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Money, Money, Money…

On Wednesday afternoon, Year 6’s from Class 8 and 9 took part in an exciting session run by representatives from either NatWest or John Lewis as part of their Children’s university project.
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Rights and Responsibilities…

On Monday afternoon, Class 8 created posters inspired by the five rights created by Park Grove’s School Council. We learnt about the five new rights – Play safely, Inclusion, Good manners, Respect, Positive language – and thought  carefully about the responsibilities we would have to carry out to abide by each right successfully.
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Next Week in Class 5

Next Week Next week in English we will write a World War Two list poem. In topic, we will complete our work on the role of Women in the Second World War and look at its impact on women today. In our Science work next week, we will continue to learn about forces and magnetism. Have...
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Homework Project

Imagine a book is being written about the rights and responsibilities of the children of Park Grove Primary School. Your task is to design a cover for the book. You will need to think carefully about how you present the cover because you want people to pick up your book to read! What information will...
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Next Week in Class 6

Next Week Next week in English we will write a World War Two list poem. In topic, we will complete our work on the role of Women in the Second World War and look at its impact on women today. In our Science work next week, we will continue to learn about forces and magnetism.  ...
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Magnets! 

In science this week we carried out an experiment to find which type of magnet was the strongest. We did this using a range of magnets and paper clips. We then presented our results in a bar chart.
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Speed Quiz

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Next week

Maths – We will be looking at estimating and comparing capacity as well as different ways to display data using graphs. Don’t forget to have a go at the maths game on Abacus. English – We will continue to explore traditional tales using speech bubbles. We will also write our own exciting story! 
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Spellings 

Our spellings this week are the sounds ‘oi’ and ‘oy’.
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IPAD time

Class 2 love working on the IPads during our ICT session. We can chose Maths or Phonics games. We can also choose fun building games where we can construct a city using different Lego bricks. Our teacher is always asking us questions so we have to be able to explain what we are doing. This...
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Next week…

Next Week In English, we will be writing the flashback and conclusion parts of our narrative piece of writing. In our maths sessions, we will be learning to divide fractions accurately as well as continuing to find properties of shapes. Other Notes Y6s – Please remember to complete your maths and English targeted homework, which are...
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Homework Project

Remember that for your next homework task, we’d like you to think about how people on the Home Front supported the war effort by growing their own food, salvaging waste or making do and mending clothing or household items. We’d like you to give a short talk about things you’ve done at home yourself that...
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Next Week…

Next Week In English, we will be writing the flashback and conclusion parts of our narrative piece of writing. In our maths sessions, we will be learning to divide fractions accurately as well as continuing to find properties of shapes. Other Notes Y6s – Please remember to complete your maths and English targeted homework, which are...
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Measuring biggest to smallest

In our Maths groups we ordered pieces of string by length. We decided which was the biggest and which was the smallest. We then measured the length of the string using a ruler. To measure correctly we made sure the string was straight before we measured. Finally we put the whole class in order by...
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Next Week in Class 5

Next week we will be starting our work on poetry writing. Please also remember to learn your 7 spellings for your test on Monday! In topic, we will be looking at key dates linked to World War 2. In our Science work next week, we will continue to learn about forces and magnetism. Other Notes...
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Homework Project

For your next task, we’d like you to think about how people on the Home Front supported the war effort by growing their own food, salvaging waste or making do and mending clothing or household items. We’d like you to give a short talk about things you’ve done at home yourself that might fall into...
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Next Week in Class 6

Next Week Next week we will be starting our work on poetry writing. Please also remember to learn your 7 spellings for your test on Monday! In topic, we will be studying the Home Front and will be going on to look at the role women played during the Second World War. In our Science...
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Homework Project

For your next task, we’d like you to think about how people on the Home Front supported the war effort by growing their own food, salvaging waste or making do and mending clothing or household items. We’d like you to give a short talk about things you’ve done at home yourself that might fall into...
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Homework Project

For your next task, we’d like you to think about how people on the Home Front supported the war effort by growing their own food, salvaging waste or making do and mending clothing or household items. We’d like you to give a short talk about things you’ve done at home yourself that might fall into...
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Homework Project…

Thank you all for your wonderful research projects based on people who took part in the Second World War. For your next task, we’d like you to think about how people on the Home Front supported the war effort by growing their own food, salvaging waste or making do and mending clothing or household items....
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May The Force Be With You…

On Wednesday afternoon, Class 8 learnt about the life and achievements of Sir Isaac Newton with a particular focus on his discovery of gravity. Each child produced an eye-catching poster to display their learning about this very famous scientist.
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Air-Raid Shelter!

On Monday afternoon, an air-raid siren sounded in Class 8 and we all made our way in an orderly fashion to our magnificent newly constructed air-raid shelter.  Once inside, we discussed how people during World War 2 might have kept themselves occupied during air-raids and listened to a range of interesting World War 2 stories.
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Sing along with Young Voices!

Our Singing Assembly on Tuesday gave us the opportunity to listen to the fantastic Young Voices choir who performed in Sheffield earlier this month.  We were all able to join in with the songs we knew and we displayed some excellent dance moves as well!
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Making a Splash!

We had our first swimming session on Monday afternoon and had chance to show off our strokes in our new groups.
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World War 2 Homework

We’ve had a wonderful time sharing homework projects this week and have found out a huge amount about some of the people who lived through the Second World War.  Thank you so much to everyone who shared memories, stories and artefacts belonging to family members.
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Next Week

We will be continuing our work on The Three Little Pigs next week, we will write speech bubbles for the characters and practise their words, can you retell the story at home? What does the big bad wolf say to the pigs.
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Homework

We have moved on to the tricky vowel digraphs this week. Can you have a go at practising ‘ee’ and ‘ai’ at home.
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Chinese New Year

On Wednesday afternoon we learnt all about Chinese New Year and we practised our cutting skills by making Chinese dragons. We listened to some Chinese music and even made some Chinese dragon dancing.   
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Table Tennis Tournament – 3rd Round Results

Shamin v Kian  9-11 13-11 10-12 Betsy v Lucas 9-11 12-14 Toby v Sophie 2-11 5-11 Alexander v Charlotte 6-11 8-11 Pujani v Felix 6-11 3-11 Oscar v George 7-11 11-9 1-11  Joseph C v Reuben 0-11 2-11
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School Council Minutes 24.1.17

  Agenda ·         Register ·         New Officials ·         Use of the attendance bears ·         Christmas Fair money ·   Minutes   ·         Use of the attendance bears   The school council were pleased to note that their comment about the attendance bears had been received well by Miss Slater and Miss Sawyer and the attendance...
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Estimating

We have been thinking about the word estimating in maths recently and we all know that it means to make a good guess. We used wrapping paper in the outdoor classroom and had a quick glance at the pattern to guess how many of each design was on the paper. Lots of children made a...
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Speed Quiz

Speed Quiz, a ‘Fast-Tastic’ Fundraiser – Friday March 31st at 7pm. Join us for another great evening of Speed Quizzing with Alan Leach who will put down his Shed Seven drum sticks and instead, pick up his Speed Quiz gear. Once again, Alan will be ‘drumming up’ a fun night of ‘fast finger’ madness where...
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Next Week in Class 5

Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we’ll continue to read the book ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ and learn what happens to the main character Lenny. Maths In maths next week we’ll be looking at areas of maths which we need to work on including fraction of amounts and written multiplication....
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Homework

In your homework books this week there are the sounds ‘ng’ and ‘th’ to practise. See if you can think of any words with these sounds in.
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Making Porridge

On Wednesday afternoon we had the fun task of making porridge like the three bears! Everyone did a great job of weighing the ingredients, giving it a good stir and then helping to eat it. We even added some honey to make it extra tasty!            
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Spellings

Spellings this week will be looking at the ‘ow’ phoneme with a focus on the ‘ow’ and ‘ou’ graphemes. 
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History lesson

We loved finding out all about a wonderful scientist called Albert Einstein. We made a fact sheet all about his life but didn’t understand why he never wore socks! 
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Next week 

English – We will be exploring the story of Goldilocks and The Three Bears. We will, of course, be making some porridge and writing our instructions.  Maths – We will be exploring addition and also looking at recording length.  Science – Lots of investigation work and exploring properties of materials.  Don’t forgot to logon to...
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Spellings 

This week we are learning the sounds: ‘ow’ ‘ou’ ‘ough’
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Partitioning numbers

After lots of hard work with the base 10 rods we can now partition a 2 digit number. We can write it in our books showing the tens and units and the sum to put the number back together again. Brilliant fun. 
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff

We are becoming excellent at acting out our stories and using lots of expression in our voices. The wolves in Class 2 certainly know how to roar and our story ended happily ever after. We are becoming very confident at story telling and even invented a new character to live under the bridge. 
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Repeating patterns 

We used 2d shapes to create repeating patterns using two, three and four shapes. We were able to say what a repeating pattern is and name the shapes too! 
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Next week…

English Next week we are going to be planning and starting to write our own flashback story related to World War 2, inspired by our reading of Carrie’s War. Maths In maths next week, we will be looking at shape in more detail and exploring volume! We will also be delving into the world of...
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Homework Projects…

Thank you all for your wonderful research projects based on people who took part in the Second World War. For your next task, we’d like you to think about how people on the Home Front supported the war effort by growing their own food, salvaging waste or making do and mending clothing or household items....
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Table Tennis Tournament 2nd Results

Shamin v Manon 11-2 11-6 Lucas v Isidora 11-2 11-0 Betsy v  Connor 11-4 11-3 Junior v Lina 11-1 11-0 Toby v Logan 11-7 11-6 George v Ellen 11-8 11-3 Alexander v Rosa 11-2 11-5 Sophie v Ben MW 9-11 11-4 11-4 Millie v Chloe 11-1 11-4 Joseph v Dylan 11-8 11-7 Reuben v Elliot 11-3 11-0 Felix v Henry J 11-2 11-6 Charlotte v Elle 12-10 12-10...
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Next Week in Class 5

Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we’ll continue to read the book ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ and learn what happens to the main character Lenny. Maths In maths next week we’ll be looking at areas of maths which we need to work on including fraction of amounts and written multiplication....
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Homework Project

Thank you all for your wonderful research projects based on people who took part in the Second World War. For your next task, we’d like you to think about how people on the Home Front supported the war effort by growing their own food, salvaging waste or making do and mending clothing or household items....
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Homework Project

Thank you all for your wonderful research projects based on people who took part in the Second World War. For your next task, we’d like you to think about how people on the Home Front supported the war effort by growing their own food, salvaging waste or making do and mending clothing or household items....
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Next Week in Class 6

Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we’ll continue to read the book ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ and learn what happens to the main character Lenny. Maths In maths next week we’ll be looking at areas of maths which we need to work on including fraction of amounts and written multiplication....
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Creative Carrie’s War

This week we have been reading Carrie’s war. This book is based on an evacuee who went to the countryside throughout World War Two (our topic). We’ve (as a class) read up to Chapter 5; in that chapter the main characters went/fell into Mrs Gotobed’s house where they were given a goose to take back...
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Next Week in Class 7

English In English next week we will be continuing our work on ‘Carrie’s War’ by Nina Bawden Maths In maths we will be looking at division methods Spellings You have been given your words of the week.  Please be ready to put them into sentences in our lesson next Thursday Other We will begin our...
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Homework Project

Thank you all for your wonderful research projects based on people who took part in the Second World War. For your next task, we’d like you to think about how people on the Home Front supported the war effort by growing their own food, salvaging waste or making do and mending clothing or household items....
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Homework Project

Thank you all for your wonderful research projects based on people who took part in the Second World War. For your next task, we’d like you to think about how people on the Home Front supported the war effort by growing their own food, salvaging waste or making do and mending clothing or household items....
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Carrie’s War Theatre Workshop

On Monday this week we had a brilliant trip to York Theatre Royal (as part of our Long Term Partnership Project) to take part in a drama workshop based on ‘Carrie’s War’.  We created and performed our own scenes, explored characters and settings from the book, wrote our own dialogue and even got to question...
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Battle of Britain…

This week we acted out the Battle of Britain in our P.E. session. After many twists and turns, I was delighted to announce that the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom successfully against the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attacks.
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Marvellous Multiplication!

On Tuesday morning,  Class 8 revisited calculating long multiplication in different contexts. The main task required the children to work out the value of different letters in order for a multiplication calculation to be correct. This was a task the children found difficult earlier on in the year but the ease with which the children accurately found the different letters demonstrated their...
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Repeating Patterns

Today in maths we have been thinking about making repeated patterns with shapes and colours. In the construction area we have used duplo blocks to build repeating towers and on the creative table we used finger painting to make spotty patterned snakes.         
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Table Tennis Tournament – 1st Round Results

Elliot  L v George 1-11 Aaron v Oscar 1-11 Molly O v Georgia 4-11 Lucia v Alfie C  4-11 Logan v Rosa G 11-0 Marcus v Chloe He 11-4 Max v Rosa C 11-4 Leah v Betsy 11-o Reuben v Lucas J 11-2 Harrison v Ellen 11-3 Conner v Fergus 11-5 Harley v Junior 11-5 Millie T v Ben MW 11-3 Elle v Isobel 11-7 Shamim v Eurwin 11-1 Lina v Nellie 11-0 Freya v Elliot J 11-0...
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Next Week in Class 5

Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we’ll start to read the book ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ and write in relation to the theme of the book, evacuation. Maths In maths next week we’ll be revisiting addition and subtraction. Reading Please remember to bring your yellow Reading Record into school so that we...
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Homework Project

Please remember that for your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know who may have been involved or lived during the war. If you choose to research a man or woman...
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Next Week

We are very excited for Miss Youle our student teacher to start teaching next week, everyone in the class has made her feel really welcome. We will be thinking about repeating patterns again in maths. In literacy we will be making our own books to tell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears as...
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Homework

Please have a go at writing the digraphs ‘sh’ and ‘ch’ this week. Can you think of any words with these sounds at the beginning or end?
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Show and Tell

This week we started Show and Tell, thank you to everyone who remembered to bring in their favourite book. It was so lovely to share different stories and ask each other questions about why we liked them. Please remember to check the board outside the classroom to see whose turn it is and what they...
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Counting on from 10

This week in maths we have been thinking lots about teen numbers and counting on from ten instead of starting at 0. We decided to use our toes as a starting point and then count on with our fingers to see how many more than 10 different numbers were.
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Forest Schools

This Tuesday we got wrapped up warm and went to explore the wintery wildlife area. We took checklists to see what we could find and looked carefully for any signs of new life beginning for spring time.   
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Next week

We will be looking at the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff  and retelling the story of Little Red Riding Hood.  Also, we will be learning how to partition numbers and compare numbers. We have started our science work on Materials and will be investigating how they can change using clay.  In PE we...
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Spelling 

We are learning the sounds ‘ur’ ‘er’ and ‘ir’ Also, the sounds ‘sh’ and ‘ch’ for the Reception children 
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Drama

Class 2 are learning to use their acting voices clearly and with expression. We acted out The Three Little Pigs using a scary voice for the big bad wolf and a high pitched voice for the three little pigs. Our favourite phrase was ” Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!” We watched...
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Comparing objects by weight

We used our hands to compare the weight of objects we found around our classroom. Then we used the balancing scales to make sure we were correct and finally sorted the objects into light and heavy. We can say which object is the heaviest and which is the lightest. 
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Retelling a story.

Class 2 worked extremely hard today retelling  the tale of The Three Little Pigs. They remembered all the key events and phrases and wrote loads! So proud of you all for your amazing writing. 
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Next Week in Class 6

Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we’ll start to read the book ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ and write in relation to the theme of the book, evacuation. Maths In maths next week we’ll be revisiting addition and subtraction. Reading Please remember to bring your yellow Reading Record into school so that we...
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Homework Project

Please remember that for your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know who may have been involved or lived during the war. If you choose to research a man or woman...
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Next Week…

English Next week in English we will be continuing to read “Carrie’s War” and will write about some of the different characters we meet. Maths In maths next week, we shall be looking at area and perimeter in more detail and challenging ourselves with some missing number problems! Other notes On Wednesday, we will be visiting the...
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Homework Project…

Remember that for your first homework project of 2017, we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know who may have been involved or lived during the war. If you choose to research a man or woman who...
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Next Week…

English Next week in English we will be continuing to read “Carrie’s War” and will be writing about some of the different characters we meet. Maths In maths next week, we shall be looking at area and perimeter in more detail and challenging ourselves with some missing number problems! Other notes On Friday, we will be...
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Homework Project…

Remember that for your first homework project of 2017, we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know who may have been involved or lived during the war. If you choose to research a man or woman who...
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Homework Project

Remember that for your first homework project of 2017, we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know who may have been involved or lived during the war. If you choose to research a man or woman who...
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Dramatic WWII Dance

On Friday afternoon, we delved into our topic for this term, World War 2, by looking some photographs taken during the war and exploring the content through dance and music. Each group took on this task in an original, creative way to create some fabulously dramatic dances to a piece of music, each representing one...
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Thank you

Thank you to everyone who helped make the Christmas Fair and Christmas Cake Stall successful and enjoyable events. The Christmas Fair made a profit of £1,306.16 and the cake stall £110.00. As always, the money will provide exciting trips, experiences and equipment for every child at Park Grove.The 
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Next Week in Class 7

English In English next week we’ll be continuing our work on stories set during the Second World War Maths In English we will be revising calculation methods and continuing our work on decimals Spellings You have your statutory spelling lists so please choose another 10 words to learn this week Other On Monday we will...
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Homework Project

Our Spring topic in Key Stage 2 is World War II. This is a fascinating topic in which many important events happened.   For your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you...
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The Lion and the Unicorn

This week have been finding out about evacuation and have been reading the Shirley Hughes book ‘The Lion and the Unicorn.’  The story is all about a boy called Lenny and his experiences of being evacuated.  To help us write in role, we have been creating freeze-frames of moments from the book.
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School Council Minutes 11.1.17

Agenda ·         Register ·         New Officials ·         Naming of the attendance bears ·         Spring Term behaviour target ·         Christmas Fair money   Minutes   ·         Naming of the attendance bears   The attendance bears have been named as Preston and Bear Growls. The fact that Classes 1 and 9 win the bears most weeks was...
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Teenager Course

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Going Crackers 

We were going a bit ‘crackers’ trying to source these festive treats to put into storage for the next Christmas Dinner. Unfortunately, people had ‘snapped’ up any reduced priced crackers … however, after ‘pulling’ a few strings and making a few calls, ‘hats off’ to Morrisons in Acomb for putting these by for us until...
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Going Crackers 

We were going a bit ‘crackers’ trying to source these festive treats to put into storage for the next Christmas Dinner. Unfortunately, people had ‘snapped’ up any reduced priced crackers … however, after ‘pulling’ a few strings and making a few calls, ‘hats off’ to Morrisons in Acomb for putting these by for us until...
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Next week…

English Next week in English we will be starting to read the story “Carrie’s War” by Nina Bawden. We will be doing some creative writing based on events from the first few chapters. Maths In maths next week we’ll be reading, writing and comparing numbers with up to seven digits and starting to explore shape. Reading...
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Homework Project

Our Spring topic in Key Stage 2 is World War II. This is a fascinating topic in which many important events happened. For your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know...
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Welcome Back Everyone!

We’ve had a fantastic start to the New Year in Class 8 and have very much enjoyed hearing all about the exciting things everyone has been getting up to over the festive period!  We’ve also been looking forwards to a new term in Class 8 and the many exciting activities we will be doing in the next few weeks!
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Timelines…

On Wednesday afternoon, we started to look at key events from World War 2 and ordered them on a timeline in our books. We will be looking at some of these events in greater detail in the upcoming weeks!  
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Homework Project…

Our Spring topic in Key Stage 2 is World War II. This is a fascinating topic in which many important events happened.   For your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you...
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Next Week…

English Next week in English we will be starting to read the story “Carrie’s War” by Nina Bawden. We will be doing some creative writing based on events from the first few chapters. Maths In maths next week we’ll be working reading, writing and comparing numbers with up to seven digits and starting to explore shape. Reading...
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Homework Project

Our Spring topic in Key Stage 2 is World War II. This is a fascinating topic in which many important events happened. For your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know...
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Next Week in Class 6

Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we will be writing a biography about one of the British World War 2 Prime Ministers, Winston Churchill. Maths In maths next week we’ll be working on fractions and decimal fractions. Reading Please remember to bring your yellow Reading Record into school so that we can fill...
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Homework Project

Our Spring topic in Key Stage 2 is World War II. This is a fascinating topic in which many important events happened.   For your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you...
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Next Week in Class 5

Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we will be continuing our work on Winston Churchill by writing a biography about him. Maths In maths next week we’ll be looking at decimals and fractions. Reading Please remember to bring your yellow Reading Record into school so that we can fill it in...
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Homework Project

Our Spring topic in Key Stage 2 is World War II. This is a fascinating topic in which many important events happened. For your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know...
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