A group of children achieved their Pen Licences this week in Class 6 after trying really hard with their joining up in our handwriting sessions. Very well done to all of the children! Keep up your hard work. Here they are with their certificates, badges and new pens! Read More
Today the children completed their final piece of Exciting Writing this term. They explained to the reader (Mr. Gardiner) the importance of good hygiene and gave some very good examples. Well done Class 3.Read More
Here are the Easter Cake Stall reminder slips that went out in bags today. Hopefully you won’t have to dig quite as deep as we did in order to retrieve said ‘screwed up’ message. Do ask if you have any questions and bunny paws all crossed for a great fund raiser. Read More
What a busy Monday we’ve had in Class 4! We were introduced to ‘2Animate’ where we were able to turn simple pictures into an animation on Purple Mash. We took turns with a partner on the laptops to create an animation of a sunflower growing from a seed to a flower; this consolidated the explanation...Read More
The children had their first swimming lesson this week. There was a mixture of excitement and nervousness amongst the children. When we arrived at the pool, the children were reassured by the pool staff. The class has been split into four groups, each with its own teacher or two. Well done for such sensible walking...Read More
In English today, we read some more of our exciting class book Street Child and found out where Jim went after he escaped the workhouse. He found Rosie, who helped his mum and sisters, and found out what happened to her… We explored her story through hot-seating and asked ‘her’ a range of open questions...Read More
Easter Cake Stall – this Wednesday at 3.15pm. Another ‘cracking’ fundraiser. Cake/Bake Donations of any kind are hugely appreciated (including shop bought). Please bring them to the staff room on Wednesday am. Read More
Nom, nom, nom. Thank you to all who came to the Speed Quiz last night. We had a great evening! Superb entertainment from Alan Leach – thanks again Alan. Fantastic grub from the Seacatcher, a fab well stocked bar (well done Mark with your fine choices) and a great atmosphere. We will announce the amount...Read More
On a quite beautiful Thursday afternoon and in front of a supportive crowd including the legendary Mr Currie, Park Grove took to the field for their penultimate league match of the season against New Earswick Primary School. Despite dominating the possession, Park Grove struggled to create clear-cut chances, however as the first half wore on the chances increased....Read More
Next week in class 1 we will be learning more about the Easter story and how we celebrate Easter. We will even be making some chocolate nests. We will also be reading poems about feeling unwell in Literacy. Don’t forget that school closes for Easter on Thursday at 2.30pm!Read More
Easter has arrived in class 1 as we now have a special tree with lots of eggs and chicks. We have been finding the numbered eggs and counting them in 2s! Read More
In English the children will take part in their final piece of exciting writing of the year and in maths will be developing addition and subtraction skills. School breaks up for the Easter holidays on Thursday at 2:30pm and will therefore be a toy day! We will be doing show and tell on Wednesday, not...Read More
Class 6 had an interesting time at the Castle Museum on Thursday afternoon. We learnt about Victorian medicine in our workshop. The children visited the pharmacy in the mock up street and they then learnt about and handled real Victorian medical objects. They also had the chance to learn about typical Victorian diseases and made...Read More
Remember our last homework of the half term relating to the Victorians and the many inventions that they created during this period. A lot of these inventions were very successful and we still use them nowadays, such as railways, cars and rubber tyres. For your next homework project, we would like you to create and design...Read More
Wow – what a fantastic production of Oliver by the Year 5s this week! You all did an absolutely fantastic job and should be so proud of yourselves!Read More
We have continued to read “Street Child” by Bertie Doherty and started to think about what life was like for Jim in the workhouse, particularly after the tragic death of his mother. All the children took part in a conscience alley drama activity where there were two lines facing each other, trying to convince Jim to...Read More
SPEED QUIZ There are just two more opportunities to buy tickets for the speed quiz on Friday. (After school outside Class 4). As well as a fun-packed evening, the £10 entry fee includes fish & chips and a free drink from our selection of Belgian lager, speciality English ales, red and white wine, Prosecco, gin,...Read More
Remember our last homework of the half term relating to the Victorians and the many inventions that they created during this period. A lot of these inventions were very successful and we still use them nowadays, such as railways, cars and rubber tyres. For your next homework project, we would like you to create and design...Read More
This week we visited the De Grey Rooms for a fantastic theatre workshop, and I think we can all agree it was tremendous fun and we all enjoyed it immensely! After starting with a few warm up excercises, we sat down to hear our first ghost story of the day…the story of the wicked Mr...Read More
Remember our last homework of the half term relating to the Victorians and the many inventions that they created during this period. A lot of these inventions were very successful and we still use them nowadays, such as railways, cars and rubber tyres. For your next homework project, we would like you to create and design...Read More
Exciting writing on Monday and practising our Maths skills throughout the week. Don’t forget toy day on Thursday and we break up at 2.30 for our Easter holidays. Read More
WOW! What a fantastic Art lesson we had this week. The children used different materials to make collages as we are exploring texture. Please have a look at the amazing results. Read More
Today we wrote a recount of our science experiment. We placed three pieces of fresh bread in separate bags, one has lots of germs one, one was touched using clean hands and the other we picked up with tweezers. The children have made some very interesting predictions on what they think will happen. We can’t...Read More
As part of our healthy eating topic the children made milkshakes using strawberries, raspberries and bananas. They wrote their recipes and produced some very yummy drinks. Class 2 loved them! Read More
Spellings This week we have looked at words with the with the /ei/ sound spelt -ey. You have been given ten spellings to learn for your test next week. Please practice them in your homework book by completing the activity on your spelling sheet. Maths In maths next week we will be learning about symmetry...Read More
Remember that for your next homework project, we would like you to create and design a new invention of your choice. Your invention could be an improvement on something which already exists or you could create something brand new. You can present your work in any way you choose (maybe a model, a diagram or...Read More
Spring is definitely on its way! The children had a great afternoon exploring the forest and discovering all the signs of Spring. They found daffodils, tulips and lots of new green shoots. Read More
class 2 did a super job finding the missing numbers on a number line or number square. They are getting very good at seeing the pattern of numbers and sequencing. The children also counted in 2s and nearly hit to 50! Well done Class 2. Read More
Spellings This week we have looked at words with the with the /ei/ sound spelt -ey. You have been given ten spellings to learn for your test next week. Please practice them in your homework book by completing the activity on your spelling sheet. Maths In maths next week we will be learning about symmetry...Read More
Remember that for your next homework project, we would like you to create and design a new invention of your choice. Your invention could be an improvement on something which already exists or you could create something brand new. You can present your work in any way you choose (maybe a model, a diagram or...Read More
We have started to use Scratch to write / build commands to draw and animate. This follows on from working on LOGO where we first got used to writing commands. We used the pen tool this week on Scratch to draw squares, rectangles and then shapes within shapes. We then experimented with the comman tools...Read More
On Wednesday in Science we had to experiment with circuits using motors and other equipment. We then had a fun competition where we had to get our disc the highest by creating a powerful circuit. Read More
In our final week before the Easter holidays, we will be finalising our explanation texts unit in English by writing an explanation of how we can keep clean. This links well with our Science lesson as the children will be exploring how we do this and what can happen if we do not! We will...Read More
This week’s spellings will look at the ‘wh’ for wheel and ‘ph’ for phone sounds. The children have worked particularly hard at learning these so I am sure they will apply the words in some great sentences too!Read More
Wednesday afternoons are perfect for the children to show off their creativity and artistic skills! This week the children have been looking at sewing and have created their own masterpieces based on the work of Michelle Holmes. Read More
This week we visited the De Grey Rooms for a fantastic theatre workshop, and I think we can all agree it was tremendous fun and we all enjoyed it immensely! After starting with a few warm up excercises, we sat down to hear our first ghost story of the day…the story of the wicked Mr...Read More
After reading the story of Oliver’s Milkshakes we decided to make some of our own! We wrote our own recipes to follow and then we followed them carefully. We cut up all of our fruit carefully, added the milk and then put it in the blender! It was very noisy but it made very tasty...Read More
On Tuesday we had the freedom to explore whatever we wanted to in the wildlife area. There was a fantastic assortment of activities including observational drawings of the spring flowers, collecting sticks for the Easter tree and making bark and leaf rubbings. Read More
We had lots of fun and learnt a lot from making predictions and testing them out using our electronic kits. Did you know that taking away batteries will slow down the speed of a motor? Or that four 1.5V cells (or two batteries) have a total Voltage of 6V? These are just two facts that...Read More
The whole school were treated to a wonderful Year 5 performance of their entertaining and original version of Oliver! You all did an absolutely fantastic job and we were all so proud of you. We considered ourselves very fortunate to see your first performance on Monday!Read More
This week all the children presented their electricity homework projects about the dangers of electricity and the need to use electricity safely. There were so many informative and eye-catching posters complete with interesting facts, as well as really helpful tips to stay safe! Read More
We’re trying really hard with our reading Class 4! In guided reading sessions, we have got much better at reading quietly on our own and we are enthusiastic about the books we choose! Recently, we’ve been putting our reading skills to the test by answering some comprehension questions based on the text. We’ve also been...Read More
This week we have shared our science homework projects all about electricity. For this homework, we had to design and create our own poster about an aspect of electricity of our choice. Some of us described how to be safe around electricity and some about the dangers of electricity but all portrayed their message clearly...Read More
On Tuesday in class 5 we began looking at different types of angles and we had to sort the size of angles as well as draw our own obtuse and acute angles. Read More
In English the children were looking at using punctuation in a range of sentences (commands, statements, questions and exclamations!). They all worked really well even if they did get a little bit muddled up sometimes. Read More
PTA Planning Meeting We have rearranged this for Wednesday 16th March, 7pm at the Gillygate (Thank you once again Brian and Suzi for hosting). All welcome Read More
Bag2School Thank you for all of your donations. We collected 130kg in all and we raised in the region of £52. The next collection is on Wednesday 20th July so lets hope the Spring sunshine continues and the Winter clothes can be something of a distant memory! Read More
Preperations for our class assembly are well on the way and the children must have worked very hard to learn their lines over the weekend because I am so impressed that most have them have learned them off by heart already! I wonder, can you tell who the children are impersonating?Read More
Wow – what a fantastic way to start this week by watching the fabulous Year 5s perform their entertaining and original version of Oliver to the whole school! You all did an absolutely fantastic job and should be so proud of yourselves! A huge good luck to you all from the rest of Class 9...Read More
Today we were investigating odd and even numbers by solving simple addition calculations and identifying if the answer was odd or even. To do this, we used number lines, hundred squares or simply worked it out in our heads, then we had to look closely at the last digit. We also had to colour the...Read More
On Monday in PSHE we played some board games all about social skills. We learnt about how to behave sensibly and how to manage our feelings in different situations. We enjoyed learning lots through playing the different board games! Read More
We have talked about the idea of stewardship in RE this week. We talked about what it means and how it links to the Creation Story. The children thought carefully about why humans should be stewards and how they could do it, for example by growing their own vegetables, turning off lights when they’re not...Read More
Quizz, Quaff and Scoff – Fish and chips from the Seacatcher (Clarence St) A bar (one free drink), a high tech quiz using hand held devices (no pen or paper, no cheating). Plus an after party at the Gillygate Pub!! £10 the lotRead More
The children will be working on their grammar, punctuation and vocabulary. They will also be looking at how to make milkshakes for healthy eating and writing recipes. In maths the Reception children we will be looking at adding and subtracting in the context of lots of practical problems. Year 1 children will explore position and...Read More
Next week we are thinking about odd and even numbers and counting in twos. We are also reading the book ‘Oliver’s Milkshake’ and making our own milkshakes with healthy fruit.Read More
In English we wil be becoming super writers by practising different skills such as punctuation, synonyms and improving sentences using VCOP. We will be applying these skills on Thursday by writing up our Science experiment and what happened to the bread when we didn’t wash our hands! In Maths, we will also be practising different...Read More
In maths we will be revising lots of different skills based on the questions that were very difficult in their recent practise. In English we will be focusing on some grammar skills. Thursday is flapjack day so remember your 50p! The next show and tell on Friday is yellow group.Read More
This week some of the children had a go at completing some practise questions that they will be encountering in the not so distant future! For a first attempt they really impressed me. Well done Class 3.Read More
On Thursday afternoon with a hint of sunshine surrounding the pitch, Park Grove took to the field for their sixth league match of the season against Fishergate Primary School. Park Grove dominated the opening exchanges but only had a Kyle Wilce tap in, with his left foot, to show for their dominant play. Eventually the goals arrived towards the end of the first...Read More
This term you have been learning about the Victorians, including the many inventions that they created during this period. A lot of these inventions were very successful and we still use them nowadays, such as railways, cars and rubber tyres. For your next homework project, we would like you to create and design a new...Read More
Spellings this week will look at the ‘ar’ sound. These may include variations such as ‘al’ for calm, ‘ear’ for heart and a on its own for rather. This week in Science, we’ve been learning about what a balanced diet is and the different food groups. Perhaps for homework your child could write a food...Read More
This term you have been learning about the Victorians, including the many inventions that they created during this period. A lot of these inventions were very successful and we still use them nowadays, such as railways, cars and rubber tyres. For your next homework project, we would like you to create and design a new...Read More
Maths Next week in maths, Year 5’s will be focussing on properties of angles. It’s also chance for the Year 6’s to show off everything they have learnt this year so far in some assessments. Wow us with what you can do! English ...Read More
We really enjoyed solving some puzzles this week involving fractions. It took a lot of concentration and team work but we got there in the end!Read More
This week we have been think carefully about how we should react when we disagree with some one. It is really important that we feel free to express our own opinions but also very important not to upset someone if we disagree with their opinion.Read More
We were very excited about our new doubling machine made by Miss Ford. We have been practising doubling numbers from 1-20 and having great fun with putting fruit down the tubes and then counting the total. Read More
Today we learnt about where different vegetables come from. We even found out that chips come from potatoes. We had great fun in the soil looking at the roots and how they grow. We would all like to find out more about beetroot, rhubarb and spinach.Read More
Maths Next week in maths, Year 5’s will be focussing on properties of angles. It’s also chance for the Year 6’s to show off everything they have learnt this year so far in some assessments. Wow us with what you can do! English ...Read More
This term you have been learning about the Victorians, including the many inventions that they created during this period. A lot of these inventions were very successful and we still use them nowadays, such as railways, cars and rubber tyres. For your next homework project, we would like you to create and design a new...Read More
We had fun today hot seating questions about healthy living. We asked our question and then gave explanations. We know so much about our topic and have great ideas about how to live a healthy lifestyle. Read More
This term you have been learning about the Victorians, including the many inventions that they created during this period. A lot of these inventions were very successful and we still use them nowadays, such as railways and rubber tyres. For your next homework project, we would like you to create and design a new invention...Read More
Spellings This week we have looked at words with the with the /ei/ sound spelt -eigh. You have been given ten spellings to learn for your test next week. Please practice them in your homework book by completing the activity on your spelling sheet. Maths In maths next week we will be learning about angles....Read More
This week in class 5 we have had confident cat joining us. We have written lots of things in the book about being confident in our classroom. What have you been confident about this week? Read More
The next meeting will be held in Class 8 on Thursday 10th February at 10:30am. Please can you ensure your class has written a new suggestion for us to discuss. Mr MastrelliRead More
This week in maths we’ve had great fun using different formulas to add and subtract amounts. We also wrote simple algebraic equations using information from word problems effectively. Read More
This term you have been learning about the Victorians, including the many inventions that they created during this period. A lot of these inventions were very successful and we still use them nowadays, such as railways and rubber tyres. For your next homework project, we would like you to create and design a new invention...Read More
Spellings This week we have looked at words with the with the /ei/ sound spelt -eigh. You have been given ten spellings to learn for your test next week. Please practice them in your homework book by completing the activity on your spelling sheet. Maths In maths next week we will be learning about angles....Read More
Great writing today from class 2! We explored explanation text and wrote about the senses using connectives such as ‘ because, but, so’. We also worked hard to improve our handwriting. Read More
In science we had to solve electrical problems using the electricity kits. We had to test lots of different ways until we finally solved all of the problems but we managed it! Read More
We’ve had a super science afternoon today continuing our work on electricity. We created circuits, sabotaged circuits and remade them again; we created our own human class circuits using smarties to act as the voltage running through a circuit (and we enjoyed eating them too!) and we even created our own electrical ‘scarecrow’ with our...Read More
We have learnt how to use inverted commas in class this week. We also tried hard not to use the verb ‘said’, instead using alternative verbs such as ‘muttered’ or ‘exclaimed’. Here are some of the children reading their work aloud. Read More
Bags2school – Last drop off is tomorrow (Thursday) by 9am at the front foyer. Thank you for your contributions so far. The pile is growing but there is potential for much more to match previous collections.Read More
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