Welcome to Grove Primary School

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A lovely week in Snowdrop class, we are enjoying seeing the sun start to shine! We have started to write our formal letters, including complex sentences! We have confidently been able to perform the line dance including different directions, many other adults came to watch this! We have enjoyed editing pictures within computing, changing the brightness, the contrast and many other features. We have also completed more printing within art and developed our batting skills within PE. We hope you have a great long weekend!

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⏰Attendance⏰ It is a win for Poppy class this time -a special mention to Primrose who were very close too!

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🤩Active Athlete🤩 Well done to Harry in Nursery who has been awarded gymnast of the month for his hard work. Well done Harry!

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This week in Reception, the children explored a magical world of giants, dragons and castles. They enjoyed reading ‘Shhh!’ by Sally Grindley and were inspired to design their own giant, before writing a simple sentence to describe it. The children learned all about castles, including moats, drawbridges and towers, and worked together to build castles and bridges using a range of construction materials. On Thursday, the children returned to the classroom to discover it had been attacked by a giant. They then learned about shields and designed and created their own to help protect the classroom from another attack. In Maths this week, the children have been comparing numbers up to 10. They counted objects carefully and used number lines, ten frames and physical resources to help them decide which number was ‘more than’ or ‘less than’ another.

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🌟Actives 🌟 A big well done to this week's Actives! Another week of superb learning. We have noticed so many children being role models around our school this week, using their manners and being kind to everyone in our school community. We are proud of all of you. ☀️Have a lovely long weekend in the sun everyone! ☀️

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This week in Nursery we have read 'Amazing Aeroplanes' and talked about our own experiences of flying and going on holiday. In Maths we have been singing songs to count forwards and backwards. This week we learnt the phoneme /u/ and practised writing it. In the provision we have used sponges to create pictures of the sky and drawn aeroplanes. We have enjoyed the sunshine in the garden, digging in the sand and hammering in the woodwork.

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Facebook / 28 Apr

✨A reminder to please complete the parent survey that went out via Arbor- we love to hear from our parents, this will help to inform us on our next steps as a school.✨

Facebook / 27 Apr

A fabulous week for our Speedwellians. In Literacy we identidied features of a newspaper report and we continued measuring and comparing in Maths. In PE we threw underarm and our partner batted it back using their hands. Our Geography lesson was exploring facts about Mount Everest as one of the 7 natural wonders of our world and in Science we looked at food chains in preparation for our trip to Thrigby on Thursday! Well done Speedwell - you have absolutely smashed it!

Facebook / 27 Apr

Primrose class have work incredibly hard last week. In Art they found out about mono-printing, and they showed resilience as it didn't always work the way they wanted it too straight away. In PE we have been learning to line dance. This week we are going to work on smiling while dancing as they are all so busy counting the beat, they forget to enjoy the dance. Finally in computing, we looked at how changing the colour of an image can change the mood of it. We then had a go at editing the colour of different images to create different moods.

Facebook / 27 Apr

A fantastic yet busy week in Elder last week, the children have been working super hard! In Science, we used pig hearts to help us identify and explore different parts of the heart and their functions. In Geography, we conducted field work by walking around our local area to investigate the different types of houses we could see, we stopped to conduct a vehicle count too! In PE this week, we developed our sprinting techniques in Athletics and learned how to complete a 'high catch' in Volleyball. Finally, in Art this week we used created fabric relief panels inspired by the work of Artist Jean Davey Winter. So proud of the effort and enthusiasm. Mrs Kippen

Facebook / 27 Apr

A big well done to last Week's Actives! A fantastic week of learning at Grove. We're well into the swing of Summer 1 and it is wonderful to see children so excited about their new topics. A special well done to the LKS2 cricket team who came second in this week's tournament.

Facebook / 24 Apr

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This week in Reception, the children had an exciting time when the mysterious egg finally hatched, and it was a dragon! They enjoyed listening to dragon stories, designing and drawing their own dragons and explaining what makes them special. The children also learned that dragons are mythical and compared them to real animals such as lizards. In Maths this week, the children explored weight by comparing heavy and light objects they used their hands and balancing scales to feel and see which objects were heavier or lighter. The children made predictions, tested their ideas and learned that bigger objects are not always heavier. The children used new mathematical vocabulary such as ‘heavy’, ‘light’, ‘heavier than’ and ‘lighter than’ while sorting and ordering objects by their weight.

Facebook / 24 Apr

⏰Attendance⏰ Great to see so many classes achieving 98%. But a big well done to Rose who top the chart this time !

Facebook / 24 Apr

It's been wonderful teaching in Willow this week, the children have been working so hard! In Science, we used pig hearts to identify and explore the different parts of the heart to help us to explain it's function. In Geography, we walked round our local area to investigate the different types of houses and the diversity of vehicles we could see. In Computing, we explored using Tinkercad for 3D modelling. In PE, we developed our sprinting techniques and coached each other to improve. Have a lovely weekend Willow, see you on Monday!

Facebook / 24 Apr

This week in Nursery we have read 'Flashing Fire Engines' and discussed the special equipment that firefighters use. In our Small World Area we have been telling our own stories and talking about which number to call if there is a fire. In Phonics we have learnt the phoneme /e/ and practised writing it. This week we have been using numbers in our play, trying to say the numbers in the correct order when counting. Have a lovely weekend Miss Allen, Mrs McCarthy and Mrs Fuller

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Rose Class had the best time on our trip to Thrigby Hall! The children were wonderfully behaved and we had so much fun! We loved seeing all the animals up close and exploring the tree-top walks, swamp house and much more! Such a fun and memorable adventure for everyone!

Facebook / 24 Apr

We have had another great week in Snowdrop class, the children have spoken about letters and the purposes of them, coming up with some lovely ideas as to why letters are sent. We have explored printing within art where we sketched designs inspired by African art. Within computing, the children have been editing images, including ones of themselves and changing various features of them! We have continued line dancing in PE and have developed our confidence in this both in unison and canon, we hope you have a lovely weekend!

Facebook / 24 Apr

Well done to the Year 3 and 4 cricket players, we came second and received a silver medal, the children showed great sportsmanship, cheering not only each other on but other schools too! We were really impressed with how well they tried, a super well done to Jacob who received a medal for being a player of the tournament by impressing the referees, great job everyone!

Facebook / 24 Apr

Our Speedwellians have had the best day at Thrigby Hall! We shared our scientific knowledge of carnivores, omnivores and herbivores with our parent helpers and loved identifying all the different animals. All the animals came out to say hello - especially the crocodiles! We would like to thank Holly, Paris and Jo who came to help.

Facebook / 17 Apr

This week in Reception, the children were very excited when a mysterious egg appeared in the classroom. They shared ideas about what might be inside and learned about different animals that lay eggs (oviparous) and those that are born alive (viviparous). The children drew pictures and used their phonic skills to write simple sentences explaining their thinking. They also learned about how babies grow and how we care for them. In Maths this week, the children explored capacity through fun water play. They poured, filled and emptied different containers and talked about which held more or less water. The children learned new words such as ‘full’, ‘empty’, ‘half full’, ‘capacity’ and ‘volume’.

Facebook / 17 Apr

This afternoon 🏆Ruby House🏆 had a fantastic time in the woods with Mrs Kounnas, Miss Fayers and Mrs Moore. They celebrated winning the most amount of house points in Spring 2 and had a ball! The house captains will have a meeting next week to decide what the next House Prize will be for Summer 1 - let's see who wins it!🥳

Facebook / 17 Apr

🌟ACTIVES🌟 Well done to this week’s Actives! So many wonderful things have happened since our return to school – what a brilliant start we’ve made already. Well done to everyone for your hard work this week. We can’t wait to see who else will be our Actives this term!

Facebook / 17 Apr

It has been a super first week back in Rose Class. In Maths we have been measuring length and height using objects, cm and m. In Literacy, we are reading a new story, gathering all of the facts to write a newspaper report for Peek Zoo about an animal escaping! We've had our first lessons of PE (net and wall games) and Woodlands. In Woodlands we thought about dangers to animals in the wild. In Science we used different tools to explore how animals are suited to different foods. See you all on Monday!

Facebook / 17 Apr

⏰Attendance⏰ Daisy won for the week before we broke up. It's been so great to see everyone back this week!

Facebook / 17 Apr

This week in Nursery we started out new topic 'Getting Around'. This week we looked at boats and explored what floats and sinks. In Maths we compared capacity using full and empty. In our Phonics sessions we learnt the phoneme /k/ and listened to words which rhyme. In the provision we made sea pictures, constructed with Lego and practised writing our names. It has been lovely to see everybody after the Easter holidays and we have enjoyed welcoming some new friends too. Have a great weekend Miss Allen, Mrs McCarthy and Mrs Fuller

Facebook / 17 Apr

Poppy Class!

Facebook / 17 Apr

What a wonderful first week back in Snowdrop class, it has been great to hear about all the things they have done over the break! We have started learning about grouping things by various characteristics and came up with our own ways to do this, we have also looked at African print in which children created their own small piece inspired by this. We did some line dancing for indoor PE and practiced our throwing and catching skills for outdoor PE. Have a lovely weekend.

Facebook / 17 Apr

✨Active Athletes ✨Florence has started horse-riding lessons and has received a medal and a rosette for her fabulous work, learning how to trot and doing so with confidence. It is lovely to hear how much she is enjoying being an active athlete, well done Florence!