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June 26, 2019

Our Grovestock Poster

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July 22, 2016

“Groove”-Stock

Consensus (after much debate, which confirmed the verdict unanimously + 1 person) amongst the Governors, Teachers, Parents and children: Best – School – Fair – Ever!!! Well done to the PTA, to everybody who helped, participated and/or simply enjoyed it. Rumours have it that a second edition (with similar big names, artists and bands +...
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July 22, 2016

Governor Class Visit Class 3

What a difference a year makes! I had the pleasure of joining Class 3 on Thursday 7th July for an art lesson. The class were following their seaside theme and painting beautiful scallop shells. I first met Class 3 at the beginning of the year with Mr Gardiner, and I almost didn’t recognise them –...
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December 16, 2015

Health and Fitness in Outer Space, with Class 6

I had the great opportunity for another visit to Class 6 to learn, what the children had been working on over the last months. Due to my own background we concentrated for almost an entire lesson on Health and Fitness of Astronauts, and how physically challenging it is to become and to be one. It...
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December 3, 2015

Baking with Class 2

I visited Class 2 recently…what a busy classroom! First of all the children were doing ‘Guided Reading’ and I had the pleasure of listening to a child read. Next, there was lots of excitement as the children had the opportunity to bake gingerbread men and create recipe books in the shape of a gingerbread man....
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November 9, 2015

Class visit Class 2

I recently visited Class 2 for the first time this term to say hello to the children. My goodness what a busy class! It was science enrichment day and the classroom was a hive of activity. Children making planets, writing passports to go to space and designing aliens were just some of the activities taking...
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November 9, 2015

Class visit Class 4

Recently I visited Class 4 and their teacher Aimee Thomas – this is the class that I have been allocated to and I couldn’t be more pleased. I spent playtime and a full English lesson with them and it was a real pleasure. The children were polite, respectful and engaging. The lesson was creative and...
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October 16, 2015

My first assembly as a school governor at Park Grove Primary school

I arrived at the school for my first ever assembly just as the children were entering the hall. Each class entered in single file and in silence, they were all so well behaved. The best thing though was a large number of them were walking tall and looking so very proud of themselves. To see...
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October 16, 2015

Good work assembly 1

I attended Friday assembly today and was delighted to share in the celebration of children’s work, sporting and cycling achievements. Parents, children, staff and governors were impressed with the children’s work and the children’s pride in their achievements shone through. I liked the special recognition for children whose attitudes to learning are very positive. Well...
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June 24, 2015

Class 4 assembly

Class four held its class assembly on the `6th June. The theme was the seasons. The children had each ben assigned to a season and came dressed appropriately. June 16th was not a typical Summer’s day and those wearing woolly hats and scarves had a bit of an advantage on the others. Those children representing...
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June 22, 2015

Class 1 visit

My first visit to Class 1 at the start of a day and it was great to see so many mums and dads joining in the Early Bird Activity with their children which was reading a book together. Some parents stayed on for Stay and Play and their children were so pleased and proud to...
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June 12, 2015

Maths & English information evening

I thoroughly enjoyed attending the maths and English information evening this week! Parents were offered a great range of workshops to attend and learn more about the types of teaching methods used in school. As a parent of a Key Stage 1 child, I was particularly interested in learning about the different resources used to...
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June 10, 2015

Branston Pickles and Marmite class visit!

Fabulous class visit at Class 7 to witness the enrichment day on Staffordshire! Apart from very impressive creative displays and creations by the class I noticed how much the children had apparently in depth researched and learned about the region and could talk about and present it confidently. We then enjoyed several rounds of crackers...
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May 6, 2015

Class 1 Assembly

It was a real pleasure to attend Class 1 assembly when the children shared their learning to a packed school hall. The children spoke and sang with confidence and enthusiasm and were word perfect. Well done Class 1, you are all stars! You should be very proud and the smiles of all the mums, dads...
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April 12, 2015

Park Grove Speed Quiz

It was great to see so many parents and friends of Park Grove at the Speed Quiz organised by Park Grove PTA last week. These high-tech quizzes are created by PG parent Alan Leach and involve I-pads, picture and music clues, with subjects ranging from politics to the date of the introduction of hob nobs...
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March 17, 2015

Class 7 Assembly

Just attended a very impressive Class 7 Assembly about archeologists, Norse gods, Viking warriors, labourers and peasants, who described, in good detail, what important jobs they were all doing and how proud they were in their professions and so much more. There was great singing, speaking and acting from everyone with a lot of convincing...
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February 13, 2015

Music enrichment day

I had the great honour of making my visit to Class 1 on Music Enrichment day. I managed to see the children in Class 1 work on a song that they had learnt in a very short time and when they sang in a round it sounded lovely. I even got to attend the end...
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February 6, 2015

Class 8 assembly

I attended the Class 8 class assembly this week and really enjoyed it. There was some great singing and dancing going on, with contributions from everybody. It was fabulous to learn interesting and exciting things about the different pupils in the class, and the great diversity of interests, skills and talents that everyone contributes to...
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February 3, 2015

Visit class 1

I visited class 1 today and joined the children and Ms Lamb in the Forest School. We had great fun doing a dragon dance and the children joined in with enthusiasm. I hope I played the tambourine at the right time!! There’s so much for the children to explore and create in the Forest School...
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January 29, 2015

Extreme Reading competition

Over the Christmas holiday Teachers, Governors, Parents and Children were encouraged to submit examples of “extreme reading (i.e. reading in unusual places or moments) with photographic evidence. The results, many of them rather breathtaking, some almost a little frightening, which proved many people’s obvious passion for books, are now on display opposite the PTA board...
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January 29, 2015

Governor training

Some of the new governors at Park Grove attended a training session at the City Council this week – “Welcome to Governance” gave us a very useful introduction to the world of being a school governor, and also some very interesting information about schools and governors. Did you know there are 63 schools in York...
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December 13, 2014

Nativity!

Loved the Early Years and KS1 Nativity performance this week. The children sang with gusto, looked as though they were enjoying themselves and seemed very relaxed about it all. Now it feels like Christmas! Thanks to all the children and staff for their hard work to put the performance on.
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November 26, 2014

Class 9 Special Assembly

I attended a great Class 9 Special Assembly yesterday, which was the first of the year, so set the benchmark for the rest! Very varied content based around a “flashback” of all that’s occurred since the children started Year 6. Good singing, loud and clear speaking and some really excellent individual pieces. I really liked...
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November 21, 2014

A successful open evening

On 12/11/2014 the school provided an open evening for parents to get information and to talk about important aspects of the school. This included the roles and activities within the School Governing Body, the academic performance of the pupil community at the school and how key areas are developed and dealt with. Furthermore we had...
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November 21, 2014

Class 1 visit

I visited class 1 recently to meet the children and staff and join in with their work. What a wonderful time everyone was having. So many exciting things for them to do and after they has asked me some questions, including ‘what does it mean to be a governor?’, the children settled to work and...
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September 29, 2014

Autumn term 2014 observations

It is great to see that the school is in full swing straight after the summer break! Apart from an apparently enthusiastic start into the usual school curriculum, there are many other additional activities: for example, the running club is up again (with similar numbers of attending children as last term), the Bicycle to school...
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July 21, 2014

After school running club conclusion

I believe that nobody could have predicted the amazing and truly enthusiastic response to the offer of an after-school running club this summer. All in all 66 children (nearly a quarter of the entire school) joined in and participated for at least one of the four sessions. The results are very remarkable: The three top...
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July 16, 2014

Dragons’ Den

The Dragons’ Den Final on Monday (14 July) was fantastic. I went along with three of the other Dragons, David, Judith and Adrian and we all amazed at the incredible amount of money that the children had raised. It was a great ending to the original competition when we were equally amazed at the imaginative...
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June 24, 2014

Reception class assembly

It was great to attend the second reception class assembly this year – it proved that taking over the stage is not too big of a task for them, even at their young age. The large audience could witness lots of involvement of all the children, and in how many ways they could express themselves...
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June 17, 2014

How to enrich a day of madness with fun

It shows that you can effectively and methodically enrich a learning day by using fun and the odd “mad science”: school children with goggles, gloves, gowns, bio-hazard warning badges, more goggles (e.g. heart-shaped and water-proof) etc. etc. were spotted today getting mesmerised and inspired by some real life experiments with colour-magic with bottles of mysterious...
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June 13, 2014

After-school running club!

I was very impressed by the spirit of the first ever after-school running club event today. The idea was only set in motion in the last couple of two weeks and more than 65 enthusiastic children (that is about a quarter of the entire school!!) took part – possibly with more to be there next...
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March 21, 2014

Class 2 assembly

I am really looking forward to Class 2’s assembly on Tuesday!
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February 27, 2014

Full Governors minutes

Final FGB Minutes 28 January 2014
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February 17, 2014

Full Governors’ Minutes

FGB Minutes 3 December 2013
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February 12, 2014

What an exciting “Monkey Hunt”!

Im lucky enough to be the link governor for class 2 and had a great visit on Tuesday which was Enrichment Day. Mr Baines took all of us on a “Monkey Hunt” – we had to pack our ruck sacks, get on a plane, fly to a rainforest – and none of us were scared!...
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February 10, 2014

New Governors Letter to Parents

New Governors Letter to Parents – Letter to parents sent out Thursday 6th February introducing the new governors.
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December 8, 2013

Xmas Fair

Governors had a great time at the Xmas Fair. Loads of stalls (including our own, this year), music, drink and good company. Money raised on our Tombola and Play Your Cards Right will be spent on something for the children/school. Decision to be made next week and result blogged. Thank you to the PTA for organising another terrific...
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December 8, 2013

class 6 visit

I had a great visit to Class 6 this week! Thank you to Bo and Alexander for writing to me and inviting me.  Many thanks also to Louie, Kian and Joshua who all read to me. Can’t wait to read the next lot of books about x-bots / micro-kids / inventions! Miss Tilbury – Class 6...
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December 1, 2013

Visits to school

Lots of governors have been visiting their classes in the last couple of weeks. The children have really enjoyed meeting and getting to know their class governor. Thank you especially to Judith from class 4 for sewing all afternoon with 29 children. They were all delighted with the toys they made.   Mrs Hearson
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November 28, 2013

Christmas tree decorating!

what a wonderful and smiley time we had watching the children decorate the school christmas tree today and well done to gary for getting the tree up! It was great to watch the excitement, and mayhem, as the children fought for best position to hang their baubles… though as you may notice from the attached...
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November 17, 2013

Tissues!!!

A couple of Ahh Bless! / heart bursting with pride moments last week. First, the reports of excellent behaviour by KS1 on their trip to Castle Museum and by KS2 in their Shakespeare Workshops. Then, have you seen the school song lyrics on Class 8’s blog?!! And then the child who wrote to the tooth fairy...
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November 5, 2013

Class 5 Macbeth workshop

Wow! What a morning with class 5 at the De Grey Rooms on Monday as their linked gov’. The pupils were so enthusiastic and willing to participate in the drama activities relating to the “Scottish Play”. I really enjoyed Stop, go, Jump, clap but was not very good at it. I thought the leader of...
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October 25, 2013

A good time was had….

I went in to school on Tuesday 22 October to Miss Plew’s class. It was the children’s enrichment day and they were learning how to do interviews. It was a good exercise and one which I enjoyed as much as the children if not more. I’m a bit concerned that I may have given away...
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October 21, 2013

Class governors

Timo mentioned in his blog of 10 October that governors were going to be linked to classes at school. I’ve been linked with class 3 and am looking forward to my association with the pupils. I’m going into school tomorrow morning to meet them for the first time and will let you know how I...
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October 20, 2013

Parents’ evenings

Just a quick reminder about parents’ evenings next Tuesday and Wednesday (22nd and 23rd October). The governors will be providing refreshments as usual and hope you will take the opportunity to chat over a cup of tea or coffee. I shall be there for at least one of the evenings though not yet sure which....
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October 10, 2013

Class linked Governors

Thanks to Mrs Steel (Staff governor) we can announce that as of this week all non staff governors will be linked to a specific class. The idea is that governors can write to, blog, attend assemblies of, go on trips with, or come into school to spend time meeting and speaking to the staff and...
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October 8, 2013

Blog 8 October 2013 Phonics evening

Hi everyone I went to the parent’s evening last night which consisted of a presentation by the school staff on phonics. It was very well attended by parents and by staff and I thought the quality of the presentation was excellent. It was interesting, it was fun, it was participative and was obviously enjoyed by...
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October 4, 2013

Minutes of full Governing Body meeting held 9 July 2013

Final FGB Minutes 9.7.13
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October 2, 2013

Governor’s Christmas Fair Stall Ideas!

Right Governors, thinking and creative caps on please! We are taking a stall at the Christmas Fair this year and we need a theme or an idea for it. The stall will be manned by Governors and it has to be interactive, raise money and just be a good bit of fun! Here are a...
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September 26, 2013

Chair’s blog

As you may see, we are trying to get all governors blogging rather than just me so the site should be a bit more fun.  Thanks to Timo for his contribution.  As Timo says, there were some laughs, many of which were at my expense – so what’s new? On a slightly more serious note,...
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September 24, 2013

First meeting this year from Timo Little

Tonight we had our first full Governors meeting of this year. We talked about lots of serious stuff but also had lots of laughs as well.
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September 13, 2013

Governor blog 13 September 2013

Hi everyone.  This the first governor blog of the new school year and my first on the new website.  I may be tempting fate having my first go on Friday the 13th in 2013 but I’m not superstitious.  So fingers crossed, touch wood here goes. I hope everyone is as impressed as I am with...
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