We are really looking forward to our China Enrichment Day on Tuesday where we will be learning more about the country. In English we will be creating our own story from another culture. In maths we will be revisiting addition and subtraction using a new method! It is green group show and tell. Please make...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
Remember for your next homework project we would like you to choose one famous Victorian to write about in an information booklet. We will display and use the information booklets during lessons this term. You can write about any of the famous Victorians, scientists or inventors we have studied in class or somebody completely different....Read More
In Maths, we will be multiplying and dividing proper fractions by whole numbers as well as developing our understanding of the mean as an average. Next week in English, we will be focusing on descriptive vocabulary to write character descriptions. On Tuesday 26th January, we will be having our Topic Enrichment day. Please feel free...Read More
Remember for your next homework project we would like you to choose one famous Victorian to write about in an information booklet. We will display and use the information booklets during lessons this term. You can write about any of the famous Victorians, scientists or inventors we have studied in class or somebody completely different....Read More
This week’s homework is to practice our new sounds: or, igh and oa. We have new homework sheets that also include a few words for you to sound out using your robot arms.Read More
On Wednesday afternoon all of Class 1 were treated to a visit from Class 5 and 6. The children had all made a wonderful book based on the stories by Beatrix Potter. We were so thrilled to listen to the stories and then gave the children some feedback about the things that we liked in...Read More
This week’s spellings will focus on the ‘ay’ sound in words. Words could include variations such as ‘ai ‘, ‘a’ on its own and ‘a-e’ split digraph. In homework books, your child could retell the Owl Babies story using speech marks for what the characters said. Read More
In Maths, we will be using languages of averages – mean, median, mode and range. When have you heard the vocabulary average used in real life? Next week in English, we will be focusing on descriptive vocabulary to write character descriptions. On Tuesday 26th January, we will be having our Topic Enrichment day. Please feel...Read More
Project Remember for your next homework project we would like you to choose one famous Victorian to write about in an information booklet. We will display and use the information booklets during lessons this term. Famous Victorians you may wish to write about are: Queen Victoria herself! Isambard Kingdom Brunel Famous engineer, who designed the...Read More
Today, in Science, the children have been categorising different animals by their appearance e.g. Whether they have 2, 4, 6, 8 or no legs, whether they can swim or not etc. Can you think of any animals that have wings and can swim? Homework will be going out on Friday along with spellings which will...Read More
In Maths, we will be multiplying and dividing proper fractions by whole numbers as well as developing our understanding of the mean as an average. Next week in English, we will be focusing on descriptive vocabulary to write character descriptions. On Tuesday 26th January, we will be having our Topic Enrichment day. Please feel free...Read More
Project Remember for your next homework project we would like you to choose one famous Victorian to write about in an information booklet. We will display and use the information booklets during lessons this term. Famous Victorians you may wish to write about are: Queen Victoria herself! Isambard Kingdom Brunel Famous engineer, who designed the...Read More
As part of their topic work the children printed Chinese blossom pictures using pink paint and the base of a plastic bottle. They took them home to show their family. Hope you like them!Read More
Agenda Suggestions Apologies-Miss Sawyer Register A.O.B Suggestions Class 9-More space on coat pegs and an effort to keep cloakrooms tidy. Need to ensure space is used more effectively. Class 8-Tennis or Badminton club. The Tennis possible in the summer but not Badminton at the moment. Class 7-More music lessons. We already have singing assemblies every week and...Read More
This afternoon Class 6 re-created the Houses Of Parliament in the classroom and debated a very important issue… Whether poor Victorian children should be stopped from working or not! The children in Class 6 on the side of the Victorian children won the debate! We all agreed after a heated discussion that indeed Victorian children...Read More
We have been reading and interpreting data about authors in Victorian times from a range of pie charts. The class applied their equivalences learning on Monday to help give answers as fractions and percentages accurately. Read More
In Class 8 this afternoon we have been using electrical components to create a simple circuit. All the children worked hard to complete the learning objective successfully. Read More
In Class 8 we have been using recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram. All the children worked very hard in this session to complete the learning objective successfully. Read More
Linking both our topic and maths this week we have done a Victorian investigation, answering and calculating word problems about Queen Victoria and the Victorian era using different methods. We had to make sure we calculated all questions accurately as most were linked to each other, so one incorrect answer could have ruined the whole...Read More
On Wednesday we studied a new Victorian author, Edward Lear. We looked at some of his limericks in preparation for writing our own Limericks on Thursday. Which was your favourite Limerick? Read More
Today in Forest Schools we were using black paper and pastels to draw something that we had found. We looked really closely at the details of things such as leaves and also thought about the shape. We looked very closely at the thing we were drawing and the end results were fantastic. The daffodils are...Read More
On Monday we used the story of ‘Handa’s Surprise’ to find out the most popular fruit choice in our class. We all used clipboards and a tally chart and asked our friends which was their favourite. It was a great chance for us to chat to different people in the class and to collect and...Read More
We had a hard-working session this afternoon learning all about mixed feelings of different scenarios. What did you enjoy about this session? Read More
This afternoon in science we have been learning about famous scientists and inventors who are linked to both electricity and our topic, Victorians. We’ve been researching important scientists such as Thomas Edison, Michael Faraday and Nikola Tesla. Miss Platts even brought in some of her own neon lighting and explained how she knew about Tesla...Read More
There has been some very good work in today’s English lesson with Mrs. Carr-Brion where the children focused on using connectives in their writing. Hopefully they will continue this good work and start using more connectives (than they already do) in their day-to-day writing. Keep up the good work Class 3!Read More
Unfortunately today was Mr Lennon’s last day at Park Grove! He has been kindly volunteering twice a week in Class 4 since September and we are very sad to see him go. I’m sure the children will agree that he has been a fantastic help in our class and we wish him all the best...Read More
We’ve been focussing on the story of the Owl Babies and today we thought about how the characters felt during the story. We improved simple sentences like ‘Bill was sad’ by using more effective words and connectives like ‘because’ to explain why the character felt that way. Here’s a few photos of us writing sentences...Read More
On Tuesday we carried on with our Victorian topic. We discussed who Dr Barnardo was and why we was famous during the Victorian era. Then we had a debate about children going to work. We all agreed that children shouldn’t have to work! What do you think? Read More
Today Class 6 continued their electricity learning by looking at torches and understanding which electrical components are inside to make the torch work. Did you like learning about torches? Read More
Our first School Council meeting of 2016 will be on Tuesday 19th January at 9am in the boardroom. Please ensure the suggestion box from your class is brought to the meeting, complete with a new suggestion! Mr MastrelliRead More
Today in PE we explored the Industrial Revolution through dance. We looked at a brief history of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his major engineering feats and then translated these into pieces of group, improvised dancing. In our groups, we explored movement in canon and also in unison. Do you know what these words mean? Read More
Today we began learning about how to measure capacity by pouring water carefully into different containers. We were able to select different measurements and look at the scale closely to check we had been accurate. It was so much fun! We can’t wait to start solving problems using capacity tomorrow. Read More
On Monday morning class 5 had a visit from our class governor, Fiona. We showed her what we do in class 5 and she joined us for a maths lesson and an English lesson. We also had a chat about who we are and what happened in York over Christmas. We hope you enjoyed your...Read More
Today the children have all been experimenting with capacity and accurately measuring different amounts of water in millilitres (ml). What other units of measurement do we use when measuring capacity? Read More
Here is the newsletter for this week. Today the children have been creating and measuring their own picture frames in maths and had lots of fun doing so. We have also been looking at synonyms and improving sentences/paragraphs. Can you think of a synonym for big? weekly newsletter 15.1.16Read More
Spellings this week will focus on the ‘ee’ sound that we have been looking at in Phonics. These may include variations such as ‘ey’, ‘ea’ and ‘e-e’ split digraph. In homework books, perhaps you could get your child to write a Chinese menu listing typical Chinese food such as rice and noodles! Read More
Spellings will be going out tomorrow and are focused on the ‘ee’ phoneme with alternative graphemes of the sound as well. Can you think of your own words that contain the ‘ee’ phoneme?Read More
You really enjoyed your learning this week when we made electrical circuits. What was the effect on the bulb when we added more components to the circuit?Read More
Class 6 have been writing in the style of the famous Victorian author, Beatrix Potter. We have made lovely, little books to put our writing into and illustrate with pictures of our animal characters. The finished books will be ready next week! Have you enjoyed this writing Class 6?Read More
Well done to everyone who has been practicing their sounds in their homework books. This week could you have a go at writing our new digraphs; ‘ng’, ‘th’ and ‘ee’. You can practice the songs and the actions at home as well!Read More
Today we’ve delved a little more into life as a Victorian child, looking closely at what jobs they did (as some children didn’t go to school!) and also treating ourselves to a bit of Horrible Histories! http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/music/p00hbc4q What jobs do you know that Victorian children could do? What would you rather do, go to school or...Read More
In English we looked at the story behind the Chinese Zodiac and discovered how the cheeky rat won first place in the Jade Emperor’s race. It appears that most of the children in the class were born in either the year of the ox or the year of the rat. Mr. Gardiner was born in...Read More
The children loved hot seating our story Handa’s Surprise. We explored the character and how she was feeling. We even balanced a basket full of fruit on our heads! Read More
Here’s a few photos of us playing phonics games this morning. These included rhyming games, alphabet jigsaw puzzles and Phonics Play activities on the interactive whiteboard. What a lot of fun! Read More
We read the Chinese Zodiac story today and we learnt about why each year is named after an animal. The children wrote some amazing recounts and blew Miss Thomas away with their writing skills such as using adjectives, sentence openers and paragraphs! Look out for some of these stories on the Wow Wall soon.Read More
What a super fun morning we have had in maths today! We were visited by Sustrans who delivered an exciting and interactive maths activity based all around bikes. What was your favourite part of the Bike It session? Read More
This afternoon we have been practicing using the laptops to play some ICT games. We have used ‘All Day to Play’ to learn about some shapes in maths. We have also used ‘2paint’ to draw a picture which we can then print out. It has been lots of fun using the laptops but quite tricky...Read More
This week in class 5 we have been planning our own short stories in the style of Beatrix Potter. We are now writing them in books we have made! We are looking forward to showing you the final products!Read More
Today in Forest Schools we were all surprised to see some daffodils have started to grow, we think this might have been because the weather was warm and wet in December. Hopefully the cold weather of January won’t stop them from flowering. We also all searched for something special to make a badge from. We...Read More
In PE I’ve just found out that we have some fantastic throwers and catchers in Class 3. I was so impressed with their skills that they were able to show off — keep up the good work and practise, practise, practise at home if you like!Read More
Today the year 5’s took part in a maths challenge led by Sustrans. We had to solve problems to earn money in order to build bikes. We had lots of fun and used a range of maths skills! What did you enjoy doing?Read More
In RE we looked at things that are right and wrong in life and the children thought of lots of different examples. We then looked at The Ten Commandments that Christians follow (one of the main religions of China – our topic this half term!) and which ones may be applicable to our own lives.Read More
We have been learning about doubling today in class 1, the children have been amazing at counting out doubles up to 10 and some of them have even begun to write them as addition sentences. Well done!Read More
We kicked off the week with a ‘hands-on’ Maths lesson with lots of group work today. Some children tackled some word problems whilst others had to use their knowledge of place value to help them fill in lots of empty boxes on a 100 square. This meant that we could consolidate the skills that we...Read More
This afternoon, class 9 had a very tricky task – to try and create dance movements inspired by Victorian inventions. We looked at inventions such as the camera, telephone, car and underground railway and compared them to the ones we see today. We then had to create movements, a freezeframe or gestures to represent that...Read More
Here is the newsletter for this week. The children’s behaviour has been brilliant this week and didn’t go unnoticed. Miss Sawyer was very happy with the way they sat so sensibly all through our first Good Work assembly of the new year. Keep it up Class 3! weekly newsletter 8.1.16Read More
All the children in Class 3 have settled back really nicely into the school routine and are looking forward to the new term ahead. What are you looking forward to learning about?Read More
Welcome back to Park Grove! We hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas break and the children are ready for the new term. Our new topic is…China! We’ve begun to learn facts by creating a fact file in our English books this week. Perhaps you could ask your child what they know so far about...Read More
What a busy first week of 2016 we have had in Class 9! We’ve launched straight into our new topic and I think it’s safe to say that we are all excited about starting lots of different and new work across all of our subjects. What are you most looking forwrad to this term? New...Read More
This week we started our new topic, the Victorians! We found out that we call this period in time the Victorian era because of the queen at the time; Queen Victoria. We’ve already learnt lots about her… What’s your favourite or most interesting fact you have learnt about Queen Victoria?Read More
Happy New Year! It was fantastic to see everyone back in school yesterday, we had such a fun day learning about our new topic ‘China’. If anyone has been effected by the flooding please remember you can contact myself or anyone in the school for support or to discuss any of your concerns. Read More
The PTA committee have been busy sourcing and squirrelling away cut price Christmas Crackers ready for the school Christmas Dinner December 2016. As you can see it is quite a task and quite a mountain. This is only some of the collection!!!! As you can imagine, we have had lots of funny looks too raiding...Read More
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