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September 22, 2016

Homework

Spellings will be sent out for the first time this week. Your child’s spelling book will have words which contain particular phonemes which we have practised in phonics that week. This week, we have practised ch, sh, th and ng so the words they will practise will reflect this, such as cheese, ship, think and king....
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September 21, 2016

Drama workshop

We were lucky enough to have a visit from the director and actors of the upcoming performance of ‘Under the Magical Moon’, soon to be performed at the York Theatre Royal! We spent a full hour with them joining in with all sorts of different activities including becoming the characters such as Peter Pan, Tinkerbell...
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September 20, 2016

Happy dancing! 

We’re learning about dance in PE this half term and we have been following different movements with guidance from a BBC podcast. Unfortunately we had some technical difficulties and this wouldn’t work so instead we spontaneously made up our own lesson! First we paired up and mirrored each other’s movements, making sure we stayed in...
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September 19, 2016

Identifying coins

We’re learning about money this week and started off by identifying different coins. We ordered them from smallest to biggest then named each coin stamp in our books. We then rolled a coin dice and found the plastic coin to match. Great work Class 4!                   
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September 16, 2016

Next week

In maths we will be learning about money by recognising coins and using coins in different ways to make amounts. We will also be learning about the time and reading o’clock, half past and quarter to or past times. In English we will be reading the story of ‘Oh Borris’. We will then retell the...
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September 14, 2016

Homework

The children will receive their homework books on Friday which contain a variety of English and maths activities which they can complete in their own time. They will also be receiving their reading record with a book inside to read at home. We look forward to seeing the comments you write about your child’s reading!...
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September 14, 2016

Our school art

As part of our topic ‘Our School’, we’ve been sketching pictures of Park Grove. We’ve been using watercolours and activating our pieces using water. Here are some examples…   
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September 13, 2016

Problem solving

In maths today, we applied our number bond skills by solving missing number problems. Some of us used bead strings to find the remaining number and some of us didn’t even need the bead strings at all!                     
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September 12, 2016

Number bonds and Chromebooks

What a busy Monday we had! In the morning we worked on our number bond skills and used bead strings to find numbers which added together to make 10 or 20. Then in the afternoon, we were introduced to the new Chromebooks! We worked with a partner and learned how to log on and began...
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September 9, 2016

All about our school

As our topic for the first three weeks is ‘Our School’, we’ve been discussing Park Grove and what we like about it. Lots of us said how they like playing on the huge field at lunch times, some brought up the bright and colourful classrooms and others mentioned us not having any uniform. We recorded...
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September 7, 2016

Labelling

In English today we went on a hunt around the classroom to find lots of labels. We then defined what labels are before labelling the objects in our classroom. Some of us went on to add adjectives as well; great work Class 4!            
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September 6, 2016

Welcome to Class 4!

Welcome back to Park Grove everybody, we hope you had a wonderful Summer! We had a fantastic first day back and we’ve really enjoyed getting to know our new classroom and classmates. Firstly, we talked about we’d been up to in the holidays before doing some counting in maths. In the afternoon, we put all...
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July 20, 2016

A final message

What a year it has been in Class 4! It fills me with great sadness to be saying goodbye to all of the wonderful children who have made my first year of teaching an absolute pleasure. I genuinely couldn’t have asked for a better class and it has been incredibly rewarding to watch them learn...
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July 20, 2016

Board game morning

To celebrate the end of our time in Class 4, we had a board game morning to apply our maths skills in different ways. It was lovely to see how well the children taught their friends how to play the games and how good they were at taking turns. Here’s a few pictures…         ...
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July 18, 2016

Race for Life

We really enjoyed raising money for Raise for Life this morning by running a mile on the school field!  We had the pleasure of sharing the experience with Class 9 and there was a brilliant atmosphere as the children supported one another to complete all of their laps. Once we had completed our ten laps,we...
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July 18, 2016

Scarborough trip!

What a fantastic time we had in Scarborough last week as part of our ‘Beside the Seaside’ topic! The weather was perfect for us and we were so excited to get there. When we first arrived, we began spotting all of the familiar surroundings including the lighthouse, the arcades and the historic castle. Once we...
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July 14, 2016

Next week

We can’t believe that there is only one week left at Park Grove before the Summer! Next week we will be enjoying our final moments together as a class by completing a range of different maths and English activities. One activity will be reflecting on the strengths of our other class members and nominating them...
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July 14, 2016

Homework

Spellings this week will focus on the ‘oo’ sound in words. Variations may include ‘ew’ for chew, ‘ue’ for glue and ‘u_e’ split digraph for tube. 
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July 13, 2016

Memorable moments in Class 4

What a super time we had writing about our favourite moments in Class 4! First we mind mapped some key ideas of things that we might remember, such as trips, assemblies, enrichment days and topics. We then sat in a circle and began sharing some of our favourite moments so we had lots of ideas...
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July 13, 2016

Maths measuring

In maths this week, we measured the length of a range of classroom objects. We had to use the ruler carefully and make sure we started at the zero, not at the end of the ruler! Lots of us then moved on to measuring in mm and began recognising how to convert from mm to...
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July 11, 2016

Sports Day…

Although we were very excited for our Sports Day, unfortunately the Great British weather got the better of us and it was sadly cancelled due to the rain. We didn’t let that dampen our spirits though! Instead we did some fun relays in the gym with Mr Gardiner and Mr Mastrelli. We were very competitive...
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July 6, 2016

Next week

Next week in English we will be continuing our recount unit by reflecting on our favourite moments and highlights from the year in Class 4. We’ll also be writing a detailed recount about our upcoming trip! In maths, we will be working on our multiplying and dividing skills by completing a range of calculations with...
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July 6, 2016

Homework

Spellings this week will be focussing on the split digraph in words. These will include ‘a-e’ for cake, ‘e-e’ for delete, ‘i-e’ for fire, ‘o-e’ for home and ‘u-e’ for tube. In English we’ve been using a lot of exclamation marks and exclamation sentences to make our writing more exciting, so perhaps the children could...
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July 6, 2016

Transition morning!

 We loved visiting our new classes this week! It was really exciting getting to know our new teacher and seeing who we’ll be spending the next year with. Miss Thomas of course was very sad but of course very proud as well…so here is one of her favourite pictures of some of the Class 4...
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July 6, 2016

Greenfields visit

What a lovely trip we had to Greenfields Community Garden; luckily the weather stayed nice for us! We completed three different activities: listening to how seeds grow, planting our sunflowers and going on a garden hunt to find different trees, plants and herbs! Many thanks to all of the kind parents/guardians who came along with...
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July 4, 2016

Map skills

We loved finding different seaside resorts in Geography! We used a map with a partner and followed the compass directions North, South, East and West to identify the places. We then wrote sentences to describe where the places were and which country they were in. Great work Class 4!         
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June 29, 2016

Next week

In English we will be continuing to develop our recount skills by writing about our transition morning and our trip to Greenfields Community Garden. We’ll be specifically focussing on the ‘5 Ws’ to include details about who, what, where, when and why. In maths, we will be developing our addition and subtraction skills and using...
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June 29, 2016

Homework

Spellings this week will, again, focus on the ‘aw’ sounds in words but this time with the letter ‘a’ instead of ‘o’ such as ‘au’ for haunted, ‘al’ for walk and ‘augh’ for ‘taught’. We’ve done lots of work on contractions this week so it would be fantastic if they could try to use these...
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June 29, 2016

What’s the weight?

In maths this week, the children have been developing their skills of weighing and recording how many grams were in a variety of objects. To do this, we looked closely at the packaging to find the weight, then ordered them from lightest to heaviest. Some of us were also able to convert from grams to...
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June 27, 2016

Come to Scarborough!

As part of our topic Beside the Seaside, we completed a group presentation to encourage others to visit the wonderful town of Scarborough! We were given a selection of pictures linked to the attractions there and Miss Thomas was really impressed at how well we worked together to present our work. She particularly liked it...
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June 27, 2016

Art Enrichment Day 

What a fabulous time we had doing art all day on Friday! We continued our topic of Beside the Seaside by creating printed fish using polystyrene. We then created beautiful seaside collages using a range of resources. In the afternoon, we created postcards and designed a new garden area which will be made at school...
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June 23, 2016

Next week

In English we will be be writing a recount of something we did at the weekend using effective time connectives. We will also be writing a letter to our new class teacher using a range of sentence structures such as questions and exclamations. In maths, we will be developing our practical measuring skills as well...
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June 23, 2016

Homework

Spellings this week will focus on the ‘or’ sounds. These may include variations such as ‘oor’ for door and ‘ore’ for store. We’ve been doing lots of work on applying these words in exciting sentences this week so we’d love it if you could encourage this at home too. Can they use the word in...
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June 22, 2016

Analogue to digital 

We’ve really pushed ourselves in maths this week by expanding our time knowledge to convert analogue to digital. We rotated around the classroom completing different activities including using the laptops, using mini clocks and writing digital times on whiteboards. We’re getting really confident at this – well done everybody!         
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June 21, 2016

Time telling

Today we practised our time telling skills by looking at clock hands closely on a sheet and writing the time underneath. When we finished, we applied our skills through different games. Here’s one of us choosing a time flash card and showing it using the big clock!   
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June 20, 2016

Physical or human feature?

In geography today, we identified things that we see at the seaside and considered whether it was natural or man made. We had a good discussion about how sandcastles were both as the sand is natural but the castle itself is created by a human! Here’s some of our fantastic work…           
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June 16, 2016

Next week

In maths, we will be practising writing numbers, telling the time and solving problems with money. In English, we will be writing a postcard then using persuasive language to encourage others to visit the seaside. We’re also very excited about our Art Enrichment Day on Friday 24th June; we’re sure it will be lots of...
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June 16, 2016

Homework

Spellings this week will focus on common exception words which the children frequently use in their writing. Please encourage them to also use this words in sentences to ensure they know the meaning of them. Also, a lot of the children’s new English targets focus on punctuation. Perhaps you could encourage them to write sentences...
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June 15, 2016

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 line graph too. After the lesson,...
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June 14, 2016

Remainders

Today we challenged our division knowledge and learnt about remainders! Some of drew pictures to help share out the dots, whereas others used counters. It was tricky at first to understand how to find them but Miss Thomas was really impressed with us!      
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June 13, 2016

Seasides then and now

In history, we’ve been learning about the history of the seaside and how things have changed. We discussed seasides in the olden days such as Punch and Judy shows, bathing machines and long clothing, then compared it to how the seasides are now including short clothing, sunbathing and more transport. It was also interesting to...
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June 11, 2016

Next week in class 4

What a busy first week back we have had! We have really enjoyed starting to learn about our seaside topic and we wrote some really effective descriptive pieces about our senses at the beach. Next week we will be completing various pieces of written work based upon the story of The Lighthouse Leepers Lunch. In...
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June 11, 2016

Homework

This week we have done lots of phonics revision. Spellings will focus on the split digraph variations for all five vowel sounds, as we feel the children need to practice these the most. Please encourage your children to also use these words in a sentence.
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June 11, 2016

Seaside Art

We did some printing this afternoon to create seaside shell artwork. We first drew a shell shape on polystyrene then we painted over the top. Look at how effective it was!
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June 11, 2016

Temperature Investigation

We made the most of the sunny weather and conducted an experiment to describe and measure temperature in different places. We placed thermometers inside the classroom, in the shade and then in direct sunlight. It was fun making predictions and revealing how hot it was inside and outside!
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June 11, 2016

Welcome back

What a lovely first day we have had after our half term break, we hope you have all had a well deserved rest! Today we began learning about our new topic, Beside The Seaside! We had to think of things we might see there and label these correctly with a friend. Here is an example
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May 25, 2016

After half term…

Our next topic after half term will be ‘Beside the Seaside’! We’re really excited to learn about beaches and discuss the history of Scarborough. It will be RED group’s show and tell – please encourage the children to bring in something from the seaside. We will not be sending out any homework to be completed...
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May 25, 2016

Tongue twisters!

In English we’ve been learning about speaking with clarity and intonation. We discussed how important it is to read with an interesting voice and how we can change our voice for punctuation and different characters. To put this into practise we had a lot of fun reading ‘Fox in Socks’ tongue twisters! We paired up,...
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May 24, 2016

Maths Enrichment Day!

We were mathematicians for the whole day completing lots of different fun activities! We read the story of ‘The Bad Tempered Ladybird’ by Eric Carle and then made our own story booklet. We also did some mini beast problem solving and created some artistic repeating pattern animals. We finished off the day with a special...
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May 23, 2016

Maths is fun!

We really enjoyed our fun maths lesson recently to apply all our skills in different ways. The class was split in half and we took it in turns to go outdoors with Miss Thomas or complete activities inside with Ms Savoia. We are definitely excited for our Maths Enrichment Day tomorrow! Here’s a few photographs...
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May 18, 2016

Next week

Next week in maths we will be doing some additional work on telling the time. We will be doing lots of practical works with the mini clocks and securing our understanding of where the minute and the hour hand should be pointing for specific times. In English, we will be doing some exciting writing about...
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May 18, 2016

Homework

Spellings this week will focus on the ‘ear’ sound. Variations may include ‘ere’ for here, ‘eer’ for dear and ‘ier’ for pier. Perhaps when reading with your child, you could also encourage them to find ‘ear’ words in their book too! 
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May 18, 2016

Experimenting in Class 4

As part of our scientific work on plants and wildlife, we have planted our very own sunflower seeds! We’re conducting an experiment to see which plants will grow the best depending on where they are kept. We have some on the window ledge, some in the classroom and some in the cupboard. It’s really exciting...
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May 17, 2016

Judaism artefacts

We’ve recently been thinking about important objects in our lives and comparing these to important artefacts in religion such as the Bible and the cross. We explored the Jewish religion and learnt about the six important artefacts: the kippah, the Torah, the tallit, the tefillin, the mezuzah scroll and the menorah. The children found it...
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May 16, 2016

Mini-beast sewing

Today we began creating our mini-beasts! We first added our embellishments such as buttons and coloured circles, then we began sewing around the edges and adding the stuffing. It was great to see how talented the children were and how they could help others if they had got a bit tangled!                    ...
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May 12, 2016

Next week in Class 4

Next week in English we will be completing more grammar style activities and learning how these skills can make our writing more effective. In maths, we will be spending a few days discussing the events we do in our days. We will put these into chronological order, think about what time we do them at...
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May 11, 2016

Homework

Spellings this week will focus on the ‘air’ sound in words. Variations could include ‘ear’ for pear, ‘ere’ for where and ‘are’ for stare. As always, please encourage your children to use these in a sentence to ensure they understand its definition and the context it should be used in. This is particularly important as...
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May 11, 2016

Exciting exclamations!

We’ve been working hard on our grammar skills in Class 4 this week and we were introduced to the rather tricky concept of exclamation sentences. To write these correctly, we had to make sure our sentences started with ‘what’ or ‘how’, included a verb (a doing word) and ended with an exclamation mark. Although this...
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May 11, 2016

Let’s play rounders!

For the last few weeks in PE, we’ve been practising and perfecting different skills such as running, throwing and catching. We’re now ready to put these skills into practise by playing rounders! We spent some time listening to and understanding the rules before splitting into teams and trying our best to get the most points!...
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May 10, 2016

Library time

We visit the library each week to take out new books to read both at home and at school! Reading gives us the opportunity to learn new vocabulary and the children always enjoy a story at the end of the school day!         
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May 5, 2016

Next week in Class 4

In maths, the Year 2s will be spending a few days strengthening their skills of mental arithmetic. This will be a great opportunity for the children to ask any questions about particular methods they should be using or types of questions they are unsure of. In the meantime, the Year 1 children will be further...
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May 5, 2016

Homework

Spellings this week will focus on words containing ‘oi’ for coin or ‘oy’ for boy. As always, please encourage your children to use this words in their own sentences to practise other writing skills too! Perhaps when reading with your child you could ask them to find oi/oy words in the book?
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May 4, 2016

Frog fact finding

Linking to our topic mini-beasts, we’ve been researching facts about frogs. To do this, we worked with a partner to read a piece of text and highlight any facts that we found. We then summarised these neatly in our English books using bullet points.         
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May 4, 2016

Subtraction skills

We’ve become pretty secure at our number bonds to 20 so we’ve been using these facts to help us complete subtraction questions confidently. Some of us were able to show the inverse (opposite) underneath our calculations too! We really enjoyed working with a partner to see how many questions we could solve in one minute! ...
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April 29, 2016

Meeting the mini-beasts!

We were lucky enough to to have a visit from ‘Animals Intuition’ to teach us all about our topic… mini-beasts! She brought in snails, millipedes, stick insects, cockroaches, mealworms, scorpions and a tarantula! The children were extremely brave and were eager to hold them all! It was really fascinating to see them up close and...
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April 28, 2016

Next week

With it being a bank holiday, please remember that the school will be closed all of Monday 2nd May! In Maths next week we will be spending some time revisiting our number bond facts and learning how we can use these to help us solve other calculations quicker. We will also be learning about money...
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April 28, 2016

Homework

Spellings this week will focus on words containing the ‘ow’ sound. This will include words such as ‘clown’ or alternative spellings including ‘ou’ for ‘house’. Always encourage your children to practise writing these words in sentences as well to further develop and apply their writing skills! 
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April 27, 2016

Crazy characters!

We really enjoyed listening to the story of ‘The Mixed Up Chameleon’ by Eric Carle! We then did some creative writing to describe our own mixed up characters – we really enjoyed listening to our funny and very unusual animals!            
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April 26, 2016

Hands on Maths

We’ve been applying our measuring skills this week by completing four different activities to see how much we had learnt. We played games on the laptops, measured different sized mini-beasts and matched thermometers with their temperatures. Well done Class 4!                                
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April 25, 2016

Drama stories 

This week we will be exploring lots of creative writing techniques. Today we did some drama in the hall by choosing objects at random as a ‘stimulus’ and creating characters and a plot from that object. We then performed our pieces to the whole class and tried our best to follow what was happening! We...
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April 22, 2016

Next week

Next week we will be learning about different addition, subtraction, multiplication and division methods such as counting in our head, drawing pictures and using an empty number line. In English, we will be doing lots of exciting story activities! This will include drama using different objects, creating and describing our own characters and then creating...
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April 21, 2016

Homework

Spellings this week will focus on the ‘er’ sound such as er in power, ir in stir and ur in nurse. Please note that the children only need to write the word once in the largest box. If you are unsure, just ask a friendly Class 4 staff member! 
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April 20, 2016

Temperature time!

We really enjoyed learning about temperature today! We discussed what language we might use to describe it such as hot, cold, freezing and we learnt about how a thermometer works. As it was such a lovely day, we also put a real thermometer outside to see how hot it was! We then worked on the...
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April 20, 2016

Story planning

After reading ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark’, we have been inspired to create our own stories. Today, we created a plan and made notes on what will happen in the beginning, middle and end. Can you guess what our story might be about and what it could be scared of?   
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April 18, 2016

Brilliant beats!

We had a very musical afternoon in Class 4 creating our own beats using different percussion instruments on Purple Mash. We were able to save our work with a partner and listen to our beats with the whole class at the end. It was really fun clapping along, some of us even got up and...
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April 14, 2016

Next week in Class 4…

Next week in Maths we will be developing our measuring skills by looking at length, weight and temperature. In English we will be beginning to plan and write our own story, inspired by the work we have done this week on an owl who was afraid of the dark! We are looking forward to seeing...
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April 14, 2016

Class 4 homework

This week spellings will focus on words containing split digraphs. These will include a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e and u-e. The children have worked particularly hard on these in class as they can be tricky at times, some extra practise at home would be really beneficial! 
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April 13, 2016

Mini-beasts

This week we’ve started to learn about our new topic, mini-beasts. In Computing, we used lots of artistic features on Purple Mash to make mini-beast art in the style of Eric Carle. Have a look at our wonderful work!                   
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April 12, 2016

Missing numbers 

We used our counting skills to complete missing number sequences this morning. Some of us used the laptops to carry on the sequences of two before making the rockets blast off!    
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April 12, 2016

Welcome back!

Welcome back to Park Grove everyone! We hope you had a fantastic Easter break. We’re ready for a new term in our beautiful new classroom, the children are really happy with our new walls and carpet! Today we had some fun outdoors practising our times tables. We checked our counting targets in our Maths books...
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March 24, 2016

Final notices from Class 4

We’re having a really fun Toy Day at Park Grove to celebrate the end of term! A quick notice that there will be no homework sent out over the holidays to give the children opportunity to have a well earned rest before coming back to school on Monday 11th April. Finally, please remember that school...
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March 23, 2016

Maths operations work

On Wednesday we did some work on recognising different mathematical operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). We spent some time discussing the language and methods for each before going off to our tables and completing some questions on our own. We had to make sure that we read the question really carefully so we knew...
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March 23, 2016

Easter story

With Easter just around the corner, we’ve been learning about why Christians celebrate this every year. We have been able to retell the Easter story by putting the important events in the correct order, then we used drama to ‘hot seat’ the characters about how they felt and why! We also now know what the...
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March 21, 2016

Moving pictures

What a busy Monday we’ve had in Class 4! We were introduced to ‘2Animate’ where we were able to turn simple pictures into an animation on Purple Mash. We took turns with a partner on the laptops to create an animation of a sunflower growing from a seed to a flower; this consolidated the explanation...
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March 16, 2016

Next week in Class 4

In our final week before the Easter holidays, we will be finalising our explanation texts unit in English by writing an explanation of how we can keep clean. This links well with our Science lesson as the children will be exploring how we do this and what can happen if we do not! We will...
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March 16, 2016

Homework

This week’s spellings will look at the ‘wh’ for wheel and ‘ph’ for phone sounds. The children have worked particularly hard at learning these so I am sure they will apply the words in some great sentences too!
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March 16, 2016

Sewing with Ms Savoia

We’ve been working on sewing in Art for the past two weeks. Although it takes great care and concentration it’s lots of fun!            
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March 15, 2016

Reading efforts

We’re trying really hard with our reading Class 4! In guided reading sessions, we have got much better at reading quietly on our own and we are enthusiastic about the books we choose! Recently, we’ve been putting our reading skills to the test by answering some comprehension questions based on the text. We’ve also been...
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March 14, 2016

Odd or even?

Today we were investigating odd and even numbers by solving simple addition calculations and identifying if the answer was odd or even. To do this, we used number lines, hundred squares or simply worked it out in our heads, then we had to look closely at the last digit. We also had to colour the...
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March 11, 2016

Next week in Class 4

In English we wil be becoming super writers by practising different skills such as punctuation, synonyms and improving sentences using VCOP. We will be applying these skills on Thursday by writing up our Science experiment and what happened to the bread when we didn’t wash our hands! In Maths, we will also be practising different...
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March 10, 2016

Homework

Spellings this week will look at the ‘ar’ sound. These may include variations such as ‘al’ for calm, ‘ear’ for heart and a on its own for rather. This week in Science, we’ve been learning about what a balanced diet is and the different food groups. Perhaps for homework your child could write a food...
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March 9, 2016

Parachute games

 We had loads of fun with the parachute in PE this week! Our favourite games were cat and mouse and shark attack!                
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March 8, 2016

Our big day!

We performed our fantastic assembly today! Miss Thomas, Ms Savoia and Mrs Stone were unbelievably proud of how perfect everything went and the whole school really enjoyed learning about China. Congratulations to every single child for trying their best and being a credit to Park Grove School. We hope you loved it as much as...
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March 7, 2016

Money work

In Maths this week we’re learning about money. We started off today by looking at different coins and finding ways of making values. Here’s some of the things we used to help us…   
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March 4, 2016

World Book Day!

What a fantastic time we’ve had celebrating World Book Day! We made book spines of our favourite book, did some drama, read with children from Class 9 and had a fashion parade in the hall! We took plenty of pictures so you could see our brilliant costumes!                                     ...
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March 3, 2016

Next week in Class 4…

 In English, we’ll be starting to learn about explanation texts and writing our own explanations. In Maths, we’ll be learning about money by finding different combinations of coins which make the same amount and solving money problems. Don’t forget that we will be performing our class assembly on Tuesday 8th February in the main hall...
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March 3, 2016

Homework 

This week’s spellings will look at the ‘aw’ sound. These will include variations such as ‘au’ as in haunt, ‘al’ as in stalk and ‘a’ on its own as in ball. You could encourage your children to practise writing these with ‘sound buttons’ underneath and reading them using their ‘robot arms’! 
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March 2, 2016

Booklet writing and SNOW! 

What a busy morning we’ve had in Class 4! We’ve been making information booklets about how to stay fit and healthy. Some of us were creating leaflets on Purple Mash too! Then, we couldn’t believe it snowed and we had lots of fun at play time!              
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March 1, 2016

Assembly rehearsals

Class 4 are working really hard on their assembly this week. All the children have now received their lines so please encourage them to keep practising at home. We can’t wait to perform to you next week!    
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March 1, 2016

Information text work

We’ve been learning about information texts in English. This morning, we worked in groups to mind map as many different information features as we could – here’s how one of the groups got on!    
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