Author: Zoe Gospage
National Numeracy Day
Everyone at The Granville celebrated the national Numeracy Day by taking part in a variety of exciting mathematical activities. From Numicon lucky dip and capacity calculations in the Early Years through to halving with interesting objects in the Junior School, Countdown competitions and complex ratio reductions in the Seniors. Well done all!
Earth Day in Reception
The Reception children have been learning about Earth Day and what we can do to help our planet. They made an ocean model with rocks, shells and sea creatures but there was also some ‘pollution’ in the form of plastic straws, fishing line, paper and plastic from face masks etc. They added some boats but when the waves…
Sevenoaks Spring Clean
Pupils from The Granville School recently took part in the community campaign ‘CleanUp Sevenoaks’. The girls put on the gloves and took to the challenge with smiles on their faces. Well done to you all.
World Book Day 2021
The 4th of March marked yet another fun filled day celebrating World Book Day 2021. The Granville school loves participating in this fantastic event. Every year our staff come up with an amazing variety of activities for our students to take part in. This year, of course, has been rather unusual. Even though we couldn’t…
GRANVILLE CHRISTMAS PRODUCTION 2020
Granville Christmas Production is available for download now !! Download here I am delighted to tell you that the Kindergarten, Reception and Year 1&2 Christmas Productions are now ready for viewing. You can access them via the school website using this link: Download here This will take you to the page where you will need…
My Dyson Challenges – Science is Fun!!!
Dyson challenges are really fun, and I wholly recommend having a go! Here are three of my experiments: Balloon Kebabs When you put a skewer through a blown-up balloon, you would think the balloon willpop straightaway! But it doesn’t, as long as you put the skewer through the places in the balloon with the least…
TALENTED MR BURROWS
Our very talented cello teacher, Mr Dan Burrows, has been busy during lockdown. In between teaching all his pupils, Mr Burrows has been doing some multi-tracking. Click HERE and relax for a while listening to the amazing music he has produced
French News
Year 1 have started a new project on mini beasts. This week in Mme Condren’s video they learnt how to say ‘une araignée’ and how to sing ‘Incy Wincy Spider’ in French. Here are some of the girls’ lovely pictures, all labelled in French. Bravo, Victoria, Annabel G and Isla!
Art News
In Art this week all the year groups have been perfecting their observational skills by challenging themselves to create a ‘continuous line drawing’ : Isabel Ellison was inspired by the sculptor Andy Goldsworthy to create this design from natural materials: Below are some of the Year 6 Oil Pastel Sgraffito:
Kindergarten Hatched Some Eggs!
Three weeks ago, Kindergarten set some eggs in an incubator. We have been counting down the days until the eggs hatched. On Tuesday, we were rewarded when the first chick popped out! We watched as an egg moved and a hole appeared. Then we could hear cheeping and a tap tap tap as the chick…
