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November 7, 2016

Caring Class 9…

At the start of our new half term, class 9 discussed an important topic: how to help others who are in a new and unfamiliar situation. As Year 5’s and Year 6’s, it’s important for us to know this as younger or new children join our school and we can help them feel welcome. Class...
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November 7, 2016

Magnificent maths! 

On Monday in maths we looked at multiples of 5 and then played a game of connect four using our maths skills.
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November 6, 2016

Off to see Peake….off peak

What an amazing experience!
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November 4, 2016

Remember, Remember

Thank you for all of the bag2school bags which have been ‘trick’ling in and ‘treating’ to us to a great stock pile. The final collection is on TUESDAY next week so Remember, remember to fill and deliver your bags to the front foyer.  All instructions are on the bags (these were sent out via the...
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November 4, 2016

Urban Buzz

There is certainly a buzz going on around our field now…. the lovely, green,painted fence is looking great! Thanks Aviva and Mr Stoner! 
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November 2, 2016

Bags of Bags

Thank you for bringing in your bags for the Bag2School collection. We are creating a good pile in the cupboard. The collection is next Tuesday so plenty of time to deliver. PLEASE do check the bag though for what they accept. NO BRIC a BRAC pleeeeeease!
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November 1, 2016

Fun and Fitness

I’m looking forward to getting fit with the ks1 children after school today! 
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October 31, 2016

Welcome back!

Welcome back to Park Grove everyone, we hope you had a lovely half term break! The children have come back ready to learn and they all had lots of stories to tell us about their time off. Our new topic is ‘Journeys’ and we’re excited to find out more about how we travel around and...
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October 31, 2016

Balancing Acts

Class 6 have started gymnastics in PE. The children started their unit by learning how to safely carry the mats that we use. They then practised balances with a partner, with some proving very tricky to hold for longer than a few seconds! The children will build up their skills over the coming weeks and...
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October 31, 2016

Pumpkin Soup

It is lovely to see Class 2 back rested after the half term break and very excited about Halloween. We had great fun today reading our book  ‘Pumpkin Soup’ and exploring the characters. We thought of good questions to ask Duck, Cat and Squirrel. Watch out we are making pumpkin soup later in the week!
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October 31, 2016

How can I be a good friend? 

On Monday in PSHE we discussed what qualities make a good friend. We then created short performances on how to be a good friend in different situations. What do you look for in a friend? 
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October 31, 2016

Lines of symmetry

This week in our maths area we are thinking about lines of symmetry. We are going to use mirrors to see the reflections in the leaves. We are also using the board and the numicon to make patterns with the shapes using the numicon shapes.
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October 23, 2016

Ladder League Standings so far…

Most children have now played nine out of the fifteen group games. Here is the current table at half term of the Ladder League: 1. Kian 27 +80 2. Reuben 27 +79 3. Betsy 25 +43 4. Elliot 24 + 27 5. Oscar 21 +32 6. Henry 20 +21 7. Ben 16 +6 8. Lucas...
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October 23, 2016

Ladder League Results – Rounds 8 and 9

We are now officially half way through the Ladder League group matches. Here are the results from the last two rounds: Round 8 Kian v Oscar 11-3 Millie v Ellen 3-11 Henry v George 11-8 Callie v Betsy 8-11 Elliot v Ben 15-13 Reuben v Olivia 11-0 Charlotte v Lucas 5-11 Sophie v Junior will...
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October 21, 2016

New Starters 

The Press have published photos of Park Grove’s reception children (New starters) today. Copies will still be on sale in shops tomorrow so it’s not too late.
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October 21, 2016

Urban Buzz

Have you seen our gorgeous new green fence ready for our Urban Buzz garden? ???????????????
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October 20, 2016

Lego building

We have loved all the areas of provision in our classroom. Here we are enjoying building with Lego and love showing our modelling skills. 
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October 20, 2016

Happy Half Term!

Well done for a fab first half term Class 9. We’ve already had a busy one, and you’ve all worked fantastically so make sure you have a lovely holiday with your families and friends. I look forward to hearing about what you have been up to when we are back! Please remember that you come back...
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October 20, 2016

Perfect performances of playscripts!

This morning we have had a very dramatic morning in Class 9! Over the last two weeks we have been exploring the voyages of Sinbad, writing and perfecting our own fantastic playscripts and practising for our very own class performances…and what brilliant performances they were this morning too! Well done to every single class 9...
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October 20, 2016

Happy Half Term

Wishing all of the children and parents in Class 6 a very happy half term holiday! There is no school tomorrow as it is a teacher training day so we will see you back in class on 31st October. Miss Land
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October 19, 2016

Half term

Half term will begin on Friday 21st October until Monday 31st October. Please remember that school will be closed on Friday for a staff training day. Our new topic will be all about transport and we will also be learning about fantasy settings on the run up to Christmas! The next show and tell group...
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October 19, 2016

Frightfully good cakes! 

Thank you to everyone for your frightfully good bakes and for visiting the cake stall. Amount raised to be announced soon.
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October 19, 2016

Street art

Linked to our topic Up Our Street, we’ve been doing some of our own street work by creating colourful houses. We first drew the outline with black pens for a bold finish before using paint carefully with brushes to add colour. We’re really pleased at how effective they look!   
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October 19, 2016

Half term

Next week is half term so enjoy the break and we will see you back at school on Monday 31st of October!  Please try to read with your child as much as possible throughout the holiday. 
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October 19, 2016

Kate Lycett lanterns

The children have used water colour paints to design and paint city landscapes in the style of artist Kate Lycett
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October 19, 2016

Children Just Like Me

Class 6 talked about what is important to children in today’s world. They all agreed that things like water, shelter and having enough food is important whereas having a tv, fashionable clothes and holidays are not essential. The children created information pages about other children that live in another part of the world. Did you...
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October 19, 2016

Groovy geography

As part of our topic ‘Save the Planet’, we have been exploring parts of the world, finding out about the different continents and countries and cities within them. Today we have each focused on researching a particular country to find out about the different human and physical geographical features. Miss Platts is hoping to use...
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October 19, 2016

Mad missing maths!

Today, to stretch our knowledge and application of the formal method of long multiplication, we tackled a seriously challenging task involving finding missing numbers within long multiplication calculations. I think it’s safe to say we were all challenged! Class 9 – what did you find most challenging about this activity? What do you think you...
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October 19, 2016

Have a lovely Holiday…

You’ve worked so hard this half term and we’ve had a great beginning to the school year.  Have a super holiday with your families – we’re looking forward to hearing about everything you get up to! Ms Campbell, Ms Debney, Mrs Smith and Mrs Sellers
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October 19, 2016

Fantastic Fractions

We have been working hard on our fractions knowledge over the last couple of weeks and we’ve been investigating mixed numbers and improper fractions in problem solving teams
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October 19, 2016

School Council

Congratulations to our two new school councillors who attended their first meeting this week!  Our Class 7 suggestion box is already packed with ideas and we’re really looking forward to sharing them over the coming year…
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October 19, 2016

Keep Calm and Carry on!

In our PSHCE lessons, we’ve been thinking of ways to help us stay calm and relaxed.  We created posters of our favourite ideas which included reading a good book, going for a walk, doing some exercise and counting to 10, 20 or even 100!
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October 19, 2016

Theatre trip

Class 2 had a fantastic day at the theatre Royal taking part in a drama workshop. We acted out the story of Peter Pan, we added new characters and explored what happened in the story. Everyone joined in!  In the afternoon we watched a production called ‘ Under the Magical Moon’. The children were transfixed...
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October 19, 2016

School Council Minutes 19.10.16

Today we held our first school council meeting with our newly elected council members. Everyone looked very smart in their yellow hats and listened very carefully to how the meetings will work. A great start! Agenda ·         Register ·         Introductions ·         Photographs – individual and group ·         Allocate roles – chair, vice chair, secretary, special...
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October 19, 2016

Happy holidays 

Half term holidays – hope you all have a peaceful and restful half term. Don’t forget Friday is a training day for the staff and we will see you all on Monday 31st October. 
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October 19, 2016

Pirate Hats

We made our own pirate hats so we could defeat Captain Hook and free Peter Pan. Walk the plank Captain Hook and look out for the crocodile! 
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October 19, 2016

Happy Half Term!

Well done Class 1 for completing your first ever half term at Park Grove! We have had such a busy seven weeks and it has flown by. I am so proud of all of the progress we have made and I hope you all have a wonderful restful half term. Next half term our topic...
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October 19, 2016

Doubling and halving

There has been a big focus on doubling and halving this week and the children are beginning to recall them very quickly up to 10 (and some children beyond!)
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October 19, 2016

Happy Holidays!

You’ve all worked very hard this half term so please have a lovely holiday with your families and friends! As it is a holiday, there will be no homework set this week. Please remember that you come back to school on Monday 31st October.   With Best Wishes from Miss Clayton and Mrs Old.
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October 18, 2016

Have a Wonderful Holiday!

You’ve all worked incredibly hard this half term so please have a lovely holiday with your families and friends! As it is a holiday, there will be no homework set this week. Please remember that you come back to school on Monday 31st October. With Best Wishes from Mr Mastrelli and Mr Symonds.
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October 18, 2016

Playscripts…

After days of preparation, Monday was the day when each group finally completed writing their own playscript based on a story from another culture. Every child worked really hard and the quality and humour in each collaborative playscript was clear to see!
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October 18, 2016

‘Magical Multiplication!

This week, Class 8 have explored multiplication in different contexts. The culmination of their learning was  a task which required the children to work out the value of different letters in order for a multiplication calculation to be correct. Each pair enjoyed this challenge with good application of the rules necessary to calculate using long multiplication successfully.    
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October 18, 2016

Super Scientists…

On Monday afternoon, Class 8 used their investigative skills to find out key information about a famous scientist – Charles Darwin. Each pair produced a fact file about him using an array of information sources, with a particular focus on his understanding of evolution.   
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October 18, 2016

Theatre trip!

What a fantastic day we had at the theatre! In the morning, we completed lots of different drama activities linked to the story of Underneath a Magical Moon, such as pretending to be the characters and drawing a map of Neverland. After lunch, we then created our own pirate hats with symbols and a pirate...
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October 18, 2016

Higher or lower?

The children learnt about pitch this week in science. They thought about how high and low sounds are made using a xylophone, harp-like instruments and recorders. What did you find out Class 6?
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October 18, 2016

Forest Schools

As Autumn approaches we are finding more and more leaves on the ground in forest schools so this week we decided to work in teams to see if we could identify which type of tree they had come from. Unfortunately the rain became very heavy so we did not get to finish our search so...
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October 18, 2016

Ladder League Results – Rounds 6 and 7

Round 6 Kian v George 11 – 0 Ellen v Sophie 13 – 11 Oscar v Callie 11 – 3 Ben v Millie 11 – 2 Henry v Olivia 11 – 3 Junior v Lucas 11 – 7 Betsy v Charlotte 11 – 1 Reuben v Elliot 11 – 6 Round 7  Kian v Ellen 11 – 3 Oscar v George 11 -4 Sophie v Millie 11 – 0 Henry v Calli 11– 7 Ben v Junior 11 – 9 Betsy v...
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October 18, 2016

Journalists

In English this week we are writing newspaper reports about global warming! We started by planning our reports on Tuesday. We have thought of lots of catchy headlines including ‘warming weather’.
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October 18, 2016

ICT in maths

On Tuesday in maths we used Purple Mash to create a bar chart. We used data from the book ‘If the World were a Village’.
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October 17, 2016

Doubling

In maths today, we learnt that ‘double’ meant two lots of a number. We applied our skill of counting in 2s to double different numbers and we made sure that our answer was an even number. Some of us had to match up a double jigsaw by finding the two pictures then count the objects...
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October 17, 2016

Harvest recount

As a class we discussed our trip to St. Thomas’s church to celebrate Harvest Festival and tried to gather the events of the day in chronological order. The children then wrote a detailed recount. 
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October 17, 2016

If the World were a Village

This week in maths we are using data from the book ‘If the World were a Village’. On Monday we used cubes, coins, balls and even pasta to represent the % of each nationality in the world.
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October 17, 2016

Halloween Cake Stall

Wednesday at 3.15pm. Please bring any bakes to the staff room on Wednesday am at drop off. 
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October 17, 2016

AGM – Tomorrow at 7pm

PTA AGM tomorrow at the Gillygate pub 7pm. Come and Meet, Mingle and Munch.
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October 17, 2016

Reciprocal Reading

Class 6 have all started to use the Reciprocal Reading jobs in guided reading. The jobs are: the Big Boss, the Predictor, the Clarifier, the Questioner and the Summariser. These jobs help us to become better readers! Well done to all of the children for trying hard to carry out their roles; you’ll all get...
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October 17, 2016

Number Bonds

This morning in maths we have been using wild animals and splitting them into two groups to make number bonds. Some children even began to record them as number sentences using the symbols + and =!
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October 14, 2016

Attendance

This morning in assembly class 1 got a very exciting surprise as we had won the attendance bear for the best attendance this week in Early Years and Key Stage 1. We also have the trophy for being the class with the best attendance in September. We are so proud that everyone has been coming...
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October 13, 2016

AGM (Annual General Meeting)

PTA AGM (Annual General Meeting) The AGM is on Tuesday the 18th October at the Gillygate Pub @ 7pm.  Staff, Parents, Carers, Governors, Chickens and of course the children too are all part of the PTA by default. Everyone is welcome! Come and find out what is happening and planned for this academic year. Most...
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October 13, 2016

Ice cream sale

Ice cream sale tomorrow. Everything 50p!!
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October 13, 2016

Next week

In English next week we will be looking at editing our writing to make it even better. In maths we will be looking at doubling and halving. Show and tell next week will be held on Thursday as there is a staff training day on the Friday. It is the turn of Group 5.  Please...
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October 13, 2016

Spellings

Spellings this week will have a focus on the ‘igh’ phoneme with the graphemes ‘igh’, ‘ie’, ‘y’ and ‘i_e’.
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October 13, 2016

Mrs Honey’s hat.

We have loved our story ‘ Mrs Honey’s Hat’ by Pam Adams and finding out all the different things that happened to her hat. We acted out the story, wrote what happened and painted lovely colourful hats to decorate our classroom. 
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October 13, 2016

Next Week

Next week in Literacy we will be looking at the book ‘Mrs Honey’s Hat’ and writing labels for all of the different things she finds in it. We will be continuing to count in maths and see if we can count two groups to find the total. Please remember it is parents evening on Thursday...
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October 13, 2016

Next week

In maths this week, we will be learning about doubles, halves, days of the week and months of the year. In English we will be recounting our wonderful Harvest Festival. We will also be focussing on the story ‘Peace at Last’ and doing some hot seating to question the different characters. On Tuesday, we will...
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October 13, 2016

Spelling

The spellings this week is the ‘igh’ phomene using the graphemes ‘ie’ i-e’ and ‘y’.
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October 13, 2016

Homework

This week we are practising the sounds ‘ck’, ‘e’ and ‘u’. Can you find any words with ‘ck’ at the end of them such as sock? Have a go at saying the sounds.
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October 13, 2016

Harvest Festival

Thank you again to all of the parents who helped us walk down to St Thomas’ church this morning. The children behaved beautifully and everyone sang really well together. We hope you all enjoyed the songs, poems and stories that were told and thank you for any contributions of food that you brought.
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October 13, 2016

Underneath a Magical Moon

Wow! We all had a fantastic day on Tuesday at the Theatre Royal. Everybody walked into town so sensibly and then we began our workshop. We began to retell the story of Peter Pan and thought about all of the different characters. We even made a huge map of the island with a cove for...
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October 13, 2016

Next week.

Quick reminder – Next Friday is a training day so please don’t bring your children to school.  Class 2 are going on their theatre trip next Tuesday and we are all very excited. Please make sure you have returned your permission slip. Also, we have parents’ eve Wednesday and Thursday and you should have received...
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October 13, 2016

Spellings

This week, spellings will focus on the ‘igh’ sound in words. These may include variations such as ‘ie’ for pie, ‘y’ for fly,’i’ for kind and ‘i-e’ split digraph for time. Please encourage your children to use these words in sentences too. 
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October 13, 2016

Harvest Festival 

We had a fantastic time at St Thomas’ church celebrating harvest! All of the children sang brilliantly and made us very proud. It was lovely to come together to be thankful for all of the food and experiences we have. Thank you to everyone who came and watched or helped us get the children to...
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October 13, 2016

Addition

The Reception children worked very hard at using addition. They added numbers together to find a total and know the number gets bigger. They filled a plate full of food and then added more to find the total. Finally they wrote a number sentence. 
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October 13, 2016

Harvest Festival

Well done Class 2! You all sang brilliantly at the Harvest Festival and were so well behaved. Thank you to all parents who contributed to our Harvest Festival table. 
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October 13, 2016

Harvest Festival

The children were fantastic in the Harvest Festival this year. They sang wonderfully and recited the poem very well. Good work Class 3.
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October 13, 2016

Attendance

Class 3 had the best attendance last week so we have been looking after the attendance bear!
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October 13, 2016

Next Week…

English Next week in English we will be finishing off and performing our fantastic playscripts of Sinbad’s voyages. Maths In maths we will be exploring long multiplication in more detail and using RUCSAC to tackle word problems. Spelling Please make sure you complete your spelling homework and bring your homework books in on Tuesday for the last spelling...
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October 13, 2016

Homework Project…

Remember that for your next homework project we would like you to research recycling. This is a very important issue for the future of our planet. You could look at which materials can be recycled and which cannot, look at the impact of recycling or not recycling on the Earth or you could research what...
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October 13, 2016

Code of Conduct

In our topic lesson on Wednesday afternoon, we explored the code of conduct practised by Buddhists. We looked at the Eightfold Path and used drama techniques to further our understanding of each rule.
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October 13, 2016

Next week…

English Next week in English we will be finishing off and performing our fantastic playscripts of Sinbad’s voyages. Maths In maths we will be exploring long multiplication in more detail and using RUCSAC to tackle word problems. Spelling Please make sure you complete your spelling homework and bring your homework books in on Tuesday for the last spelling...
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October 13, 2016

Homework Project

Remember that for your next homework project we would like you to research recycling. This is a very important issue for the future of our planet. You could look at which materials can be recycled and which cannot, look at the impact of recycling or not recycling on the Earth or you could research what...
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October 13, 2016

Spectacular Shapes!

On Wednesday morning, we recalled our prior knowledge of shapes, using what we know about shapes to identify their properties and classify them. We then looked at properties of circles and calculated the diameter and radius accurately.
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October 13, 2016

Playscripts!

This week in English, we have continued exploring stories from the Arabian Nights and read the Voyages of Sinbad. Each group summarised one of his voyages and then applied their understanding of the story to create a collaborative playscript.  
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October 13, 2016

Next Week

English Next week in English we will be writing our own play scripts Maths In maths we will be working on our multiplication and division skills Spelling Please make sure you complete your spelling technique posters and bring them in to share next Thursday Other Our final Year 4 Pedestrian Training session will take place...
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October 13, 2016

Homework Project

Just a reminder about your homework project which is due in to class on the 20th October: For your next homework project we would like you to research recycling. This is a very important issue for the future of our planet. You could look at which materials can be recycled and which cannot, look at the...
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October 13, 2016

Next Week in Class 6

Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we will write our own newspaper reports! Spellings You have been given your spellings on Monday. Please practise them at home and complete the activity set in your homework books. Your spelling homework is checked on Monday too so please bring your book in then...
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October 12, 2016

Homework

Remember that for your current homework project we would like you to research recycling. This is a very important issue for the future of our planet. You could look at which materials can be recycled and which cannot, look at the impact of recycling or not recycling on the Earth or you could research what happens...
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October 12, 2016

Pedestrian Training

Very appropriately as it’s Walk to School Week, we’ve had our first Year 4 pedestrian training session.  We listened carefully, followed instructions very well and showed that we understood the green cross code
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October 12, 2016

Dramatic Moments!

This week we’ve been studying a play based on the traditional Indian story Savitri.   We’ve been analysing the play and identifying its themes, have discussed the characters and then had chance to act scenes out.  Later on, we’ll be working as theatre critics to write reviews!
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October 12, 2016

Halving, Doubling and Fractions

This week we’ve been investigating patterns when we halve and double 3 digit numbers.  We’ve also been working in groups to explore equivalent fractions
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October 12, 2016

Next Week in Class 5

Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we will be writing a newspaper report about global warming. This is linked to our current topic ‘save the planet’ and our class book ‘The Polar Bears’ Home’. Spellings You have been given your spellings on Monday. Please practise them at home and complete the activity...
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October 12, 2016

Homework Project

Here is a reminder of your current homework project: We really enjoyed hearing and tasting some of your recipes in class and hope to try a few out! Well done for exciting our taste buds. For your next homework project we would like you to research recycling. This is a very important issue for the...
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October 12, 2016

Creating lots of volume! 

Classes 5 and 6 joined forces on Wednesday for a fantastic science experiment. Children were given various items and had to work in teams to create the loudest decibel reading using the items. The children were very experimental with balloons in water, waving bits of cardboard, using two people to clash cymbals and even playing...
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October 12, 2016

Making a lot of noise! 

This week in science Miss Clayton posed the question ‘How can we alter the loudness of a sound?’ We carried out a range of experiments to find out the answer to this question. Come and look at our work to find out our results!
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October 12, 2016

Super shapes!

This morning we had to recall our prior knowledge of shapes, using what we know about shapes to identify their properties and classify them. We explored the number of sides, vertices and angles, and looked at parallel and equal sides of a range of shapes which we really enjoyed! Class 9 – what did you...
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October 12, 2016

Finding features of playscripts

To enable us to create our own perfect plays based on the story of Sinbad we explored yesterday, we first need to make sure we understand the features used to create playscripts! To do this, we explored an example in our pairs, identifying the key features and collaborating as a whole class to share these...
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October 12, 2016

Researching global warming 

During our English lesson on Wednesday we started to gather information about global warming. We used the chrome books to help us find out the information which we will use next week to write a newspaper report.
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October 11, 2016

The Polar Bears’ Home

This week in class 5 we have started doing work on a story called The a Polar Bears’ home. We have begun by reading the story and discussing what we learnt from the book. One of the main issues within the story was global warming and this is something which we are going to be...
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October 11, 2016

Counting

We’ve been doing lots of counting in Class 4 recently, particularly at the start of our maths lessons using different voices and choosing our own numbers from the 100 square. Today, we began noticing patterns in the different sequences such as how the numbers in the 10 X table end in a zero and the...
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October 11, 2016

Theatre trip

The children visited York Theatre Royal for a full day of drama and fun! They started the started the day in a workshop about the play they were going to be watching. They pretended to be pirates, lost boys, mermaids and fairies. They then watched the actual show in the afternoon and it was absolutely...
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October 11, 2016

‘The Polar Bears’ Home’ Story

As part of the ‘Save The Planet’ topic, Class 6 read a story about the plight of Polar Bears in the Arctic and how global warming is harming their home. The children summarised the story in their English lesson.
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