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• Friday 18 July 2025 Goodbye Year 6! 2025
• Friday 18 July 2025 Sports Stars 2025 We have been very fortunate this year with our sports teams! We have competed in so many different competitions and won quite a lot of them. Well done to everyone who has represented the school this year!
• Friday 18 July 2025 Goodbye Mrs Taylor! A sad goodbye to Mrs Taylor who leaves us today! We are really going to miss her! Mrs Sutton is stepping into her role as PE leader in September.
• Friday 18 July 2025 The Astle Award 2025 A massive well done to Archie for being awarded the Astle Award. This award is named after Mrs Astle who was a past member of the Holly Grove staff family. She is sadly no longer with us but this award lives on in her memory.
• Friday 18 July 2025 Summer Rotary Child 2025 A huge well done to Oliver who was awarded the Rotary Award for his outstanding effort and achievements over this past year. He has worked so hard and we are all very proud of him.
• Friday 18 July 2025 Summer Holly Grove Festival on the Field This morning we had a great time celebrating our amazing students and the school year. It was our summer festival on the field with face painting, a bouncy castle, ice creams, dancing, football and enjoying ourselves with our friends. What a super end to the year!!
• Thursday 17 July 2025 Charity Children We have had some very resourceful and caring children who have not only just thought something was sad but decided to actually do something about it.
• Wednesday 16 July 2025 Year 6 Leavers Party 2025 Our traditional Year 6 Leavers lunch party was today! They had a brilliant time! It was very noisy, there was lots of laughter, singing, dancing and of course eating! Thank you to the lunchtime staff for our lovely lunch.
• Wednesday 16 July 2025 Rock Steady Parent Concert 2025 We had our first Rock Steady Concert in the school today. They have only been learning their new instruments for a term. Their confidence was through the roof! They performed with such enjoyment and style! The audience (the school children and their parents) really enjoyed the concert! There was lots of clapping and cheering for them. Well done Rock Stars! We can't wait to see you next year..
• Friday 11 July 2025 Year 6 gladiators last session 2025 This was the last session of the Year 6 Reading Gladiators! We have read some brilliant books this year and had some really interesting discussions. We read a variety of books but two of our favourites were "The Way Past Winter" by by Kiran Millward-Hargrave was one we really enjoyed. "Rebound" by Kwame Alexander was also one of our favourites. This was a very different book as it is written completely in verse.
• Thursday 10 July 2025 Summer Disco 2025 We had two brilliant disco's after school. Lots of laughter and lots of super dance moves! The children and staff had a super time! Some very loud singing at times! Luckily we aren't too close to houses!! A super time was had by all x
• Friday 6 June 2025 Reception Forest School Knot tying In reception we have been learning how to tie some knots and then found as many different places to tie a knot! The determination and achievement of the children was amazing! Well done Reception!
• Friday 6 June 2025 Dickens Week 2025 As part of our Charles Dickens Week, Lichfield Garrick Theatre have been in school doing some workshops with all of our children based on the works of Dickens. All the children from Reception to Year 6 will take part in a workshop to really bring the words of Dickens to life! A huge thank you to the Garrick and all their staff for supporting our week. The children have really enjoyed the experience and we definitely have some budding actors!
• Wednesday 4 June 2025 Nursery Forest schools trail making Today in forest schools we looked at making trails using the things we could find in forest schools. We used twigs, stones, leaves and flowers. The children were very inventive and enjoyed the challenge of the task. There was lots of great team work happening as well. Then when we came back inside some of the children transferred their learning and continued to make their own trails with items they could mind inside. Well done Nursery.
• Wednesday 4 June 2025 Homunculi Project Year 2 Today we have started our Homunculi project with Mr Smith from Primitas. This will run for the rest of this term. In the sessions we will be exploring our emotions and gaining a better understanding of what our emotions are, how they can affect us and how we can start to deal/cope with them. What a great session! Thank you Mr Smith.
• Tuesday 3 June 2025 Reception Yoga Reception class had their first yoga lesson this week! They learnt some of the basic yoga poses and put them together in a little sequence. They especially liked the mediation part of the lesson and some of them nearly fell asleep! Well done Reception!
• Monday 2 June 2025 The Book Bus 2025 The Book Bus visited our school this week at the start of our Charles Dickens Week! Throughout the day every class visited the bus and got to look at all the amazing books in it. Then after school they could visit with their parents if they wanted to purchase any books. It was an incredible turn out and over £1000 was spent which meant we were able to buy over £160 of books for school! Thank you so much for supporting the start of our Dickens week!
• Wednesday 28 May 2025 Future Aspirations Week! We had our first Future Aspirations Week during the last week of the spring term and what a super week it was! We had so many people come in to speak to the children from a doctor to a scientist to an Army chef to a pilot to a policeman! We had such a range of people it really was amazing! All the children were involved from Reception to Year 6.
• Friday 23 May 2025 Year 1 Forest Schools
• Thursday 22 May 2025 DT Bread testing in Year 3/4 We have been tasting different types of breads today, we tasted wraps, bagels, pitta bread, tiger bread, brown bread and naan. We had to describe the taste, texture and the appearance of the different breads in partners on to our tables within our books. We had lots of fun as some of the different types of bread some of us had never tried before.
• Wednesday 21 May 2025 Spudman visits Holly Grove! We had a special visitor to Holly Grove today! Spudman! He came to deliver some of his potato growing kits! If you don't know who Spudman is - Where have you been??? He is an internet star who has over 1 million visitors! He is only down the road in Tamworth and does lots for charity! We will update you on our potato growing!!!
• Tuesday 20 May 2025 Year 2 Science Growing Plants This afternoon as part of our work on growing plants we looked inside a kidney bean to see the seed coat, food source and the baby plant. The children really enjoyed it and could not believe a whole plant could grow from these small parts!
• Friday 16 May 2025 Lichfield District Council Art competition Winners We were very excited to see our children's art competition winners displayed in Lichfield town centre! They are on the boards surrounding the new building of the cinema (the old Debenhams store). You can find them by the side of the Ryman's shop by the steps downing up to the road.
• Thursday 15 May 2025 End of SATs Week 2025 Yes!!! Year 6 have just finished their last SAT test and are really happy! We are extremely proud of how hard they have all worked this week, they have definitely all done the best they could possible do. Well done Year 6
• Friday 9 May 2025 VE Day 2025 We had a lovely day remembering Victory in Europe day 80 year anniversary today and yesterday! We had a special assembly on Thursday and the children who were members of the scouts, cubs, brownies, rainbows and squirrels all came into school wearing their uniforms with pride! Then on Friday we had a non uniform day were we wore red, white and blue or 40's outfits. We had a special British lunch of fish and chips! In the afternoon we took advantage of the lovely sunny day and had games on the field. We had a real mixture of things and it was lovely to see our older children leading and mentoring the younger ones. What a lovely week it has been.
• Thursday 1 May 2025 Reading Suitcases come out of storage! This afternoon we have been able to get our Reading Suitcases out of winter storage! It was brilliant being able to sit in the sun and enjoy some new books! The children loved talking about the books and being able to sit on the field and enjoy a story together! Fingers crossed the weather stays good!
• Friday 11 April 2025 Lent Charity - The Max and George Dog Trust Thank you for all the amazing donations to our Lent charity the Max and George Dog Trust! We collected a huge car full of food, blankets, toys, bedding and so much more! The trust were really grateful for all your donations especially as they were moving sites to a new home for the dogs, so a lot of their funds had to go on new kennels and getting the site ready for the dogs. So your donations of food etc really helped them. Well done Holly Grove!
• Friday 11 April 2025 Easter parade 2025 Well the spring term ended with our traditional parade around the boundaries of the school! Lots of parents came out to support us! Which was lovely. The older children mentored the younger ones and made sure they were all safe and happy on the walk about the local roads! Lots of lovely hats and bonnets were worn by the children some lovely creative designs. What a lovely way to end our term.
• Friday 11 April 2025 Easter Party Table winners! Reception class were the Easter Party Table winners! They had a lovely lunch and really enjoyed all the party items in their pizza party! Well done Reception!
• Friday 11 April 2025 Rotary Child for the Spring Term Congratulations and well done to our Rotary child for the Spring term! Seth is a true role model who always tries his very best in all he does! He displays all of our Torch values and is also a very kind and caring child. He gives up his own time to volunteer being a sports ambassador and has represented the school in numerous sporting events. Well deserved Seth! We are all very proud of you.

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