Our Year 5 class had an exciting RAF Road to RIAT day, where the children explored the fascinating world of space and rockets. They took part in engaging activities that helped them learn about how rockets work, the challenges of space travel, and the science behind launching into orbit. The day was filled with curiosity, teamwork, and hands-on learning, inspiring the children to think like scientists and engineers while deepening their understanding of space exploration. As part of the experience, the children also took part in a live lesson where they designed, built, and tested their own rockets, putting their new knowledge into practice in a fun and memorable way.
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Date: 28th Nov 2025 @ 10:51am
Over the past few weeks Reception have been reading the story 'The Gruffalo'. As part of our learning we have been exploring using a range of different meduims and materials to create our own Gruffalos. We painted them first focusing on the use of colour ensuring we remembered his orange eyes and purple prickles. We then used a range of materials in the creative area to collage the Gruffalo adding specific details including tusks, a poisonous wart and purple prickles. During continuous provision the children also had the change to use the playdough to make their own models of the Gruffalo. Finally we explored how we could use recycled materials to make junk model Gruffalo. We explored how we could fix, join and attach the different materials and boxes using masking tape. The children worked really hard perserving even when it was tricky. When they finished their models they were encouraged to talk about what they liked best about it and how it could be further improved.
Year 1 Hazel Class Together Time
Date: 24th Nov 2025 @ 8:24am
Today, we welcomed our parents into the classroom to complete some learning together. We used our knowledge of the Christmas story from our learning in RE to create a piece of art representing the star shining over baby Jesus in his manger. We used a range of mediums including: collaging with tissue paper and pastels to create a colourful representitive piece of art. Thank you to all who joined us- we thoroughly enjoyed it!
Year 1 Beech Class Together Time
Date: 24th Nov 2025 @ 8:23am
Today, we welcomed our parents/carers into the classroom to complete some learning together. Firstly, we showed our grown ups how we complete our mini me activities. We then used our knowledge of the Christmas story from our learning in RE to create a piece of art representing the star shining over baby Jesus in his manger. We used a range of mediums including: collaging with tissue paper and pastels to create a colourful representitive piece of art. Thank you to all who joined us- we thoroughly enjoyed it!
Date: 23rd Nov 2025 @ 11:09am
This week our activity was all about slowing down and connecting with creativity through sensory drawing, inspired by artist Sol LeWitt. The children explored lines and shapes in a relaxed manner, letting their hands move freely without worrying about the outcome. Guided by touch and feeling, each mark became part of a calming rhythm that encouraged mindfulness as much as imagination. It was a joyful reminder that art can be both meditative and expressive, giving space for children to discover their own unique way of seeing and creating.
Date: 19th Nov 2025 @ 9:39pm
Nursery have been learning about Autumn and the different Autumnal objects you can find in the park, your garden and the woods. The chidlren have been using their imagination to create faces using conkers, acorns, pinecones and leaves. I think you'll agree, they did a wonderful job!
Date: 19th Nov 2025 @ 9:33pm
Nursery have been learning about Autumn and all the different autumnal objjects you can find in park, your back garden and the woods. The children have been putting their imaginations to good use by using conkers, acrorns and leaves to create a face. I think you'll agree that they did a superb job!
Date: 17th Nov 2025 @ 6:19pm
In Year 1 this week we are reading the story 'Leaf Man.' We began the week by unpicking the key vocabulary in the story, learning the meaning of any new words and retelling the key parts of the story. Throughout the week we have then printed our own leaf character and written sentences to describe where our leaf character may travel. We have also completed lots of different activities in our provision, including creading AB patterns, matching numeral to quantity and accurately counting within 10.
Date: 14th Nov 2025 @ 10:36am
Today, the children celebrated Children in Need. They came to school dressed in something spotty or stripy and donated money to the charity.
In the afternoon, we had a whole school assembly to celebrate this good cause.
Take a look at our photos!
Date: 11th Nov 2025 @ 4:43pm
Today, Year 3 have been learning all about Remembrance Day. We started by talking about what we already know and why we have Remembrance Day each year. We remembered that it is a special time to think about and honour the soldiers who have fought and died for our country, helping to keep us safe and free.
In art, we created some beautiful gestural drawings of poppies in our sketchbooks. We practised using different lines and shapes to show movement and detail. After that, we chose our favourite poppy design and created a final piece on black card, using chalk and oil pastels to make our poppies bright and bold. The colours really stood out, and everyone worked so carefully to add lots of detail.
This morning, we planted our poppies together and took a quiet moment to remember the fallen soldiers. It was a peaceful and thoughtful time for all of us.
Later, we joined the whole school for our Remembrance Service. We listened carefully as the Year 6 readers told us all about the meaning of Remembrance Day and why the poppy is such an important symbol.
We are very proud of how respectful and reflective everyone in Year 3 was today. Our poppies now stand proudly as a reminder of those who have given so much for us.
Date: 11th Nov 2025 @ 11:15am
Today, Tuesday 11th November, each pupil from Boundary Primary School made and planted their poppy in the school Remembrance Garden. On each poppy they had written the name of a soldier who had died in the First World War. Afterwards, the school took part in a service where the pupils remembered these soldiers and others who had sacrificed their lives in past and present conflicts. The service was led by Year 6 and Reverend Peter. The pupils also had further opportunities to reflect as they took part in a whole school art week based around the theme of poppies, using different techniques, such as collage, print and sketching.
Date: 10th Nov 2025 @ 4:37pm
To commemorate Armistice Day this year, pupils in year 4 have created a watercolour landscape of poppy flowers. Pupils used a variety of painting skills such as 'wet on wet' and 'wet on dry' to create background and foreground. They also used the end of the brush to create lines and shapes in the paint.
Date: 10th Nov 2025 @ 7:58am
In Art, Year 2 have been exploring expressive drawing linking it to our Remembrance service. We did observational drawing of poppies thinking about the shapes and shadows we could see.
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 3:53pm
Children in Year 6 have been looking at Remembrance and have learnt more about why the Poppy is a symbol of remembrance. We sketched poppies and coloured them in with pencil crayons. The children have also been busy making poppies that have the name of a soldier that they will keep in their thoughts when they plant them during our whole school act of remembrance on Tuesday 11th November.
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 9:18am
Children in Year 5 have been looking at Remembrance and have learnt more about why the Poppy is a symbol of remembrance. They have then sketched poppies in a variety of styles and using a range of different techniques. Their final piece will be sketched onto battle field maps, flight plans or plane diagrams from World War 1 and 2. The children have also been busy making poppies that have the name of a soldier that they will keep in their thoughts when they plant them during our whole school act of remembrance on Tuesday 11th November.
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 5:43pm
This week, along with the rest of our school, Year 1 have taken part in a number of different activities to learn about Remembrance and why we wear poppies. We have created poppies using pastels, planted poppies as part of our Remembrance day service and written labels/sentences to share our understanding of Remembrance. We have all shown lots of respect when learning about this very important time.
Nursery Get a Little Bit Spooky
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 2:51pm
Nursery got a little bit spooky this week as we celebrated Halloween. The children have been busy making potions, creating a witch using different shapes, making pumpkins out of playdough and practising their cutting skills by giving a witch a hair cut! They have also been exploring light and shadow by using halloween torches in the black out tent and helped some spiders to find all 8 of their missing legs! Its been a very spooky week!
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 2:34pm
Children in Rowan have been collecting items for our class Autumnal Table all half-term! On Friday we used the leaves and conkers to create unique pieces of art! We had great fun and will be taking our pieces home when (if!) they dry!
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 12:52pm
In Redwoods we have spent alot of time this half term develop our understanding what resilience means and sometimes that this can be difficult to achieve. Together we have also been developing our ability to self regulate and identify ways to help ourselves to cover come barriers. We have enjoyed doing this through creative, purposeful and interactive activities. We learnt about the ' The Bounce Scale' and how to use this as a regulation tool.
Date: 2nd Oct 2025 @ 2:24pm
Nursery had a wonderful learning experience with some shaving foam, paint and a couple of paint brushes! They explored the shaving foam and discussed its smell and texture. We then added some paint and talked about what happens to the colours as they mixed them all together. The chidlren then decided to mix the shaving foam with water and leaves to make a witches potion!
Date: 29th Sep 2025 @ 3:22pm
In Redwoods we have started to create the parts for our first playground project. We are creating a bowling alley with recylable resources. So far we have painted the tires for the barriers of our lane and some bottles which will become the skittles.
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 3:05pm
We have begun our art journey looking at printing and different ways we can create abstract aretwork using hand prints. We looked at examples produced by artists around the world, before we explored a range of colours. It was intersting to explore the different shades we could make and the different compositions we could make with our hand prints.
Year 3 - Dancing With Charcoal
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:30am
In this week’s art lesson, we explored the exciting world of performance art through the work of Heather Hansen. She creates stunning pieces using charcoal in each hand, moving gracefully across large sheets of paper on the floor. Inspired by her, we had a go at creating our own movement-based artwork. Using charcoal, we danced, stretched, and moved to make expressive marks, turning our movements into art. It was a unique and creative experience—and yes, we got a little messy, but that made it even more fun! We loved combining art with movement in such a playful way.
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 7:50am
During our latest Geography lesson on mountains, the classroom turned into a mini mountain range! After learning about the key features of mountains – from peaks and ridges to valleys and slopes – some of our pupils decided to get creative. Using modelling clay, they built their very own mountains, carefully shaping and labelling the different features we’d discussed.
It was fantastic to see them using their new knowledge in such a hands-on way. The clay mountains sparked lots of discussion about real-life landscapes and helped everyone visualise how mountains form. A brilliant mix of creativity and geography in action!
Date: 17th Sep 2025 @ 4:58pm
The children are becoming very famialir with the story "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" and loved creating marks to represent parts of the story using differernt brush strokes. The children repeated words from the story as the made the marks "swishy swashy", "splash splosh", "squelch squerch", "stumble trip" "hoooo wooo".
