Archies April 2016 Do you have pre teen/almost teen/ ‘in the midst of the teens’ children (or even a combination)? These courses are wonderful and are run by Family Matters in York. A bargain – totally free!Read More
In science you have been learning about electricity. As you know, electricity can be very dangerous if people don’t use it safely and with respect. For your next homework project, we would like you to design a bright and eye catching poster to warn other children of the dangers of electricity. Your poster could be...Read More
English Next week in English we will be reading more of The Railway Children and will complete writing linked to the story. Spellings This week we have looked at spellings with endings sounding like ‘sure’ and ‘ture’. You have been given ten spellings to learn for your test next week. Please practise them in your homework book...Read More
Maths In maths next week we will be continuing our work on fractions and decimals. We have set you a task on My Maths. You have your individual homework log-ins but to access the website the school username is: parkgrove and the password is: multiply. English ...Read More
This week we have looked at spelling with the suffixes -ture and -sure. 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.Read More
In science you have been learning about electricity. As you know, electricity can be very dangerous if people don’t use it safely and with respect. For your next homework project, we would like you to design a bright and eye catching poster to warn other children of the dangers of electricity. Your poster could be...Read More
After much encouragement from the opening part of the season, on a bright yet cold Monday afternoon, Park Grove took to the field to play Lord Deramores School in back-to-back matches. In front of a vociferous crowd, the cold feeling in the air was soon dispelled early in the first match by Park Grove’s energetic...Read More
This afternoon, we learnt about the 6 main elements of music, which got us into a very musical mood. The musicians in the class felt so inspired they wanted to perform a bit of their own music to us – so we had a mini concert in our classroom! Class 9 – Can you remember...Read More
On Wednesday, we started to look at what is meant by a balanced argument. We then created posters displaying our knowledge of the key features learnt from the session. What did you learn about a balanced argument?Read More
On Wednesday in class 5 we designed and built our own torches. We used electrical equipment, a bottle and tin foil to build our torches in groups. All of our torches worked well and Miss Clayton was very impressed by our designs! Read More
Ten children in Class 6 have entered the Radio 2 500 Words competition. We have been lucky to hear many of the stories in class and they have all been terrific! Good luck to all of the children.Read More
This morning the children took part in a drama workshop that was all based on The Snow Child (the performance that they will be watching on Thursday afternoon in De Grey Rooms!). All the children thoroughly enjoyed the morning and showed what super actors they all are. I hope you had lots of fun.Read More
On Tuesday we had a special visit from the company who cook our school lunches. They came to show us how we can exercise to keep us healthy and then refuel our body using healthy fruit. We had fun jogging and stretching and felt our heart race increasing. We then made a delicious smoothie using...Read More
On Monday we were all very excited to see that our water wall that Mr Stoner has made is complete! We had great fun flushing the water at the top and watching it flow down the drain pipes, we even used funnels to change the direction of the water. Some children used containers to measure...Read More
On Tuesday, everyone in Key Stage 2 took part in a Roots to Food cookery extravaganza. Sam represented Class 8 in a cookery challenge where he demonstrated his fantastic cooking skills! All the class learnt a lot from this session most notably where food comes from, it’s nutritional value and how to eat healthily. What a tasty morning we all had!Read More
On Monday, the Table Tennis Tournament semi-finals took place and both Louie and Ben won their respective matches to make it an all Class 8 final on Wednesday 2nd March. A fantastic final awaits – best of luck to both boys!Read More
We loved having a visitor in this afternoon to teach us all about how to stay healthy. We did some tiring exercises before making our own fruit smoothie. We also learnt about the importance of having five portions of fruit and vegetables and each day and how to use our hand to see one portion!...Read More
On Tuesday all of KS2 had a special assembly involving healthy food. We had to create two healthy dishes, however it was a competition, so the stakes were high! The food was judged on taste, appearance and nutritional value. We had lots of fun and we are all looking forward to trying to recreate these...Read More
On Tuesday all of KS2 had a special assembly involving healthy food. We had to create two healthy dishes, however it was a competition, so the stakes were high! The food was judged on taste, appearance and nutritional value. We had lots of fun and we are all looking forward to trying to recreate these...Read More
This afternoon has been very exciting as the children had a visit from a group of healthy eating specialists. They discussed all about building up energy through food in the morning, burning energy and the importance of replenishing! Don’t forget, eat your breakfast and eat all of you lunch at school to help stay as...Read More
This afternoon, we imagined going back in time to what Park Grove would have been like in the Victorian era. We thought about the similarities and differences between schools then and now, before going into character of a Victorian Park Grover. We also tried a bit of Victorian schooling and attempted to learn a Victorian...Read More
What an exciting morning we had at Park Grove today, taking part in our own Ready, Steady, Cook style food competition! Not only was this fun, but we also learnt about the important food groups, what we should (and shouldn’t) eat a lot of and we even got to taste some of the food the...Read More
On Tuesday Key Stage 2 took part in the Roots to Food cookery challenge! Zak, Isidora and Charlie represented Class 6 in a cookery demonstration which they were apprehensive about initially but really enjoyed! The children learnt all about where food comes from, it’s nutritional value and how to eat healthily. What a fantastic experience...Read More
Our new topic this half term is Kung Fu Fit and therefore related this to the English lesson that we had today. The children drew around each other on large sheets of paper and labelled the body parts. They then wrote a caption for the function of each different one. Here they are in action…...Read More
Welcome back to Park Grove! The children were excited to be back at school and they’re all ready to learn again. We jumped straight into our new topic ‘Kung Fu Fit’ by beginning to learn all about the body. In English, we had a lot of fun drawing around each other and labelling our different...Read More
On Monday in class 5 we began looking at a new book which we will be studying in English this half term…The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit. We made predictions about what we think might happen in the story and made a poster with these on to present to the class. What is your prediction? ...Read More
Over the next half term we will be reading The Railway Children by E. Nesbit. This week we looked at the front cover of the book and made predictions about it. We then presented our ideas to the rest of the class. We look forward to reading the book and finding out if our predictions...Read More
Hockey Club for Year 5/6 children starts this year on Monday 22nd February. The club will be run by Miss Clayton for 5 weeks from 3:30pm to 4:30pm. What are you looking forward to about the hockey season?!Read More
Please remember that Netball Club for Year 5/6 children re-starts on Thursday 25th February. I hope everyone is excited to be playing Netball again! What do you enjoy about Netball?!Read More
The wait is nearly over! Park Grove School’s Football Team season begins again on Monday, weather dependent of course! ! We are playing a two league matches against Lord Deramores Primary School on Monday 22nd March, starting at 4:00pm at home. It would be brilliant if you could come to support our team. The team for these matches are: Harry...Read More
AGENDA Register Apologies-none Attendance Rewards Sport Relief Suggestions AOB Attendance End of year attendance prize (reward). School target is 96% attendance. Discussion about having an attendance board and prizes for the winning class each term. Mr Mastrelli asked the children what prizes they were interested in. These were the suggestions: Books.100% £5.00 book voucher. Hour of sports or extra play....Read More
Thank you to class 5 for all your snail name suggestions! I am pleased to inform you all that our new class pets are called Wallace and Gromit! ?? Read More
On Monday we celebrated the start of the year of the monkey in class 1. We all measured our heads in maths using tape measures to make it accurate and then used this measurement to make our new year hats! Everyone did a great job as they all fit perfectly! We have had a great...Read More
Spellings this week will look at the ‘oo’ sound. These may include variations such as ‘ew’ for screw, ‘ue’ for glue or ‘u-e’ split digraph for tube. Please encourage your children to apply these words in a sentence too! Read More
It was another tense week of Table Tennis action with the quarter final matches being played. Here were the results: Louie 11-5 11-2 Lucas Chelsea 11-4 10-12 11-5 Ivy Mani 11-5 11-6 Kian Ben 11-5 11-3 Tom We have an all Class 8 semi-final line up with the following ties to be played on Monday...Read More
Thank-you to everyone for your support. We raised £98.30 at the Valentine cake stall. Some of the children’s faces were a picture and they were clearly ‘love struck’ at the choice on offer.Read More
Today, as a class, we wrote a shape poem about a blue bouncy ball and the children used some fantastic similes to help describe it. We also carried on our work on multiplication doing a rotation of different activities. Read More
This morning in Maths we applied our multiplication skills through a range of activities. These included using the laptops, doing problem solving and colouring answers in. We really enjoyed this ‘hands-on’ lesson because we got to work in our ‘Home’ groups! We’re really confident at multiplication now! Read More
After writing our explanation texts about Victorian inventions that never were, we created posters and a persuasive pitch to sell the inventions to would-be customers! We presented both our pitch and poster to the rest of the class. Here we are, Dragon’s Den style-pitching… Read More
On Tuesday afternoon we decided to make some bird feeders in forest schools as it is very cold and we thought the birds would like some extra food. We used bird seed and lard to mould them together and then tied them up using some thick string. It was really fun to feel the squashy...Read More
On Wednesday in class 5 we welcomed two new members – our class pets! They are giant African land snails and we are going to look after them.Our next task is to name them, we will let you know when we have decided on the names! Read More
Yesterday we had a fantastic morning making pancakes for pancake day! We weighed out our ingredients and then gave them a good stir. Some children even cracked the eggs open by themselves. We then cooked them carefully on the hob and tried to flip them! They were very tasty when we added some lemon juice...Read More
The children worked very hard on using different methods to help them multiply single digit numbers together. Keep practising, and working on, your times tables to improve your maths skill even more!Read More
We had another electrifying afternoon, researching and creating information posters about Alessandro Volta (the Italian scientist that the Volt is named after). We used Microsoft Publisher to create our posters which many of us had never used before. Our posters are bright and informative, well done Class 6! Read More
We always look forward to our show and tell each day in Class 4! This week the children in Blue group have done some fantastic presentations to show everybody their hobbies. So far, we have seen origami, a dinosaur song and karate! Here’s a photo of one us in action this afternoon… Read More
What a fantastic class assembly this morning Class 9! You should all be so proud of yourselves for creating an entertaining, enjoyable yet also educational assembly, showcasing some of the interesting things we have learnt in our Victorians topic. I’m so proud of you all! Miss Platts x Read More
Today saw the last session of Exciting Writing before the end of half term and allowed the children to show off all of their knowledge that they have learnt about China as the topic comes to a close at the end of this week. I hope you have enjoyed this topic as much as I...Read More
Today was our second Computing lesson and we extended our skills by inserting our algorithms into a flowchart instead of just clicking the arrow keys. This meant that we had to carefully predict how many steps the character had to move in a certain direction to get to the goal. We’re becoming really confident at...Read More
Today Class 6 listened to two stories – one where a child made a brave choice, another where they made an unwise choice. We discussed how sometimes this can be difficult to distinguish between and so we talkethrough many examples. Some children produced lists of brave and unwise choices; others created posters of the two...Read More
In our grammar session this morning, we focussed on conjunctions and the different word classes. We even created a class human sentence, using a coordinating conjunction to link two clauses and improving the sentence by adding in our own adjectives and adverbs. Remember – conjunctions are connectives but not all connectives are conjunctions! Read More
On Monday in class 5 we constructed 3D shapes using blue tack and straws! This helped us to understand the different properties of 3D shapes. Read More
Speed Quiz Fundraiser – Friday March 18th at 7pm. Join us for this fantastic evening of Speed Quizzing with Alan Leach who has literally just drummed his way through a hugely successful Shed Seven Tour. At our Speed Quiz, he will be ‘drumming up’ a fun night of ‘fast finger’ madness where teams will endeavour...Read More
It is the PTA’s Valentine Cake stall this Wednesday 10th February. As always we would LOVE to have any Valentine inspired cake/bake/cupcake donations. Please drop them off at the staffroom on Wednesday am. It is also Parent’s Evening and so the more bakes, the more we can sell over the evening. We hope to see...Read More
I have been so impressed with Class 3’s behaviour and attitude this week – it is by far the best and most enjoyable week I have had since September. I really hope they ALL keep up the good work. Here’s the newsletter for this week. weekly newsletter 5.2.16Read More
Maths In Maths, we will be focusing on reading and converting between measures accurately. We will also be using our mathematical skills to solve number problems. English Next week in English, we will be exploring the active and passive voice in writing, as well as continuing to read Street Child. What will happen to Jim Jarvis...Read More
Project The 500 words competition has been launched for 2016 on Radio 2. Lots of you have been asking us about it and are clearly already very excited! We will look at the competition in more detail in our English lessons on Monday so don’t worry if you haven’t entered before. Normally our homework projects...Read More
Maths In Maths, we will be focusing on reading and converting between measures accurately. We will also be using our mathematical skills to solve number problems. English Next week in English, we will be exploring the active and passive voice in writing, as well as continuing to read Street Child. What will happen to Jim Jarvis...Read More
Maths In maths next week we will be creating our doing a pancake-themed maths lesson as well as looking at fractions. You have been given your nine times tables. Please remember to practise them by using your booklets to help you. We have set you a task on My Maths. You have your...Read More
Maths In maths next week we will be creating our doing a pancake-themed maths lesson as well as looking at fractions. You have been given your nine times tables. Please remember to practice them by using your booklets to help you. We have set you a task on My Maths. You have your...Read More
This week we have had a lesson on the 500 words competition hosted by radio 2. More information is available on the website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00rfvk1 Normally our homework projects don’t run over the holidays but as the online deadline for the competition is 25thFebruary you may want to continue to work on it over the holidays. ...Read More
The 500 words competition has been launched for 2016 on Radio 2. Lots of you have been asking us about it and are clearly already very excited! We will look at the competition in more detail in our English lessons on Monday so don’t worry if you haven’t entered before. Normally our homework projects don’t...Read More
This week we have started reading Street Child in our English lessons, which links with our Victorians topic. We’ve been introduced to the main character, Jim, and his family who are living in poverty in Victorian Britain. In the chapter, Jim’s family are thrown out of their cramped, dirty, cold room by…the Stick Man. To...Read More
This week we have had some more fabulous Table Tennis matches. Here are the results and the Quarter final draw: Lucy 7-11, 12-10, 7-11 Louie Mani 11-8, 19-17 Ellen Eddy 5-11, 3-11 Ivy Ben Be 11-2, 11-2 Dan Stan 4-11, 4-11 Kian Tom 11-5, 11-7 Elliott Isobel 7-11, 5-11 Lucas Harry 2-11, 6-11 Chelsea ...Read More
This week’s spellings will focus on the ‘oa’ sound which we have been learning about in phonics. These may include variations including ‘ow’, ‘o-e’ split digraph and ‘o’ on its own. The children are particularly enjoying phonics at the moment and it has been fantastic to see how eager they are to complete activities. Further...Read More
Our homework this week is to practise the sounds oo, er and oi. Have a go at reading the words and remember they have the short oo like book instead of the long oo sound like food.Read More
Maths In Maths, we will be using negative numbers in context. Can you think when we might talk about negative numbers in real life? Can you write a word problem that uses negative numbers? English Next week in English, we will continue to read the novel ‘Street Child’ by Berlie Doherty. Who are Jim Jarvis...Read More
The 500 words competition has been launched for 2016 on Radio 2. Lots of you have been asking us about it and are clearly already very excited! We will look at the competition in more detail in our English lessons on Monday so don’t worry if you haven’t entered before. Normally our homework projects...Read More
In our ICT lesson this week we researched Alessandro Volta who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery. Can you name any other famous scientists?Read More
This afternoon we had the laptops out again to practise using ‘All day to Play’. It is full of great maths games and today we were matching numbers to quantities by counting out different pictures. We were fantastic up to 10 but need some more practise to 20. Read More
Over the past couple of weeks, we have using the software Scratch to program our own maze games based around a Victorian theme. We have games involving Queen Victoria searching for her crown, an poor Victorian trying to escape from a debtors prison and even an Oliver themed game! It’s been so much fun, and...Read More
Today the children had a special lesson taught by Miss Sawyer where they were using ‘ambitious vocabulary’. There were lots of brilliant, fantastic, super pieces of work all of which Miss Sawyer and I were very proud of. Well done Class 3. We also welcomed our new PE teacher, Mr. Middleton, into the class this...Read More
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