The 6th chick has hatched! How exciting! But it still needs naming. Hopefully class five will take the chance to name it.Now all the 6 chicks are safe and happy in the chick pen. Curiosity Club have done a great job of looking after the chicks. There are still 5 more days for the Curiosity Club to...Read More
Thank you to everyone that has bought tickets for the Speed Quiz. We will be selling them again after school tomorrow. The lovely Fish and chip man (Sea catcher on Clarence St) is so sweet and accommodating, we can add more to the order right up until 8ish so you can also pay on the...Read More
The weather is definitely changing. We turned over the huge logs Mr Stoner placed in a circle for us to sit on and discovered…… lots of living things! What a revelation! In damp, dark places we discovered all sorts of minibeasts. There were worms, ants and woodlice. It was fascinating! Read More
After a four month winter break, Park Grove’s football season resumed on Thursday afternoon with an away league fixture against Dunnington Primary School. In front of a packed crowd, Park Grove started strongly with lovely interplay between Robby Butler and Louie Powell resulting in the latter notching his first league goal of the season with...Read More
The 5th baby chick has almost hatched with help from the 4th chick. The 3 other chicks are healthy and happy in the large pen : ) We wonder what Class 2 will call their chick? Ours is called Gary (Class 6) Class 1 called theirs Daffodil which suits its colour! By Logan and Isobel.Read More
4 of the baby chicks have HATCHED !!! 2 yellow, 1 brown and 1 black. The black one is a bit of a tweeterbox as it was just born in the morning! The yellow ones like to snooze and eat but the brown gets to the food before them. 5 are still in the incubator...Read More
If you have a ‘brain’ – excellent, bring it along! If you have ‘courage’ ….. Even better for pressing that buzzer. If you have a ‘heart’ then love our quiz, like it on FB, buy your tickets and follow the yellow brick road. There is no place like Park Grove!!Read More
Egg-citing news! The first egg has hatched in the Park Grove incubator, and Class 5 were amongst the first to welcome Gary the chick into the world. We are eagerly awaiting the next new arrival!Read More
So you’ve now performed your fantastic plays on the main stage of the Theatre Royal, Year 3 and Year 4. What were your highlights from the past two days? Mine was seeing how confidently you all took to the stage and how proud you were as you took your bows at the end. Please remember...Read More
Children in Year 3 and 4 have had a wonderful experience at the Theatre Royal for their ‘Play in a Day’. The children performed ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ by Maurice Sendak. The children learnt techniques to be successful performers, rehersed and then excitedly performed their mini production to members of their families. Many children said...Read More
The first chick has been named Gary! This is after our lovely school caretaker Gary. Make sure that you go and say “hello” to him in the morning! Each class should think of a name for the remaining chicks, starting with Class 1. What will your class call its chick? – Miss LandRead More
We have our first chick! We noticed a small crack early this morning and when we arrived back from the theatre trip we had our first hatchling! A few of the KS2 teachers have decided to call the first chick Gary, after our helpful school caretaker Gary. We hope to see more chicks hatched in...Read More
When we carried out our ‘Egg Watch’ this afternoon, we were eggstatic to make an eggciting discovery; that one had a tiny crack in it. After school, we were thrilled to see that we will now be carrying out ‘Chick Watch’ as the first of the tiny chicks had hatched. We are waiting eggcitedly to see...Read More
Our Year 4 children are currently performing their ‘Play in a Day’ at York Theatre Royal and I’d like to collect your thoughts on our partnership with the theatre this year. Each class has had the opportunity to take part in some fantastic projects. Which project did your class take part in, what were your...Read More
I have been really impressed with the amount of calculations you can make up if I give you a number answer. Some children can even think of calculations for each mathematical operation, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Super number skills! Have a go at this challenge: My number is 40. What could my question be? Miss...Read More
As you all may know, Park Grove has the fortunate opportunity to be given some chicks!At the moment they are extremely small as they are still tiny eggs.Although they are small eggs now, in a matter of two or more days they will transform into lively chicks.The suspense will never stop rising until they hatch...Read More
We are going on a trip tomorrow and we do not want to miss anything while we are away! We hope they are going to hatch today in school time so we can see.Otherwise they will probably hatch tommorow! By Junior and Tia. Read More
Remember that it is the Speed quiz this Friday. Tickets are on sale after school or via the Eventbrite link (see the previous post). We need more tickets sales to make this event worthwhile. Who is in it to win it???Read More
Today our school have just received some new … CHICKS! We have exactly nine eggs all different colours in a small incubator, outside class 5. All of the chicks have different mothers, but they are all around the same age. Unfortunately once they have all grown up we will have to give them away to...Read More
It was fantastic to see everyone dressed in the costumes of their favourite book characters and sharing stories with the children from Class 1! Today we have been doing some follow-up work on drawing in the style of fantasy illustrator Chris Riddell. What were your highlights from the last 2 days? Did you have a...Read More
Park Grove took two eager teams to the yearly tournament at Joseph Rowntree School. Ava was the captain for Team L and Elly was captain for Team M. Team L started by playing New Earswick Primary and pleasingly won 2-1. A great start and promising form shown from all of the players, particularly in defence....Read More
Here is our class newsletter for this week, it has been a busy week in class 1. We have loved our new witches cottage, thanks to Mr Stoner for building it for us! weekly newsletter 6.3.15Read More
Clock Work Challenge We worked in pairs to create a wind up toy. We used a cotton reel ,blue tack ,elastic bands , matchsticks and sellotape to make our toy. First we put an elastic band through the centre of a cotton reel. We then put half a matchstick through one end of the elastic...Read More
We had a wonderful World Book Day and you wore some utterly fantastic costumes! If you could have a fictional character join our class, who would it be and why?Read More
Not only are we running a state of the art Speed Quiz night (thank you Alan Leach), but we also have a cracking booking system on offer for tickets – credit cards accepted!! Thank you to all of those who have booked already, tickets are selling fast and so ‘speed’ is of the essence! Although...Read More
We had a fabulous day dressing up as lots of different book characters. We started with a catwalk parade, then did some buddy reading with class 9 and then thi afternoon we did an experiment to find out which material made the best wall for the little pigs’ houses. What did you enjoy about...Read More
This week we went on a texture trail. We used our sense of touch to explore and find as many different textures as we could. We looked at tree bark and discovered that some bark is quite smooth but other trees have very coarse, bumpy, sharp bark. We found the same with leaves. Evergreen leaves...Read More
What a fantastic day Class 8! We got a fabulous tour around the theatre, wrote radio adverts full of reasons for coming to the theatre and played many fun and exciting drama games. What do you enjoy about the day? What did you learn?Read More
Wow! Yesterday’s assembly blew us both away! You were all fantastic, remembering all your lines and actions perfectly. It was lovely to see so many adults come along to watch – Miss Sawyer thinks it might be record number of adults at a class assembly! You will also be pleased to hear that the other...Read More
I am really looking forward to seeing your costumes for World Book Day! We will be doing lots of fun activities with a costume parade, book based science investigation and buddy reading. I hope you are excited as I am! Miss Plews.Read More
What a fabulous assembly from Class 2 this morning. There was an audience full of mums and dads…. I’ve never seen the hall so full!!! The children were fantastic!!! Well done children! Read More
Well done Class 4 for being great investigators. Today you worked in pairs to investigate whether cereal which appealed to children had lots of sugar in. We found out that it did with Frosties having the highest amount of sugar in. Have a look at your cereal at home to see how much sugar per...Read More
Congratulations to our Happy Handwriting winners – Ella and Bailey! You both produced beautiful handwriting during the last week of last half term and thoroughly deserved your handwriting prizes yesterday. – Miss Land.Read More
Agenda Read nose day update Suggestions for fair money Suggestion boxes Any other business Red nose day Red nose day will be held on Friday 13th March and everyone is to wear red clothing (optional).Nikoo has sent out a letter to parents giving you all the information needed. Suggestions for money: Save up for iPads Shin-pads...Read More
The temperature on Monday was -4°C. On Tuesday the temperature had dropped by 8°C. What was the temperature on Tuesday? Find the answer and blog its location in either Class 5 or Class 6 by Friday 6th March.Read More
The temperature on Monday was -4°C. On Tuesday the temperature had dropped by 8°C. What was the temperature on Tuesday? Find the answer and blog its location in either Class 5 or Class 6 by Friday 6th March.Read More
Here is this weeks newsletter. We really enjoyed joining in with the whole school handwriting celebration assembly today, well done to our two prize winners!weekly newsletter 27.2.15Read More
Wow! what a busy first week back we have had! We have been so impressed at how hard you all have been working on our class assembly this week. We hope that you are all excited about performing it on Tuesday! We know that we cannot wait to see the proud faces of your parents...Read More
The children started to work on a bridge building task this week. Their aim is to build a bridge using paper and sticky tape that will be as strong as possible, not sway and will look attractive. The children have put a lot of effort into the task so far and we have decided to...Read More
Today in Class 5 we have been having a grate time learning about homophones. We wrote some imaginative and hilarious riddles using homophones and tested them on each other. Which were your favourites?Read More
We all had such fun in our fantastic Viking-based drama workshop on Tuesday! How did you feel acting in role using the masks? What was your favourite memory of the day?Read More
It has been fantastic reading and listening to all the excellent entries for the 500 word competition. Which story did you listen to? What did you enjoy about it?Read More
We started the week with a ‘Circle time’. Four circles actually! We had a good discussion, speaking and listening to each other and hearing about our week away from school. You’ve travelled far and wide (lots to Scarborough) and it was great to learn about your adventures. Lots of you had spent a good deal of...Read More
QUESTION? Who likes quizzes? ANSWER – look out for the details about the PTA speed quiz evening on Friday 13th March to be held at School. This could be your lucky night! We will need teams of six people so let the ‘team touting tactics’ commence.Read More
We have started our rehearsals for our class assembly. We have held auditions and written the script, we even had time for a first run through! It was a very busy afternoon and we cannot wait to perform it to everyone on Tuesday.Read More
Well done to the children who managed to finish and give me their entry for the Radio 2 500 Words short story competition. I have submitted them all now and I wish you good luck! – Miss Land.Read More
We have had a very busy start to the half term with doing lots of division in maths. We have practised sharing, grouping and using repeated addition along an empty number line to find the correct answers. The children gave a cheer when I told them we would be applying these skills to division word...Read More
We’ve started our new topic by writing some poems. You were really good at rhyming today. We’re going to look at alliteration next where most words begin with the same letter. Tongue twisters do this. Can you make one up? Here is a well known one. She sells sea shells on the sea shore....Read More
Our latest meeting will be on Wednesday 25th February at 9am in the boardroom. Please come with your suggestion boxes as we discussed at the last meeting. Mr MastrelliRead More
I hope you all had a good rest. I’m looking forward to seeing you all for the second half of the spring term. Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun?!Read More
Please remember that Country Dancing Club for Year 3 children starts on Monday 23rd February. I hope all of you who have joined this club are very excited. Read More
Please remember that Netball Club for Year 5/6 children re-starts on Monday 23rd February. I hope everyone is excited to be playing Netball again! What do you enjoy about Netball?!Read More
It has been fantastic reading all the excellent entries that you have sent me over half term for the 500 word competition. What is your story about? Which steps to success (that we created as a class) do you think you have used successfully? Remember the deadline to enter is Tuesday 24th March!Read More
On Monday we will be talking about what breakfast you have eaten that morning so make sure you have a good one. Over the weekend may be you could keep a note of what you have eaten for breakfast and bring it in to show us.Read More
Hello Class 5, I hope you’ve all had a nice start to your half-term holiday. It’d be great to find out how you’re getting on with your 500 words stories, if you’ve decided to enter the competition. If you need some inspiration, here is the website again… http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00rfvk1 Happy writing Mr BainesRead More
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