Jaimie’s story is through to the next round of the BBC 500 words competition. Well done to her and 4 others from school. This is what they said: Congratulations! A close encounter by Jaimie Farquharson is through to the next stage of 500 WORDS! We received over 118,000 entries and this story has been picked...Read More
A sad day for us to be saying goodbye to our good friend Mr Staite today!! We will miss you Mr Staite (even though we have already booked you in for after Easter). Happy holiday to all our families…. I hope it is restful and safe. Enjoy!Read More
I have just found out that Katarina got through to the next stage of the 500 word writing competition! Well done Katarina! Please let me know if anybody else got through…. You could BLOG about it here…Read More
This evening I was invited to the year 3/4 production at school and what a great production it was!!! Every child spoke so clearly and I was able to hear all the brilliant ‘punchlines’ to the jokes – and there were many! The singing was clear and the soloists did a great job! The dancing...Read More
We have had a day full of exciting maths today. We started off with a maths trail on the school field then we wrote our own stories about a ‘Remainder of one’. In the afternoon we did some maths art- making pictures using numbers. Maths is everywhere- not just in our maths lessons!Read More
Park Grove now has a Twitter account. Just search for Park Grove School and start ‘following’ us! We would love to get as many followers as possible so please spread the word…Read More
Classes 5 and 6 created wonderful lizard tessellations this morning, taking inspiration from artist Escher. If any children would like to create their own tessellations, try using the tessellation artist on mathsisfun.com. Use the link below: http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/tessellation.html – Miss Land Read More
The Year 3/4 show is amazing!! I can’t wait to see it again tonight! (Oh, and I can’t get the songs out of my head!!! What about you?) well done to our superstars!! (and the children were great too!!)Read More
Please remember to bake & buy for the Easter cake stall. The proceeds from this cake stall will be donated to the charity Parents with Cancer (www.parentswithcancer.org.uk) in memory of Diana Hodgson. Please bring cakes etc to the staff room on Wednesday. Thanks.Read More
After Easter we will be looking at stories with a fantasy setting. We have spotted lots of you looking at space related books such as Dr Who and Star Wars so we thought this would be a good fantasy setting for stories and a theme for our topic. What do you know about space already?...Read More
Unfortunately Wednesday is Isla’s last day in Class 5 and at Park Grove School! It is has been a delight having you in our class Isla .Please keep in touch through this blog and let us know how you are getting on in your new school. Good luck!Read More
Although it is approaching the end of term our class have still shown enormous enthusiasm for all our activities. Our P.E session on Friday was super. We were balancing on big body parts, our tummies was hardest as we balanced keeping our legs and feet off the ground. We used partners to help us balance...Read More
Hello everyone! We had a fun last Curiosity Club meeting! We experimented with Cornflower – it is a strange powder as when water is added to it, it behaves like both a solid and a liquid depending on how you handle it! We grabbed handfuls of the mixture and could roll it into a ball between...Read More
Our new governor Mr Wilson has set up the following question for us to answer: What primary school in York did he go to when he was a child? Please blog your responses as soon as you can. Remember there will be a prize for the correct answer…Read More
We’ve been learning some new songs. The children have been very enthusiastic and particularly enjoyed learning these because we’ve been ‘signing’ along side the singing. We learnt ‘Down by the bay’ a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed the funny lyrics. This week we’ve practised ‘Good to be me’ and ‘Three little birds’. We...Read More
Despite only having a few practice sessions, Park Grove had a terrific first half when Ava George – Roberts scored our first goal and Holly Alison did a net with a perfect swish! Then in the second half of the game ,Ava scored another fantastic goal followed by a magnificent net by Nicole Radtke. There were some...Read More
We’ve had a week filled with brilliant food in Class 8 (some of you could easily take part in the next series of the Bake Off)! What are your all time favourite recipes?Read More
What a truly magnificent afternoon, Class 8! From magic tricks to amazing musical performances, smooth dance moves to brilliant poems. Thank you all for creating such a happy classroom. What were your highlights?Read More
On Tuesday 25th March, Park Grove travelled to Fishergate Primary School for their last away league fixture of the season. In spite of the gloomy and murky conditions, Park Grove approached the game in high spirits buoyed by the positive second half display against Dunnington on Monday. The match started off quickly with Park Grove’s energetic...Read More
On Monday 24th March, Park Grove travelled to Dunnington Primary School for their next league fixture. In near perfect sunny conditions, Park Grove started slowly and Dunnington’s excellent accuracy in front of goal resulted in a 3-0 scoreline to Dunnington at half time. Park Grove showed a lot more fight after the half time break...Read More
Wow, what an assembly! Everyone was brilliant at speaking up. People at the back of the hall could hear everything you said. You all danced and sang with lots of energy and enthusiasm – the songs were very catchy! Well done to you all. You should be very proud of yourselves. Which part of the assembly did...Read More
Lilliana wrote a poem about everyone in class Hello class seven, how do you do? I’ve written this poem just for you, First on the list is Allison, Holly, She looks like my favourite dolly, Next on my list we have Sasha, Wow, she really is a dasher, Next, here, we have...Read More
What a great start to the week we had with our singing assembly this morning. The children walked into assembly beautifully, without talking and sat straight down ready to sing. They all tried their very best to sing our new songs and even did some sign language. I think that Ms Campbell and Mrs Lamb...Read More
Well done to everyone who ran a mile (or more!) on Friday. We had around 120 runners, including many parents and staff, and have so far raised over £250! It was great fun and all for a fantastic charity. We are very proud of you Park Grove! A huge thank you to everyone who helped set...Read More
Hello Year 3 and 4’s! I just wondered how you are getting on trying to find the costume items we have asked you to help us with for the play? Don’t worry if you don’t have any of the items on your list – just please let me know on Monday (24th) and we will...Read More
We have an exciting announcement about the postponed Table Tennis Doubles Tournament to announce to you all early next week! Keep reading the Sports Blog for all the latest news! The Table Tennis CommitteeRead More
Hi guys, Our next school council meeting is on Wednesday 26th March at 9am in the boardroom. Please can you bring your folder, badge and hat to this meeting. Mr MastrelliRead More
PARK GROVE PRIMARY SCHOOL SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA Location: The Boardroom Date: Monday 17th March 2014 Time: 9am – 9:30am 1. Apologies. 2. Register of attendees. 3. Meeting Mrs Helliwell. Names and introductions. What we enjoy about the School Council. What we have done so far. 4. Suggestion boxes. 5. Playground equipment update. 6. Any...Read More
PARK GROVE SCHOOL COUNCIL Chair: William and Bethan Vice-chair: Travis Treasurer: Ben Secretary: Holly Chief-bloggers: Toby, Olivia and Mani Special Project Managers: Katie and Fletcher MEETING MINUTES 17th MARCH 2014 PRESENT Ben, Bethan, Ellen, Elliott, Fletcher, Holly, Jacob, Katarina, Katie, Manon, Miss Sawyer, Mr Mastrelli, Mrs Helliwell, Rylie, Shamim, Toby, Travis and William. APOLOGIES Mani,...Read More
Thank you to those children in Class 5 who helped out with the Box Office this week. You have all helped greatly in selling the tickets for our play! We only have three tickets left for the Tuesday evening and just one left for the Wednesday evening performance! What day/s are your family members seeing you perform?!Read More
Good morning Class 5! Here is the latest Countdown calculation to test your brain this weekend. 50,2,3,4,9,8 Target: 427 Please remember to blog your answers by Monday 24th March to be with a chance of winning a prize! Well done to Betsy and Freddie who were the winners of the Week 10 Countdown!Read More
A huge well done to everyone who ran the mile tonight. We had over 100 parents and children take part and we have raised lots of money for Sport Relief. Well done.Read More
We were so delighted to see frog spawn in the pond this week. ‘Sage’ was out watching our frolics in the forest too. We spotted tulips this week and yet more daffodils ‘dancing in the breeze’. We did rather alot of digging and finished making our ‘forest badges’. The badges were made from little bits...Read More
Another successful week for the curiosity club! Today for our investigation we made a lava lamp. We used a large bottle, added some water and vegetable oil (carefully so that it didn’t go all over us!) The oil floated on top of the water. Then we added blue food colouring and an Alka-Seltzer tablet. The...Read More
It’s been a very busy week at Park Grove! There have been so many activities going on. My highlight at the moment is working with my Year 2 and Year 6 writing groups. They really make me giggle with their fantastic stories and fabulous imaginations!Read More
Spring has arrived. What have you spotted that show spring is here? Can you hear birds tweeting, see daffodils growing and what about blossom on the trees? Let us know please. Read More
In Class 2 we have been very busy preparing for our assembly on Tuesday. The children have thought of some fantastic ideas and we are very much looking forward to sharing them! Some of the children have taken home lines they will be saying in the assembly to share with you and practise over the...Read More
Wow, what a busy afternoon in the outdoor classroom today. We’ve had balancing on branches and drainpipes. Trampolining on some spare wood left in the area – thanks Mr Stoner! We even had some ballroom dancing going on. There’s never a dull moment in Early Years. Can you tell your adult what you did today?...Read More
We had fantastic fun playing hockey games in small teams today and I overheard some pretty tall tales about how you’d scored your goals! Who can come up with the most exaggerated, amazing and downright spectacular report on how their goal was scored?Read More
I’m really excited about your happiness homework projects and a great big thanks to Huw for making us all so happy with his cake today! What are you planning to bring along next week? Is it a dance, a song, a poem, a work of Art? Or perhaps it’s a surprise?!Read More
What is the most imaginative feature or character in your version of Numberland? Why not post some of the trickiest maths problems you’ve written for Alice or Harris?Read More
The Curiosity Club have had a busy two weeks involving balloons! We were engineers two weeks ago when we made tabletop hovercrafts using balloons and old CD’s. Not all of our hovercrafts floated successfully due to friction between the some of the CD’s and the tabletop. However, some of the CD’s were smooth enough and...Read More
In our Science lesson today we explored how we can change the shape and size of different materials by stretching, twisting, squeezing and bending. We also had a lot of fun making butter, changing double cream into delicious golden butter to spread on our toast! We certainly needed something to eat after all the shaking...Read More
We have been doing some investigations in science today to see how we can change different materials by twisting, bending, squashing and stretching. We then recorded our results on tables and wrote down our conclusions. Great detailed scientific recording class 4, well done.Read More
I thought you all worked fantastically in science this afternoon. You were able to discuss different materials and investigate if you could squash, stretch, twist or bend them. Some materials were a little better to work with than others! I looked at the tables you recorded your findings in and they were extremely clear to read...Read More
Good evening Class 5! Here is the latest Countdown calculation to test your brain this evening! 75,5,8,9,7,3 Target: 385 Please remember to blog your answers by Monday 17th March to be with a chance of winning a prize! Well done to Sophie and Lucy who were the winners of the Week 9 Countdown!Read More
Hi guys, Our next school council meeting is on Monday 14th March at 9am in the boardroom. Please can you bring your folder, badge and hat to this meeting. Mr MastrelliRead More
PARK GROVE PRIMARY SCHOOL SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA Location: The Boardroom Date: Wednesday 5th March 2014 Time: 9am – 9:50am 1. Apologies. 2. Register of attendees. 3. School Council equipment check. 4. Suggestion boxes. 5. Any other business.Read More
PARK GROVE SCHOOL COUNCIL Chair: William and Bethan Vice-chair: Travis Treasurer: Ben Secretary: Holly Chief-bloggers: Toby, Olivia and Mani Special Project Managers: Katie and Fletcher MEETING MINUTES 5th MARCH 2014 PRESENT Ben, Bethan, Ellen, Elliott, Fletcher, Holly, Jacob, Katarina, Katie, Mani, Manon, Miss Sawyer, Mr Mastrelli, Olivia, Rylie, Shamim and Travis. APOLOGIES Miss Tilbury, Moya,...Read More
Class 2 love riddles, and we’re getting very good at writing them! Today we wrote riddles about our favourite traditional tales characters. The children had some fantastic ideas, using lots of descriptive words. Most important of all, though, everybody remembered not to give away the name of their character!Read More
It’s all gone a bit quiet on this blog! We hope you are still reading it though. The children have been very busy of course and make us smile every day. We’re still enjoying the ‘chocolate’ playdough and the vehicles on the construction site in the centre of the classroom have led to lots of...Read More
Thank you to all who attended the coffee afternoon on Friday 7th March. As a result a new committee have put themselves forward and will be formally elected at an Extraordinary General Meeting on Wednesday 26th March 2014 at The Gillygate pub 8pm. Please come along and show them your support.Read More
Printable: C7 Homework 23 Project For your next project I would like you to come up with a way to cheer up someone up! What could you do to make someone feel better? A stunning picture that you have created or a story to read might help. How about a song or playing an instrument? These...Read More
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