A huge thank you to all our Teaching Assistants at Holly Grove. We appreciate all the effort you put in everyday with our wonderful pupils. You really do go above and beyond so it’s a big thanks from us.
Love Karen, Eve and all the Teachers at Holly Grove.
Class 6 took part in a colour scavenger hunt in class. They had to choose a colour, which was written in French, and match it to objects around the room. The pupils loved this exercise and tried to match as many objects as they could within the set time.
Class 6 have been very busy this first week back. They have been learning all about the life cycle of a butterfly. The children used different types of pasta to show the different stages of the life cycle, from the egg, to the caterpillar, to the chrysalis and finally to the butterfly. The children then made butterfly suncatchers, I’m sure you agree that they look wonderful.
We are welcoming our pupils back to school today. We can’t wait to see you all we have missed you so much. Keep your eyes peeled for some pictures at the end of today…
I hope you are all well and enjoyed last week’s home learning visiting Australia and Japan.
We are now on our final week of travelling around the world on our Holly Grove ‘Magic Carpet Ride.’ I hope that you have enjoyed visiting and exploring all these wonderful countries. On our last trip we will be visiting:
Please decide which lesson ideas are most useful for your child and remember there is no pressure for you to access these lessons. Please do email any photographs of your child exploring these activities to your class teacher. If we have your permission, we will share these in our school newsletter and Facebook page.
I hope you have found all these home learning activities useful and fun over the past couple of months. I would like to say a big thank you to all the staff for helping to create lesson ideas.
I wish you all a wonderful summer.
Take care and stay safe.
What Shall We Do With a Lazy Pirate
The theme for this summer’s challenge is silly, funny and exciting books and everyone can take part. As part of the challenge we recommend your child read 1-2 books a week during the summer holidays.
Children’s reading can ‘dip’ during the long summer holidays if they don’t have regular access to books and encouragement to read them for pleasure so please encourage your child to take part in the Silly Summer Reading Challenge. If your child is not at the reading stage yet, let them listen to a story being read to them by a familiar person, as listening to stories is just as important.
You can access the books allocated to your child at https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login. Your child’s username is their first name (all lowercase) the password is ‘read’ and the school code is ‘cq7l.’ Click on ‘My Library’ and you can see a selection of books your child can read. If you have funny, silly books at home you can read these, just add them to your reading record.
Once you have completed a book fill in the reading record and bring this back to school with you in September or you can fill it in online and email it back to me at:
r.taylor@holly-grove.lancs.sch.uk
Everyone who completes the challenge will receive a certificate and will go into a prize draw to win one of 3 big prizes.
1st Prize – An Amazon Fire Kindle
2nd Prize – £15 Book Voucher
3rd Prize – £10 Book Voucher
If you gave any trouble logging onto Active Learn please email your child’s class teacher and they will reset your child’s login details.
Have fun and enjoy reading!
Rebecca
English Subject Leader
Click here to download the reading record.
I hope enjoyed last week’s home learning visiting China, Pakistan and India.
We are now on our 4th week travelling around the world on our ‘Magic Carpet Ride.’
This week Holly Grove will be visiting:
* EYFS and KS1 – Australia
* KS2 – Japan
* Sensory – Australia
Please feel free to look at them all and decide which lesson ideas are most useful for your child. There is no pressure for you to access these lesson activities.
Please continue to send any photographs as we all really enjoy seeing what the children have been up to. If we have your permission, we will share these in our school newsletter and Facebook page.
Have lots of fun exploring!
Love Eve and all the trustees 
Mr Bridges from Ridgewood has put together a ‘kitchen percussion’ video for you all to enjoy. You can do something similar with everyday objects in your kitchen, make sure you check with an adult before you start.
