Eco at Boundary: Blog items
Date: 26th Nov 2025 @ 12:17pm
Nursery have been learning about Autumn and how as it gets colder, there is less food for the wildlife. We talked about how squrriels will collect as much food as they can and store it for winter (a bit like doing the big shop!) and how we can help the animals by leaving food out. We filled up some bird feeders with seeds and fat balls and are now waiting to see if any birds come to our Bird Cafe!
Date: 25th Nov 2025 @ 12:55pm
In Redwoods we spent the week looking at and thinking about what being Eco Friendly means. We discussed different examples of pollution and how these damage the environment. Together we also designed persuasive posters encouraging our peers to become Eco Friendly by recyling, walking to school, saving water and electricity and many more ways. We were lucky to get a tour of school from Mr Galloway our site surpervisor. He told us all about the things Boundary School does to be Eco Friendly. This helped us to gather ideas for our letters to Miss Moyes about other ways our school could reduce its carbon footprint.
Date: 21st Nov 2025 @ 11:13am
This week was the launch of Switch of Week.
It was began on Monday as a whole school assembly where the children were reminded about saving electricty at both home and school. The elctricity metre was read by Redwood class and the Eco Warriors have been checking around school to make sure light swithches, plugs for screens and laptops were switched off to save electricty.
This should help reduce our electricty bill and climate change.
Eco at Boundary- Switch Off Week
Date: 17th Nov 2025 @ 6:59pm
This week was the start of Switch- Off Week!
It was launched on Monday with an assembly reminding children of how to save electricity at school and at home and the reasons why.
The Eco Warriors read the electricity meter on Monday and they will be monitoring the number of lights and plugs that are switched off around school.
"We need to switch off electricity to save money- electricity is expensive" Lacey.
"You could try and wash your clothes by hand and then put them outside on a washing line to dry" Rose.
"I will switch off the lights in my classroom" Isaac.
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 10:37am
Gardening club have been busy preparing the school for Winter.
They have been harvesting the pears from the pear tree,weeding, tidying up rubbish and planting Spring bulbs around school.
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 11:12am
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Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 11:09am
Our fitness unit continues as we look at increasing our heart rate through gentle exercise, increasing this so we use more energy. This week we also introduced the skill of evading in small group games involving attack and defence positions. We thought tactically about how we would move in order to slow down an attacker and how sometimes this involves larger movements of our bodies all the while the attacker had to think about how they moved, introducing 'false moves' to put off the defenders and break through the defense.
Eco- 6 Times Winner of the Green Flag Award
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 4:18pm
We are pleased to announce that once again we have acheived the Eco Schools Green Flag Award!
The award recognises the incredible efforts of our children and staff, showcasing their dedication to supporting our planet's health and inspiring others.
Our wall plaque is on display outside the hall doors near the car park and our certificate is proudly diplayed on the wall with all our other school acheivements.
Year 2- Looking after the environment
Date: 16th Jul 2025 @ 3:02pm
Today, we explored the key question how does rubbish affect our environment? We read the story a rubbish day at the beach, thinking about the problems we saw in the story and how we could improve the problem. We then made a pledge to do one thing to help the environment including: giving things to charity, recycling more or picking up litter.
Eco at Boundary- We have been collecting bottle tops!
Date: 4th Jul 2025 @ 11:13am
This term we have been collecting bottle tops to create a huge turtle which will be displayed in our Houndshill Shopping Centre in Blackpool town centre.
This is part of the Houndshill Sutainability Project where Blackpool schools have been invited to donate bottle tops and for their participation in the project they will have a plaque displayed in the shopping centre.
Date: 4th Jul 2025 @ 10:47am
It was Sports Day this week and, although it was a little chilly to start off, we had a fantastic time and showed lots of great teamwork and resilience.
"I love throwing a welly!" Hazel.
"The Egg and spoon race was tricky but I kept going until the end" Harry.
"I did twenty two jumps (on the speed bounce)" Lucas.
"I jumped really far up to number 4!" Riley.
"The cup stacking was fun- they kept falling down so it was tricky!" Antoni.
"I loved running fast in the running race" Harley.
"I threw the beanbag into the hoop!" Chloe.
Eco at Boundary- Gardening Club
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 12:22pm
Gardening Club have been busy, busy, busy this term. Mrs McAllister and her team of gardeners have been working hard planting seeds, growing them, watering them and tidying the garden beds ready for the summer holidays. Everyone has worked together this year to improve our school grounds so they attract pollinators, insects and wild life as well as looking beautiful too.
"There hasn't been much rain this week so I have given the peas extra water to help them grow" Isaac.
"These are weeds that I have removed -look at the roots on them- they would be taking all the water from the potatoes" Lewis.
"These were grown from seeds, now I'm planting them out into larger pots to help them grow even bigger" Miya.
Year 4 - Health and wellbeing week
Date: 28th Jun 2025 @ 8:58am
As part of Health Week, our class has taken part in many activities: glow sports, skateboarding, forest schools, and learning about the England Lionesses. We learned about two footballers’ achievements both on and off the pitch. The children then completed fact files about them showing their successes so far.
Reception- Sports Week Gymnastics
Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 12:14pm
This week Reception have enjoyed taking part in Sports Week.
They had an exciting time doing gymnastics with Mr Rartcliffe where they were able to climb, jump, balance, swing and roll using the large equipment in the hall.
They followed the rules, showed resilience, respect and teamwork as they negotiated their way around the hall using the different types of equipment.
They learnt about why they need to keep themselves fit physicaly, socially and mentally.
"I can climb and jump because I eat lots of fruit to keep me healthy" Dina
"I am hot because I am exercising and the blood is pumping around my body... drinking water will cool me down and hydrate me" Harry
"We have to take turns to jump or we might hurt ourselves" Riley
Reception Making a healthy snack
Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 11:57am
This week in Reception we have been learning about how to keep our bodies and minds healthy. As part of our learning we have been identifying a range of different foods which who be a good healthy snack. We talked about the importance of making healthy choices and why they are important. All of the children designed and made their own healthy snack. We tasted the differetn fruits and talked about which ones where ourfavourites and why.
"I like strawberries, they are nece and juicey" Freyja
"Kiwi is my favourite" Kevin
The children then safety used the equipment to chop amd slice the friut and then put it on their kebab stick. Together we all enjo0yed eating ourfruit kebabs.
Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 11:09am
We loved making our fruit kebabs and trying the different fruits.
Omer "strawberry"
Keiha-Lilly " Apple"
We all threaded our fruit, choosing between, orange, apple, pear, strawberry, kiwi and grapes, onto our kebab sticks and then ate them or explored the fruit with our lips, tongues and fingers.
Acorns - Health and Wellbeing week
Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 10:56am
Boundary has been celebrating Health and Wellbeing week. We have being exploring how to keep our bodies healthy through diet and exercise. Acorns have enjoyed making fruit kebabs, vegetable tasting and moving our bodies in different ways.
To support our learning and understanding we have been reading Supertato and engaging in a variety of activities around the book, developing our fine motor skills with potato peg hammering and pea mashing (our favourite) and reducing the vegetables, mark making and counting vegetables. We have had lots of fun, take a look.
We can't wait for our stay and play sports session next week.
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 2:23pm
Yesterday, Reception took part in Forest School. They had fun playing games, such as Twit and Whoo (hide and seek),helping each other look for wildlife , including minibeasts, and creating models of nature with playdough.
"I found a worm" Evan.
"I made a playdough fish" Freya C.
"Bees go on flowers and drink the sugar in them" Freyja.
Take a look at our photos!
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 11:36am
This week the children have been enjoying hunting for minibeasts in our outdoor area. They used magnifying glasses and viewing jars to inspect them. looking at their colour, number of legs, if they have antennae and naming them too.
"I think i have found a wood louse" Perisa.
"This minibeast has antennae" Kevin.
"I've found a butterfly on the bush" Dina
"Look at the snail...it's on my finger...it's small" Levi.
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 7:51pm
In DT, we have looked at making a balanced meal, using all of the food groups such as, proteins, carbohydrates, fibre, dairy and oils and spread. We learned why we need each of these to keep our bodies healthy and to keep everything working s it should. We then created some wraps and pittas containing as many as the food groups we could. As soon as we made them, the children couldn’t wait to tuck into them and write up their evaluation.
Planting Our Wild Flower Garden
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 10:02am
We have recycled some our our donated tires into planters and created two wild flower gardens. These are to help the bees, butterflies and other creatures have homes and to provide food for them over the summer season. We cant wait to see them grow and we will keep you updated.
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 9:43am
This week we have been exploring the life cycle of a bean and reading Jasper's Beanstalk. We've enjoyed using lots of props during story telling, especially getting wet with the water spray!
We planted our own beans and are excited to water them daily, watching and waiting for the shoots to appear.
We've also been very creative this week, finishing our caterpillars ready to plant them with cress and using potatoes to print leaves onto our beanstalks.
Nursery Become Flower Detectives
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 2:51pm
Nursery have been learning all about groiwth and change through planting seeds and life cycles, This week they explored flowers and have identified the leaves, stem and petals. The children were provided with tweezers, scissors and magnifying glasses so they could explore the intricate parts of the flower.
Nursery Plant a Sunflower Seed
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 2:49pm
As part of our topic on growing, Nursery have been reading the story "Sam Plants a Sunflower" by Kate Petty. We have been talking about the lifecycle of a sunflower. The children planted their own sunflower seeds and have been learning how to take care of them. The children are excited to watch their seeds start to grow.
Reception Imaginative Play Outside
Date: 7th May 2025 @ 4:33pm
Outside the children have been working together in the mud kitchen to create their own narratives through imaginative and real life play. The children worked together the chop and prepare a healthy meal for their family. The developed their oracy skills by discussing together why different foods are healthy or unhealthy.
"I've made Japan soup- it full of vegatables" Kevin
"Brocolli is healthy" Levi
"I've made soup" Renesmae
"Too much sugar is bad for your teeth" Freyja
"I have icecream but thats my special treat" Harry
