I thought that this might be a good place for you to show off your newfound semicolon skills! Can you blog a sentence that contains a correctly used semicolon?!Read More
English This week will be learning about poems. To begin with we will read some aloud to the class and add actions and sound effects. We will also be looking at rhyming words and how to use these in a poem. Have you any animal poems at home you’d like to bring in to share?...Read More
Good evening Class 5. Apologies for the slightly later than advertised Countdown blog… Here is the latest installment: 25,5,7,8,6,4 Target: 431 Answers must be blogged by Tuesday 4th February at the latest to be in with a shout of winning a prize! Best of luck!Read More
Homework printable C7 Homework 19 Project As part of our work on Natural Disasters this term, we’d like you all to have a go at creating a world map (you could draw your own, download an outline to fill in or ask me for a copy). Your maps should include oceans, continents and European countries please,...Read More
This week we have been looking at ways to prepare for an Earthquake. If you could have an Earthquake kit to help you survive, which five items would you choose?Read More
January 31st is Chinese New Year This year it is the year of the Horse. Can you find out which year you were born in? I was born in the year of the Rabbit – you may be able to find out how old I am !! The celebrations last for many days – can you...Read More
There was a delicious smell of stirfry drifting through the school today. It can only mean one thing…. Class 1 and 2 are celebrating Chinese New Year!Read More
Hi guys, Our next school council meeting is on Wednesday 5th February at 9am in the boardroom. Please can you bring your folder, badge and hat to this meeting as well. Do not forget! Mr MastrelliRead More
As we continue our journey into the depths of winter we have been creating our our canoes and dream catchers. This is helping us really get into the spirit and hoping that Jack Frost will invite his friend, Snow, along soon. Maybe the beautiful winter sounds/music that is helping us develop our listening skills will...Read More
Hi all! Class 1 is so enthusiastic and loving making models that we are constantly in need of clean, child friendly boxes. You know the sort; cereal, biscuit, chocolate, milk cartons, esp milk carton lids/tops please!!! We go mad for junk… Thank you!!!!!!! 🙂 Read More
What a week class 1 had last week!!! Since our arrival of the fairy house and woodwork bench we’ve been getting busy outside. Hammering nails and building up a sweat …whilst creating a magical haven with streams of lush paper and jumping into a fantasy fairy land… its a wonder we found our way back...Read More
Take a look at the sports’ blog. There are some great reports about the table tennis competition and the swimming gala! Did you know that Park Grove came 3rd in the swimming gala. Well done Team PG!Read More
After some tense minutes waiting outside Mr Mastrelli’s classroom, the few contestants that were left (plus the table tennis committee) flooded into the room. Everyone was really excited to see the draw! There was nail biting, there was breath holding and most of all there was anticipation. Mr Mastrelli knows how to keep a crowd...Read More
On Friday, Park Grove’s team of 8 children (4 boys and 4 girls)set off to Archbishops Holgate school in order to compete in the Year 5/6 swimming gala. The team took off pretty strong with everyone cheering and clapping as loud as they could to support the team even more. The atmosphere was spectacular with eight schools competing,...Read More
An incredible, long awaited match between the 2 J’s! Jacob is still undefeated after beating Jordan by a very slim amount of points! Congratulations Jacob for soaring into the Semi – Finals! Jacob’s Semi – Final match will be against Jake… We can’t wait to see this, how close will “that” be?! Melo (Class 9)Read More
PARK GROVE PRIMARY SCHOOL SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA Location: The Boardroom Date: Wednesday 22nd January 2014 Time: 9am – 9:30am 1. Register of attendees. 2. Apologies. 3. Check on School Council equipment. 4. Playground equipment feedback. 5. Travel plan questionnaire. 6. 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 22nd JANUARY 2014 PRESENT Ben, Bethan, Ellen, Elliott, Fletcher, Holly, Jacob, Katarina, Katie, Mani, Manon, Miss Sawyer, Mr Mastrelli, Olivia, Rylie, Shamim, Toby and William. APOLOGIES Miss Tilbury,...Read More
Well done to all of you for your fantastic performance this morning. You all spoke loudly and clearly . The rain sticks looked wonderful and sounded just like rain! Thank you to Ms Savoia and Mrs Chambers for all their help in getting the props ready. Did you enjoy the assembly? What did your parents think?...Read More
Week beginning 27th January English We will continue to look at the layout of a non-fiction page. We will use all the facts we have learnt about rainforest animals to create our own non-fiction page. Maths In Maths this week we will be looking at different number sequences. The children will have to describe...Read More
The match started off with a tense play for serve ending with Lydia starting off to serve. After the first set ended with an 11-8 victory to Lydia, Robby was keen to display his table tennis skills! The tense second set was level at 10-10, however Lydia kept her nerve to win the set 12-10 and the match! The semi...Read More
On Monday 27th January 2014, Aidan Carey took on the whiz that is Jake Coulby-Ackroyd!The match started off with excellent play by both Aidan and Jake with both boys managing to obtain their fare share of points. Jake started to dominate though and won the first set 11-8. If I was asked to describe the...Read More
Good Evening Class 5. It’s Monday which means Countdown blog time! You have until Friday 31st January to blog your answer. Remember prizes will be given out! 75,1,2,3,7,8 Target: 931 Best of luck!Read More
Want to see a Summer Fair this year? It needs organising! The Summer Fair does not appear by magic. Bookings have to be made, the raffle has to be organised, prizes have to be collected. All these jobs can be shared. Please consider joining the team…. Email parkgroveptayork@gmail.com for more information.Read More
PTA-UK is running a special event, “Maximising your Fundraising event for Schools and PTAs”, for PTA volunteers in our region on Wednesday 29th January 2014 at Huntington School. It is free to attend but tickets have to be booked. The committee who are standing down highly recommend these events. Anyone out there fancy going along?Read More
I have realised how much all the children in class 2 like to think about things and share their ideas, so each week I thought it’d be a nice idea to have a “Big Question” to think about over the week, which can help us in our topic and science lessons. So, our first “Big...Read More
There has been great excitement in Class 1 and Class 2 this week as Jack Frost finally arrived! The children have been fascinated by the frozen leaves and water in the outdoor classroom, and by the patterns the frost made on all the different surfaces. In class the children are still enjoying the Arctic role-play...Read More
Here is the latest newsletter with some tricky -ology words to learn. Can you find some fiendish ones to share with the class? Class 8 newsletterRead More
Here is the latest newsletter with some tricky -ology words to learn. Can you find some fiendish ones to share with the class? Class 9 newsletterRead More
Class 2, Miss Sawyer and Mr Mastrelli were very impressed by our suggestions for new playground equipment which Rylie and Shamim shared at the school council meeting. They both said how imaginative and exciting your ideas were, but also how sensible your ideas were too, because you’d really thought about what all the children at...Read More
10-digit Number Puzzle The Puzzle: Find a 10-digit number where the first digit is how many zeros in the number, the second digit is how many 1s in the number etc. until the tenth digit which is how many 9s in the number. Post your answers on this blog entry and I will give you...Read More
Well done in maths today Class 6! You showed off your fantastic maths skills of reasoning, talking mathematically and organising your results in our problem solving lesson! I’ll set you a fun (non-compulsory) logic puzzle to have a go at this weekend… remember trial and error! Keep going! – Miss Land.Read More
Hello to all of the Curiosity Club members (and to those of you who are reading but are not in the club)! We had a (kind-of) explosive meeting tonight… we finally completed our volcano experiment! I won’t say anymore but will ask some of the members to explain what we did… – Miss Land. Read More
Today in our Maths problem solving lesson, we looked at strategies to help us work out a Maths problem logically. What do we mean by logic? What top tips can you remember?Read More
We spotted ‘Sage’, our little woodland friend, in the Wildlife Area again this week. She seemed very interested in our activity. We were playing ‘Colour bingo’. We saw lots of green and brown in the vegetation around us but also blue sky and some very pink noses! It was very cold. We didn’t mind though...Read More
We spotted ‘Sage’, our little woodland friend, in the Wildlife Area again this week. She seemed very interested in our activity. We were playing ‘Colour bingo’. We saw lots of green and brown in the vegetation around us but also blue sky and some very pink noses! It was very cold. We didn’t mind though...Read More
Last night we welcomed all of the Yearsley Grove staff to Park Grove for a joint staff meeting. It was a really good way of sharing good practice and learning from each other. We are all committed to getting better and better and linking with other schools is one way of doing this. A big...Read More
Well done to all those who got through to the quarter finals! Here are the results from this round: Monday: Lydia beat Amy (11-2,11-1) Reuben beat Marshall (11-4,11-6) Robbie beat Thomas M (11-5, 12- 10) Holly beat William C (11-2, 11-7) Tuesday: Jordan beat William G (11-7, 8-11. 11-8) Jacob M beat Louie (11-7,...Read More
Good evening Class 5! Here is another Countdown calculation to chew over. Remember to complete by Monday 27th January to be in with a chance of winning a prize. 100,25,1,3,2,5 Target: 378 Best of luck guys!Read More
We have been thinking as a class about what playground equipment we would like to buy with the money raised by the school council. While we cannot buy really big things like a swimming pool or a large climbing frame, there is still enough money to buy some really nice equipment to play with. We...Read More
On Monday 20th January, Lydia and Amy faced each other in the last 16 round match. It started with a tense play for serve, which Lydia won. The first set was fantastically competitive and the end result of all the hard work was: 11-1 to Lydia. The next set began with Amy’s serve and both...Read More
English In English this week we will think about alliteration and try to make up some of our own phrases. We will also use VCOP (vocabulary, connectives, openings and punctuation) to improve sentences and paragraphs about the rainforest. In addition to this, we shall write our own questions and use existing texts to find out...Read More
Week beginning 20th January 2014 English We are continuing to work on information books next week. The children have produced some fantastic work on different kinds of polar animal, which I’m sure they would love to share. I think all of use learned something new about at least one animal. We will continue to...Read More
EYFS newsletter 17th January 2014 The children have had another busy week and are still thoroughly enjoying learning about the Polar regions, as well as showing us all their fantastic ideas! This week we’ve labelled polar animals, practiced our fine motor skills by hammering nails into tree stumps, worked with a friend to do...Read More
Hi guys, Our next school council meeting is on Wednesday 22nd January at 9am in the boardroom. Bring your ideas for what playground equipment you think we should spend the Xmas fair money on. Please can you bring your folder, badge and hat to this meeting as well. Do not forget! Mr MastrelliRead More
On Friday 16th January, Ms Campbell and Mr Currie drew 8 names each out of the rather splendid tupperware box. The room was full of tension as the first name was taken out of the transparent box by Ms Campbell. As the next name was taken out of the box by Mr Currie the room...Read More
Hi, it’s Lydia from the Table Tennis Committee. These are the new round’s fixtures; I can’t wait to find out who gets through to the quarter finals! As you may know, I’m still going in the competition so I’m practicing as much as I can. Anyway, here are the Fixtures you’ve all been waiting for:...Read More
English This week we will be looking at alphabetical order and alliteration. We will be linking the two together by each writing an alliterative sentence about an animal found in the rainforest. Have a go at writing an alliterative sentence at home. Eg, Amazing Amy admired the awesome aardvarks. Can you do one including your...Read More
Well done everyone who got into the top 16! Commiserations to anyone who didn’t! The fixtures for the last 16, will be blogged very shortly! Monday 13th ...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 13th JANUARY 2014 PRESENT Ben, Bethan, Ellen, Elliott, Fletcher, Holly, Jacob, Katarina, Katie, Mani, Manon, Miss Sawyer, Mr Mastrelli, Olivia, Shamim, Toby, Travis and William. APOLOGIES...Read More
PARK GROVE PRIMARY SCHOOL SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA Location: The Boardroom Date: Monday 13th January 2014 Time: 9am – 9:30am 1. Register of attendees. 2. Apologies. 3. Suggestion boxes 4. Catalogues 5. Any other business Read More
EYFS newsletter 17th January 2014 The children have had another busy week and are still thoroughly enjoying learning about the Polar regions, as well as showing us all their fantastic ideas! This week we’ve labelled polar animals, practiced our fine motor skills by hammering nails into tree stumps, worked with a friend to do ‘tree...Read More
As you will know by now, there will be no more PTA events unless a new committee comes forward. Bookings and work on a raffle for a summer fair on the usual scale need to start by March. The retiring committee are happy to offer guidance and assistance if there are some people out there...Read More
Bags to School collections will be on this Friday, 17th and also on Friday 31st January. Please contact Janet Jacobi, classes 2 and 4, if there are any queries. We are paid by weight so the more stuff, the better! Thanks.Read More
We’ve been working hard on our written methods for multiplication and division this week. Can you blog some multiplication and division word problems for us to solve in class?Read More
I was very impressed with how well you worked in your groups today to create different shades of the paints we need. Remember if you can find any old magazines that we can use for our collage work you will need to bring them in by Wednesday.Read More
In our outdoor session yesterday, reception children enjoyed trying out real tools! We were using hammers and knocking nails into logs. We wore gloves to protect our hands and safety glasses to protect our eyes. Mr Stoner had kindly built us a new structure in the outdoor classroom. I know lots of you enjoyed using...Read More
We have been busy working on our Travel Plan over the last couple of weeks. Today the parent forum came in to say that they would help, which I am very grateful for. Look out for the travel questionnaire coming your way soon…Read More
It’s been a busy and creative start to the week for all the children in Class 2. We have been writing cold and winter poems, creating winter collages and finding out about the life of one polar animal, the penguin. Year 1 have also been learning about where the Arctic and the Antarctic can be...Read More
Another week, another Countdown calculation to chew over. Here are the numbers for this week: 25,75,8,6,5,2 Target: 341 Please submit your entry by Monday 20th January to be in with a chance of winning a prize! Well done to Isla and Mollie who were the winners from the New Year Countdown special!Read More
Homework for the first week of 2014 c7 Homework 16 v2 Happy New Year We will start a new topic homework next week. Reading Keep up the reading – particularly careful reading out loud to someone else. Remember to write in your book once a week and bring it into school every day. ...Read More
At the Christmas fair we had a great time but we couldn’t have done it with out lots of people! Mr Stoner without you we wouldn’t have the fair. Also everyone on the stall thank you as well because without you we wouldn’t have any stalls and it would be pretty dull! A big thanks to all who...Read More
Hi all, I thoroughly enjoyed marking you work about the layers of the rianforest from this afternoon. Some children had done some beautiful illustrations! The layers of the rainforest were canopy, forest floor, emergent layer and the understory; what order did these go in? Happy solving 🙂 Miss Plews.Read More
You wrote some fantastic winter poems today. Well done. Many of you wrote acrostic poems but some of you chose shape poems. My favourite line from one of the poems was ‘Frost shimmering in the moonlight’ Look out for some of your poems on our January class newsletter. What do you like best about winter...Read More
Well done everyone who got into the next 32! Commiserations to anyone who didn’t. Here are the new fixtures that will be played in this order: Monday Louie V Mani Lydia V Oliver Jordan V Oleg Reuben V George Tuesday Robby V Lucas.T Will.C V Leila Martha V Ben.B Marshall V Katie.C Wednesday Huw V Aidan Kyle...Read More
I hope you have all been learning the lines for the three songs we have worked on so far for our play! And have remembered the dance moves too! I look forward to our second rehearsal on Tuesday afternoon. – Miss Land.Read More
Welcome back! What a busy first week we have had. The children have settled back into school life quickly and have come back full of beans! This week we have read a story about Jack Frost and enjoyed creating our own icy cold pictures. The children enjoyed exploring ice and we learnt what ice is...Read More
Week beginning 13th January 2014 English We are continuing with our work on non-fiction texts, with children learning how to use features such as the contents page and index to find out information. Children will practise writing in the style of an ‘information book’, and will be doing work on labelling. Do children have...Read More
Class 2, it was so good to see how excited you were about all the new things in our classroom. You have been making really good use of the role play area, living in the igloo, making stew and using the sledge. The big blocks in the construction area have also been very popular, as...Read More
Our class has already blogged this week about all the marvellous things we’ve been doing and we thought we would share a few more little things about what we’ve done. We have been working with hair gel and shaving foam; no we’re not pampering. We are using this as a creative way to discover...Read More
English This week we will be continuing to look at non-fiction text. We will focus on the layout of the page in a non-fiction book. Look at one of your fact books at home and see how the pages are laid out. Can you find these features- a photograph, a caption, a diagram, a label,...Read More
Oh yes Class 3 we are definitely back in action! This week has been a brilliant week recapping what we know about plants and flowers, estimating, rounding to the nearest 10, thinking about what we would like to learn about a rainforest and using lots of different movements for travelling in PE. I have been...Read More
English In English this week we will continue to look at non-fiction texts. We will look at existing non-fiction texts and try to write a paragraph for a non-fiction text. In addition to this, we will practise alphabetical ordering with rainforest words and look at the layout of a non-fiction page. Please keep bringing in...Read More
Welcome back and Happy New Year! We’ve had a super time so far this week. Everyone is fresh and ready to learn. We’ve got new hats, scarves and gloves and we’ve been comparing patterns on them. We’ve even had a go at making a repeating pattern and the children were really good at this. We...Read More
Class 6 – you made some school New Year’s resolutions. I wish you lots of luck keeping them and we will help you to achieve them in any way that we can! You also made a planet New Year’s resolution because we are learning about Our World in R.E. Do you think you will be...Read More
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