This afternoon Class 6 recreated a Victorian classroom once again! The children had to learn two verses of a poem off by heart like Victorian children would have had to. It was very hard reciting the poem but we all did our best! Some of us loved the strict rules whilst many others found it...Read More
We have been practising our phonics outside by jumping on the right digraphs outside! We have also been using the new road to ride our bikes and scooters. Read More
In Maths we’ve been learning about time and understanding where to put the clock hands to show certain times. We have covered o’clock, half past, quarter to/past and more! Miss Thomas has been encouraging us to look at the classroom clock to try and tell what time it is too. Perhaps you could encourage this...Read More
On Wednesday in class 5 we had an exciting maths lesson on capacity. We did lots of activities including converting, reading scales, estimating, and our favourite, making fruit cocktails!!! All of these activities helped us to understand what capacity is and how to measure volume. Read More
We have been looking at identifying the place value of each digit of a number upto three decimal places this morning. What did you enjoy about this session? Read More
Yesterday we were weaving string around forked twigs in Forest Schools. This was great practise for our fine motor skills. The twigs looked beautiful and we are going to hang some up in our outdoor classroom.Read More
Today in our RE session, we considered the words ‘justice’ and ‘freedom’ and what they mean to us. We had a great class discussion about different examples of justice and freedom and then, in groups, we created acrostic poems to represent these words. What does justice and freedom mean to you? Read More
We were lucky enough to play Countdown this afternoon. The children had to use the numbers 50, 8, 1, 9, 5 and 4 to reach the target number of 780. As a class we found four different ways to reach the target. Well done to Mani, Stan, Leah, Ivy and Eddy, who each found at...Read More
Today we looked at telling the time (some children looked at intervals of 5 minutes!). It’s one of those things that can always be practised almost wherever you are and at whatever time so please do practise lots at home or out and about. In PE we carried on practising our throwing and catching skills...Read More
We put our throwing and catching skills to the test today by teaming up and playing a game called ‘Through the Hoop’. To succeed, we had to work really well with our group as we could not move with the ball and everyone had to touch the ball before shooting at the goal! A big...Read More
Class 6 carried out an investigation to find out which materials are electrical conductors and which are electrical insulators. We had excellent results and now know the answer to this question! Come and ask us if you’d like to know which materials allow electricity to pass though them! We planned our investigation ourselves using a...Read More
On Monday in class 5 we learnt about the different countries in Europe.We used an atlas to identify and locate the countries on our own blank maps. We then played a game to test our knowledge and learning taken place today. Read More
This week we built on last week’s introduction session to create our own Victorian-style movements in pairs. There were many instances of fantastic collaborative learning on show to create clearly coordinated sequences. What did you enjoy about this session?Read More
Today the Netball team took part in a practice session in preparation for our home friendly match against Ralph Butterfield on Thursday. There were some superb shooting, precise passing and determined defending on show this lunchtime!Read More
Today the children were introduced to and explored a lot of different poems that each had a different style. We discussed how some poems use rhyme and rhythm whereas others don’t. Can you remember what made acrostic, shape and haiku poems special?Read More
Wow what a fantastic day we’ve had! We really enjoyed reading different poems in English, then we even wrote our own acrostic poems using our names and words to describe ourselves. We spent the afternoon on the laptops exploring Purple Mash and we learnt what ‘algorithms’ meant. We loved programming the characters on screen to...Read More
Heaps of creative ideas were flowing around Class 9 this afternoon as we well and truly got stuck into our (already amazing!) class assembly practice. We can’t wait to show the rest of Park Grove next week!Read More
This afternoon in Class 6 the children took part in a PSHCE lesson to understand what type of learner they are. We discussed different learning styles, what they mean and thought if we were like that as learners. Most of us realised that we learn in several different ways but may prefer one style to...Read More
What an absolute treat we had in class 9 this afternoon! We have been lucky enough to actually touch a bit of Victorian history and looked at some real Victorian coins, an actual Penny Black from 1840 (plus a super rare Tupenny Blue!) and an old musical box called a Symphonium, which still played its...Read More
Here is the newsletter for this week. Today we had our first session on computing and looking at algorithms – not an easy task! All the children were very resilient when they were faced with problems that the computers presented. Well done Class 3. weekly newsletter 29.1.16Read More
This week we have looked at spellings with the –ation suffix. You have been given ten spellings to learn for your test next week. Please practise them in your homework book by completing the activity on your spelling sheet.Read More
English Next week in English we will be writing an explanation text about a Victorian invention. Please remember to fill in your reading records as we will be choosing our next Bookworm of the Month soon! Maths In maths next week we will be working on 3D shape and fractions including tenths and hundredths. Remember...Read More
English Next week in English we will be writing an explanation text about a Victorian invention. Please remember to fill in your reading records as we will be choosing our next Bookworm of the Month soon! Maths In maths next week we will be working on 3D shape and fractions including tenths and hundredths. Remember...Read More
This week we have looked at spellings with the –ation suffix. You have been given ten spellings to learn for your test next week. Please practise them in your homework book by completing the activity on your spelling sheet.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 an English lesson next week so don’t worry if you haven’t entered before. Normally our homework projects...Read More
Maths In Maths, we will be looking at decimals and rounding a range of different numbers up to three decimal places. English Next week in English, we will find out more about the 500 words competition. Start to have a think about what yours could be about? Who will the main characters be? Where will...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
No, not nasty hockey – but finding the mean from a range of data about hockey scores! It was quite challenging task in our problem solving maths session today, as we had to interpret data from a bar chart to find the mean number of goals scored by hockey players. Read More
What a dramatic draw we had this morning! The standout fixture looks to be the meeting between our previous two tournament winners, Lucy and Louie! Tuesday 2nd February Lucy v Louie Mani v Ellen Eddy v Ivy Ben v Dan Wednesday 3rd February Stan v Kian Tom v Elliott Isobel v Lucas Harry v ChelseaRead 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 next week so don’t worry if you haven’t entered before. Normally our homework projects don’t...Read More
Do you want to get to know first hand about what is happening in the PTA. Something very exciting/new/original and absolutely awesome is in the planning stages!! We have another planning meeting next week (Wednesday 3rd February – 7pm at the Gillygate Pub). Everyone is welcome to attend our meetings, so do bob down.Read More
Today Miss Sawyer made a visit to class 1 to help us with some Literacy work. We all had a look outside at our fantastic outdoor area and the new things that had been built. We then thought it would be a good idea to write a thank you letter to Mr Stoner for all...Read More
Maths In Maths, we will be looking at ordering decimals and rounding a range of numbers up to three decimal places. English Next week in English, we will find out more about the 500 words competition. Start to have a think about what yours could be about? Who will the main characters be? Where will your...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
We have greatly enjoyed multiplying and dividing fractions this week in Class 8. All the class have understood both concepts and applied their knowledge successfully in questions.Read More
Maths In Maths, we will be looking at decimals and how to calculate with them. English Next week in English, we will find out more about the 500 words competition. Start to have a think about what yours could be about? Who will the main characters be? Where will your story be set? You...Read More
Another week of fabulous Table Tennis matches! Here are the results: Janet 2-11 1-11 Kian Alex 11-8 9-11 7-11 Stan Ivy 11-0 11-0 Sam Ellen 11-1 11-1 Travis Chelsea 11-6 11-6 Lauren Lucas 11-2 11-5 Felix Louie 11-5 14-12 Kyle Isobel 11-5 11-9 Mollie Harry 11-6 11-4 George Ben M 1-11 4-11 Dan Elliott 11-3...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
This week’s spelling will focus on the ‘ie’ phoneme and may include variations including ‘igh’ in night, ‘i-e’ split digraph in bike and ‘y’ in sky. Please encourage your children to apply these words within a sentence to develop their skills further too! Read More
On Thursday in maths some of us used cubes to help us divide. We had lots of problems to solve using the cubes but we are now experts at dividing objects into equal groups! Read More
We’ve been feeling very hopeful that Spring is on it’s way as the sun came out this morning, and wrote our own creative poems describing what the Spring season is to us. What do you like most about Spring?Read More
If you or the children received a gift or still have some sweets/chocolates/biscuits left over from Christmas which you know you won’t use, then do consider donating them to the PTA . We will happily store them for the Summer Fair. Items can be given to a committee member or if you leave them at the office, we have...Read More
Another Bags2school collection will take place on 10th March. We would appreciate as always any items you are willing to donate. Bags will be given out in February once they arrive. If you have items you want to get rid of sooner rather than later, then let us know and we will happily store them...Read More
Our Valentine’s Cake stall will be on Wednesday 10th February outside of Class 3 at 3.15pm. Donations will be hugely apprecaited especially as any excess bakes can be sold at parent’s evening.(3.45pm to 6.15pm). Here’s to a ‘LOVE – LY’ cake stall.Read More
Today we said goodbye to Mr. Barrett who has been taking the children for PE every Wednesday since the beginning of the year (and probably even longer since the years before this). We have really appreciated all the work he has done for the class and everybody in Class 3 is really going to miss...Read More
We were delighted to see Ms Savoia back in Class 4 today, everyone has missed her very much! Especially her wonderful Art lessons. Here is what we were working on today… Read More
We have been working hard in Class 6 to identify adjectives, verbs, nouns and adverbs to help us improve our sentences and understand the jobs of each word. Here we are using our word fans! Read More
In Science on Wednesday class 5 made a human circuit! Some children were wires whilst others were either a bulb, a cell or a switch. We modelled how circuits work and what happens when they break or when we turn the switch on and off. Soon we are going to be building real circuits instead...Read More
In our English lesson this morning, we were looking at an extract from Roald Dahl’s book ‘boy’ about the disgustingly described Mrs Pratchett. Our task was to write an opposite character description using interesting and exciting word choices. Class 9 – What opposites did you describe? Can you remember any of that vivacious vocabulary you...Read More
We had a fantastic day yesterday learning even more about China! In class 1 everyone traced the Chinese letters to spell ‘happy new year’ or ‘Kung hei fat choi!’. It was a busy but exciting day and the finished lanterns are now hanging in our classroom ready to celebrate Chinese New Year on the 6th...Read More
Today in maths we have been using the beebots to think about direction and position. The beebots only follow very precise instructions so we have been thinking about how many steps forward and backward they need to go to send them to our friends. We have even been thinking about turning left and right, it...Read More
What a fantastic day in Class 2. We sang Twinkle Twinkle little star in Chinese, we learnt about Chinese traditional festivals, we made dragons, lanterns and Chinese paper cutting. We love enrichment days! Read More
The next meeting will be held in the boardroom on Thursday 4th February at 9am. Please can you ensure your class has written a new suggestion for us to discuss. Mr MastrelliRead More
As part of our Topic Enrichment day today, all of KS2 have looked at decorative patterns of flowers, leaves, birds and all beautiful forms of nature through the work of artist William Morris. Everyone created their own mini piece of Morris inspired art using watercolours, and the results have definitely been worthy of the Morris...Read More
Well, what a jam-packed day that has been! All the children have had lots of fun today taking part in the carousel system which saw them; creating lanterns in Class 1, chinese paper cutting in Class 2, looking at how China is different to England in Class 3, and looking at Chinese animals in Class...Read More
We’ve had so much fun learning about our China topic all day! It was fun to split into groups and work with children in different classes. The activities included: hearing about Mr Gardiner’s travels in China, making lanterns, cutting paper to make Chinese art and learning about the endangered animals! Read More
On Tuesday class 5 we had a shock when we entered the classroom. All the tables were in rows and we had Victorian class rules to read. We then had to sit in silence and practice our handwriting whilst Miss Clayton marched up and down the classroom. Thankfully none of us got the dreaded cane!!!! Read More
All the children in Key Stage 2 have taken part in five fun Victorian activities in five classrooms. In Class 8 we have learning about which countries were part of the British Empire in the Victorian era and located them on a blank map using our atlas skills. What did you enjoy about this activity?...Read More
On Monday class 5 wrote their own alphabet nonsense poem in the style of Edward Lear, a famous Victorian author we are currently studying. We each had a letter and had to create a verse for our own letter. If you want to read our poem please come inside a classroom and find it on...Read More
Today saw our second session of Exciting Writing in 2016 and what a good one it was! The children were given a picture of a tiger as a stimulus and all planned and wrote fantastic stories (with the idea that they were from a different culture to our own – our most recent unit). Also,...Read More
Class 6 have been looking at the work of Victorian writer Edward Lear. His style of writing is nonsensical and silly! The children have written poems in his style, including a nonsense alphabet. We had a range of things in our poems… kings, jungles, eels and yachts! Here are some of the children performing our...Read More
Class 6 have looked at the writing of Edward Lear in English. His style of writing is nonsensical and silly! The children have enjoyed writing limericks and other poems in this style! Here is part of our nonsense alphabet: Read More
In Maths today, we were ‘Diving for Deep’ which meant that we were deepening our understanding of calculations. We picked addition questions at random and solved them in a variety of ways including drawing pictures, using resources or working them out in heads. It was a great opportunity to use all of our wonderful Maths...Read More
In pairs, Class 8 have been designing a freeze frame to represent famous inventions from the Victorian period. There was some fantastic creativity on show in this lesson! Read More
In pairs, we have been designing a freeze frame to represent famous inventions from the Victorian period. There were some fantastic creativity on show in this lesson! Read More
Class 4 Newsletter 22nd January 2016 Another fun week in Class 4, we’ve learnt a lot! We can’t wait for our China Enrichment Day next Tuesday!Read More
Monday 25th Janet v Kian Alex R v Stan Ivy v Sam Ellen v Travis Tuesday 26th Chelsea v Lauren Lucas ZW v Felix Louie v Kyle Isobel v Mollie Wednesday 27th Harry v George Ben M v Dan Elliott v Fergus Damien v Mani Thursday 28th Ben Be v Joe Eddy v Junior Tom...Read More
After a brief delay, the knockout tournament is up and running! Here are the 1st round results from this week: Joseph 2 Harry 11 Mani 11 Toby 1 Molly O 0 Isobel 11 Isidora 1 Ellen 11 Sophie 5 Joe W 11 Elliott 11 Freya 4 George 11 Fletcher 9 Alfie 2 Alex R 11...Read More
Next week in Maths we will be developing our addition and subtraction skills by using a range of mental, physical and written methods to solve calculations. In English, we’ll be creating our own story from another culture, inspired by the stories covered in class so far including: Yeh Shen, the Fire Children, the Chinese Zodiac...Read More
Maths In maths next week we will be revisiting multiplication and division. You have been given your eight 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 individual homework log-ins but to access the website the school username...Read More
This week we have looked at further spellings with the –ly suffix. 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
Project Remember that our topic this term is the Victorians so for your next homework project we would like you to choose one famous Victorian to write about in an information booklet. You can choose how to organise the information and illustrations within your booklet. Try to think creatively about the presentation of your work....Read More
Today the whole of KS2 got another certificate for their amazing involvement and contributions to the Astro Science Challenge, which saw them complete challenges to coincide with Tim Peake’s blast off to the ISS. The happy faces show just how much we enjoyed it! Class 9 – What was your favourite challenge?Read More
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