Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC): Blog items

Year 1 Forest School

Date: 17th Jul 2025 @ 6:48pm

Over the past few weeks, Year 1 have enjoyed our second set of Forest School sessions. We were very lucky with the weather and made the most of our last sessions this year. Through the sessions, we learnt about different types of birds and made nests using different natural resources, we made mud creations in the mud kitchen and explored the pond area and found frogs. We even enjoyed a campfire in our last session. 

Year 1 Fun at the Farm

Date: 17th Jul 2025 @ 6:33pm

Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the farm on our Key Stage 2 playground. We talked about what animals we know live on a farm and what we hoped to see before our visit. We also talked about the importance of handwashing and being hygenic around the animals. During our visit we had lots of opportunities to ask questions, stroke the animals, brush them and learn more about them.

Y5 PGL

Date: 17th Jul 2025 @ 12:41pm

Here’s a selection of photos from our children’s recent PGL residential. They had a fantastic time learning new skills, making memories, and working together as a team.

A big thank you to our dedicated staff for supporting the children and making the trip so special!

Year 5 - Mobile Farm Visit

Date: 17th Jul 2025 @ 11:56am

Today, all classes had the fantastic opportunity to visit the mobile farm from Fishers Farm, and it was an absolute highlight for everyone involved. As Year 5 teachers, we were especially proud of how our pupils conducted themselves throughout the visit. Their curiosity, thoughtful questions, and respectful behaviour really stood out, and it was lovely to see them so engaged with the animals and eager to learn more. The staff from Fishers Farm even took the time to compliment the children on their excellent manners and enthusiasm, which made us incredibly proud. It was a wonderful experience that brought learning to life and showcased the very best of our Year 5 pupils.

Reception- The Ice-cream Shop

Date: 11th Jul 2025 @ 10:08am

Reception were very excited when the home corner changed into an ice- cream shop!

Someone made the ice-creams, someone was on the till, the customers chose what they wanted by completing a form with the different flavours and styles of ice- cream and you could design your own ice-cream and ice lolly too. They took turns, helped each other and chatted about their favourite ice- lolly and ice-cream.

Then, when we returned from a day at the beach, Mrs McAllister opened up her own ice-cream shop outside, where children could enjoy a real ice-cream as a treat!

"I love strawberry ice-cream!" Myla- Gray.

"I'm making my own rainbow ice-lolly" Hazel.

"The ice-cream is so refreshing" Harley.

Year 1 Choral Speaking

Date: 8th Jul 2025 @ 5:56pm

Alongside the rest of the school, Year 1 have spent lots of time over the past few weeks perfecting two poems for our Boundary choral speaking competition. Today, we perfomed 'Crabby' and 'Rumble in the Jungle' for the rest of our school. We impressed the judges with our beaming smiles, clear pronunciation and Makaton signs!

Reception Hertitage Week

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.

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.  

Reception- Sports Day

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.

Reception visit the beach

Date: 4th Jul 2025 @ 10:32am

This week the children in Reception enjoyed a trip to the beach as part of 'Heritage Week'.  The children had a fabulous time finding out about the different features of a coastal town as well as exploring the beach.  We built sandcastles, collected different shells and pebbles and even enjoyed a picnic.  When we returned to school, we cooled down in our outdoor area and everyone enjoyed an ice cream.  What a fabulous day!

Year 1 Heritage

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. 

Year 5 - DT Day 2025

Date: 3rd Jul 2025 @ 11:14am

Year 5 had a brilliant DT day exploring how circuits work and what it takes to bring a product to market! We kicked off by investigating simple circuits, learning how to power a bulb and create a working switch. Then we shifted gears to think like real designers—researching existing torches and carrying out some market research to understand what makes a product successful. Armed with our findings and new circuit knowledge, we got hands-on and designed our very own torches, each one complete with a bulb and a functional switch. A great mix of creativity, problem-solving, and real-world thinking.

Year 1 Sports Day

Date: 2nd Jul 2025 @ 4:27pm

Our year 1 children were very excited to take part in sports day today! We completed lots of different activities including welly throwing, egg and spoon races, cup stacking, long jump and speed bounce. We all enjoyed taking part and collecting points for our house teams!

Year 2- Sports Day

Date: 2nd Jul 2025 @ 3:09pm

Today, we enjoyed our annual sports day. We competed in lots of different games and activities that tested our agility, speed and stamina. Thank you to the year 6's for running the event and helping everyone succeed. We look forward to hearing which house won the most points! 

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 - 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.

Netball tournament

Date: 30th Jun 2025 @ 9:02am

Despite the cloudy weather, morning rain, and several team absences, the group performed exceptionally well in last week's netball tournament. The children demonstrated great resilience and teamwork in every game, along with admirable sportsmanship as they shook hands with the opposing teams.

Year 1 Health Week Activities

Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 12:23pm

Year 1 have enjoyed completing lots of health week activities! We came to school in our sports wear, designed new football shirts and medals, created semantics sentences and played balloon race games!

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.

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. 

Year 2- Health Week

Date: 26th Jun 2025 @ 3:42pm

This week we've had health week. Today, we enjoyed a scooter workshop focusing on balance and even managed to do some scooter skills. This afternoon, we looked at the life of a famous lioness, Lauren Hemp looking at what she has achieved so far in her career and how she got there. 

Year 1 Scooter Workshop

Date: 26th Jun 2025 @ 12:31pm

As part of health week, we thoroughy enjoyed a scooter workshop with Elanor! Firstly, we prepared ourselves by putting on our knee pads and helmets. We listened carefully to how to ride the scooters and even learnt some new tricks! 

Year 5 - Learning about the Lionesses

Date: 24th Jun 2025 @ 10:14am

As part of Health Week, our class explored the inspiring journey of an England Lioness, learning about her achievements both on and off the pitch. We discovered how her dedication, resilience, and healthy lifestyle contributed to her success in women's football. Through this lesson, we gained a deeper understanding of the importance of physical and mental wellbeing in reaching personal goals. The session also highlighted the value of teamwork, perseverance, and having strong role models in sport, encouraging us to lead active, healthy lives ourselves.

 
 

School Council Symposium

Date: 23rd Jun 2025 @ 7:34pm

School Council Symposium
A group of our School Council representatives from Boundary Primary School joined children from Stanley Primary School at the Blackpool School Council Symposium, hosted by St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School.
It started with some fun icebreaker games, helping everyone get to know each other and work together as a team.
Our pupils proudly presented to the group, sharing:
- What they have been working on recently
- What issues are important to the children in our school
- Topics they were keen to discuss
It was a fantastic opportunity for our children to build confidence, share ideas and collaborate with peers from other local schools.
Well done, everyone! 👏✨
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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