Another great raffle prize worth winning! This has got to be worth at least £32? Thank you to Yorkshire Winter Wonderland for such a generous donation.Read More
Next week is another busy one, we are going to be practising our skills for sports day. On Wednesday we have our transition mornings to new classes, all children should come to class 1 in the morning to be registered and we will then move on to our new classes. On Friday it is Sports...Read More
The Year 5’s will continue to explore “The Adventures of Odysseus” and will develop their skills to work mathematically to solve problems. The end of year play is getting closer for the Year 6’s so we will be continuing to hone our singing and acting skills to produce a fantastic performance. Please ensure your lines...Read More
Class 2 are really looking forward to visiting their new class on Wednesday and meeting their new teacher. So exciting! Also, we will be getting ready for Sports Day the following week. Read More
We visited the community garden on Haxby Road and planted flowers. We also completed a tree spotting activity. On the way back to school we got soaked by the rain, but it didn’t spoil our fun. A big thank you to all the parent helpers, we couldn’t do it without you. Please feel free to...Read More
Remember that for your next homework project, we’d like you to design a sporting mascot. As we’ve been finding out about Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics this half term, you might like to link your mascot to one of these events. You could, however, create a mascot for any sport or sporting event that interests...Read More
We had great fun looking at each other’s exciting homework projects, which were filled with interesting facts and information about capital cities around the world – from Ottawa to Rome, Class 8 had it covered!Read More
Class 8 had a great day of art-based fun with the main activity making and painting a mod rock fish. The results were spectacular and displayed a whole host of creativity on show in this class.Read More
The Year 5’s will continue to explore “The Adventures of Odysseus” and will develop their skills to work mathematically to solve problems. The end of year play is getting closer for the Year 6’s so we will be continuing to hone our singing and acting skills to produce a fantastic performance. Please ensure your lines...Read More
We wrote letters to our new teachers for next year. We had fun thinking what to say and what questions we want to ask. Most common one was ‘What time do we go for lunch?’ Read More
Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we will be continuing our work on superheroes and villains. Spellings This week we have looked at further homophones. We have given you 10 spellings to learn. Please also complete the activity on your spelling sheet, ready for your test next week. Maths In maths next...Read More
Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we will be continuing our work on superheroes and villains. Spellings This week we have looked at some more homophones. We have given you 10 spellings to learn. Please also complete the activity on your spelling sheet, ready for your test next week. Maths In...Read More
Just a reminder that for your next homework project, we’d like you to design a sporting mascot. As we’ve been finding out about Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics this half term, you might like to link your mascot to one of these events. You could, however, create a mascot for any sport or sporting...Read More
As part of our Design and Technology learning, Class 6 made four Brazilian dishes. This has helped us to know a little more about the country where the up and coming Olympics will be held! The children made Brigadeiros (popular Brazilian chocolate truffles), Pão de Queijo (street food – a type of cheese bread), acai, banana and...Read More
Just a reminder that for your next homework project, we’d like you to design a sporting mascot. As we’ve been finding out about Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics this half term, you might like to link your mascot to one of these events. You could, however, create a mascot for any sport or sporting...Read More
In maths this week we have been learning about the commutative law. We practised answering questions using this law and then we created a poster to help us remember the rules for each calculation. We have put these in our books to help us remember this work. Read More
Our role play area has transformed this week from an international airport to a pirate ship! We have had great fun dressing up and pretending to be on a pirate adventure and writing messages in bottles. Read More
As the weather has been so terrible during June we have decided to make our own beach inside class 1, even with our own Palm tree! All of the children have had fun burying their toes in the sand and building sand castles. Read More
For your next homework project, we’d like you to design a sporting mascot. As we’ve been finding out about Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics this half term, you might like to link your mascot to one of these events. You could, however, create a mascot for any sport or sporting event that interests you....Read More
On Tuesday afternoon we were very lucky to have our class trip to the community garden on Haxby Road. It was a great chance to identify different trees, plant some new plants in the beds and also learn about growing different plants and the seasons. Unfortunately it started to pour down with rain so we...Read More
Next Week in Class 7 English We will be continuing our work on superheroes Maths We will be honing our problem solving skills Other Notes On Monday afternoon we are off for our tour of the new Theatre Royal building. Make sure you are dressed for the weather! Please remember that our class will be...Read More
For your next homework project, we’d like you to design a sporting mascot. As we’ve been finding out about Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics this half term, you might like to link your mascot to one of these events. You could, however, create a mascot for any sport or sporting event that interests you....Read More
We have been having fun designing our own new Olympic events this week. We gave thought to the rules of our new sport, who could play, what special equipment might be needed and what people might wear.Read More
In our Science lesson this week, we acted out the digestion system. We split into teams and explained the functions of each part of human digestion. A big thank you to George for acting out the part of the food being swallowed!Read More
Agenda .Register .Summer fair .Letters for summer fair .Plan of action for summer fair .AOB Minutes We were talking about the School council sweet stall and we thought that as it is Miss Sawyer and Mr Mastrellis’ last year we would do some games and activities on it as well. As there is a musical...Read More
Agenda . Register .Suggestion boxes .AOB Minutes Suggestion boxes: Class 2:no suggestions Class 3:Magnetic sand. Talk to Miss Martin Class 4:Ice cream stand start again in summer. Ask PTA Class 5:A box outside the tree of kindness to nominate people.Ask Mr Stoner to put a little shelf with paper and a box on the tree...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
In science this week we looked at the digestive system and what happens to food when it enters our body. We used a bag to act as the stomach then placed a piece of bread inside it. Next we added digestive juices (orange juice) to the stomach and squeezed it. We noticed that the bread...Read More
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...Read More
The children worked on their understanding of the world continents and which countries are located in them. They had fun playing the game, working out which country was in which continent! Some of the children were very knowledgeable with this!Read More
The children used plastic bags, bread and liquid to start to understand the processes that happen in the stomach! This is part of our science unit on digestion.Read More
Here are just three of the Raffle prizes which are on offer. Family tickets to Dig, Barley Hall or the Richard the 3rd Museum. Something worth winning and saving for when ‘schools out’Read More
In English we read a story called ‘Tom and Lucy At the Seaside’. The children then had to retell the story trying to remember all of the key events in order!Read More
This week in maths the children are experimenting with weight. Today the children were reading different weights on food packaging and ordering them from lightest to heaviestRead More
The eagerly awaited Year 6 leavers final took place on Monday lunchtime between Louie Powell and Chelsea Haskins. Both players had marched into the final without losing a set; the enthusiastic crowd were ready for a fabulous match. In the first set, Chelsea started the better taking a 5-2 lead but accurate forehand smashed winners from...Read More
Your child(ren) have all been issued with three books of raffle tickets if they could try their best to sell them to family and friends. The raffle is a superb fundraiser for our Summer Fair. There will be a box outside of Class 4 and Class 6 to return unwanted tickets and money/stubbs. Please pop...Read More
While the Year 6’s have been busy rehearsing for their end of year play, the Year 5’s have been reading more of the story “The Adventures of Odysseus”. Their task on Monday morning was to write and perform a speech in pairs from the viewpoint of Eurylochus describing his anger and frustration towards Odysseus at...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
In maths on Monday we had to use our knowledge of fractions and decimals to complete a range of tricky number sequences. We used a website which generated different sequences and the more we got correct, the harder the sequences became! Read More
The sun shone down on another of our Class 8 and 9 rounders tournaments this afternoon. The classes are confident in stretching and warming up before the big games, which must be having a positive effect on their rounders skills as the quality of the games were fantastic! What are you enjoying most about our...Read More
While the Year 6s have been busy rehearsing for their end of year play, the Year 5s have been reading more of the story “The Adventures of Odysseus” and their task on Monday morning was to write and perform a speech in pairs from the viewpoint of Eurylochus describing his anger and frustration towards Odysseus...Read More
It was our Art Enrichment Day today which has been fantastic – we have enjoyed a whole morning utilising our clay making skills! We have a grand idea for our clay masterpieces: we all created our own clay fish and, after we have them fired and glazed, these will work together with fish made by...Read More
Just check out the line up of artists for Grovestock! (Check out Youtube). Look at those ticket prices – a snip compared to if you watched said artists performing elsewhere. Please share this page. We need to get this fine community event out there. Share, share and share (no Cher though – she was too...Read More
The children have had lots of fun today creating fish. They bent wire into the shape of a fish and then glued tissue paper on top – the finished product will look amazing! Well done Class 3.Read More
Park Grove Girls’ football team played their final match of the season in style by beating a strong Huntington side 8-0. All of the girls played well together as a team and it was a delight to see them win their final match! There will be a match report to follow. Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
Next week we have a special trip on Tuesday to the Greenfields Community Garden, please let us know if you are able to help us with walking the children there. We also need all reply slips back with consent for the children. We will also be continuing our writing about the beach and reading some...Read More
Our sunflowers had stopped growing in the classroom as the roots were too big for the pots! We have therefore moved them outside to our flower bed. Read More
Well done for a successful sponsored event today. Everyone did a fantastic job at weighing ingredients, giving them a good stir and most importantly decorating! The buns tasted delicious and we all enjoyed sharing the jobs through the day. Please remember to keep collecting your sponsors and money. Read More
Thank you so much to everyone who came to join us and watch our assembly. We are all so proud of the children for being confident, loud and smiling on the stage. The props all looked fantastic and everyone remembered what they were supposed to be doing. Read More
In maths next week the children will be solving different investigations using knowledge they have developed through the year. In English they will be writing recounts and letters. Flapjacks will be sold on Thursday so bring 50p if you would like one. Please remember your reading record every day!Read More
They did it! Many of the children were able to ‘beat the goalie’ to help raise as much money as possible for ICT equipment in school. Donations must be in by Friday 1st July.Read More
The children have been writing wonderful pieces of work all about the seaside. This week they have been developing their persuasive skills to make people want to go to the beach!Read More
English Next week we will be producing a non-fiction piece of writing based on our play. Spellings This week we looked at words using suffixes to turn them into a verb. For your homework, please write some sentences (at least 4) using these verbs in them. Please also practise and learn these spellings as you...Read More
For your next homework project, we’d like you to design a sporting mascot. As we’ve been finding out about Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics this half term, you might like to link your mascot to one of these events. You could, however, create a mascot for any sport or sporting event that interests you....Read More
English Next week we will be producing a non-fiction piece of writing based on our play. Spellings This week we looked at words using suffixes to turn them into a verb. For your homework, please write some sentences (at least 4) using these verbs in them. Please also practise and learn these spellings as you...Read More
In science club we found out that the blue seeds were from space. We took a vote to see, every one thought it would be the blue seeds apart from Mrs Smith which she thought was the red seeds. We have just found out the blue seeds were for SPACE so we were right! by Poppy and MarcusRead More
Next Week in Class 7 English Next week in English we will be continuing our writing about superheroes. Maths In maths next week we will be looking at fractions and solving word problems. Other notes Please remember to bring your yellow Reading Records into school each day. On Thursday, our Year 5 children will be spending...Read More
A reminder: Could you please bring in your sponsorship money by Monday so we can find our total for class 2. Also, we are visiting the community garden on Tuesday afternoon so please provide your child with a sun hat and water bottle if they don’t already have one. Thank you to those parents for...Read More
For your next homework project, we’d like you to design a sporting mascot. As we’ve been finding out about Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics this half term, you might like to link your mascot to one of these events. You could, however, create a mascot for any sport or sporting event that interests you....Read More
As part of our topic work we are writing postcards to say what we did at the seaside and what a great time we are having. Lots of the children went on donkey rides and made sandcastles. What would you do at the seaside? Read More
Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we will be writing about super heroes. Spellings This week we have looked at some more homophones. We have given you 10 spellings to learn. Please also complete the activity on your spelling sheet, ready for your test next week. Maths In maths next week...Read More
For your next homework project, we’d like you to design a sporting mascot. As we’ve been finding out about Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics this half term, you might like to link your mascot to one of these events. You could, however, create a mascot for any sport or sporting event that interests you....Read More
For your next homework project, we’d like you to design a sporting mascot. As we’ve been finding out about Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics this half term, you might like to link your mascot to one of these events. You could, however, create a mascot for any sport or sporting event that interests you....Read More
Over the past few weeks we have been working hard to create our own Ancient Greek vases using papier mache. We have worked very hard on these and we are now in the final stages of completing it. Read More
It is Freezy Friday again tomorrow! As always we try and add new lines whenever we can. Hopefully tomorrow these beauties will also be on offer! Yum – Cookies and Dream Cornettos!!Read More
Members of the PTA committee went to the School Council meeting this morning to plan/discuss Grovestock with the Council members. What a fine group of student representatives. As always they were extremely keen to listen and made some super suggestions as to how they can help make Grovestock a success.Read More
For your next homework project, we’d like you to design a sporting mascot. As we’ve been finding out about Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics this half term, you might like to link your mascot to one of these events. You could, however, create a mascot for any sport or sporting event that interests you....Read More
Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we will be writing about super heroes. Spellings This week we have looked at some more homophones. We have given you 10 spellings to learn. Please also complete the activity on your spelling sheet, ready for your test next week. Maths In maths next week...Read More
In science, we have been continuing to find out about human digestion and have carried out an investigation into what happens when we chew and swallow food.Read More
We had a tremendous time on Tuesday for our sponsored Music Marathon. Highlights of our day included becoming a kazoo orchestra, composing 12 bar blues songs, teaching playground songs and rhymes to the younger children at break-time and, of course, classroom karaoke! Thank you so much to everyone who has sponsored us so far and...Read More
What a fantastic effort class 2. We planted all the plants and the sponsorship money is coming in. The area looks great and we have already had bees visiting. Please take a look.Read More
After Chelsea wrapped up a straight sets win over Tom in the remaining quarter final, Louie and Ben met for the second tournament in a row with Louie again coming out on top in straight sets 11-7 11-7. Then another close contest in the other semi-final resulted in a win for Chelsea over Ivy 11-9...Read More
On Wednesday morning, Class 8 visited the fully refurbished Theatre Royal building. Many of the children had not been in the theatre since it re-opened and were lucky enough to see many of the new rooms, stand on the stage, sit on the brand new seats and find out many exciting facts about the theatre...Read More
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! Read More
This morning, Class 9 went on an exciting and extremely interesting trip to the newly refurbished Theatre Royal! We were shown around the brand-new facilities as well as older ones that had been re-done. Our tour guide lead us around many fascinating rooms. First of all, we walked past the snazzy-looking kiosk to dressing room...Read More
Class 5 held their sponsored event on Wednesday afternoon. We all completed the obstacle course and threw sponges at Miss Clayton to raise money for our ICT equipment. Even the parents, Miss Sawyer and Mrs Old took to the stage to help give Miss Clayton a good soaking! Well done everyone for their fantastic efforts!...Read More
Class 6 completed their Danceathon on Wednesday! The children were extremely energetic and each group managed to dance much longer than the planned 20 minutes! We estimate they all doubled that, dancing for about 40 minutes each, non-stop! The children were very hot and sweaty by the end. Teachers in Class 6 are very proud...Read More
The next meeting will be held in the boardroom on Thursday 23rd June at 9:00am. Please can you ensure your class has written a new suggestion for us to discuss.Read More
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! Read More
On Tuesday we completed some geography work on a map of the world. We had to identify and locate a range of countries on different continents. To help us we used atlases and globes carefully. Read More
The children have researched a famous Olympian and will write a biography about their athlete. The children remembered the features of biographical writing well as they looked at it earlier on this year during our space topic. Read More
On Monday afternoon, Class 8 took part in the highly anticipated “Class 8 Catchathon competition” as part of fundraising week at Park Grove School. It certainly lived upto expectations with tremendous throwing and catching from children, parents and staff too. Congratulations to Ben Bellerby, Kian Kennedy, Joe Williams and Louie Powell who all completed 50+...Read More
On Monday morning, the children in pairs cooked “Sole al Mare” which is an Italian twist on the classic dish egg-stuffed tomatoes. I was very impressed with the culinary skills on show, particularly the attention to detail to make the dish look aesthically pleasing as well as tasty!Read More
Monday afternoon we continued the fun with our fundraising events. We used some of our buns baked in the morning to decorate, we had an obstacle course to complete, and a drawing challenge – all to do blindfolded with our partner! It was a fun afternoon for a great cause – hopefully our efforts have...Read More
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