Holly Grove Primary School

Tuesday 11 March 2025 Year 1/2 Paired Yoga Year 1/2 have extended their yoga practice by trying some paired poses! We had lots of fun doing the double boat, the roof and the lizard on the rock! Which was tricky, but lots of fun! Well done everyone for showing super cooperation and happiness torch values today!

Tuesday 11 March 2025 NSPCC Visit to Year 2 This afternoon we had some special visitors to Year 2 an amazing team from the NSPCC as part of their "Speak out and Stay Safe" Programme. We had a workshop and then we completed an activity booklet. We also got some special stickers to take home. We are going to do a bit more work in our workbooks tomorrow and then the children will be bringing these home to share with their families. Super listening skills today, great Torch Values of Respect. Well done children.

Tuesday 11 March 2025 Reception The Farm Topic We have been thinking about "The Farm". We have had to create our own farms in the school world area, as well as using our cutting skills. We have also been enjoying the role play area - where "The Vets" is! We have been caring for the animals and trying to make them feel better.

Tuesday 11 March 2025 Nursery Woodwork lesson We have been using a new tool in our woodwork lesson today! We have been using a screwdriver! We had to use lots of our fine motor skills to twist the screw into the wood with the screwdriver. We found this quite tricky, as we had to hold the wood to stop it turning around with the screwdriver! Some great problem solving in action!

Monday 10 March 2025 Year 3/4 Science -Plant and Light Experiments How does the colour of light filter affect plant growth?

Monday 10 March 2025 Year 2 British Science week 2025 This afternoon as part of British Science Week, we have been investigating height. We talked about the different factors that might affect how tall we are. Then we measured each other using blocks and worked out our class average height. Finally, we drew that height out so we can compare it with the rest of the school in assembly! Great Torch value of Cooperation in action today!

Thursday 6 March 2025 World Book Day 2025 We had a super WBD 2025! We have been hearing stories all week read by different adults from around the school. We also had our very first book swop! Which the children loved as they all got to take a new book home with them! We also gave out the WBD books which Mrs Willis collected from the shops! Today we had a lovely dress up day, where the children came in as their favourite book characters or in their PJ's for bedtime reading! We had prizes for the best outfits throughout school and there was a competition for decorating a stone as a book character/book theme. What a great week we have had!

Thursday 6 March 2025 Primitas Junior Speaking Competition 2025

Tuesday 4 March 2025 Year 5/6 Gymnastics Team competition Winners! Well done to our Gymnastics team for their amazing routines at the recent Gymnastics competition! We entered the individual routines and the group one. The girls were brilliant and showed great torch values of cooperation, respect and a lot of happiness when we won! Super work Girls!

Friday 28 February 2025 Young Voices Concert 2025 Our choir went to the Young Voices Concert at the Genting Arena and took part with loads of other schools in the Young voices concert. It was an amazing night and we had a super time. We sang and danced, enjoying seeing our parents watching us!

Tuesday 25 February 2025 Year 3/4 Science -Digestive process Today we have been demonstrating the human digestive system. We used bread in a bowl (the mouth) using scissors (the incisors), then we added water (saliva) to the bowl and used a fork to grind the bread down (the molars). The food was then poured into a food bag (the stomach) and mixed with orange juice (acid). We squeezed the bag to mimic the stomach muscles churning the food with the stomach acid. The food was put into tights (entered the small intestine) when the liquid was removed from the chyme to leave behind the faeces.

Tuesday 25 February 2025 Nursery Dough Disco

Tuesday 25 February 2025 Reception Observational Art The children in reception had great fun looking at the spring flowers and then drawing them! What great pictures! They really worked on hard on getting the colours and sizes right.

Sunday 23 February 2025 Year 3/4 ICT 3D Model We have been learning about what a RAM, Hard Drive and CPU is. We then built a 3D model to show the components inside of the computer to demonstrate their importance and significance.

Friday 14 February 2025 Year 3/4 DT Pencil Cases Year 3/4 have worked really hard on their designs for their own pencil cases in their DT topic. They had to really think about what they need to include and how to make it. They had to check their design and then evaluate how well they had followed their design. Look how proud they are of what they created!

Friday 14 February 2025 Year 1/2 Valentines Hunt Year 1/2 have been on a Valentine's Day "heart" hunt today! Mrs Fellowes kindly knitted every child a love heart! They were all hidden around the Forest School area. The children had great fun finding their very own Valentine heart x

Friday 14 February 2025 Watercolour Art Year 5/6 were working very hard on their silhouette cityscapes using watercolours. They learnt about how to mix the colours, how to not use too much paint or water. They experimented with their colours and blending.

Friday 14 February 2025 Year 3/4 Forest school session The last session of Forest schools this half term, so they celebrated by having marshmallows! We didn't even notice that cold weather! We had super fun! Torch values loads on show this afternoon!

Friday 14 February 2025 Year 2 DT Sewing What a productive afternoon we had in Year 2. We started our sewing samplers as part of our fine motor skills and as part of our DT topic. The children really concentrated hard on what they were doing and were all really engaged in the activity. We can't wait to finish them!!

Thursday 13 February 2025 Year 2 Kite Making Let's go make our Kites! What a fantastic DT lesson we had today! We used our designs and materials list: Plastic, dowel for the frame, tissue paper and cellophane for the decoration and crepe paper for the tail. We checked our final kites against our designs and were very proud of how they turned out! Once they are dry we can test them!

Thursday 13 February 2025 Year 1/2 Indoor PE In Year 1/2 we have been practising travelling with a piece of equipment. The children did really well considering this was their first lesson but the last lesson of the sequence. They showed lots of Torch Values including Cooperation and Tolerance. Well done

Thursday 13 February 2025 Valentine Disco We had a great time at the two Valentines discos! The first one was with Early Years and KS1 and the second with KS2.

Wednesday 12 February 2025 Reception Bird feeders Over the last few weeks the Reception children have been very busy in Forest schools making their very own bird feeders. They have used lots of different things in the forest school area to help them. We have talked about why we need to help the birds at this time of year. So the children were very excited to think they are helping the birds. We also made some obstacle course using the skills we have learnt. Great use of Torch Values today! Well done everyone!

Tuesday 11 February 2025 Internet Safety Week During Internet safety week will be continued to educate the children in keeping safe online.

Monday 10 February 2025 Year 3/4 Trip to Symphony Hall 2025 Year 3/4 went to Birmingham to see the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra play! They were amazing! We heard tunes from Harry Potter, the theme from Star Wars! We even went around the world and heard pieces of music from all over the world including the Can Can from France! A brilliant day!

Friday 7 February 2025 Winners of Lichfield DC Art Competition Well done to our wonderful Holly Grove winners of the Lichfield District Council Art Competition! They had to design a poster of what they love about Lichfield district! We are so pleased that we have so many winners from our school. The children's art will be produced on to boarding to be put in the city centre around the building works that are taking place! We will keep you updated of when and where you will be able to see them. Well done!

Friday 7 February 2025 Standon Bowers Year 6 2025 What a great week Year 6 had at Standon Bowers! They were involved in so many activities - which they all had a go at. They all worked hard in their squads and showed their torch values of cooperation, respect and tolerance! They grew in their independent skills and had to look after their own belongings as mom wasn't there!! Well done Year 6 you were all amazing!

Thursday 6 February 2025 KS1 trip to London Natural History Museum Year 1 & 2 visited London and went to the Natural History Museum! It was brilliant! We saw so many dinosaurs! We even saw a moving one!!! We loved looking at all the different bones and realising how big they would have been, We took part in a workshop where we had to put the bones in the right places. It was a long day but we loved it! Members of the public came up to the teachers and told them how well behaved we were! They were really proud of us x

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