English and Maths Next week will be our assessment week in Class 7 and we will be completing maths, reading and spelling assessments. Other notes On Tuesday we are going to the York Opera House to watch The Groovy Greeks. Please remember to bring a packed lunch and dress sensibly for the weather on that day. On...Read More
As our current KS2 topic is Going for Gold, your next homework project will be to find out about the capital city of one of the countries taking part in the 2016 Olympics. You should research your chosen capital city carefully and could include details about the population, geographical features, places to visit or any...Read More
We are exploring the seaside using our senses. It’s great fun to take our shoes off and play in the sand. We are discovering phonics shells hidden underneath the sand and estimating how many pebbles there are. The children are busy writing what they can do at the seaside and all the things they will...Read More
The children are very excited to return to their classroom full of seaside activities. We have an Ice Cream Parlour and a Puppet Show. We have wet and dry sand for making sandcastles equipped with buckets, spades, shells and flags. The children can also pack their suitcases for trips to the seaside. Don’t forget your...Read More
Our Year 4s have been taking part in a fantastic DT project based on biscuits. They have been designing, baking, decorating and tasting biscuits and the results were delicious!Read More
We have started our new topic on the Olympics this week and have become experts in particular sporting events. We now know about rowing, canoe slalom, athletics, tennis, pentathlon, volleyball and lots more besides!Read More
So here we are, the last half term. For the next seven weeks the topic for the children will be Beside the Seaside and we have lots of Summery activities planned. We hope the sun shines warm and bright throughout!Read More
The children in Year 3 have been learning about the law today and how we, in the UK, deal with criminals. At the start of the day we learnt lots of new vocabulary, including ‘defence’ and ‘prosecution’. We then played bingo with these words and definitions. Next we shared ideas for what we think criminals and victims...Read More
We Need Your Help! Operation Summer Fair – Grovestock Our Summer Fair – Grovestock which is a Festival theme is on Saturday 9th July 1 – 5pm. Thank you so much to all of the parents/carers and children for the enthusiasm shown towards this festival event. It is good to hear that already the theme is causing...Read More
How can you help with PTA fundraising this side of Half Term/June? Operation Summer Fair – Grovestock After half term the heat will be on for our ‘Grovestock’ Summer Fair on Saturday 9th July 1 – 5pm. Thank you so much to all of the parents/carers and children for the enthusiasm shown towards this festival...Read More
We hope you all managed to come down and grab an ice cream today after school. It was a lovely atmosphere out there. Well done once again to all at Park Grove for getting a ‘Good’ Ofsted result.Read More
Well done for a great – and extremely busy – half term Class 9! Please keep your focus and great attitude for learning for the last half term of year, and make sure you’re relaxed so you are refreshed for the following half term; we will be faced with new challenges (the Y6 end of year...Read More
This week we re-introduced some work earlier in the year that we all really enjoyed: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream! Getting our head around the tangle of lovers, we empathised with a character to write a persuasive letter to another. Class 9 – which character did you write your letter from? Who were you trying...Read More
Thank you for a brilliant half term, Class 7! As it is the holidays, there will be no homework this week. We hope you all have a lovely week off and we will see you back in school on Monday 6th June… From Ms Campbell and Mrs SellersRead More
We had such a tremendous time on Maths Enrichment Day on Tuesday. We carried out lots of investigations based on the mathematical ideas of Pythagoras, and then went on to make nets to construct our own Trojan horses and Greek temples.Read More
We have been working in groups this week to devise our own fair tests linked to our understanding of evaporation. We have been trying to find out what factors might influence how quickly a liquid will evaporate and have been choosing how to collect and record our results.Read More
Our exciting Ofsted Celebration Ice Cream Fest is in less than 24hrs time (Thursday at 3.15pm). To make the event go ‘smoothly’ then we have ‘whipped up’ a cunning plan to ‘melt away’ any problems. Everyone is invited to come down and choose an ice cream / ice lolly. Whether you are a member of...Read More
We have written our own play based on a range of Ancient Greek myths and we can’t wait to perform it at our Class 7 assembly on Friday 10th June. See you there, Class 7 parents and families!Read More
The Reception children are growing their own sunflowers and kept a diary on their progress. Over the past couple of weeks the children have counted the leaves, measured how big they are and written about how to look after them. We all agree they have done a great job and the plants are certainly growing...Read More
Thank you to all who supported the cake stall. We made a profit of £104.69. We didn’t seem to have as much stock this time but still managed to make a good profit. We really do appreciate that people are busy, however, some of our regular bakers will be leaving in July and so we...Read More
We loved our Maths Enrichment Day! We listened to a story about 100 ants trying to get to a picnic before all the food disappeared. We had to work out what groups we could put them in so they would get to the picnic quickly. Some children decided groups of 10 would work, others tried...Read More
Well done for a fantastic half term class 5! You have all worked so hard and I am very proud of all the work you have completed recently. I hope you all have a lovely holiday and a well deserved rest! There is no homework this week as it is the holidays. See you all...Read More
Thank you so much for all of your hard work this half term, I hope you all have a wonderful break. There is no homework over the holidays but if you would like to practise your numbers, sounds or tricky words that would be great. After half term our topic will be changing to ‘Beside...Read More
We have finally finished sewing our felt minibeasts. They have been beautifully decorated with sequins and some even have a symmetrical pattern! All the fiddly stitching has been great for our fine motor skills. Read More
On Tuesday we learnt about maths all day as it was our enrichment day. We started with a story about a centipede with lots and lots of shoes and practised our counting and grouping. We then read about a swarm of hungry ants and tried to get ourselves into groups of 2s, 5s and 10s....Read More
On Monday morning Mrs Farquarson came in to discuss bee keeping with us. We were all fascinated by the ways we can keep bees healthy and all the good things that bees can do for us. We even got to try on a bee keepers hat and learnt about worker bees and queen bees. Read More
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...Read More
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,...Read More
You’ve all worked incredibly hard this half term so please have a lovely holiday with your families and friends! As it is a holiday, there will be no homework set this week. Please remember that you come back to school on Monday 6th June. Read More
You’ve all worked incredibly hard this half term so please have a lovely holiday with your families and friends! As it is a holiday, there will be no homework set this week. Please remember that you come back to school on Monday 6th June. With Best Wishes from Mr Mastrelli, Ms Slater and Mrs James.Read More
What a fantastic day of mathematical activities we had in Class 8 on Tuesday. We learnt all about Pythagoras and his ratios, completed an investigation involving square numbers, made our own Greek temples using precise measuring skills and rounded our day off with a challenging countdown calculation! Read More
This morning, as part of our maths enrichment day, we focused on the story of one famous Ancient Greek mathematician: Pythagoras! We read about how Pythagoras first understood ratios between numbers and objects – and potentially created the first ‘rock’ group (although we’re not sure that’s actually true…)! We summarised and retold this story through...Read More
To celebrate the successful outcome of the recent Ofsted visit and report, the PTA Committee are organising a huge end of half term Ice cream Fest on the school field (Thursday 26th May at 3.15pm). Do pop down (even if you can’t stay) and grab a FREE ice cream or ice lolly. If you can...Read More
Spring Cake Stall tomorrow! 3.15pm outside class 3. Cake Donations of any kind will be hugely appreciated. (Please bring to the staff room in the am)Read More
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...Read More
It’s Abigail’s last week and so the class gave her a wonderful card to say goodbye! We are all sad to lose such a lovely and kind member of Year 4. Good luck for the future to Abigail from all of the class!Read More
A mysterious key…but where did it come from? Where does it lead to? Only Class 3 were able to decide! There were some good examples of extended writing, well done. Read More
Today the children have been completing a range of different activities that all relate to maths! They’ve created animals using a repeated pattern as a design for their bodies. The children then read a story called Centipede’s 100 Shoes. As an activity, the children had to share 58 shoes between different minibeasts making sure no...Read More
We have used our knowledge of shapes to design and build a Greek temple or a Trojan horse. We used modelling materials to build these and afterwards we decorated them. Read More
Early this morning, some vibrant and vividly colourful visible spectrums were seen inside Park Grove! All the colours of the rainbow could be seen dazzling the walls and even over our bags! Can you remember why the spectrum would be visible?Read More
In maths we began looking at square numbers and triangle numbers. We then had to find all of the square and triangle numbers on a 100 square. Read More
On maths enrichment day we read a book called ‘What’s your angle, Pythagoras?’ We learnt about Pythagoras’ theory for right angled triangles and then we acted out different scenes from the story. Read More
On Maths Entichment day Class 6 really enjoyed hearing the story of the important Greek mathematician, Pythagoras. They acted out the story of his important discovery about right angled triangles. They then learnt and created posters about square and triangular numbers. Finally the children ended the day by creating the Trojan Horse and a Greek...Read More
Another week, another thrilling rounders competition. On Monday afternoon, we saw fantastic fielding, brilliant batting, calm communication and sunny weather! Oh and well done to Team 3 who beat Team 1 in a thrilling final.Read More
We had a fantastic science lesson all about the visible spectrum. We learnt that light is made up of all the rainbow colours and if you look through a glass prism you can see the visible spectrum. Class 8 then created some awesome colour wheels that when spun really fast, show how the visible spectrum merges to...Read More
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...Read More
Class 6 had their last swimming session this week. It was fun week so the children got to play on the floats and enjoy being in the water with their friends. Lots of the children have made good progress with their swimming during the sessions. Well done Class 6 for being well behaved whilst we...Read More
On a murky Thursday afternoon, Park Grove girls’ played their second league fixture of the season at home against St Wilfrid’s Primary School. Park Grove started the match strongly however, some strong attacking from St Wilfrid’s led to a goal. Park Grove continued to play well and there was some fantastic passing from Olivia Gargan...Read More
On a bright sunny Monday afternoon, Park Grove Girls’ took to the pitch with their first ever match of the season against Hempland Primary School. It started as Park Grove dominated the ball whilst passing amongst each other. After 5 minutes of the game Ivy Tegetmeier passed the ball across the defence to Lucy Noble...Read More
It looks like great ice cream weather for today. (Fingers and toes crossed). Walk on over to the amphitheatre at 3.15pm for another ‘Fab’ selection.Read More
Next week the children will not be in school on Friday due to a staff inset day. However, Class 2 will be as busy as ever. Tuesday is our Maths Enrichment day and we have lots of wonderful activities planned. Monday and Wednesday we will be looking at silly nonsense poems and using our expressive...Read More
As part of our DT project the children have designed and sewn together their mini beast using felt. Today we stuffed their bodies to make them look realistic. Next week we will add some more features such as eyes, legs etc. The children will be bringing their finished product home for half term so be...Read More
In English the children will be looking at poems that are tongue twisters or nonsense and creating their own. In maths we will be looking at equivalent fractions. There will be no show and tell next week as the last day of half term is Thursday. Flapjack will still be sold on Thursday so bring...Read More
Our DT projects are almost complete with the first of two ‘stuffing lessons’ taking place today! There are a couple of children who have finished their toys and will be evaluating them next week.Read More
I can’t believe how fast this half term has been, next week is our last week before the half term holiday. We are having a maths enrichment day on Tuesday where we will be thinking about shapes, symmetry and measurements to make a minibeast. We are also going to be reading lots of books related...Read More
Please could you practise the tricky words ‘like’ and ‘have’. They were the last two words on our tricky tree, let’s hope we’re excellent at all of them now!Read More
English Next week in English we will be revisiting our persuasive writing skills to write a persuasive letter. Maths On Tuesday, it is our maths enrichment day which will be focused on our topic of the Ancient Greeks. Spellings This week we looked at some more of the spellings from the years 5 and 6 National...Read More
Don’t forget your last homework project for this half term! We have been studying the Ancient Greeks, who were famous for their clever thinking, and we still remember and use many of their ideas today. Examples include Pythagoras, Aristotle and Hippocrates. For your next homework project, we would like you to create an Ancient Greek word...Read More
English Next week in English we will be writing a persuasive letter based on a play. Spellings This week we looked at some more of the spellings from the years 5 and 6 National Curriculum spelling list. For your homework, please create some word art in your homework book of your spelling words. Also practise...Read More
The Ancient Greeks were famous for their clever thinking and we still remember and use many of their ideas today. Examples include Pythagoras, Aristotle and Hippocrates. For your next homework project, we would like you to create an Ancient Greek word search for your classmates to solve. You can use as many topic words related...Read More
A big thank you to many members of Class 8 for bringing in so many Euro 2016 stickers this week, as we now have only 100 left to collect in order to complete our album. We are two short of completing the England team so if you have a Jordan Henderson or Jamie Vardy spare, please bring them into class!...Read More
On Wednesday morning, Class 8 worked collaboratively in small groups to solve a maths murder mystery. All the children used their knowledge of concepts such as co-ordinates, morse code and percentages successfully to find the correct suspect.Read More
This week we designed and wrote an explanation text about an imaginary product – winged shoes! The focus of this task was to explain how the product worked and the many wonderful features it had. There were some very creative and detailed pieces of writing! Read More
We are extremely excited to announce that the Summer Fair this year is……..Grovestock On Saturday 9th July – 1pm until 5pm Grovestock is a Family Festival Themed Summer Fair showcasing a fine array of bands/groups – some of which are our very own resident parents/carers who are very successful professional artists in their own right....Read More
The competition is still up and running. Miss Smith is still trying to win but her sunflower looks a lot like a weed (according to the group!). Miss Land is of course in the lead because she is the group leader. Poppy is definitely going to over throw Miss Land’s she is just inches behind. If you want to see...Read More
Next Week in Class 7 English Next week in English we will be continuing to write our time-slip stories and will be rehearsing for our Class 7 assembly Spellings We have given you 10 more spellings to learn. Please also complete the Look Say Cover Write Check activity on your spelling sheet, ready for your test on Thursday next...Read More
The Ancient Greeks were famous for their clever thinking and we still remember and use many of their ideas today. Examples include Pythagoras, Aristotle and Hippocrates. For your next homework project, we would like you to create an Ancient Greek word search for your classmates to solve. You can use as many topic words related...Read More
A reminder that for your next homework project we would like you to create an Ancient Greek word search for your classmates to solve. You can use as many topic words related to Ancient Greece as you wish but please ensure your spelling of each word is accurate. Your word search is due in to school...Read More
Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we are going to continue to write our Greek myths, hopefully with some epic battles as the climax of the stories! Spellings This week we have looked at the ‘sion’ sound. We have given you 10 more spellings to learn. Please also complete the activity...Read More
In science club we measured the seeds we had to see which seed has grown the tallest so far. Here are our results … The blue group’s largest plant was 75 mm long. red group’s largest plant was 64 mm long. by Ruby, Becca and Isidora 🙂Read More
We read the story of The very busy Spider by Eric Carle and the Reception children wanted to make a web for the busy spider. They also wrote a sentence about the story. Read More
Class 2 had a fantastic time searching the forest for mini beasts. We found worms, wood lice, snails and slugs. The children looked closely at their habitats and wrote about them in their science books.Read More
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...Read More
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! Read More
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...Read More
It is the Spring Cake Stall next week on: Wednesday 25th May. We are often asked if shop bought cakes are ok – yes please, they are perfectly fine – absolutely any cakes/buns/biscuits/bakes are very much appreciated. Please bring any items to the staff room on the Wednesday am in a labelled tin Thank you!Read More
Today we had a super fun science lesson all about the visible spectrum. We learnt that light is made up of all the rainbow colours and if you look through a glass prism you can see the visible spectrum. We then created some awesome colour wheels that when spun really fast, show how the visible...Read More
In science this week the children all learned about food chains and familiarised themselves with the terms ‘producer’ and ‘consumer’. I wonder if you could think of an example for each one?Read More
This week the children have made habitats for minibeasts using shoe boxes and a range of different materials. They all look absolutely wonderful!Read More
Freezy Friday There will be another Ice cream stall in the amphitheatre this Friday after school. If it is raining, the stall will be where the cake stall is held. Thank you to all who attended last week, it was a lovely atmosphere out there with lots of excited children and happy folk chomping on...Read More
Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we are going to be continuing to write our Greek myths. Spellings This week we have looked at the ‘sion’ sound in our spelling lesson. We have given you 10 more spellings to learn. Please also complete the activity on your spelling sheet, ready for your test...Read More
A reminder that for your next homework project we would like you to create an Ancient Greek word search for your classmates to solve. You can use as many topic words related to Ancient Greece as you wish but please ensure your spelling of each word is accurate. Your word search is due in to school...Read More
In Science this week we planned an experiment to see if the location of a puddle would affect the speed at which it evaporates! We have placed six trays of water in different locations around the school and we are going to come back to them later on in the week to find out the...Read More
Today in Forest Schools we took some nets and sieves down to the pond to see what we could find. All the children behaved very sensibly and were very safe by the edge of the pond. We found lots of pond weeds, some different bugs such as ‘Water boatmen’ and larvae. Read More
On Wednesday in English we continued to plan our Greek myths. We had to decide upon which locations are hero would visit and design our mythical creature. We are looking forward to writing our myths!Read More
We’ve been sharing our brilliant homework projects and now that we know how the hoplites fought, have been getting into battle formation with our shields!Read More
We’ve really enjoyed researching the battle tactics, weaponry and armour of the Ancient Greeks this week. We’ve created Greek urn designs showing how the Greeks fought and have found out all about hoplites, triremes and battering rams!Read More
We had a lovely time at our KS2 book sharing session on Tuesday. Parents had the opportunity to look through our wonderful books and we shared and evaluated our own work with our classmates. What a lot of topics we’ve covered!Read More
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...Read More
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