On Tuesday morning in class 1 we started sewing our very own Minibeasts. We have all started using a running stitch around the outside which is great for our fine motor skills. We have chosen a range of colours and we are going to stuff them and embellish them later in the week. ...Read More
Last week on Thursday we had a very special performance from some students at York St John’s University. They told the tale of Goldilocks and the two bears meeting lots of different Minibeasts. We also learnt about how special bees are and how important they are for our plants to grow. Read More
We have revisited data handling this week and used the data we collected about popular car colour to draw a bar chart to show our results. This is something we have learnt about earlier in the year and so many of us were really confident drawing our charts.Read More
Park Grove girl’s football team played their first football match of the season on Monday 16th of May. It was an unlucky defeat but all of the team played really well and we scored two great goals. A full report will follow soon! Read More
Following on from our first very successful rounders tournament last week in the sunshine, classes 8 and 9 conjoined again to stage the next round. Before any exercise though, it is important to warm up and stretch the muscles you will be exercising. In small groups we identified muscles we would be using and thought...Read More
SPRING CAKE STALL! Wednesday 25th May. Let’s hope you can ‘Spring’ upon us some more of your fine cake designs for the stall. Examples could be – Bunnies , Flowers, chickens, lady birds, hedgehogs, butterflies, ice creams/sun shine and lambs – the list could be endless. As always we can’t run the stall with out...Read More
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! ...Read More
We were all very excited this morning to see that all 4 of our butterflies had hatched out of their cocoons. We have given them some fruit and special nectar to drink. We have made it from mixing water and sugar. Tomorrow during forest schools we are going to set them all free! Read More
We are working on our data handling skills this week in maths. Today we collected data by tallying the colour of cars that passed us on Lowther Street. We were very excited completing our tables! Read More
On Monday in maths we went outside to gather data to create our own bar chart. We watched the cars go past the school and recorded the different colours in a tally chart. The most popular colour of car which went past was black. Read More
We watched the story of Perseus and Medusa in English to help inspire our own writing! We loved the myth, especially the battle at the end! We compared the other Greek myths that we have recently read and came up with what features myths have. Here are the children glued to the story:Read More
Family Matters in York have a wonderful website with lots of info especially with regards to their Parenting Courses from Tots to Teens, dads courses, seperated parents and anger management. Do check it out. The most recent course is ‘How to Drug Proof Your Kids’. www.fmy.org.uk/parentingRead More
It was great to be back up and running today despite the typical British weather (no rain though). Thank you to all who came down and visited the stall. We hope you liked the selection on offer. Chocolate Intense seemed to get the vote this week. Another ‘Freezy Friday’ next week.Read More
Well done Park Grove School for achieving the well deserved ‘GOOD’ rating in the Ofsted inspection. A special well done to the Head, Leadership team, Governors and Staff who have worked tirelessly to achieve this. Fantastic newsRead More
Miss Platts loves seeing all the homework projects come in because class 9 are so brilliant at producing creative, thoughtful and original projects to share! The latest homework was no different; we had an array of shields to explore, all with their own interesting ideas and thoughts behind them. Class 9 – what was your...Read More
In science club on Friday 13th of May 2016 we looked to see how many seeds are still alive and how many are dead. With 200 seeds, 67 have died and 113 are still alive. The blue seeds have 63% of their seeds still alive, and the red team have 70% of their seeds still alive. By Warqaa, Livy and Maddy:)Read More
FREEZY FRIDAYS – Brrrrrr THE PTA POP UP ICECREAM PARLOUR IS BACK Due to popular demand, the PTA will be selling ice creams again starting tomorrow (Freezy Friday the 13th) in the amphitheatre. This is a great fund raiser and a ‘cool’ social event. So if you enjoy, ‘Fab’ Fabs, ‘Fun’ Funny Feet, ‘Corny’ Cornettos,...Read More
The children in Class 2 had a real treat today and watched a performance of The Story of the Honey Bees. They loved it and came back into class talking about all their favourite parts and singing the song about saving the bees.Read More
In English we will be using our describing skills to write a character profile about ourselves using adjectives and effective punctuation. In DT we will be adding the finishing touches to our mini beast models. The children have enjoyed sewing and hope to finish their model by half term. In Maths we will be looking...Read More
In maths next week we will be ordering different events in relation to time. In English we will be developing different grammatical skills that will help us to improve our independent writing. Show and tell next week is Blue group. Please make sure the children have a a PE kit for the week. Thursday is...Read More
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...Read More
Competition update – how our sunflowers are doing so far…! Becca and Marcus’s plants failed to grow as they had rotted seeds. In 3rd to last place is Georgia with her small plant. 4th to last is miss smith but is still determined to win. In 5th to last place is Livy, her plant has 3 big leaves and...Read More
English Next week we will be writing and editing our own explanation text based on winged shoes. Maths Next week in maths we will be developing our problem solving skills using a variety of different operations. Spelling Today we looked at some more of the spellings from the years 5 and 6 National Curriculum spelling list. For...Read More
English Next week we will be writing and editing our own explanation text based on winged shoes. Maths Next week in maths we will be developing our problem solving skills using a variety of different operations. Spelling Today we looked at some more of the spellings from the years 5 and 6 National Curriculum spelling list. For...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
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
To help get our brains working at full capacity for the SATs this week, we have been enjoying our own Breakfast Club in the hall before school. It’s been so great to see the year 6’s smiling faces and healthy appetites first thing on a morning and see them ready and raring to go with...Read More
English Next week in English we will start to write our own quest myths based on Ancient Greek myths and legends! Spellings We have looked at spellings containing the letters ch that make the sound /k/. We have given you 10 spellings to learn. Please also complete the activity on your spelling sheet, ready for...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
English Next week we will be beginning to write our own time-slip stories including characters from Greek myths Maths Next week we will be collecting, presenting and interpreting data in tables, graphs and charts Other Notes As it’s starting to get warmer, please make sure you bring a water bottle into school. This is particularly...Read More
Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we are going to be planning and writing our own Greek myth. Spellings This week we have looked at the ‘ch’ 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...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
We’ve been carrying out a variety of science investigations this week linked to our changing states topic. We’ve found out if a gas can be made from a solid and a liquid, discovered what happens when a gas is heated, and even created a mini water cycle in our classroom!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
On Wednesday in Science we acted out the different processes involved with solids, liquids and gases. We learnt what happens when a liquid turns to solid it freezes. We then planned an experiment to test which liquids would freeze the best. Come back to find out our results!Read More
Next week we will be reading some non-sense poems by Roald Dahl called ‘Dirty Beasts!’ We will then create our own minibeast and describe it. In maths we will continue to look at sharing and division problems using objects and quantities. We all have our fingers crossed for more sunshine so we can use our...Read More
On Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, each group wrote and then performed a religious song about God. There were many fabulous examples of collaborative learning and great creativity in these sessions! Read More
Spellings next week will have a focus on the ‘air’ phoneme. The graphemes representing this phoneme are ‘air’ as in ‘chair’, ‘are’ as in ‘rare’ and ‘ear’ as in ‘bear’.Read More
It’s not easy recognising the difference between a question and an exclamation, but the children this week have almost become experts in the subject matter. How do I know? How hard they have worked!Read More
This week’s Exciting Writing saw the children writing an information page all about frogs. Lots of the children included the life cycle of a frog and other great facts. Did you know that a female frog can lay up to 2000 eggs?Read More
This afternoon we continued exploring the story of the Trojan Horse by creating our own storyboard of events. We summarised the myth into 6 different scenes, identifying the key events and drawing a visualisation of what the scene could look like. This is all working towards a very exciting outcome – to create our own...Read More
In RE we have been looking at things that people consider to be special to them and discussed, in class, items that the children cherish. We then looked at the Jewish religion and found out about different artefacts that they find special. All the children were really engaged and respectful with what they were learning,...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
Class 6 tried using Microsoft Movie Maker for the first time today! We had lots of fun finding images of Greek gods online and then turning them into a basic movie on this very cool software. The skills we practised today were: making a folder, adding images, using animation and adding ‘pan and zoom’ to...Read More
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!...Read More
We had great fun in rising fives this morning throwing the hoops on to different phonics sounds. We were all very confident at ‘sh’, ‘ch’ and ‘th’ but we need a bit more practise at ‘ai’ and ‘or’. Read More
On Tuesday in Forest Schools the sun had disappeared and there was lots of rain and unfortunately lots of us had not brought a coat! So we decided to stay in our outdoor area and plant some herbs in the bed by our classroom. This was also a great chance to check on our sunflowers...Read More
On Monday all of the reception children were involved in a singing picnic with Haxby Road School. We were so lucky with the weather as it was lovely and sunny. We had lots of fun singing songs with Mrs McCartney in a HUGE circle on the field and then sitting in the cool shade for...Read More
On Tuesday morning we used the formula: pie x diameter to calculate the circumference of different circles. I was really impressed with how some children became teachers to help other children who were initially struggling with this concept! Read More
The Reception children had a fantastic singing picnic. They sang their way round the school field and finished with a picnic lunch outside in the sunshine. What a great day! Read More
We had a fun and practical maths session on area earlier this week when we investigated how to calculate the area of triangles and parallelogramsRead More
Today the children discussed what a plant needs to grow. They watched a video which explained how a seed starts its roots and spouts through the soil. Then they set up an experiment to see which conditions a plant grows best in. They planted seeds in a cupboard, some on a window sill and others...Read More
We had a wonderful, energetic singing assembly this week. We’ve finished learning the song ‘Reach’ and loved joining in with the rest of the school on all of the actions!Read More
The children have continued their learning about liquids, solids and gases. This week they looked at the processes of melting and solidification. They set up a simple comparative test involving different liquids in groups. They decided to put a variety of liquids in the freezer to see if all, some or none of them solidified...Read More
Class 6 are such fantastic readers and have made lots of progress this year. We enjoy our Reciprocal Reading discussions and everyone loves to be ‘The Big Boss’! Read More
On Tuesdsay we began planning a play script. We have been looking at the Greek myth called Pandora’s box. We are now converting this into a play script and adding lots of stage directions! Read More
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! Read More
After an exhausting day of interviews, the following children were chosen to be on the Table Tennis Committee for 2016-2017: Ellen Jones Callie Bradley Reuben Pugh Kian Kennedy Ben Brannigan I look forward to working with you all next year! Mr MastrelliRead More
This afternoon we enjoyed the lovely sunshine at Park Grove by playing a wonderful game of rounders with classes 8 and 9. The quality of the games were fantastic and it’s safe to say all involved enjoyed competing within their different teams on this beautiful sunny afternoon. We look forward to many more rounders matches ...Read More
On Monday in class 5 Katarina brought in her latest homework project! She made a cookie shield which we all got to taste as well. We are looking forward to seeing the other homework projects at the end of the week! Read More
This afternoon we enjoyed the lovely sunshine at Park Grove by playing a wonderful game of rounders with classes 8 and 9. The quality of the games were fantastic and it’s safe to say all involved enjoyed competing within their different teams on this beautiful sunny afternoon. We look forward to many more rounders tournaments...Read More
Today in curiosity club we calculated the percentage of the seeds (mathematical) .The majority of seeds have germinated. We are carrying out these results on a chart. The best tray has 80% of germination and the worst tray has germinated 48%.That is less than half the seeds. By Maddy,Georgia,Ruby and Isidora. 🙂 Read More
On Thursday we had a visit from Cara who works at York City Football Club. She came in to deliver a training session to 20 girls in KS2. During the session the girls played a variety of football based games as well as discussing their favourite female role model. Read More
Singing picnic The Reception children are attending a singing picnic on Monday, which will take place over lunchtime. The children will eat their lunch outside and will be provided with a grab bag if they normally have a hot dinner. English We will be writing information text about minibeasts and improving our grammar skills. Maths...Read More
We have a very busy week next week, we have our singing picnic on Monday so don’t forget you can either have a pack up or a grab bag on Monday lunchtime. We are all keeping our fingers crossed for sunny weather so that we can have fun singing with Haxby Road outside. We have...Read More
The weather this week has been much sunnier so we have loved being outside. We have been using plastic balls in the water area and feeding them down drain pipes to make a huge adding machine!Read More
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...Read More
English Next week the Year 5 children will be continuing to look at Odysseus and the Year 6 children will be doing their Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation test. Reading Next week the Year 6s will be completing their SATs reading papers – good luck everyone! Maths Next week in maths we will all be doing...Read More
As you know, this half term we’ve been looking at the Ancient Greeks, and have learnt about some of the Greek armies, such as the Spartans and Athenians. For your next homework project we would like you to design and/or create your own Greek shield. This could be for a Spartan, Athenian or Persian soldier, or...Read More
The children had a fantastic experience last Friday. Animals -in Tuition visited Park Grove and brought lots of mini beasts to show the children. We saw spiders, millipedes, a scorpion, and stick insects. We were able to touch them, hold them and discovered some amazing facts about their bodies and how they live. The children...Read More
Next week, in English, we will be looking at grammar skills to help improve the quality of the children’s writing. In maths we will be looking at data handling and fractions. Show and tell is Orange group. Flapjacks are sold on Thursdays so remember to bring 50p if you’d like one. Please remember to bring...Read More
A reminder of your current homework project: This half term we’ve been looking at the Ancient Greeks, and will learn about some of the Greek armies, such as the Spartans and Athenians. For your next homework project we would like you to design and/or create your own Greek shield. This could be for a Spartan,...Read More
English Next week the Year 5 children will be continuing to look at Odysseus and the Year 6 children will be doing their Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation test. Reading Next week the Year 6s will be completing their SATs reading papers – good luck everyone! Maths Next week in maths we will all be doing...Read More
The children have produced some excellent work this week in their Exciting Writing. They were presented with a picture of a mysterious door and had to create a story about the events that would unfold if they were to walk through it. The children’s imagination definitely came to life. Well done Class 3!Read More
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?Read More
A reminder of your current homework project: This half term we’ve been looking at the Ancient Greeks, and will learn about some of the Greek armies, such as the Spartans and Athenians. For your next homework project we would like you to design and/or create your own Greek shield. This could be for a Spartan,...Read More
Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we will be writing our own play script based on a Greek myth. Spellings This is the last week that we will look at the possessive apostrophe in our spelling lesson. We have given you 10 more spellings to learn. Please also complete the activity on your...Read More
In February we welcomed two new members to class 5, Wallace and Gromit! They are our class pets who are giant African land snails. Wallace and Gromit are doing well and both are growing in size! We are continuing to look after them and feed them regularly.Read More
English In English next week we will be exploring the story of Arachne and Athena. We’ll be looking at why the Gods often behave so badly in Greek myths and will also be creating character profiles. Maths In maths we will be calculating the area of triangles and parallelograms. Other notes We will be testing...Read More
This half term we’ve been looking at the Ancient Greeks, and have learnt about some of the Greek armies, such as the Spartans and Athenians. For your next homework project we would like you to design and/or create your own Greek shield. This could be for a Spartan, Athenian or Persian soldier, or could even...Read More
A reminder of your current homework project: This half term we’ve been looking at the Ancient Greeks, and will learn about some of the Greek armies, such as the Spartans and Athenians. For your next homework project we would like you to design and/or create your own Greek shield. This could be for a Spartan,...Read More
Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we will be writing our own play script based on a Greek myth. Spellings This is the last week that we will look at the possessive apostrophe in our spelling lesson. We have given you 10 more spellings to learn. Please also complete the activity on your...Read More
Amid the hard work from everyone in Class 8 , we are also attempting to complete the Euro 2016 Panini sticker album by the end of the tournament in July. We have been very lucky to have so many fantastic donations to our class album so far and as a result 340 of the total 680 stickers have...Read More
We spent a fabulous afternoon looking at each other’s homework project creations of either a Greek god or goddess. It was fantastic to see a wealth of special features, including different symbols and powers, successfully included in your designs. Read More
On Tuesday morning we had a very intriguing Maths lesson where each pair found out the average daily, weekly and yearly salaries of different occupations using knowledge of multiplying decimals to calculate these totals successfully.Read More
Our maths work has been linked to our Science investigations over the last few days. We have been working on creating neat and accurate line graphs to show the results of our experiments.Read More
Last week we planned a fair test very carefully in groups and this week we carried out our investigation. We set up experiments to see the distance particular liquids would travel during a given time. We tested liquid soap, water, oil, salad cream and honey having first made predictions about which would move most quickly.Read More
We had a tremendous time on Tuesday afternoon looking at all of the wonderful Class 7 Gods and goddesses. Among the fantastic deities created for our homework projects were Alpha, the Goddess of Numbers, Giselle, the Goddess of Fun and Athleticus, the God of Sport! Thank you all for your creativity and hard workRead More
This afternoon, we had the opportunity to explore some Greek artefacts and discuss what we had learnt about Ancient Greek gods and heroes with one another. It’s amazing how much we can learn from each other! Class 9 – what did you find interesting about the different artefacts we looked at?Read More
On Wednesday in Science we carried out two different experiments using solids, liquids and gases. The first experiment we carried out involved combining a liquid and a solid to create a gas. The second experiment required us to observe if a gas could be created from heating up water.Read More
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