Our Local Community: Blog items
Year 6 Heritage Day - Blackpool's LGBTQ+ history
Date: 4th Jul 2022 @ 12:53pm
Today is our Blackpool Heritage Day and our topic is the history of LGBTQ+ in the resort. We were extremely privileged to have a visit from Basil Newby - a prominent name with Blackpool's gay bars and nightclubs. He talked about his life, how he had influenced the LGBTQ+ community here in Blackpool and introduced us to 2 of his team from Funny Girls, Alex and Nikki. Nikki came dressed in drag and it was a great opportunity for us all to ask questions to the whole team, which they all answered and gave us lots of information about life at Funny Girls. We would like to say a big thank you to all three of them for taking time out of their busy schedules to come and talk to us today.
Date: 4th Jul 2022 @ 12:51pm
As part of our school-wide Heritage Day, pupils in year 5 visited Bloomfield Road Stadium (home of Blackpool FC). We were given a tour of the ground, got to sit in the home and away changing rooms, enjoy the view from the Directors Box, and stood pitchside next to the hallowed turf. Staff from the Blackpool FC Community Trust explained about how the success of the team can impact the town, and the many different ways that the club supports the community and people of Blackpool.
Year 6 Getting to know the local area
Date: 15th Jun 2022 @ 2:33pm
Year 6 began their new unit in Geography today, which will focus on our local area of Blackpool. We started by recapping on the eight points of the compass and talked about the fact that Blackpool is in the North West of England. We looked at the location of Blackpool on a World map in the playground and then in an atlas. We located the surrounding towns and began to discuss the physical and human geographical features in the surrounding area.
Date: 18th May 2022 @ 1:05pm
Year 5 visit Blackpool Zoo! To further their learning, Year 5 went on an adventure to learn more about the animals and natural habitats of the Zoo. From hearing about the Orangutans (and meeting Cherie who was named after Tony Blair's wife!) to watching feeding time with the elephants, we were all treated to a variety of interesting talks where we were able to learn more about how a range of animals have adapted over time to survive in their environments. It was really exciting to see the Bactrian camels being fed - they don't share with each other very well! Just before lunch we were treated to a sea lion demonstration where their natural ability to balance, swim, jump and dive were all on show - Gloria even demonstrated the importance of recycling our plastic and not throwing it on the floor or in the oceans!
Date: 17th May 2022 @ 5:51pm
Today, we had two visitors from our local church. Jenny and Matt are both leaders in the church. We identified Christian symbols, talked about shared beliefs and values as well as discussing worship. We carried out a fun activity to explain that the Church is one community and all works together! We enjoyed meeting Jenny and Matt and loved the learning we did together.
Date: 7th Apr 2022 @ 4:17pm
Last week we had an amazing PSHE lesson which got us up and out of our seats to enjoy the amazing weather we had! Our lesson was all about how diverse we are as a community and all the amazing qualities and attributes that people can bring. Both classes mixed outside and had to find the answers to questions such as 'Find someone who can speak another language', 'Find someone who's parents were born in another country' and 'Find someone who has a different hobby to you'. We learned a lot about each other and our Year 4's worked really well together!
Date: 16th Dec 2021 @ 11:29am
What a wonderful event bringing us all together. The Grange Park parade was a huge success showing wonderful community spirit after another difficult year. Thank you to all of those involved.
Date: 12th Oct 2021 @ 5:01pm
Over the last few weeks, Reception have been collecting food for the Harvest Festival.
This year was a bumper year with a huge selection of food such as, pasta, rice, soup and tinned fruit and vegatables.
A great big thank you to all our parents and carers who donated food this year!
Date: 11th Feb 2020 @ 12:59pm
On a very windy Monday evening and having been rehearsing since September, Boundary joined pupils from virtually every Blackpool school at The Grand Theatre, performing hundreds of songs and dances, playing in bands and orchestras and enjoying a wonderful introduction to theatre!
Pupil's from Years 5 an 6 performed a medley of songs from Oliver and WOW, they were amazing! The hard-work, determination, perseverance and team work that each child demonstrated throughout each rehearsal and during the final performance really paid off - we could not be more proud of each and every performer!
Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to watch and to the children and staff for the time and energy they put into rehearsing and the final show.
Date: 15th Oct 2019 @ 7:34pm
Today Reception enjoyed a visit to St Mark's Church as part of our RE curriculum question 'What places are special in our community?'. The children were very excited to travel to the mini bus and meet Rev'red Peter. When we got to the church Peter showed the children all the different places in the church including the alter, the font and the pulpit. He talked to the children about the different things the church does to help the community as well as reason why it is a special place to Christians. The children then reflected of different places that are special to them. Here are some of the things the children said.
"My nana's house is special because she looks after me there and we do nice things together" Albie.
"This is a special place. My mummy and daddy got married here. We have a picture of it up" Megan.
"Church is special to me. I go with my brother Chidera:" Chisom
"My house is special because my mummy looks after me there" Kyril
"I go to special places with Rosie. We always have fun" Jazmine
The One With Electricity At Aspire!
Date: 17th Oct 2019 @ 9:38am
Today, Year 6 went to Aspire to take part in an electricity workshop to link in with work we have done in our Science topic. The children were tasked with carrying out an investigation into what would make a bulb brighter/dimmer in a circuit. They all agreed that adding more cells to a circuit would make the bulb brighter as there was more electricity being supplied to the bulb.
The One With The Harvest Assembly!
Date: 10th Oct 2019 @ 1:46pm
Today Year 6 led the school in the annual Harvest assembly. The children explained the history of harvest and how we should be thankful for the food we have to eat. We also discussed World Food Day and how we should work together to help put a stop to world hunger. We were joined by Matt Rowley from the Church Army, who also spoke of the importance of helping others and being thankful for what we have. After the assembly, we delivered all the items that had been donated to Vincent House - a charity which helps and supports the homeless in our local area.
We loved performing in the Blackpool Digital Dance Festival!
Date: 16th Dec 2020 @ 2:15pm
Dance teams from both Year Three and Year Five have submitted dance routines into the first ever Blackpool Digital Dance Festival. Here are Year Five performing. The children helped to choreograph their dance as well as perform it! The children from both year groups said that they loved participating and working together.
