This Heritage Day 2025, Year 5 explored the proud sporting history of Blackpool FC, with a special focus on their remarkable achievements in 2010. The class learned about the club’s journey to the Premier League and what it meant for the local community. To bring their learning to life, pupils were challenged to create either a website or presentation to showcase what they had discovered. The creativity and enthusiasm shown in their work was truly impressive and reflected a great understanding of Blackpool's football heritage.
History: Blog items
Date: 27th Nov 2025 @ 9:56am
In this lesson, children explored oracy skills by immersing themselves in the story Cave Baby. After listening to the book, pupils became different characters from the story, such as Cave Baby, the mammoth, and the parents. They used key phrases from the text alongside their own imaginative ideas to bring the narrative to life through role play. This activity encouraged expressive language, turn-taking, and active listening, while promoting confidence in speaking. By adopting character perspectives, children practiced using tone, gesture, and vocabulary effectively, deepening their understanding of the story and enhancing their ability to communicate creatively.
Date: 25th Nov 2025 @ 1:52pm
Year 5 have been studying the Anglo-Saxons this half term. They have learned about when and why the Anglo-Saxons settled in Britain, the different tribes they came from, and what everyday life was like during this period. The class also explored how their beliefs changed over time, learning how the Anglo-Saxons moved from pagan traditions to Christianity and how this transformation affected their culture and society.
They have investigated how the Anglo-Saxons defended their land against repeated Viking raids and invasions, discovering the key battles, leaders, and strategies that shaped this turbulent period. They also learned how the ongoing conflict eventually led to the creation of the Danelaw, an area of Britain ruled by the Vikings but influenced by both cultures.
This week, the children examined the growing threats the Vikings posed over several centuries — from early coastal raids to full-scale invasions — and considered how these challenges impacted Anglo-Saxon communities and the development of early England.
Date: 21st Nov 2025 @ 4:09pm
👨👩👧 Year 6 Together Time
This week, we welcomed our parents and carers into Year 6 for a special Together Time session. It was a fantastic opportunity to share all the hard work we’ve been doing since September.
To make it fun and interactive, we organised a quiz covering everything we’ve learned in class so far. From maths and reading to history and science, the questions gave our families a real taste of the wide range of topics we’ve explored. Everyone joined in with great enthusiasm, and it was brilliant to see parents and carers working alongside us, testing their knowledge and celebrating how much we’ve achieved. The quiz sparked lots of laughter and proud moments, showing just how far we’ve come this term.
Together Time was a wonderful way to connect home and school, and we’re already looking forward to the next chance to share our learning journey.
Year 3 - History Museum Loan Box
Date: 19th Nov 2025 @ 4:56pm
This week, we had an exciting opportunity to dive deeper into our History topic through a museum loan box, filled with fascinating artefacts from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. The children were captivated as they explored each item up close, discussing what it might have been used for and how life would have been very different thousands of years ago.
Inside the box, we examined a range of tools and everyday objects, including an antler tool, sewing kit, hand axe, blades and scrapers, fire kit, sickle, spoke shave, pot, coins, bone needle, and a purse. The children were especially intrigued by how people created tools from natural materials and used them for hunting, preparing food, building shelters, and making clothing.
This hands-on experience really helped us visualise how early humans lived, survived, and adapted. The artefacts sparked brilliant discussions and thoughtful questions, showing just how engaged the children are with this topic.
We look forward to continuing our journey through prehistoric Britain over the coming weeks!
Date: 17th Nov 2025 @ 6:27pm
Today we began our History journey by developing our understanding of what toys are like today. Together, we worked to distinguish old and new toys and sorted them by colour, shape and material. We then thought more indepth about our favourite toys, how they work and why we enjoy playing with them.
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: 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.
Date: 16th Oct 2025 @ 12:11pm
This week, our Year 3 children have been learning about Ruby Bridges as part of Black History Month. They were inspired by Ruby’s bravery as the first African American child to attend an all-white school in New Orleans in 1960. Through stories, videos, and discussions, the children explored themes of courage, fairness, and standing up for what is right. To deepen their understanding, they wrote diary entries from Ruby’s point of view, imagining her thoughts and feelings during that historic time. Their writing showed great empathy and reflection, reminding us all that one brave person can help change the world.
Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 11:25am
The children in Reception have been learning about the history of themselves. We started by reading the story 'When we were giants' and then discussed all the different stages of our life.
"First you are a baby and then you grow bigger' Lockie
"When your bigger you become an adult" Rohan.
We talked about the different theinkgs we learn at different stagea in our life and why these skills are important.
""We you go to school you learn to read" Ava
"Adults looks after children and make tea"
The children then sequenced the picutres correctly.
Year 6 - The Slave Trade and Harriet Tubman
Date: 23rd Sep 2025 @ 12:31pm
As part of our work for Black History Month, we learned about the Atlantic slave trade and the life story of Harriet Tubman. Over the next couple of weeks we will be writing an autoboigraphy based on Harriet Tubman.
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:15am
In today's lesson we looked at the key question, 'How did the Maya become so successful?' We looked at a range of evidence and sources to determine what the Maya learned to do over timethat made them able to thrive and survive in their environment. We spent time looking through key vocabulary to enable us to fully understand our learning. Together we decided that the Maya were successful over time because they:
- Solved problems
- Used resources available to make tools
- They had a hierarchal system to ensure everyone played a key role in the tribe's survival
Year 4 - Boundary Roman Museum
Date: 16th Sep 2025 @ 4:12pm
Today, children in year 4 had the experience of exploring Roman artefacts, that were loaned to the school from The Lancashire Museum. The artefacts included armour and weapons, clothing and kitchen equipment such as jugs and lamps. Pupils had time to investigate the items and discussed what they were, what they made of and who may have used them.
Building on previous learning about Boudicca, we also used AI to create a realistic image of the Celtic leader who fought against the Romans. This allowed us to share the amazing power of generative AI with the pupils and also to discuss the uses and possible dangers of this new technology.
Year 4 - Why did the Romans invade Britain?
Date: 7th Sep 2025 @ 10:15pm
To start the lesson, we did our chronology flashback. Then, we went to the hall to look at the timeline. We looked at where topics we have learned about previous are compared to the Romans.
Next, we started to look at when the Romans invaded Britain. We learned that Caesar tried to invade Britain twice before in 55BC and 54BC, but was unsuccessful. Then in 43AD, Claudius was successful. We looked at why the Romans wanted to invade Britain so desperately and whether we agreed or disagreed with the invasion (from a Roman perspective).
We used our oracy skills throughout the lesson to practice our answers before speaking and we used ABC stem sentences to agree and challenge others’ opinions.
Date: 9th Jul 2025 @ 11:26am
The children in Year Three visited our own Boundary World War Two Museum. In this we looked at artefacts from the war and thought about what we could infer from them. The children loved looking at posters and pictures from this time and learnt a lot about how Britain stayed strong during the war. We learnt more about evacuation, blackouts, food and clothes rationing.
Date: 8th Jul 2025 @ 11:58am
As part of Hertitage Week the children in Reception enjoyed a fantastiv trip to St Anne Beach. As part of our trip we learnt about the seaside and the different features of a coastal town. We also enjoyed hunting for shells and pebbles, building sandcastles with our freinds and even had a picnic on the sand. When we returned to school we all enjoyed an icecream. To further develop our learning we identified a range of different vocabularly and talked about why people might visit Blackpool.
"I think people come to go to the Beach" Aurora
"I think that they visit so they can go on the big rollercoasters" Kevin
"There are lots of fun things in Blackpool but I like the football club" RJ
We then watched a promotional video followed by drawing our favourite tourist attractions. We even wrote about why it was our favourite.
Following on from this we compared how seaside holidays and visits had changed over time using our key words 'past' and present' We looked at a range of photographs and discuss why we thought they were in the past or the present. the children then worked together to sort them.
Date: 3rd Jul 2025 @ 4:41pm
For our heritage work, year 1 explored the question 'how has Blackpool Tower Circus changed?' We shared what we already knew about the circus, before looking at different sources to explore what the circus was like in the past, comparing this to the present day. We completed a past and present sort and created a timeline using a range of circus posters which gave us further information about the circus. We ended our day with creating our own circus posters for the modern circus.
Date: 2nd Jul 2025 @ 9:56pm
Nursery looked at Stanley Park during Heritage Week and thought about the different clothes you would wear if you went in the winter or the summer. We pulled items of clothing out of a bag and talked about when you would wear the piece of clothing and why. The childen then made their own bear and dressed it for summer or winter.
Year 2 Heritage Day- Showtown and Rock tasting!
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 2:42pm
Heritage day was amazing! We went on a trip to Showtown in Blackpool Town Centre. We learnt all about how the seaside has changed throughout the years. We explored the seaside using our senses and thought about what we would hear, see, taste, smell and feel.
We also looked at how Blackpool developed throughout the years and how summer clothing changed. Finally, we got to explore the museum learning all about the fantastic thingsin our seaside town.
When we returned to school, we learnt about Blackpool Rock and how it is made. We tasted lots of different flavours, including fish and chips flavour! EW!
We then went on to design our own stick of Blackpool Rock and we learnt to sing the song 'My little stick of Blackpool Rock'
We all had a brilliant day learning about our home town and it's history!
Year 4 - Maple - Heritage Day - Trip to Showtown
Date: 30th Jun 2025 @ 11:59am
Wow! What a great morning at Showtown museum in Blackpool. We were first greeted by Snappy a 1950s photographer who showed us lots of pictures she took back then. Then we split off into four groups to explore the museum and learn more about Blackpool Tower and its construction. Back in school we did a double page spread on everything we learned about how Blackpool became a popular seaside resort.
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 3:26pm
Ahead of Heritage Week, Year 3 went to Hangar 42 in Blackpool. We learnt so much about Blackpool during the Second World War and how the RAF operated during the war. We had sessions on code breaking, evacuees and woman at war. The children really enjoyed looking at the different aircrafts and learning how they operated.
Year 3- Why did Britain go to war?
Date: 17th Jun 2025 @ 9:53am
To begin our History journey the children looked at timelines. We looked at what chronological order meant and put key events that we have looked at in KS1 and Year 3 in order. We then went into the hall to see where World War Two was in relation to other key events.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 4:22pm
Today Year 6 visited Manchester Museum. There were lots of different areas to explore, including Ancient Egypt, Fossils, The Natural World and Ancient Asia. We were able to link our learning in Science to the fossil and dinosaur section as well as looking at how animals and plants have evolved over time. We had a great time and learned lots.
