Holly Grove Primary School

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

Thursday 6 February 2025 Year 3/4 Binary Code Lesson In year 3/4 we have been writing our names in Binary Code! We have learnt that 8 bits make a byte and that the CPU in a computer only processes "bits" in the form of 1's and 0's. We have great fun!

Wednesday 5 February 2025 Forest school Year 5 and Nursery joint session Year 5 joined Nursery for a joint forest school session while Year 6 were at Standon Bowers. We are very proud of the Year 5 children and how they worked with the nursery children. They each took on responsibility for a nursery child and took the child under their wing! They bug hunted, making dens and making obstacle courses! The Year 5 children taught the nursery children lots of new skills. They all showed their Torch Values of Tolerance, Ownership, Respect, Cooperation and of course Happiness. One of the nursery children said to the teacher when they went back into the classroom " What a beautiful morning we have had" XXXX

Wednesday 5 February 2025 Year 1/2 new outdoor area! We had a super time exploring the new outdoor area! It has lots of great areas to explore and play in! Thank you Mrs Elstone for creating it for us!!

Wednesday 5 February 2025 Nursery Woodwork Nursery have been doing their woodworking this week with lots more hammering! They really enjoyed hammering the nails into the wood! Look at the concentration on their faces!! Well done Nursery super skills.

Tuesday 4 February 2025 Year 1/2 Music with Mr Dean In our music lesson today with Mr Dean we learnt all about the saxophone. We learnt that it's made of metal and you play it by blowing it and we listened carefully to the high and the low notes it can make! We will look out for it when we go to see the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra later in the term.

Tuesday 4 February 2025 Year 5 Beau trip 2025 While Year 6 were at Standon Bowers Year 5 children went for a day out at Beau! They had a super time, spending the day doing forest schools skills! Den building, team games, making bows and arrows - just a few of the things they did! Lots of super Torch Values shown today!

Friday 31 January 2025 Reception Chinese New Year A very busy day in Reception class! We have created snake dragons and made good luck money wallets as part of our Chinese New Year celebrations. We have painted our snake dragons and role played in the theatre. We have also been looking at maps, globes and the atlas to see where China is. We also had a go at doing the new world map jigsaw.

Friday 31 January 2025 Nursery Chinese Dragon Dance Nursery came into the hall on after Torch Assembly and shared their Chinese New Year Dragon Dance! All the children clapped and encouraged the nursery dragon around the hall. The Nursery children played their instruments and roared as they walked! Well done Nursery!

Thursday 30 January 2025 Reception and Year 1 Reading Today the Year 1 children came to Reception and shared their books with the Reception children. They told each other the stories from their books. The Year 1 children were great reading role models! Super Torch values!

Thursday 30 January 2025 Year 1 Kite designing Year 1 have really enjoyed making their kites as part of their Design and Technology unit. They tried hard to make them look like their designs! Let's go Fly a Kite!

Monday 20 January 2025 Archery Year 5/6 Competition

Monday 20 January 2025 Year 6 Bikeability Year 6 children have been having the opportunity to learn all about bike safety and how to be safe on the roads. This is the next level up from when they did bikeability in Year 4. The children have been really good and have been learning how to be careful on the roads and to always be on the look out for road hazards especially when over taking parked cars. The trainers have been really pleased with their process. Great use of Torch Values - Respect, Tolerance, Ownership

Friday 17 January 2025 Torch "Ownership" Children Well done to this week's Torch Children who were awarded Ownership.

Thursday 16 January 2025 Charles Fazzino Inspired Art In year 5/6 we have been inspired by Charles Fazzino and have created our own pop up cityscapes! We worked really hard on them.

Wednesday 15 January 2025 Year 3/4 Forest Schools

Wednesday 15 January 2025 Year 5/6 Yoga Year 5/6 have started their yoga sessions this half term! They have really picked up the yoga poses and have been putting them into a yoga flow - where one pose flows into the next. We have also been learning about breathing and how to control our breath. We especially liked the Lion Breath and the Elephant Breath. Looking forward to moving into some partner yoga before the end of our half term.

Monday 13 January 2025 Year 5/6 Forest Schools There might have been frost on the ground and freezing temps across the country but we are all wrapped up warm outside doing forest schools! We even had hot chocolate around the campfire with Mrs Spencer! We were using our skills to whittle and to remember how to hold the tools correctly. We also had time to explore our forest school area and enjoy learning outside. We showed lots of our school Torch Values including Tolerance, ownership, cooperation and always happiness!

Monday 13 January 2025 Nursery Children Balance Bikes This week the Nursery children have been learning to use the balance bikes with our Sports coaches! They had great fun, learning all about how to put on their bike helmets and how to use the bikes properly. They used their listening skills really well and worked well as a team! Great Torch Values! Really looking forward to next week to see how much they progress!

Friday 10 January 2025 Torch "Tolerance" Children The first Torch awards of 2025! Congratulations to the children who have shown the school value of Tolerance. We heard how they understand that people are different and how they respect others views and opinions. We heard how they understand that they have to be tolerant in their own learning by taking advice to improve their work. The children have worked very hard and impressed their teachers. Well done!

Friday 10 January 2025 Year 1/2 Forest Schools It didn't matter that it was cold, we were all wrapped up and off we went to Forest schools! We had a great time exploring and we even had a story around the campfire! We played on the swing and in the mud too!!! Sorry moms..... We used all of our Torch Values - Tolerance - turn taking, Ownership - looking after the forest school, Respect - by listening to what Mrs Spencer told us to do, Cooperation - working together and of course Happiness! That's an easy one we had lots of fun, lots of laughter and smiles!

Friday 10 January 2025 Year 2 ICT using the iPads Year 2 have been learning how to create pictograms using the iPads this week! They worked in pairs and using their Torch Values of cooperation and respect as they worked and listened to one another. We had a super morning with Mrs Davies!

Friday 10 January 2025 Year 1/2 Gymnastics Year 1/2 have started their gymnastics topic for this half term. The children were thinking all about how different animals move. They then had a go at trying out some of their "animal" moves on the equipment! We had lots of fun!

Thursday 9 January 2025 Welcome to all our new Nursery children! We had some new children join us after Christmas and they have all settled in really well. They have made some new friends with the children who are already in our nursery and we had lots of fun playing inside and outside with all the toys.

Wednesday 8 January 2025 Holly Berries Early Morning Dancing Holly Berries our Before and After school club had great fun this week - they love to start the day off with their light up disco!! Out come the disco lights and the "tunes" and everyone is up and dancing! What a super way to start the day!! If you would like to come along to Holly Berries just contact the school office or check out the information on the website!

Wednesday 8 January 2025 Year 1 Music lessons with Mr Dean This term Mr Dean is working with Year 1! They have been learning all about how to use their beaters properly "like a magic wand" and they learnt how to play their first piece "My Dog has Fleas!" They are very excited about sharing all they learn this term with their parents at the Spring concert.

Tuesday 7 January 2025 Nursery Winter Walk The nursery children went on a lovely winter walk today to see what they could discover! They had great fun looking at the frost and the finding all the items on the winter list!

Tuesday 7 January 2025 Autism Inclusion Team Parents Workshop Today we were joined by the Autism Inclusion Team who put together a very informative parents' workshop. It was great to be joined by so many parents and it is definitely something we will look at running again.

Friday 20 December 2024 Rotary Child Award Autumn Term 2024 Well done to our Year 6 child who was awarded the Rotary Child Award for the Autumn term. She was chosen because she displays all of our Torch values every single day! Well done we are all very proud of you.

Thursday 19 December 2024 Santa Panto in School We had a brilliant day " Oh yes we did!" All the children had great fun watching the Santa Panto! There was lots of singing, dancing, jokes and even a water pistol!!! We had 3 shows so the children had enough room and that the show could be aimed at the children. Nursery and Reception children were first, followed by KS1 and then KS2 after lunch.

Thursday 19 December 2024 Animal Rescuers Advent Charity Collection We had a great response for our Advent charity collection for the Animal Rescuers of Lichfield, they support lots of small local animal charities. We collected animal food, bedding, toys and lots of towels and blankets.

Wednesday 18 December 2024 KS2 Christmas Carol concert 2024 Well done to all the KS2 children at their carol concerts today. They wowed us all with their beautiful singing, lovely clear reading and enthusiastic music making on their steel drums. Thank you to St John's Church and Matt Wallace the Vicar for hosting us all again this year and helping us to share some Christmas joy. Merry Christmas everyone!

Wednesday 18 December 2024 Holly Berries Snowball Fight!! Holly Berries staff decided that we might not have any real snow but that doesn't mean you can't have a snowball fight!!! So they used their imagination and the hall before school was filled with "snowballs!"

Wednesday 18 December 2024 Christmas Lunch 2024 We had an amazing Christmas lunch! Thank you to the "Kitchen Elves" for working so hard today!

Tuesday 17 December 2024 Elfridges We had a great time today with our Secret Santa shop "Elfridges" being open for all the children to get presents for their loved ones! We also had the grotto ready for Santa and the Elves delivered a personalised Christmas decoration for each child in school.

Tuesday 17 December 2024 Santa school visits We had a very special visitor in school today! SANTA! The children were very, very excited! When he walked through the hall at lunchtime to say there was uproar would be putting it mildly! Santa told all the children that he knew they were on the good list and not to worry if they had done something unkind or naughty, that if they did something kind then it makes all the difference. The children all listened and told Santa they would leave out cookies for him and carrots for the reindeers. They all had a great time! Thank you Santa and see you again next year!!

Friday 13 December 2024 Police Cadets Year 6

Friday 13 December 2024 Reading children raffle winners Autumn 2 A massive well done to this half terms reading raffle winners! Remember the more you read the more tickets you earn!

Friday 13 December 2024 Reading Raffle extra winners Autumn Term To celebrate the end of term we had an extra special reading raffle! All the children who had read 5 times or more in a week were entered into an extra raffle draw. The winning children each received a free game of bowling. Well done everyone.

Friday 13 December 2024 Lichfield District Art Competition Well done to all the children who have entered the Lichfield District Art Competition. Here are just a few of the amazing entries! The children had to draw a picture celebrating Lichfield district. The winners will have their work made into a bill board in The Spires Shopping Centre while the building work for the new cinema is going on next year! How exciting it would be if we had a winner! Fingers and toes crossed everyone!

Thursday 12 December 2024 KS1 Christmas Carol Concert 2024 Key Stage 1 held their Christmas performance and it was an amazing success! The children were amazing! Well done some super singing and great readers! Well done to all the family members who joined in singing at the end! Thank you

Wednesday 11 December 2024 Autumn Music concert Our Autumn Music concert with Mr Dean our music specialist who has been working with Mrs Barnes (Year 2 ) and Mrs Surplice's (Year 5/6) classes this term. The Year 5/6 were on the steel drums and the Year 2 were playing the glockenspiels. Their playing and singing was amazing! The last song had the staff in tears xx We are very proud of how well they performed. Well done!

Tuesday 10 December 2024 Early Years Christmas Play We have two amazing Christmas shows today with all our Nursery and Reception children! They were all brilliant! The parents and families who came to watch them had a great time.

Friday 6 December 2024 Year 2 children go to EDA Sports event! Our Year 2 children had a brilliant time trying out Boca and archery today! They were invited by EDA to come along to take part in a joint sports event with the other Primitas Primary Academies. The children had lots of help and support from the Sports Leaders at EDA it was lovely to see them working together so well. Thank you to EDA for hosting and putting on such a super event! Lots of our Torch Values were seen during the morning!

Wednesday 4 December 2024 Year 4 Science

Wednesday 4 December 2024 Year 3/4 Forest Schools

Monday 2 December 2024 Choir sings at The Spires Care Home Our Choir went to sing at The Spires Care Home in Lichfield to the residents for Christmas. The children had a lovely time and not only sang beautiful but also afterwards had a chat with the older people. It was a lovely morning.

Sunday 1 December 2024 School Choir Singing for Burntwood Town Council Christmas lights

Friday 29 November 2024 Forest Schools Year 1 Year 1 had the most wonderful morning in Forest schools today! We used lots of our Torch Values - Cooperation, respect, tolerance and of course happiness as we worked together. We even got to eat the "fireworks" we made in English after we used our instructions to create them!

Friday 29 November 2024 Christmas Fair 2024 Wow! what a great Christmas Fair! A big shout out to Mrs Ellis for organising it all! Thank you to all the families who came along and supported the school. Thank you to all the staff who managed the stalls.

Thursday 28 November 2024 EYFS Balance Bikes Reception and the Nursery classes have been having lessons on how to ride a balance bike. Our Sports coach is coming in every week and working with the children in the hall or on the playground. They are all amazing and have really taken to the bikes like "ducks to water!" Watch out for them in the Tour de France!!!

Thursday 28 November 2024 Reception Diwali Reception classes have had a great time learning all about Diwali the festival of light. They even made their own Diya lamps. Diya Lamps are oil lamps lit during the festival of Diwali to symbolize prosperity in the new year. They are small pots made from clay and could be described as 'thumb pots' as they are made by pressing the thumb into a ball of clay and shaping it. The children really enjoyed learning all about the festival of light

Thursday 28 November 2024 Christmas Lunch Menu 2024!

Wednesday 27 November 2024 Nursery Winter Craft Morning 2024 We had a great nursery winter craft morning this week. Thank you to all the family members who attended the children loved seeing you and showing you their nursery classroom. They really enjoyed themselves! We hope you all had as much fun as us!

Wednesday 27 November 2024 Year 5/6 Gymnastics

Tuesday 26 November 2024 Reception Winter Craft Morning 2024

Monday 25 November 2024 Reception visit from school Nurse We had a visit from the school nurses to our Reception classes. They talked to us about how to look after our teeth. We practised using a tooth brush and even cleaned some huge teeth! We also looked at different foods and talked about what foods were good for our teeth and which ones had sugar in, which can be bad for our teeth. We had lots of fun learning and asked lots of questions.

Wednesday 20 November 2024 Year 6 Reading Gladiators Our Year 6 Reading Gladiators have started a new book this half term! We are very excited about it as it's written totally in poetry!!! Its all about a boy in America who experiences some trauma and how he learns to deal with it and how he "Rebounds"

Wednesday 20 November 2024 Torch Value Children Autumn 1

Tuesday 19 November 2024 Snow!!! We had very excited children today! They woke to a blanket of snow! Luckily we were able still get to school and had no real issues. The teachers took full advantage of the weather at break time!

Sunday 17 November 2024 Our First School Council Meeting Our very first school council meeting of the new year! We had to first have the class election to vote in the new school councillors.

Sunday 17 November 2024 Year 2 DT - Picture Frames Year 2 have been very busy this half term designing and making their own picture frames. The children would agree it has

Thursday 14 November 2024 Egyptian Workshop Year 3/4 We had a super day with our Egyptian workshop! We learnt how to write like an Ancient Egyptian scribe, we built an Egyptian city. We were given 4000 coins and had to spend it to build their own city and earn points. The winning team were the city of "Cairo" who got 110 points and had 100 coins left over! We also looked at Ancient Egyptian artefacts and were mini historians. It was a great day!

Wednesday 23 October 2024 Halloween Disco Our first discos of the year! What amazing costumes! Lots of fun had by staff and the children!

Monday 21 October 2024 Year 4 Chasewater Residential Our very first over night residential with Year 4 was at Chasewater. We had an amazing time! The children were active from the moment they arrived doing activities like group games, practicing our Torch value of cooperation and tolerance!! Then on the climbing wall were we saw a lot of happiness! Bouldering - climbing on the smaller wall which was great fun! Archery were we saw a lot of respect for one another as well as the equipment! Fire lighting and den building were once again our cooperation skills came into play. On the evening we had campfire songs around a big real fire! The children were really well behaved and the staff at the centre were really impressed with them. We will definitely returning!

Sunday 20 October 2024 Yoga lessons in Year 1/2

Thursday 17 October 2024 Year 5/6 Tag Rugby Team A huge congratulations to our Year 5/6 rugby team who came 3rd overall in the schools tag rugby competition at EDA. You were amazing!! Thank you to all our supporters.

Friday 13 September 2024 Torch Award Tolerance Well done to all the Torch children who were awarded the Tolerance Torch award today.

Wednesday 14 August 2024 Rotary Award Summer 2024 Well done to our Summer Rotary Award winner A! She really deserves this award! We are all very proud of her! Thank you to the Rotary for coming in and presenting this award.

Friday 19 July 2024 Summerfest - last day of school July 2024! On the last day of term we had our own Holly Grove festival on the field! We had games, music, dancing, faceprinting and ice creams!!!

Friday 19 July 2024 What a Star! A big well done to S who had her lovely long hair cut off and donated it to a children's charity for sick children who have lost their hair. What a very kind gesture. We all thought she looked lovely with her new hair cut!

Thursday 18 July 2024 Astle Award 2024 Our Astle Award this year was to T. This award was given to the school by Mrs Astle who had been a TA at Holly Grove for many years. We always remember her fondly when we give out this award.

Thursday 18 July 2024 Thank you!!!! A Huge Thank you to T and her family for donating a new wheelbarrow to our school! After the Year 6 play on Tuesday evening her Dad noticed that our one was in need of repair! So he has donated a new one and new wheels for our old one! Thank you so much xxx

Wednesday 17 July 2024 Year 6 leavers Lunch

Thursday 4 July 2024 Skate boarding Day! As part of our build up to the Olympics we had a special coach in to teach all the children how to skate board! All the children from Reception to Year 6 had a go! We had some great balanced children! Lots of tricks being tried too! Great fun for everyone!

Wednesday 3 July 2024 Primfest 2024 Our School choir were part of the joint school summer concert with the other Primitas schools at EDA.

Tuesday 2 July 2024 Summer Reading Challenge Assembly We were visited today by Lichfield/Burntwood Library to talk to us about the importance of reading and continuing to do so over the summer holidays when we aren't in school. Something the library does over the summer is have a competition which all the children can enter! There is even a prize for the best school! Details coming home via class dojo tonight.

Wednesday 19 June 2024 Eco Team Eco Team looking after the local area surrounding the school.

Monday 17 June 2024 Year 6 Football Champions! Our Year 6 boys football team won the Burntwood & Lichfield District Football tournament! Well done boys you played really well! We are very proud of you all.

Friday 14 June 2024 Cinema Night

Monday 3 June 2024 Choir Performance at Prince of Wales Theatre The school choir took part " Cannock can Sing" at the Prince of Wales Theatre. They were amazing and were the final school of the evening and closed the show! An amazing performance that ended with getting all the parents up singing and dancing with them to "Footloose". Thank you to all the families who came to support the children! Your cheers were amazing and really encouraged the children.

Monday 8 April 2024 Easter Parade 2024 We had an amazing last day Easter Parade around the streets surrounding Holly Grove Primary Academy! The older children took on the responsibility of looking after the younger children and held their hands as we waved our flags and showed off the hats/bonnets they had made. What a lovely way to end the term.

Friday 15 March 2024 World Book Day 2024

Monday 4 March 2024 Pep the Poet Workshops We had a great treat today when Pep the Poet came into school and showed the children his love of poetry. The children had great fun! Lots of laughter and some dressing up too! As well as lots of poetry!

Thursday 11 January 2024 Young Voices 2024

Wednesday 20 December 2023 Christmas Charity Collection

Monday 18 December 2023 Year 5/6 Choir at The Spires Care Home

Sunday 8 October 2023 Target Run - Sports Burntwood Leisure Centre called "Target Run". The children loved working together as a team hitting various targets using Nerf darts and archery arrows. Great fun was had by all. Well Done to all the children who were a credit to Holly Grove.

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