Thinking back to our topic World War II, for your next homework project we would like you to create a game involving all the facts and knowledge you have learnt about this part of history over this term. It could be a board game, a card game, a game on scratch, memory game…anything! It can...Read More
Next Week in Class 6 Next week in English we will be writing a leaflet about Eden Camp, after our visit on Wednesday. In our topic lesson we will complete our write-up on Purple Mash about bombing in York in World War Two. In our Science lesson next week, we will review our learning on magnets and forces....Read More
Whilst Year 4 went out to the theatre for their ‘Play in a Day’, Year 3 children joined Year 5 children for the day! One of the exciting activities that they did during the day was evacuation drama. These lovely photos from the session show just how well the children thought about the scenarios given...Read More
Year 4 children had a really enjoyable trip to the Theatre Royal on Tuesday. After working on lots of drama warm up activities, the children rehearsed and finally performed the play of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ to some of our parents on the actual theatre stage! What a great experience the children had! ???Read More
Each week we work really hard on our new spelling rule and in our test (assessing our learning from the previous week). Well done to all of the children who practise their spellings each week, don’t forget to hand in your spelling homework on a Monday morning so that it can be checked!Read More
Next Week in Class 6 Next week in English we will be combining art and creative writing in a fun mini-project! In our topic lesson we will continue to learn about York in World War Two. In our Science work next week, we will continue to learn about how magnets are used in the world around us. Other...Read More
Remember that your current homework project has a P.E. theme. We would like you to write and lead a short warm-up activity of approximately five minutes for a P.E. lesson related to our current hockey unit. You could use existing ideas such as follow the leader or you could make up an activity for the...Read More
Students and staff from Joseph Rowntree School came to present our Key Stage Two assembly this week. They spoke about the exciting opportunities available to children who go to the secondary school. Hopefully children in class were inspired by what they heard about Key Stage Three!Read More
The children read extracts from a diary that Park Grove Primary School kept during World War II. It was fascinating hearing about how the war affected children at the school at this time. The children took a real life event and embellished it to create their own PG War diaries! The finished booklets look wonderful.Read More
Before we start our swimming sessions, Class 6 have been working on hockey skills. This week the children learnt the sweeping pass and started to use it to pass whilst moving. This is a tricky skill to master because you have to aim to look up (to see where you are passing) and still keep...Read More
Next Week in Class 6 Next week in English we will be writing newspaper reports about The Blitz. In our topic lesson we will complete our diary writing about Park Grove Primary School during World War II. In our Science work next week, we will learn about how magnets are used in the world around us. Other...Read More
Your next homework project will have a P.E. theme. We would like you to write and lead a short warm-up activity of approximately five minutes for a P.E. lesson related to our current hockey unit. You could use existing ideas such as follow the leader or you could make up an activity for the whole...Read More
In English this week the children researched The Blitz using the key prompting words who, what, when, where, why and how. They will use their information to create a fact poster about this World War II event and eventually, write a newspaper report about it. Here are some of the children working hard on this...Read More
The Class 6 maths group had a pancake flipping lesson this week to help them with their understanding of comparative maths language. The children generated data by seeing who could flip the pancake in the frying pan the most times in 30 seconds. They then answered questions about their data back in class. Everyone had...Read More
We have been looking at the teachings of Jesus in RE this term. After hearing The Story of the Prodigal Son before the holiday, the children talked today about empathy, compassion and forgiveness. Some brave children in our class shared recent examples in their lives where they made the wrong choice. We discussed what they...Read More
The children have been working on identifying and using adverbs and prepositions in English this week. They used their knowledge to write about Lombard Street in San Francisco; a very twisty road. The children concentrated well on their writing and aimed to use adverbs and prepositions in different ways such as to explain how, to...Read More
We had fun playing with iron filings and magnets this week. The children loved looking at the shape of the invisible magnetic force field! The children also worked in small groups to complete the scrap heap challenge. They identified a pile of materials and then tested them with magnets to see if they were attracted...Read More
Class 6 maths group went outside for a lesson this week to work out a perimeter problem! The children used metre sticks to work out the perimeter of a large square on the playground. They worked together to solve the problem and did really well responding to questions about the maths they had done! It...Read More
Next Week in Class 6 Next week in English we will be looking at prepositions and adverbs. We will also be telling you about the 500 Words Radio 2 competition! In topic, we will be looking at what happened to evacuees in World War Two. In our Science work next week, we will continue to learn...Read More
Imagine a book is being written about the rights and responsibilities of the children of Park Grove Primary School. Your task is to design a cover for the book. You will need to think carefully about how you present the cover because you want people to pick up your book to read! What information will...Read More
Class 6 designed and carried out Magnet strength tests to decide which magnet in our school collection was is the strongest. We had lots of fun experimenting with paper, paperclips, cardboard and rulers! If you would like to find out which is the strongest magnet, please come and have a look at our results.Read More
Children in Class 6 wrote wonderful, descriptive war and peace poems last week. Some of the children were so proud of their poems that they asked to perform them aloud. This week we heard some of their work in a mini performance in class. Well done to our confident poets!Read More
This week the children completed a general knowledge quiz in class to enable Mr Mastrelli to choose the quiz team for the annual Quiz Club competition that some children in Key Stage Two take part in. It is a little nervewracking with the tense music in the background but the children coped well with the...Read More
Next Week Next week in English we will write a World War Two list poem. In topic, we will complete our work on the role of Women in the Second World War and look at its impact on women today. In our Science work next week, we will continue to learn about forces and magnetism. ...Read More
Imagine a book is being written about the rights and responsibilities of the children of Park Grove Primary School. Your task is to design a cover for the book. You will need to think carefully about how you present the cover because you want people to pick up your book to read! What information will...Read More
In our topic lesson this week we looked at the important role that women played in World War 2. Each table in class received a war job offer letter (roles that women actually undertook in wartime). The children then worked in groups to research the role and what it entailed. We enjoyed finding out about...Read More
Class 6 performed their class assembly on Tuesday. The children pulled together well and despite a bout of sickness in the class, managed to perform their play well. Well done for learning your lines and the songs well. A huge thank you to our parents for their help with the costumes and for bringing the...Read More
Every week children in Class 6 work on a spelling rule and then revisit it the following Monday for their short spelling test. This week the children used taught strategies to practise next week’s spellings, words from the statutory Year 3 and 4 spelling list. Children favour the pyramid technique in class! Here are some...Read More
Next Week Next week we will be starting our work on poetry writing. Please also remember to learn your 7 spellings for your test on Monday! In topic, we will be studying the Home Front and will be going on to look at the role women played during the Second World War. In our Science...Read More
For your next task, we’d like you to think about how people on the Home Front supported the war effort by growing their own food, salvaging waste or making do and mending clothing or household items. We’d like you to give a short talk about things you’ve done at home yourself that might fall into...Read More
This week in maths the children have revisited key areas of their learning so far this year. They have worked in different groups to get to grips with some of the trickier maths concepts in years 3 and 4. Here they are working hard on Wednesday morning:Read More
We had lots of props to prepare for our class assembly. Working as a team, we made everything in class this week including fish, a flag of Poland and a cigar! Look out for our props next week which really help to tell our assembly story! We also helped each other to learn our lines....Read More
The children watched a mysterious video in English with a masked man on a flying boat. They wrote a diary as the man and tried to answer all of our collective questions about who he was, where he was going and why!Read More
Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we’ll continue to read the book ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ and learn what happens to the main character Lenny. Maths In maths next week we’ll be looking at areas of maths which we need to work on including fraction of amounts and written multiplication....Read More
Thank you all for your wonderful research projects based on people who took part in the Second World War. For your next task, we’d like you to think about how people on the Home Front supported the war effort by growing their own food, salvaging waste or making do and mending clothing or household items....Read More
We started to read our new book in English! We think the pictures are wonderful and they really helped us with our descriptive writing in class. We all look forward to finding out what happens to the main character, Lenny, next.Read More
This week in our Topic lesson Class 6 learnt about the Allies and the Axis Powers in World War Two. They then read about the Battle of Britain and created a fact propeller about one of the two main British fighter aeroplanes: the Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane. The end results look fantastic! Well done...Read More
Class 6 have been busily preparing for their class assembly in a couple of weeks time. They are learning World War Two songs, their lines and working on how to act out the script. We don’t want to give much more away but here is a taster of what the assembly is about…Read More
Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we’ll start to read the book ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ and write in relation to the theme of the book, evacuation. Maths In maths next week we’ll be revisiting addition and subtraction. Reading Please remember to bring your yellow Reading Record into school so that we...Read More
Please remember that for your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know who may have been involved or lived during the war. If you choose to research a man or woman...Read More
Sirens were sounding in Class 6 this week to alert the children that they had to assemble in the air raid shelter as danger was coming! In we all went, along with our box of supplies and trusty lantern to experience what being in a shelter must have been like in World War Two. Afterwards...Read More
The children looked at a really good example of biographical writing and identified what made it so good. We hope to magpie the style of this writing in our own biographies about Winston Churchill! The children have planned their Churchill writing and we look forward to reading the results later this week!Read More
The children started their World War 2 dance unit this week. They kicked this off by expressing emotion through movement (dynamics). If successful, the other children would be able to guess which emotion children were performing. All groups managed to do this really effectively! Well done!Read More
Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we will be writing a biography about one of the British World War 2 Prime Ministers, Winston Churchill. Maths In maths next week we’ll be working on fractions and decimal fractions. Reading Please remember to bring your yellow Reading Record into school so that we can fill...Read More
Our Spring topic in Key Stage 2 is World War II. This is a fascinating topic in which many important events happened. For your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you...Read More
This week the children learnt about New Year customs and traditions in the world. They then reflected on themselves, thinking about their goals for 2017. Each child wrote what they would like to achieve, a resolution for this and how they will carry out their ambitions. Good luck to all of the children with their...Read More
Wishing all of the children and parents of Class 6 a very happy 2017! We hope that you all had a restful holiday and are ready for this busy Spring term! Well done children for an enthusiastic start to the year and keep it up!Read More
Class 6 watched the infamous Buster the Boxer John Lewis Christmas advert in English. Then, in small groups, the children wrote a story about the animals involved including the badger, fox and squirrel. They used animal facts and story prompts to help them. The children performed their short pieces of writing to the rest of...Read More
Key Stage 2 enjoyed their Christmas party on Tuesday afternoon. The morning was filled with fun Stone Age activities including cave painting. After lunch the children changed into their party outfits and costumes and took part in the ‘rock, paper, scissors’ KS2 final, pass the parcel, dancing and eating lots of lovely food. Thank you...Read More
Congratulations to the latest recipients of the pen licence certificate and badge in Class 6! Remember to keep joining up your handwriting in ALL of your work and using lead-in lines! For those children who haven’t quite achieved their pen licence, please keep practising as so many of you are really close! ? ✍?Read More
Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we will be working on Christmas activities, including drama linked to a very famous 2016 Christmas TV advert! Maths In maths next week we’ll be completing Christmas maths problems. Spellings You have been given your spellings on Monday. Please practise them at home and complete the activity...Read More
A reminder about your homework project which is due in next week… 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...Read More
Class 6 tried hard in maths this week to halve numbers including odd numbers! We realised odd numbers leave halves which was quite tricky to understand. Some of the children used cubes to help them, others used partitioning to split numbers to make them easier to deal with. Read More
We really enjoyed looking at our books in class this week and sharing our hard work with our classmates. Some of us even shared our fantastic work with our parents and grandparents! We hope our visitors enjoyed looking at the work we have completed so far this year. There will be another book sharing afternoon...Read More
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 ????⭐️Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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! Read More
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. Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
Olive and Henry (our school councillors) were the teachers in Class 6 this afternoon! They were tasked to ask children in class to help them write what polite behaviour means at Park Grove. After discussion, sharing ideas and voting, the children came up with a super list of ideas. Olive and Henry will share the...Read More
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 creative....Read More
Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we will continue to write about the character ‘Ug’. We will also use the DIG Stone Age artefacts to inspire our writing as you all enjoyed looking at them this week! Reading Please remember to bring your yellow Reading Record into school so that we...Read More
Children in Class 6 practised their dance festival routine in Key Stage 2 assembly this week. They will perform on Saturday at York University. We wish them lots of luck! The dance is really lively and fun to watch.Read More
In science this week, Class 6 learned the 3 reasons why living things have a skeleton: to protect, to support and to help with movement. The children looked at skeletons of different animals including a snake and a rabbit. They learnt about what a vertebrate is and what it means when living things have an...Read More
This week in maths, Class 6 are learning to tell the time! Lots of the children are confident and can even work out time durations! Well done! Keep practising with clocks at school and outside of school so that you become super confident with this important life skill. Read More
Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we will start to read the story of ‘Ug, Stone Age Boy’. 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...Read More
Your next project will have a Stone Age Maths theme! We would like you to write at least three Maths word problems related to the Stone Age. You can make them as challenging as you wish, however please remember that each question must make sense and be possible to answer by your classmates! In addition,...Read More
Well done Class 6 you did a terrific job working on Google this week! You created folders, word documents and some of you sent your first emails! Such a fun lesson ? Read More
The children researched what different animals eat. They realised that different animals eat lots of different types of food in varying quantities. They made a visual representation of this using a circle and different colours. Read More
Class 6 continued their gymnastic unit this week by rolling! The children practised forward rolls, teddy rolls, pencil and log rolls. Their aim was to be tucked in or as straight as possible with pointy fingers and toes. Well done to all of the children for trying so hard!Read More
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...Read More
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 LandRead More
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...Read More
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?Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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.Read More
The children have been working on netball skills in PE this half term. This week they started to learn the skills of pivoting whilst keeping one foot still, the bounce pass and shooting. Two children were super at this and many others managed to almost get the ball on target and score. Well done for...Read More
Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we will be reading the story ‘The Polar Bears’ Home’ which is linked to the current worldwide issue of global warming. We will be completing a range of English activities linked to this topic. Spellings You have been given your spellings on Monday. Please practise them...Read More
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 future of our planet. You could look at which...Read More
Class 6 completed their Pedestrian Training this week. As there were lots of road works near to the school, the children ventured to Haxby Road instead of Monk Bar to look at island crossings and push button crossings. The roads were very busy and so the children had to stay alert. Read More
The children started mindfulness colouring today in order to help them relax and be calm. They listened to chill out music whilst being creative which was soothing. Did you enjoy this activity Class 6?Read More
We have really enjoyed our first day of Health and Wellbeing week! We took part in our daily 5 minutes of activity, danced to our 10 times table song, played fun games with a sport company called AXIOM sports, made our healthy salad faces and had a fun circuit style PE lesson! Phew! Such a...Read More
Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we will be reading the story ‘Maha and the Elephant’ and will be completing writing linked to this inspiring tale. 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...Read More
Please don’t forget that you have another week to complete your homework project! See below for a reminder of what you have been asked to do: We’d like you to plan a meal using seasonal ingredients (as part of our ‘Save the Planet’ topic). Your project should be presented neatly in a way that can...Read More
Mrs Carr-Brion and the children in Class 6 completed their first day of Pedestrian Training this week. The children listened well to the information given to them and crossed the road safely. Class 6, can you name 5 things that help you to cross the road? Do you know 3 people who can help you...Read More
Class 6 took part in a carousel of sound experiments in science this week in order to answer the question ‘what is sound?’ What have you found out Class 6? Did you enjoy our super sound science?Read More
Today some of the children looked at circles and what the maths words ‘circumference’ and ‘radius’ mean. The children, many for the first time, practised using a compass to draw accurate circles. It’s very tricky making the pencil move around whilst drawing a neat curve! Well done for doing well with this piece of maths...Read More
English Next week in English we will be looking at punctuation and linking this to our current topic of ‘save the planet’. Maths In maths next week we will be looking at shape and symmetry. Spellings We sent your spelling lists home with you on Monday. Please practise your spellings over the weekend ready for...Read More
For your next homework project, we’d like you to plan a meal using seasonal ingredients (as part of our ‘Save the Planet’ topic). Your project should be presented neatly in a way that can be displayed in our class and could include a straightforward written menu, a recipe, or if you’re feeling adventurous, some photographs...Read More
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