lyndsey Peacock and I have joined Park Grove Primary School as a Teaching Assistant within class 2. My husband and I have talked for what seems like many years in our desire to move to York. So, following on from our Vegas wedding we finally made the...

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The EYFS children will be celebrating Christmas by singing some Christmas songs.  We look forward to seeing EYFS parents for a coffee and mince pie on Thursday 21st December at 9.15am.

  We are looking forward to seeing you all at the Christmas Fair on Friday 15th December, 6pm- 8.30pm.  This year the fair is called ‘Have a jolly bolly Christmas’, there will be Bollywood dancing lessons, indian inspired food, christmas shopping stalls, bindis,...

On Thursday 14th December Key Stage 1 will perform their Nativity, Born in a Barn, the performances are at 9.15am and 5.30pm.  Please make sure you have booked your tickets (maximum of 2 per family).  We hope that you enjoy the performance and look forward to seeing you.

On Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th November 2017, Flipside Photographers will be in school to take individual photographs of the children.  If the children have siblings in school, sibling photos only will be taken.  If you would like an individual photo of your child, please let...

We would like to remind parents that next Friday, 17th November is a Training Day, therefore the children will not be in school.

    EYFS & KS1 will be visiting St. Thomas’ Church to celebrate the Harvest Festival. They will walk to the church on Tuesday 24th October at 9.30am and have fun singing songs. We would be very grateful for donations of any non-perishable items, these will be...

  We hope to see as many children as possible at our Halloween Disco on Friday 20th October. The fun starts at 6pm and finishes at 8.30pm!

    The selected Theatre Ambassadors will be going on a trip on Friday 29th September, to see the ‘Ugly Duckling’ performance at the York Theatre Royal. We are sure they will enjoy it and will be asked to write a review of the performance.

Next Friday  (29th September) we have planned a fundraiser for World Heart day. We will be receiving a box of skipping ropes to do the Jump Rope for Heart activity for the British Heart Foundation. Each class will be allocated a half hour slot to do the skipping activities and we...