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  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...

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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...