Welcome to Grove Primary School

Facebook / 9 Oct

⭐ Reception! ⭐ This week, we enjoyed reading 'We're Going to Find the Monster', learning lots of new vocabulary as we went on an exciting adventure through different environments. The children used watercolours to create their own adventure maps and then added labels. In maths, we have been developing our subitising skills, learning to recognise groups of 4, 5 and 6 without counting and spotting different ways that numbers can be represented. - Mr Cook, Miss Allen and the rest of the Reception team!

Facebook / 9 Oct

Its been an exciting week in Honeysuckle. We started the week with a visit from @theanimalguyz where we got to meet and learn about some endangered animals. It was fantastic. Thank you @GroveprimaryschoolPTFA for organising it for us! We then had a lost Penguin turn up in our classroom on Wednesday, we are looking forward to finding out how he got there in our new Literacy unit. On Thursday, we walked to the church for Harvest Festival and loved showing off our superb singing! Have a great weekend everyone!

Facebook / 9 Oct

Give it a go club with Miss Rogers have been trying a variety of sports. So far we have tried football, tennis, basketball, skittle ball and then this week we turned our hand to golf, we tried putting and then made our own crazy golf courses. I wonder what sport we will try next!?

Facebook / 9 Oct

⏰Attendance⏰ KS1 are on a roll this term with now Speedwell winning. Here's hoping some of the other key stages can catch them up before the term is out!

Facebook / 9 Oct

Happy Friday from Poppy Class! We have had so much fun this week starting off with a visit from the Animal Guyz company! We also visited our local church for a Harvest Festival! The children have been working incredibly hard in all lessons this week, from character descriptions in Literacy to experimenting with shapes and line drawings in Art. Have a wonderful weekend all!

Facebook / 9 Oct

⭐Our week in Bluebell! ⭐ On Monday we enjoyed sharing the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’. After reading the story we decorated some biscuit people, developing our fine motor skills to spread the icing and add raisins for eyes and buttons. We also had a visit from The Animal Guyz where we learnt lots about endangered animals and what we can to help the animals and our environment. On Tuesday we read the story ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ we then used bricks, blocks and recycling to build our own bridges for the goats to get across the river. Wednesday we make some puppets of characters from the stories we had read so we could tell our own versions of the story, we were great at this! On Thursday we visited the woods where we read ‘Stickman’ together. We then went on a stick hunt to find sticks to build our own stick people. We then took them on adventures around the woods. Friday we read ‘Little Red Hen’ where we learnt it is kind to help our friends when they ask for our help! We then worked together to bake our own loaf of bread which we enjoyed sharing together at snack time! It was delicious! In Phonics we have worked hard at hearing initial sounds in words as well as continuing to use our robot arms to segment and blend CVC words. In math’s we looked at the number 3, what it looks like, how to represent it and how to write it. We’ve had a lovely week in Bluebell, we hope you have a great weekend! See you next week, Mrs Songhurst, Mrs McCarthy and Miss Adams

Facebook / 9 Oct

Another busy but fun week in Snowdrop, the Year 4's continue to enjoy swimming whilst the Year 3's practice their swimming, we had a visit from animal guys where we learnt lots of amazing facts and saw some awesome animals. We have looked at how computers are connected, with children exploring apps to watch how they process. We walked to the Church for the harvest festival, thank you for the donations! We all did our best smiles for the photographer and created our final pieces in art today inspired by Van Gogh, have a lovely weekend!

Facebook / 9 Oct

We’ve had a great week in Elder this week! We started off with a visit from Animal Guyz ; we got to learn about a range of different animals. In Literacy this week, we’ve planned and started writing our own mystery narratives inspired by ‘The Mysteries of Harris Burdick’. In PE, we worked together to complete an orienteering challenge using a map to find the answer to a code. In Science, we experimented with different materials to see which were absorbent, durable and flexible in order to find the most versatile material. We also finished our book from this half term ‘The Final Year’, which the children have really enjoyed – we explored other books with a similar theme in our Library slot this week. Well done for all your hard work this week Elder!

Facebook / 9 Oct

We are very proud of our Key Stage 1 children this week who competed in the ALT Football tournament. For many of the children it was their first ever time stepping onto a football pitch. They showed great determination, resilience and teamwork with the B team finishing an impressive 3rd in their league and the A team being the undefeated champions of theirs! A big thank you to Mrs Dorling and Mrs Layzell for being there to support us (and help with first aid!) and thank you to all the families for cheering us on. Please can all kit be returned to school by Monday - next week it is the turn of the Year 4 boys. #proudtobeGrove

Facebook / 9 Oct

In Oak class this week we have enjoyed building our team work and problem solving skills in PE; designing our own web pages in Computing and learning about the importance of the oceans in Geography. We also really enjoyed meeting the animals when the Animal Guyz came to visit.

Facebook / 9 Oct

Primrose I can't believe how quickly this term is flying by. This week we have looked at speech punctuation and setting descriptions in Literacy. In Science we found that magnets have 2 poles and they attract or repel each other. We loved the visit by the Animal Guyz and year 3 blew our socks off when they showed the ladies from Snape Maltings what they had been learning in their singing sessions. Finally in Art, we were inspired by Van Gogh and create our own pictures using oil pastels.

Facebook / 9 Oct

Another busy, lovely week in Rose! We loved the Animal Guyz visit on Monday and our visit to the church on Thursday was very exciting! In Maths, we’ve been learning to add numbers and understand doubles. In Literacy, we had a mystery penguin arrive at school with a note explaining he was lost. We started to read Lost and Found and have made predictions for the story. In Art, the children designed their own characters ‘The Smighs’ and thought carefully about shape, line and texture. We have some fantastic artists! See you all on Monday!

Facebook / 9 Oct

What a busy but fantastic week in Willow this week! 🤩We started our week with a visit from Animal Guyz; we got to learn a lot about a range of different animals. In Literacy we have been finalising our plans for our mystery narratives and we are super excited to start writing them next week. In PE we completed an orienteering challenge, working in pairs using a map to find the answer to a code. In PSHE this week, we were talking about personal qualities with each child writing down their own star qualities, it was so lovely to hear lots of positive conversations between the children when sharing their qualities. On Thursday, we walked to the church for our Harvest Service, I was very proud of how all children represented Willow! The children have really impressed me this week, their attitude to learning has been fantastic. Keep it up!⭐

Facebook / 9 Oct

🌟SPEEDWELL🌟 What a busy but marvellous week we have had! We started the week with a visit from the incredible 'Animal Guyz' - we all loved meeting the animals and learning so much about them. In Literacy we completed writing our story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff and were surprised by a note from a lost penguin on Wednesday! We started to explore our new book 'Lost and Found' today and made predictions based on what we know so far. We've been doubling and adding 1 digit numbers in Maths and in Science we used a classification chart to sort materials based on their properties. We designed our own characters in Art and continued our work on team building in PE. 💖A huge Thank You to those who helped to make our annual Harvest Festival church service such a success - it was a wonderful morning. Have a wonderful weekend. Mrs Ball & Mrs Clarke

Facebook / 8 Oct

🎛️Parent Workshop🎛️ Following on from our Year 1-3 workshop . We are now able to offer to Year 4-6 families all on 'Playing with Maths'. A great way to get a better understanding on how to support your children with their Maths. 19th October 1.15 - 3.15- please email the office your interest!

Facebook / 8 Oct

Year 3 were very lucky today to get a visit from Charlotte who is one of the singers for the Friday afternoon at Snape Maltings, we showed her how amazing we have been doing with all of the different songs and then practiced some more! Thank you for listening to us.

Facebook / 8 Oct

Mrs Rough and her art club children have been so super busy! Yesterday, they made some amazing lighthouses, with working lights! You will have these at home very soon, well done art club!

Facebook / 6 Oct

Active Lifestyles ✨👋 A big well done to this Active Athlete who has gained a yellow belt in karate! What a super star 🌟

Facebook / 5 Oct

The Animal Guyz @ Grove 🦧🐒🍃 What a fun day at Grove today! Our wonderful Grove Primary School- PTFA organised for the Animal Guyz to visit us, along with a bunch of their animal friends! The Animal Guyz put on two fantastic shows for us today, introducing us to animals from habitats very different to our own. They shared lots of fascinating facts about the creatures and explained how important it is to look after our environment and the animals we are lucky enough to share our world with. ✨🗺️ We hope everyone enjoyed the visit and feels inspired to look out for wildlife in our local community too. It could be as simple as putting out some water for friendly hedgehogs! A big thank you once again to our PTFA and school community for helping us raise the money to provide special experiences like this for our children. Look out for your child's fun class photograph with the animals later this week! ❤️

Facebook / 4 Oct

In Honeysuckle this week we finished reading the Billy Goat's Gruff and made wanted posters for the troll! In maths we looked at number bonds and are becoming experts at knowing the pairs of numbers to make 10. We learnt the words transparent, translucent and opaque in Science, testing and sorting materials accordingly. In Art we added texture to pictures of the Gruffalo and learnt about illustrator Axel Scheffler. We then finished the week with squash and biscuits - our reward for attendance!

Facebook / 2 Oct

⭐Another amazing week in Bluebell!⭐ This week we have been learning all about our emotions, how to name them, how they might make us feel and what we could do to help us when we are feeling a certain way. On Friday we done some yoga, a technique used to help calm our minds and bodies. As part of our learning about emotions, the children have been working to fill our class Kindness Jar. When the children have done something kind like help a friend, do a job or say something kind, a heart went into the jar. We filled the jar super quickly and the children chose having a biscuit and circle time as their reward. We were really proud of them for how well they worked together and praised each other when working to fill the jar! In Maths we have been looking at numbers 1,2 and 3 and how we can represent them with different objects. We have also practiced writing the numerals. In Phonics we have been continuing to use our ‘robot arms’ to hear sounds in words, we are getting really good at this! We have also enjoyed using instruments to copy rhythms and to explore tempo. We had our first Woodlands session this week which we loved! We explored the woods, learnt where our meeting point was, used our ‘Bunny ears’ when listening to an adult and enjoyed working together to explore the woods. What a great week! Next week we will be looking at Traditional Tales. Have a lovely weekend! Mrs Songhurst, Mrs McCarthy and Miss Adams

Facebook / 2 Oct

Another lovely week in the Primrose class. In Literacy we have started reading our new book, The Great Kapok Tree. To help inspire us, we walked around the woods listening to the sounds of nature and thinking about what it would be like if we had to cut down the woods. In Science, we had fun investigating the strength of different magnets. We found out that the size of the magnet did not affect how strong it was. In Computing, we learnt how a computer network works and how messages are passed along.

Facebook / 2 Oct

Happy Friday Poppy Class! This week we have begun looking at our new literacy book 'The Great Kapok Tree'! In Art this week, we have evaluated each others work and acted upon the feedback. It was so lovely to see the children write kind, positive comments about each others artwork. We are fantastic artists in Poppy Class! Have a lovely weekend.

Facebook / 2 Oct

Another great week in Willow this week! ⭐ feeling super proud of all the children after spending our afternoon perfecting our final pieces inspired by Hundertwasser in Art. They look incredible! The children have really captured the 7 Elements of Art and used inspiration from our artist. In Literacy we have continued immersing ourselves in mystery narratives inspired by the Mysteries of Harris Burdick. We have been looking at how a mysterious and spooky atmosphere can be created and began to use these techniques when writing our own setting description based on one of the photos. In PE this week, we took on some more team challenges in OAA, working on communication and problem solving and worked to compete against other teams to rescue items from the ‘pond’. In Science, we worked in small groups and carried out an experiment to test the absorbency, flexibility and durability of certain materials. A very busy yet fantastic week, keep it up Willow! 🤩

Facebook / 2 Oct

Feeling very proud of Elder class this week! They’ve worked incredibly hard and have been enthusiastic about their learning across all subjects. In particular, Elder have loved exploring mystery stories inspired by Harris Burdick in preparation for writing their own next week. They enjoyed using six figure grid references and identifying different symbols on Ordnance Survey Maps. In Art, we finished our final landscape drawings inspired by Hundertwasser- I am blown away by the attention to detail and the effort that has gone into these! We’ve become a fantastic team in Elder, well done everyone!

Facebook / 2 Oct

🌹In Rose this week we’ve been busy learning our number bonds in Maths. In Literacy, we’ve finished reading The Billy Goat’s Gruff and sequenced the story today. In Computing we chose tools carefully to create a piece of digital Art inspired by Kandinsky. In Art, we used our mark making skills to represent texture and produced some fantastic Gruffalo’s. In Geography we thought about what the land is used for in different areas of Townsville. We also won an extra 5 mins break time today for winning attendance again for last week! Keep it up everyone! Have a great weekend 😊

Facebook / 2 Oct

🌟ACTIVES🌟 A huge well done to this week's Actives and NumBots/TTRS winners! Teachers are so impressed with the children's enthusiasm towards their learning this term - keep up the great work everyone! ❤️ We celebrated our Year 3 (and 2) football team who went to play in a tournament at Red Oak yesterday afternoon. They represented our school beautifully. I wonder who will get to represent our school at the next one 👀 A big thank you to all of the children who have been reading three times a week at home too with the support of their loved ones. We know how important this is for our pupil's development and would love to see this continue to grow more and more. We will be drawing names for our half termly book raffle at the end of the term - keep reading to get your name in the raffles to be in with the chance of winning a free book! 🌟📖 Have a lovely weekend everyone ⛅

Facebook / 2 Oct

🌟SPEEDWELL🌟 Another busy but fantastic week in Speedwell. In Literacy we have been describing the setting and the troll in the traditional tale 'Three Billy Goats gruff', we also sequenced the story ready to retell next week. In Maths we have been looking at pairs of numbers making 10 and 20, using various methods to help us - like part, part whole model and tens frame. In PE we were pirates on the search for treasure! We had to work as a team to secure the treasure and make it back to the ship! We were very impressed with the children's communication and listening skills. We had a blast in Art - adding texture to Gruffalo pictures and learning about illustrator Axel Scheffler and in Computing we explored Kandinsky's concentric circle artwork and created our own version using the 'paintz' app. Well done for a great week Speedwellians! Have a restful weekend. Mrs Ball & Mrs Clarke

Facebook / 2 Oct

Another lovely week in Snowdrop, we have been busy publishing our autobiographies with some very awesome photos, exploring different biomes in North and South America and looked at our catching skills within PE, both with two hands and one. We have also looked at magnetic and non-magnetic materials and went into the woods yesterday to start our new literacy unit about the Kapok tree, have a great weekend!

Facebook / 2 Oct

Back in June we took part in the Monster Kickabout Day. As part of this we applied for a free set of football shirts. We were very lucky to be one of the schools who were selected for the kit. Each class then voted on which of the coloured kits they would like Grove to have and the winner was Black! Pink was a close second! This week the shirts arrived and Elder very kindly offered to model them. We think they look very smart and can't wait to wear them. Thank you Monster Kickabout