Our topic this term is Green Fingers and we have certainly been working on ours here in Class 2! We have been enjoying this week’s sunshine by going outside and planting our very own sunflower seeds. We know that the seeds need light, warmth and water to help them grow.Read More
As it’s Saint George’s Day this week we’ve been finding out all about the Patron Saints of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. What have you found out about the Saints we researched and their days?Read More
We are now well and truly into our Green Fingers topic and on Monday we started to design our very own birdbaths for the garden. We discussed why it was important for birds to have access to water and decided that we would give them a little helping hand by making our own miniature birdbaths....Read More
Our latest meeting will be on Thursday 23rd April at 9am in the boardroom. Please come with your suggestion boxes as we discussed at the last meeting. Mr MastrelliRead More
It has been a fantastic first week of term in Class 2! You have all returned to school with brilliant positive attitudes towards your learning which is great, let’s make this term a fabulous one! This week’s newsletter – Class 2 newsletter 17.4.15Read More
Class 6 have worked really well over a number of weeks experimenting with and writing commands on LOGO. We finished our lessons today by using the ‘repeat’ function and by writing a series of commands for a purpose (drawing letters and short words). Well done to the children for being brilliant at writing commands and...Read More
What a busy first week back we have had!! It’s been a lovely week and now the sun is shining brightly, promising a great weekend. I was very proud to show a new family around our school today because all the children were hard at work and so polite. Well done Park Grovers! Read More
We have been doing work based on the story ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ in English this week, using the ‘Top Trumps’ dragon cards designed by the author. If you could design your own dragon, what would it be called? What would it be like? Could you give its features and abilities a ‘Top Trumps’...Read More
It has been wonderful to see you all back from the holidays, Class 5, eager to start the new term! We have a lot of exciting lessons to do with our ‘Cricket and Cheese’ topic coming up, and we will be working together to become book-making wizards by the end of the term! What are...Read More
We have lots of exciting things going on next week. These include designing a miniature bird bath, investigating what is growing in our school grounds and some bike art with the lady from the “Bike it” project. So when you are out and about this weekend look out for different plants growing, birds in our...Read More
It’s the Summer term….already! Wow. Where does the time go? It’s been a super start to the week. We were all very pleased to see each other and be back in the ‘groove’. And the Grove! We have lots of exciting things planned and you really should visit our Garden Centre if you’re planning some...Read More
A huge ‘thank you’ to all of the children who helped out in Singing Assembly this week. You led the school brilliantly in our warm-up songs. What are your favourite Singing Assembly songs? Are there any other songs you’d like to sing in our school assemblies?Read More
It’s been so great to catch up with all of your news following the Easter holidays. What did you most enjoy getting up to over the Easter break?Read More
Welcome back to school Class 6 and the busy Summer Term! We have swimming, our assembly and sports day all to look forward to. Also we will be working on our fabulous new topic about Cricket and Cheese! What are you looking forward to most in the Summer Term? – Miss Land.Read More
Agenda Suggestion boxes Recap of the year AOB Minutes Suggestion boxes. Class 7: Y3 and Y4 on chairs. No room. Class 6: Art club at lunch. If anyone wants to do it. Class 5: Nets in the goal. It is too dangerous. Class 8: Y6 and Y5 have seperate plays. No. Recap of the year....Read More
This afternoon we have been writing compliments about each other in class. Who did you write about and what positive qualities did you describe about them? In this session we were also lucky enough to have a visit from our class governor Hazel Colquhoun. I hope you enjoyed your visit to Class 8!Read More
Well done to Jaimie and Tom C who have both made it through to the next round of the BBC 500 words competition! We hope to hear more news about the progress of their stories in May.Read More
Welcome back and what a busy day we have had for our first day of the summer term. We looked at familiar settings in English, writing numbers as words in Maths and practised our throwing and catching skills in PE. I think if we practise a few more times we will be able to beat...Read More
It was great to see so many parents and friends of Park Grove at the Speed Quiz organised by Park Grove PTA last week. These high-tech quizzes are created by PG parent Alan Leach and involve I-pads, picture and music clues, with subjects ranging from politics to the date of the introduction of hob nobs...Read More
I’ve received two emails from the 500 words competition to say that two members of our class are through to the next round! Congratulations Martha and Nikoo! They received over 120,000 entries and these stories have been picked – with just 3,800 others – to go to the Reading Agency for the second round of...Read More
What a busy and enjoyable term we have had in Class 5! Biscuit projects, train trips, plays, chicks and solar eclipses were all the agenda. What were your favourite moments? Have a fun, relaxing and safe holiday, and we will see you in two weeks’ time! Mr Baines, Ms Durkin and Mrs ChambersRead More
Here is this weeks newsletter, the final newsletter of the Spring term. We hope you all have a fantastic Easter break and look forward to seeing you back on Tuesday 14th April.weekly newsletter 27.3.15Read More
There is a bike marking and registration session going on at the Gillygate Pub on Saturday morning (28th March) at 11.30 am. Bring your bikes to this local community event, learn about the new Cycle Tours that are taking place from there and have your bikes marked up and registered free of charge by North...Read More
We have had a lovely few days looking at Easter. We have been looking at the Christian Easter Story, making Easter baskets and decorating our Easter tree with eggs.Read More
This week we have been looking at addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You were able to explain some of the methods you can use to find the answers to these calculations. When I have looked in your Maths books I can see you have tried very hard to find an accurate answer using your preferred...Read More
Today we found out about Annabelle’s ‘secret’ talent for singing and Tia A’s ‘secret’ talent for training and showing dogs. We really enjoyed discussing what other secret talents we might have, so I thought we’d make this a bit of a Class 5 theme… Do you have any secret talents you’d like to share?Read More
On Friday 13th March, Park Grove took part in the Peter Feasby hockey tournament at Energise sports centre in Acomb. The Park Grove team was comprised of Molly Slade, (team captain) Tomas Wormald, Katie Herbert, Martha Jones, William Gibson and Kyle Wilce. On a bitterly cold evening, the Park Grove team, who were playing competitive...Read More
Cricket Club for Year 5/6 children starts this year on Wednesday 15th April. The club will be run by Mr Barratt for 6 weeks from 3:30pm to 4:30pm. What are you looking forward to about the cricket season?!Read More
Our latest meeting will be on Thursday 26th March at 9am in the boardroom. Please come with your suggestion boxes as we discussed at the last meeting. Mr MastrelliRead More
What have been your highlights from Science enrichment day? While it was sad to say goodbye to the chicks, you all produced some fantastic bar graphs and very entertaining information pages for the life-cycle of a chicken. The day began with a very extraordinary event – a partial solar eclipse – which we were very...Read More
A hen lays 42 eggs in a month. 1/6 of the eggs are dark brown. How many eggs are dark brown? Find the answer and post its location on the Mystery Maths blog.Read More
A hen lays 42 eggs in a month. 1/6 of the eggs are dark brown. How many eggs are dark brown? Find the answer and post its location on the Mystery Maths blog.Read More
Here is this weeks newsletter. We have really enjoyed our Science enrichment day today. We loved having the chicks in school and will miss the cheeping! Thanks to Miss Land for organising for us. weekly newsletter 20.3.15Read More
I hope all of the children and staff had an egg-cellent Science Enrichment Day! I have seen and heard about lots of the activities that you have taken part in and they looked to have been such fun! Class 6 were egg-hausted after working so hard! – Miss Land.Read More
Don’t forget to look for signs of spring this weekend to help you to write your spring poem on Monday. Each line of your poem will begin with ‘Spring is…’ What can you think of to add to each line?Read More
We had a lovely morning in class 4 learning about food and then doing some cooking. We made sandwiches with a difference – we were blindfolded! We also made some fruit smoothies and rocky road.Read More
Sadly the chicks are leaving today but they are growing bigger and stronger and they need a new home. They they will get treated into a farm which will take the chicks and not look after them,but do not worry about them they are growing healthy and happy in their cage. by Freddie and...Read More
The chicks have gone ! Everyone really miss the chicks. It is sad that they have gone but the good news is they might be coming back next year 🙂 By Alexander and Callie.Read More
Wasn’t it brilliant of Miss Land to organise a solar eclipse for our Science Enrichment Day?! We’ve been carrying out lots of egg-citing chick-related activities and had chance to observe the solar eclipse this morning. What have you enjoyed most about our day?Read More
Two days later in much brighter conditions, Park Grove took to the field for their last home league match of the season against Acomb Primary School. Park Grove dominated the opening exchanges and Tomas Wormald’s early finish from a tight angle gave the home side an early lead. Jake Coulby-Ackroyd delightful finish from 20 yards doubled...Read More
On a murky Tuesday afternoon, Park Grove played back to back football away league fixtures against Lord Deramores Primary School. In the first match, Park Grove started strongly with debutant Jake Coulby-Ackroyd’s impressive performance resulting in a calm and accurate finish into the bottom left hand corner. Lord Deramores quickly equalised and despite Park Grove’s...Read More
This week we made ‘Journey Sticks’ in Forest Schools. First we found a stick and then we went on a ‘journey’. Each time we saw a new flower (there are some new spiky tulips in the forest), heard a bird, saw the sun shine we attached a new piece of material to the stick. Now...Read More
The chicks are very good but sadly they are they are leaving tommorow we don’t know where they are going. But they are leaving. The chicks are fine which is good. By Tia.Read More
I was so very proud of you all during our Class Assembly this week. You sang and acted your socks off and your costumes and props looked amazing (thank you to all of the parents and grandparents who helped out with these). Well done for speaking so clearly and with such super expression. Which parts...Read More
The chicks are all happy and healthy. They are going in 2 days and we are devestated. They are now a member of park groves family. by Reuben and OliviaRead More
We had fun looking at the chicks this morning. They all started in an egg but now they have hatched and are definitely growing! Our chick is black and called Daisy. The first adventure for the chicks was moving from the egg to their new heated home. The chicks are happier now that they have...Read More
Our final cake stall of the term is next week – Thursday 26th March, 3.15pm outside Class 3 with an Easter Cake theme. We love seeing and appreciate all of your themes and designs. We wonder what creations will emerge? As always, could you bring any bakes to the staffroom on the morning. We love...Read More
All of the chicks have hatched but three of them have failed to hatch. One of the grey ones with a black stripe down the middle is class 5’s. We had a vote for the name in class and in the end we called him Iggy . By George and JuniorRead More
Just attended a very impressive Class 7 Assembly about archeologists, Norse gods, Viking warriors, labourers and peasants, who described, in good detail, what important jobs they were all doing and how proud they were in their professions and so much more. There was great singing, speaking and acting from everyone with a lot of convincing...Read More
Unfortunately 3 chicks haven’t hatched so we decided that the last 3 weren’t going to hatch 🙁 so they went away. Luckily the other 6 are very healthy .They have been given some lovely names. They are very puffy and adoreable !!! By Ellen and JasmineRead More
It was FANTASTIC night last night at the Speed Quiz. It was great to see the hall full of people and it was sooooo much fun. It was lovely to see so many staff there who provided us with two challenging teams (especially when it came to Jedward!) – we really appreciate your support for this event....Read More
A very big well done to the newly-formed Park Grove hockey team who competed in their first tournament after school on Friday. Playing against some very experienced sides, the Park Grove team played with a fantastic attitude and achieved terrific results! Mr BainesRead More
Hi everyone, here is this weeks newsletter. Since writing the newsletter we have more breaking chick news…there are now 6 chicks! They have gone home with Mrs Stone for the weekend but will be back in school on Monday.weekly newsletter 13.3.15Read More
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