Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC): Blog items
Date: 19th Nov 2025 @ 1:28pm
This week, we found a fun new brain break to have a go at! We enjoy having a break and then being ready for the next lesson.
Date: 14th Nov 2025 @ 3:57pm
This week we have been exploring travelling by cars as part of our travel and transport topic. We have had lots of fun exploring a variety of resources including a garage, roads and car park, with lots of ramps and new cars.
Acorns have been developing their social skills, playing skills and turn taking skills through a variety of activities with these resources. We have also been developing our communication skills with the support of choice boards and visuals.
Date: 14th Nov 2025 @ 3:24pm
Acorns explored Remeberance Day through poppy art. We enjoyed collaging poppies and choosing different colours to create our poppies.
We went outside with Redwoods to lay our poppy's alongside our remembrance area. Some of us enjoyed looking at the remembrance area and some us us planted our poppies independently.
Date: 14th Nov 2025 @ 11:41am
Reception have been learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali- 'The Festival of Light'. The children have been finding out how Hindu's prepare for the celebration by cleaning and decorating this houses. The learnt what a diva lamp is and that rangolli patterns are made to welcome guests to their homes. We found out that they have many special traditionsincluding visiting their temple, sharing a special meal with their families, wearing speacial clothes and even setting off fireworks. the children enjoyed making Diwali cards for their friends, paintng rangolli patterns and even making their very own diva lamp to take home.
"Diwali is the festaval of light" Rohan
"They celebrate good over bad" Ava
"They wear special clothes and have food with their family" Lockie
"The light a diva lamp" Isabel
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: 14th Nov 2025 @ 10:02am
On Tuesday 11th November, each child in Reception made and planted their poppy in the school Remembrance Garden. On each poppy they had 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.
Reception also had opportunities to paint a poppy, collage a poppy, draw a poppy using pencil crayons or felt tips and label it too.
" We wear a poppy so we remember the soldiers who died in the war" Noah
"Poppies are red" Zara
Date: 13th Nov 2025 @ 7:22pm
Today we enjoyed raising money for Children in Need. Lots of us changed a part of our uniform to something spotty or stripy and donated money to charity. We learnt more about Children in Need in our Friday assembly and how the theme for this year is helping to raise funds.
Date: 13th Nov 2025 @ 9:13am
This week, we have celebrated anti-bullying week. We began the week with an assembly by Mrs Clarke who gave us some scenarios and we discussed what we could do to be an upstander rather than a bystander. We understood that if we see someone being bullied we need to act and get help from a trusted adult. On Friday, we celebrated our differences by wearing odd socks and completed our PSHE lesson, looking at the difference between being unkind and being bullied. We know that bullying is when something is intentional and repeated behaviour and how to get help.
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: 11th Nov 2025 @ 8:58am
Today we planned our poppies in our remembrance garden to honour all the soldiers that have died in wars over the years. We will remember them.
Reception- Holly Class Trip To The Woods
Date: 10th Nov 2025 @ 4:58pm
Today we visited Salisbury Woods to learn about Autumn.
Here, we had a great time collecting different types of leaves and looking at the different colours they were, red, orange, yellow and brown. We also found pine cones and conkers and saw a squirrel running through the trees collecting food for the Winter.
"My leaf is red" Tilly- Mae
"My leaf is brown and shaped like a love heart" Dolcie- Rae
"The leaves fall off the trees in Autumn because they have died" Rohan
"The weather is getting colder in Autumn" Bonnie
Reception Willow Class visit the woods
Date: 10th Nov 2025 @ 4:56pm
Today the children in Willoiw class had a fantastic time visiting Salisbury Woods to look for signs of autumn. The children enjoyed collecting a range of different autumnal objects including autumn leaves, conkers and pine cones. As we walked around the woods we discussed the changes we see during the season of autumn.
"The leaves are changing colour- red and yellow" Lockie
:The leaves fall off the trees" Theo
"It gets dark quick at night" Grayson
"Animals hibernate" Ava
The children enjoyed playing some different traditioonal games including hide and seek and pooh sticks. They were even lucky enough to spot some grey squirrels.
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 @ 10:22am
This week in Reception we have been talking about different traditions and celebrations. We focused on Halloween and Bonfire Night- discussing how did people celebrate with their friends and families. The children enjoyed discussingtheir family traditions explaining which celebration their prefered and why.
"I like bonfire night because you eat toffee aples" Noah
"I prefer halloween because I like going treat or trating and having parties" Lockie
"Halloween is fin because you dress you" Shiloh
The children emersed themselves in the different celebrations by taking part in a range of activities including carving pumpkins, making potions, collaging halloween theme pictures and even making their own bonfire night picture. Have a look at all the wonderful things we have been doing this week.
Reception- Blackpool Football Club
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 10:19am
Over the next half term, each week, Reception will be having a PE lesson with Blackpool Football Club. They will learn the fundamental skills of listening, moving in different ways, throwing and catching a ball. controlling a ball with their feet, taking turns and showing respect. We also learned the importance of warming up before exercising.
Take a look at how we moved around the hall as different animals, changing our speed and listening to the instructions.
"You have to warm up so your muscles don't get hurt" Zane
"I was a giraffe standing on my tip toes" Zara
"You have to stop when it is red!" Faith B
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 @ 7:57pm
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.
Acorns - Road safety experience
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 10:53am
As part of our topic, people who help us, we have had a visit from Zoe, our school crossing patrol officer. The children enjoyed meeting her in class and looking at looking at her lollipop stick, gloves and woolly hat.
We sang a song about crossing the road safely and looked at lots of visuals to support our experience and understanding.
We went into the car park and found the zebra crossing, listened to an adult as we said "Stop, look and listen". We looked left and right for cars before crossing the zebra crossing safely. We then saw Zoe and when she was in the middle of the road, it was safe to cross.
Well done, Acorns
Reception- Black History Month
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 3:11pm
This week Reception have been reading the book Whoever You Are as part of Black History Month.
We talked about how children may not look the same, speak the same language and their lives might be quite different. However, inside they are just the same- everyone is different and everyone is special.
"I like learning with my friends" Zara
"We let everyone join in our game" Reggie
"We hug our friends when they are sad" Eliza
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 @ 11:51am
This week we had our first meeting. Everyone was very excited to be voted in as a School Councilor and are looking forward to an exciting year.
We will meet twice each half term to discuss issues, work on projects in school and give opinions on school decisions.
We will also need to write the minutes for each meeting (the official record of what was discussed and actioned at the meeting) and this is usually carried out by Y5 or Y6.
Finally we visited the display board so we know where it is located in school.
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 11:12am
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Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 8:58am
Acorns have enjoyed meeting our school nurse Miss Brooks. She visited us as part of our topic, people who help us. We enjoyed a wonderful multisensory learning experience about help and helping others.
We explored our core word help, through visual, signing and verbalisation. We loved helping our teddys and making them feel better. We even explored helping each other.
