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December 6, 2016

Sensational Stone Age Projects…

Friday afternoon saw each Class 8 member share and explore our latest homework projects, which were all different and creative representations of Stone Age adventures. I think everyone will agree that these were the most creative, exciting and tasty homework projects we have all shared so far this year!
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December 6, 2016

Any DJs?

Are there any DJ parent/carers at Park Grove (with experience) that could do a stint on Friday night to share the load? Please let us know if you do?
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December 5, 2016

Top Tips

Some Top Tips The Christmas Fair is on Friday. We won’t raise a good amount without lots of help/contributions. Here are some top tips on how everyone can contribute with it hardly costing a penny:  Rummage around for any unwanted presents for the tombolas Look for any unwanted/unloved quality children’s items  Could you donate any...
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December 5, 2016

What do you know about Skara Brae?

This afternoon, class 9 were given their learning objective: to research Skara Brae. But what is Skara Brae?! That’s what they had to find out! Class 9 – what did you find out about Skara Brae? What interesting facts did you research? I 
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December 5, 2016

Belonging in Class 4

In RE, we discussed what ‘belonging’ meant and which groups we belong to. Lots of us spoke about going to Rainbows or sports club outside of schools as well as belonging to Park Grove School and being part of our own families. We then wrote about this and described how it makes us feel when...
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December 5, 2016

Super Stone Age Homework!

Friday afternoon saw all of class 9 share and explore our latest homework projects, which were all different and creative representations of Stone Age adventures. I think everyone will agree that these were the most creative, exciting and tasty homework projects we have all shared so far this year! Class 9 – what was your...
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December 5, 2016

Nativity

We really enjoyed the Key Stage 1 nativity this week! Well done to the younger children in school for making us feel really festive! It was fantastic ????⭐️
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December 3, 2016

Oh Christmas Tree

Thank you Park Grove for providing this festive event so that the children could help to decorate the Christmas tree. It is always a lovely atmosphere.
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December 1, 2016

Next Week in Class 6

Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we’ll be reading the book ‘Stone Age Boy’ and completing a range of writing linked to this story. Maths In maths next week we’ll be looking at fractions and solving problems linked to this.   Reading Please remember to bring your yellow Reading Record into school...
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December 1, 2016

Homework Project

For your next homework project, we’d like you to design a poster for a Winter party taking place in the Stone Age era. Your project should be presented neatly in a way that can be displayed in our class. It should include details of when and where the party is; what is happening at the...
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December 1, 2016

Next Week in Class 5

Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we’ll be reading the book ‘Stone Age Boy’ and completing a range of activities linked to this story. Maths In maths next week we’ll be looking at fractions and solving problems linked to this.   Reading Please remember to bring your yellow Reading Record into school...
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December 1, 2016

Thank you….. but…

Thank you for all of the tombola prizes, and sweets and to the volunteers signing up on the sheet for the Christmas Fair. We still need more so do keep it all a trickling in. Just half an hour of your time helps the event to run smoothly and prevents others having to give 1hr...
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December 1, 2016

The Bronze Age

Well done to Class 6 for wonderful ideas and enthusiasm in our tricky to understand Bronze Age lesson! You were all super and tried so hard. You enjoyed touching the artefacts from the Bronze Age, especially the sword! 
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December 1, 2016

Minster Choral Performance

The children sang their hearts out at the Minster this week! They all really enjoyed the experience of singing in the Minster as it was echoey and they had to fill the large space with the sound of their voices! Well done for fantastic behaviour and for representing Park Grove so well. 
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December 1, 2016

Next week

In English next week, we will be learning about poetry and writing our own Christmas poems. In maths, we will be continuing to revise our addition and subtraction skills, particularly when using a hundred square to jump the tens and units. We cannot wait to perform our Christmas Nativity on Wednesday 7th December at 5:30pm...
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December 1, 2016

Next week 

English – We are looking at poetry and reading poems using an expressive voice. Maths – We will continue to consolidate our addition and subtraction skills. Nativity Performance. The children have been working very hard and can’t wait to show all the parents their Nativity Performance. The first performance is on Wednesday 7th December at...
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December 1, 2016

Next week

In English we will be looking at poetry. In maths we will be focusing on addition and subtraction.  The first school nativity is on Wednesday at 5:30pm and the second one is on Thursday at 9:15am. Please make sure your child brings any clothes into school that they need for the play by Monday at...
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December 1, 2016

Homework Project

For your next homework project, we’d like you to design a poster for a Winter party taking place in the Stone Age era. Your project should be presented neatly in a way that can be displayed in our class. It should include details of when and where the party is; what is happening at the...
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December 1, 2016

Next week

Next week we will be making Christmas cards in maths, reading about the Jolly Christmas Postman in Literacy and even writing a letter to Santa.
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December 1, 2016

Homework

Our homework this week is to practise the new sound ‘qu’. Have a go at sounding out the words that start with qu, you can use sound buttons if it helps you.
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December 1, 2016

Christmas Stockings

This week we have all made a Christmas stocking to make an advent calendar. There has been great cutting and sticking from everyone. We can’t wait to see the surprises that are inside.     
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December 1, 2016

Homework Project…

For your next homework project, we’d like you to design a poster for a Winter party taking place in the Stone Age era. Your project should be presented neatly in a way that can be displayed in our class. It should include details of when and where the party is; what is happening at the...
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December 1, 2016

Next Week…

English Next week in our writing we will be linking more work to our topic and exploring Stone Age houses! Maths In maths next week we’ll be looking at converting units of measurement, and in particular looking at the conversion between miles and kilometres. Other Notes Getting ourselves in the festive spirit, we will have chance to see the...
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December 1, 2016

Next week…

English Next week in our writing we will be linking more work to our topic and exploring Stone Age houses! Maths In maths next week we’ll be looking at converting units of measurement, and in particular looking at the conversion between miles and kilometres. Other Notes Getting ourselves in the festive spirit, we will have chance to see the...
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December 1, 2016

Measuring our muscles 

In science this week we learnt about how muscles work in pairs. We then carried out an experiment to find out what happens to our muscles when they contract. We measured our upper arm when it was relaxed and then again when it was contracted. Finally we recorded the data we gathered in a bar...
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December 1, 2016

Homework Project

For your next homework project, we’d like you to design a poster for a Winter party taking place in the Stone Age era. Your project should be presented neatly in a way that can be displayed in our class. It should include details of when and where the party is; what is happening at the...
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December 1, 2016

Mega maths!

What a busy maths morning we’ve had in class 9! We’ve developed our times tables knowledge, learnt about mixed number and improper fractions before finally exploring shapes with some visitors from York St John…a very mega maths morning indeed! Class 9 – what did you enjoy most about our maths this morning? Did you learn...
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December 1, 2016

Spelling 

The sounds this week are:  or, aw, al, au, 
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December 1, 2016

St Johns students

Class 2 were very lucky to have some trainee teachers visit and play maths games on Monday. They brought some fabulous resources and the children really enjoyed their learning. Here we are making shapes using different materials. 
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December 1, 2016

Is greater  than / is less than 

Using the greedy crocodile to help us we worked with numbers to find ‘greater than’ and ‘less then’.  We practised on whiteboards using building bricks before we wrote in our books. Well done Class 2 as this can be abit tricky. 
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December 1, 2016

Making clay faces

In Forest schools the Reception children made clay faces using various materials they found in the woods. Please come and have a look at them in our classroom. They are amazing! 
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December 1, 2016

Fabulous shapes…

On Thursday morning, we were very fortunate to have students from York St Johns University come in to teach us a range of shape based tasks.  
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December 1, 2016

Terrific Table Tennis!

The Table Tennis Ladder League semi-finals took place on Wednesday. After two fabulous matches, Class 8’s Reuben  will play Kian in the final, which will be played on Tuesday 6th December in front of the whole of Key Stage 2.
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December 1, 2016

Rockin Research!

This week in English we have been researching about different Stone Age artefacts. Each child wrote a formal information card about an artefact, writing as an expert!   
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December 1, 2016

Next Week

English Next week in English we’ll be working on the book ‘Coming Home’ by Michael Morpurgo which is all about a robin’s journey home for Christmas Maths In maths next week we’ll be revisiting written calculation methods and will be solving Christmas problems Spellings Please use the 10 words from the statutory word lists you’ve been given to...
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December 1, 2016

Homework Project

For your next homework project, we’d like you to design a poster for a Winter party taking place in the Stone Age era. Your project should be presented neatly in a way that can be displayed in our class. It should include details of when and where the party is; what is happening at the...
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November 30, 2016

Growing graphs and difficult data!

In our science lessons we have been exploring animals including humans, and today we explored some very scientific graphs showing the growths charts of boy and girl babies. We had to identify data from these graphs and complete a table comparing old and new growth rates. We had to be very precise with this and...
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November 30, 2016

Spellings

Spellings this week will focus on the ‘aw’ phoneme but more specifically the ‘aw’, ‘au’, ‘al’ and ‘augh’ graphemes. 
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November 30, 2016

Nativity rehearsals

The children have been rehearsing this year’s school nativity, Whoops-a-Daisy Angel. They are super excited to perform it to parents next week! 
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November 30, 2016

Exciting maths

Class 3 had some visitors this week from York St. John University come and play different maths games them. They were really well behaved and did Park Grove proud!
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November 30, 2016

Maths Workshops with Students

On Wednesday we had a great time working with students from St Johns on maths games that had been specifically designed for us.  We explored 2D and 3D shapes, used protractors and carried out a wide range of exciting maths investigations.
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November 30, 2016

History Detectives

We’ve been archaeological detectives this week as we worked in groups to investigate a model burial barrow, a photograph of a skeleton and a collection of grave goods just like real archaeologists.  We had a fantastic time deciding whether each barrow and its contents were from the Stone, Bronze or Iron Age.
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November 30, 2016

Cave Art Clay Work

We have been working with Miss Slater on Thursday mornings to create cave art style patterns and pictures on clay.  We used a range of tools to make the patterns and will be completing and adding painted decoration this week.
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November 30, 2016

Homework

Spellings this week will focus on the ‘aw’ phoneme and variations may include ‘al’ for walk, ‘augh’ for daughter, ‘au’ for haunted and a on its own for call. Also in your homework books, you could retell the story of the Polar Express using some speech marks to explain what the little boy and the...
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November 30, 2016

Polar Express invitations

In English this week, we wrote a special letter to invite other people to come on the train and visit the North Pole. To do this, we planned our ideas using bullet points and covering the key information such as the time it will set off and the food and drink served on board. We...
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November 29, 2016

How to avoid a nightmare before Christmas?

How to Avoid a Nightmare Before Christmas? The Park Grove Christmas Fair plans are going well and this year, it also features – The exciting Nightmare Before Christmas Disco (which we DO NOT want you to avoid of course). There are five of us on the PTA committee. Like everyone else, we are mega busy,...
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November 29, 2016

Minster

What a fantastic concert at the Minster tonight!! 
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November 29, 2016

Marvellous maths!

We have been continuing developing our number skills in Class 4 by partitioning numbers then using this skill to compare them by using the more than, less than and equals symbols. We had to look closely at the hundreds, tens and units and place the correct symbol in between to show which one was bigger....
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November 29, 2016

Maths Activities

This morning we had some visiting students from York St John’s university who organised some maths games for us. We all had great fun using playdough, paint and flour to make shapes.        
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November 29, 2016

Crocodiles

In maths the children have been using the <, > and = symbols to show if a number was greater than, less than or equal to another number. Remember, the crocodile is greedy and will always want to eat the largest number! 
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November 29, 2016

School Council Minutes 29.11.16

  Agenda ·         Register ·         Discuss ‘Rights and Responsibility’ feedback sheets. ·         Christmas fair – who can help and how can we get more sweet donations? ·         Introduce the need for a behaviour target from the Spring Term. ·         What should we name the attendance bears?   Minutes   ·               Rights and Responsibilities   Everyone...
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November 29, 2016

Stone Age Hunters 

On Tuesday in English we took on two different roles. Half of the class created a job advert for the role of a Stone Age hunter. The other half of the class had to write a job application for the job. We then interviewed the candidates to find a suitable person for the job. They...
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November 28, 2016

Stone Age Rockin’ Research!

Today we put our archaeology caps back on and developed our enquiry questions of the Stone Age artefacts we have been studying in class, collating all of our questions together. We researched the artefacts using a range of internet sources to find out as much as we could about them, before putting our professor caps...
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November 28, 2016

Vehicle designing

In design and technology this half term, we will be creating our own vehicles! This afternoon, we discussed what a vehicle was and listed examples such as aeroplanes, boats and coaches. We then decided if we wanted to create a car, bus, train or van and designed what we wanted it to look like. We...
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November 28, 2016

Recognising Coins

Today in maths we were thinking about coins with values from 1p to 50p. We sorted them in value order from biggest to smallest and began to think about different ways of making the same total.        
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November 28, 2016

Exploring shapes 

On Monday in maths we had teaching students from York St John play maths games with us. They were all about shape and we enjoyed learning lots of new things. 
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November 28, 2016

St John University Student Maths lesson

We were lucky to have students from St John University with us in class this week! The students taught us fun shape lessons in small groups which we all really enjoyed! We thought the lessons were very cool and fun. One group even made 3D shapes using marshmallows! Thanks to the students for teaching us...
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November 25, 2016

Next week 

Next week in English we will be continuing our work on The Polar Express and writing our own story of where the train might take us. In maths, we will be continuing to develop our addition and subtraction skills. It will be green groups show and tell next week, please bring in something that shows...
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November 25, 2016

Homework

Spellings this week will focus on the wh and ph sound in words. Please encourage your children to use these words in sentences too! 
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November 25, 2016

Cress growing 

We’re doing an investigation to see which is the best place in the classroom to grow cress seeds. We have made predictions about where we think will be best and why and we’re looking forward to finding out the results!      
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November 25, 2016

Nativity practising

We’re working hard rehearsing for our upcoming Nativity performance. Here’s a sneak preview picture of us using the instruments whilst singing along to the songs!      
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November 25, 2016

Railway museum visit 

Class 2 had the most amazing day at the Railway museum. There was so much to see and we particularly loved the Punch and Judy show. 
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November 24, 2016

Next week

English We will continue exploring our class story The Polar Bear Express using Talk for Writing. Maths We will be consolidating our counting skills using adding and subtraction. Also, we will be preparing for our Nativity Concert and look forward to sending out our invitations. Science Alongside seasonal change, we are enjoying watching our beans...
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November 24, 2016

Next Week

Next week we will be continuing with preparations for our Christmas performance, including writing some invitations. We will be continuing to think about the seasonal changes as Autumn turns into winter and we will be growing some plants to make a jungle for dinosaurs!
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November 24, 2016

Homework

Can you practise your sounds from phonics this week: z and y. Can you think of a word that ends in ‘z’? Can you think of a word that starts with y?
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November 24, 2016

Train Station

In our outdoor area today we have had a fantastic train station and ticket stand. Some children went on holiday to legoland, Scarborough and Bridlington! They were great at asking for their tickets and paying for them and then watching the views out of the window.   
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November 24, 2016

Next Week…

English Next week in English we will developing our enquiry and archaeology skills further by looking and writing about Stone Age artefacts in more detail. Maths In maths next week, we will be adding and subtracting a range of fractions! Other Notes Year 6’s, please remember your maths homework books for our Tuesday sessions. It is starting...
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November 24, 2016

Next week…

English Next week in English we will developing our enquiry and archaeology skills further by looking and writing about Stone Age artefacts in more detail.   Maths In maths next week, we will be exploring fractions!   Other Notes Year 6’s, please remember your maths homework books for our Tuesday sessions. It is starting to get very cold...
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November 24, 2016

Homework Project

This is just a reminder about your next homework project. Please imagine that you have been whisked back in time to Pre-historic Britain! Think about what you may see there and who – or what! – you may come across. Did you have any Stone Age adventures during your trip? We’d like you to present Stone...
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November 24, 2016

Money 

We have loved  finding out about different coins and their values. We tried adding coins together so we can buy some toys. It was abit tricky but we tried really hard. 
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November 24, 2016

Which one is the heaviest. 

The Reception children are finding out how to balance different objects. They have great fun deciding which object is heavier and which way the buckets will move. Great team work as well. 
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November 24, 2016

Archaeology art…

Following on from our inspiring Skype call with Kev the archaeologist, we used our own enquiry skills by examining, sketching and discussing a range of Stone Age artefacts! Class 9 – what artefacts can you remember exploring? What do you think they were used for? What questions did you ask about them?
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November 24, 2016

Next week

In English the children will carry on exploring The Polar Express. In maths we will be revisiting money. Show and tell next week will be group 4. Please make sure the children bring their reading records to school every day.
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November 24, 2016

Spellings

Spellings this week will focus on the ‘wh’ and ‘ph’ graphemes.
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November 24, 2016

Superheroes

The children have created their own superheroes and described their appearance and attributes using adjectives and similes.
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November 24, 2016

Next Week

English Next week in English we’ll be researching and writing about prehistoric homes Maths In maths next week, we’ll be comparing units of measurement and continuing with our work on data handling Other Notes Our Year 4 children will be performing at the Minster at 5pm next Tuesday.  Remember that friends and family can enter through the...
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November 24, 2016

Next Week in Class 6

Next Week in Class 6: English Next week in English we will finish reading ‘Ug’ and create our own cartoon strips, similar to the way the book is presented. Reading Please remember to bring your yellow Reading Record into school so that we can fill it in after your guided reading session. Please aim to fill it...
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November 24, 2016

Homework Project

Just a reminder… For your next homework project, imagine that you have been whisked back in time to Pre-historic Britain!  Think about what you may see there and who – or what! – you may come across. Did you have any Stone Age adventures during your trip? We’d like you to present Stone Age adventures...
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November 24, 2016

Homework Project

For your next homework project, imagine that you have been whisked back in time to Pre-historic Britain!  Think about what you may see there and who – or what! – you may come across. Did you have any Stone Age adventures during your trip?   We’d like you to present Stone Age adventures through something...
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November 24, 2016

Scientific Graphs

We’ve been creating line graphs as part of our work in science this week.  Before starting, we talked about all of the features and skills that might be needed when drawing a line graph.  We were all very pleased with how neat and well presented our graphs looked!
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November 24, 2016

Super Skype Session

In our assembly on Wednesday, we had the chance to Skype an actual archaeologist and find out about prehistoric finds.  We had the chance to ask questions about life as an archaeologist and were also able to discover lots of fascinating facts about the Stone and Bronze ages.
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November 24, 2016

Brilliant Bronze Age

We’ve started learning about the Bronze Age in our topic lessons and have been writing instructions about how to make bronze.  We’ve also been exploring bronze artefacts from our loan box and have been finding out about burial barrows.
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November 23, 2016

Homework Project…

Please remember that for your next homework project, imagine that you have been whisked back in time to Pre-historic Britain!  Think about what you may see there and who – or what! – you may come across. Did you have any Stone Age adventures during your trip? We’d like you to present Stone Age adventures...
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November 23, 2016

Amazing archaeologist!

As part of our topic, Stone Age to Iron Age, and as a surprise, the whole of KS2 had a very special Skype call today…from Kev, a real life archaeologist! He knew so much about how we have gathered evidence about life so long ago, and explained to us what evidence they had found and...
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November 23, 2016

Christmas Fair

Check out our Christmas Fair poster for all of the details and activities on offer. For the children: Santa, a Christmas disco, child focused stalls and activities. For the adults: stalls, bar and refreshments. What’s not to like?  We need though: adult and children’s tombola prizes plus sweets. Plus VOLUNTEERS
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November 23, 2016

Spelling 

The spellings for this week are the sounds ‘wh’ and ‘ph’. 
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November 23, 2016

Next Week in Class 5

Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we will continue to read ‘Ug’ and use this book to inspire us in our writing. Reading Please remember to bring your yellow Reading Record into school so that we can fill it in after your guided reading session. Please aim to fill it in...
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November 23, 2016

Homework Project

Just a reminder… For your next homework project, imagine that you have been whisked back in time to Pre-historic Britain!  Think about what you may see there and who – or what! – you may come across. Did you have any Stone Age adventures during your trip? We’d like you to present Stone Age adventures...
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November 23, 2016

Smashing science 

In science this week we carried out an experiment involving chocolate teacakes. It was our challenge to design a skeleton out of paper and straws to protect a chocolate teacake which would be dropped from a height. We observed the teacakes after the drop to find which one hadn’t cracked…..purple table won!
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November 23, 2016

Skype an archaeologist!

Key Stage 2 had an exciting morning on Wednesday when Ms Campbell and Miss Platts organised for us to Skype an Archaeologist and learn all about their role and the Stone Age (our current topic)! It was exciting talking to Kev from DIG on the large screen in the hall! We realised we actually know...
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November 23, 2016

Growth Charts…

In science this week, Class 8 have been comparing existing and new growth charts to understand and describe changes of a baby’s weight.   
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November 23, 2016

National Railway Museum Trip

On Monday we had our fantastic trip to see all of the trains because our topic is ‘Journeys’, everyone did so well at walking all the way there and back, despite the rain! We loved the workshop of Punch and Judy and seeing the royal carriages and old trains. Thank you so much to all...
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November 23, 2016

Clay Faces

In Forest schools this week we have been searching the outdoor area for different natural objects to make faces in clay. Everyone was very inventive and used lots of different objects for the eyes, ears, mouth, nose and hair.          
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November 23, 2016

Archaeologist assembly

On Wednesday the whole of KS2 had a very special assembly. We had a Skype call from an archaeologist who works at Dig in York. He shared lots of Stone Age artefacts with us and explained what his job involves. We really enjoyed this assembly and learnt so much! 
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November 23, 2016

Now That’s What I Call A Super Skype!

On Wednesday morning, the whole of Key Stage 2 were fortunate enough to have a very special Skype conversation with a real life archeologist, who works at Dig in York. He spoke about his job with a clear focus on findings from Ancient Britain, to link with our current topic.    
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November 23, 2016

Ancient Adjectives!

This week in English this week we have been learning to use adjectives in our writing. We have described characters in our class book (Ug) and artefacts from the Stone Age. 
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November 22, 2016

The Polar Express

Now that we’ve finished with Narnia, our new story is the Polar Express and we have lots of different English activities to complete over the next two weeks based on the novel. 
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November 22, 2016

The National Railway Museum

The children visited the NRM this week and had loads of fun doing so! The trip tied in perfectly with our current topic ‘Journeys’.
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November 22, 2016

Protective Skeleton Challenge!

Class 6 took part in a team challenge to try and protect a delicate item (a tea cake) from damage by designing and making their own skeletons! The children created interesting and different designs – some were tightly fitting to the tea cake, others very loose and some with layers. Team 6 won the challenge...
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November 22, 2016

Marvellous Maths Assembly!

Well done Class 8! We’re feeling so very proud of you all; you performed wonderfully this morning, were incredibly enthusiastic and showed off some magnificent dance moves! Mr Symonds and I have had a great deal of fun with our marvellous maths assembly and it was great to be able to share the super attributes of this subject in...
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