News

Archived News

• 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 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
• 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.
• Friday 13 September 2024 Walkabouts for new parents We have 5 dates for walkabouts for parents who are looking for places for reception for September 2025.
• Tuesday 3 September 2024 Year 5 6 Walk alone Policy and consent form Please see the policy and consent form for any children in Year 5 & 6 who are allowed to walk to and from school alone. Please print and return to your child's teacher
• 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
• Monday 15 July 2024 Welcome to our new website We hope that you find it easy to use and full of the information you require, whether you are a current or prospective parent or a member of the wider community.
• 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.
• Wednesday 19 June 2024 Year 5/6 Ukulele Concert Year 5/6 have performed once again at the Staffordshire Showgrounds playing what they have learnt this year with their Ukuleles.
• 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.

Back to current news