Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC): Blog items
Date: 29th Apr 2024 @ 8:02am
Over the last two lessons we have looked at the K-Pop genre. Using our listening and appraising skills, we heard a track called Into the Night. This track brought out the K-Pop fans in the classroom and started a discussion about foreign language music and its impact on the world - we talked about how useful it could be to learn a new language and learn about other cultures.
We also started learning the song Into the Night (our favourite of the year so far!) and some of us even choreographed some dance moves for our final performance!
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 12:06pm
This week, Oak class have begun their new class novel of Wonder by R.J. Palacio. We don't want to give too much away so read the following blurb and see if it's something you'd like to read:
'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'
Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go.
Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 11:26am
This week in Forest School, we were very busy completing parts of our Wild Passport. Pupils were challenged to make a whistle from a carrot, cook welshcakes on the fire and build a den. It was much warmer and sunnier than last week!
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 11:23am
Over the last few weeks the children in Reception have been using the Boomwhackers to explore sound and pitch. We worked together to count them and place them in order from the lowest sound to the highest sound. The children enjoyed explring the different sounds and making different different tunes.
"This shortest boomwhaker its the highest" Alaiya
"I've have the lowest sound" Sid
Eco at Boundary- Black Path Collaboration Litter Picking.
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 11:06am
This week the Eco Warriors and a group of parent helpers, took part in the Black Path Collaboration Day, a community based group who have agreed to look after and maintain the pathways around the new housing development on Grange Park.
Altough it was a very wet start to our day, the Eco Warriors managed to pick up lots of rubbish along the paths. We started at @The Grange and then worked our way up to the green areas near the new park.
"Why don't people just put the plastic bottles in the recycling bin?" Lyra- Rose
"Litter on the street is dirty and has germs." Jessica.
"I saw a shampoo bottle- why would you throw this on the path? Recycle it!" Lacey.
Date: 25th Apr 2024 @ 2:52pm
In History this week, the children explored a World War Two museum and discovered what we could learn from artefacts. We were focussing on the question of how Britain stayed strong during the war. The children learnt about the Home Guard, shelters, gas masks, evacuation and blackouts.
Acorns - Healthy Eating & Lifestyles
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 2:44pm
This week Acorns have been exploring how to keep ourselves healthy. We have experienced lots of fun sensory activities to learn about healthy eating and keeping our bodies healthy. We even found giant grapes in our 'Bucket' activity. We particularly enjoyed making and trying fruit kebabs. Strawberries were a definite favourite and we loved watching ourselves move in the big mirrors.
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 2:30pm
This term Acorns topic is Let's Grow. We will be looking at the growth of plants, flowers, fruit and vegetables as well as the life cycles of butterflies and frogs. We will be exploring spring as we see the new growth all around us. This week we have incorportated the story Jack and the Beanstalk and Jasper's Beanstalk in our learning and learnt about planting and growing. We planted our very own beans and are excited to watch them grow.
Reception- Looking for signs of Spring.
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 4:37pm
This week we have been looking for signs of Spring in our school grounds.
It was a little bit chilly but we wrapped up warmly and ventured out into the sunshine.
Around school, we found tulips growing, buds beginning to sprout on branches, pink and white blossom blowing in the wind, a birds nest and even some tadpoles swimming in our school pond.
As we discovered something new, we ticked it off our list until everything had been found- we were very lucky indeed!
Take a look at what Spring looks like at Boundary Primary School.
"Blossom grows on trees in Spring...it is pink and white" Esme.
"I can see tulips and they are red" Melani.
"We have a birds nest and baby birds in it in our outdoor area" Niko.
"Buds grow on trees in Spring" Elie- May.
"The tadpoles in the pond will grow up to be frogs" Mathew.
Year 6 - Opinions about school subjects in French
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 2:50pm
Year 6 continued their unit based on school subjects. After learning how to tell the time in French to the nearest hour, the children went on to create longer sentences which involved saying what day and time they study a particular subject. They also completed a listening activity which focused on children's opinions about school subjects. Everyone did really well.
Date: 17th Apr 2024 @ 3:18pm
This morning the children in Reception enjoyed going on a spring walk around the school grounds including; out outdoor garden, forest school and the woodland area outside year four. The children spotted blosoom on trees, flowers growing like tulips and dafodills, leaf buds and even a birds nest.
"Blossom grows on trees in spring" Kisha
"Birds make nests and lay eggs" Hunter
The leaves will grow soon" Summer
"It gets warmer in spring" Esmai
"I founds a ladybird and a butterfly" Sahiti
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 9:20pm
This week the children in Reception have been learning about how to keep ourselves healthy. We talked about having a healthy diet, identifying specific foods that are healthy and others that we should just have as a treat. We talked about the imporantce of getting plently of sleeps and keeping active through exercise. We discussed how many times we should brush our teeth each day and why this is important. Throughout the week we completed lots of different tasks including; making a healthy fruit kebab snack, sorting different foods into healthy choices and occassional treats, practised washing out hands properly, practising brushing our false teeth and exercising in out outdoor area.
"You need to get lotsof sleep because that's when you grow" Oliver
"Brush your teeth in the moring and at hight" Sahiti
"Sugar makes your teeth rot away and makes them sore " Elisha
"You need to go to the dentist so they can check them" Esmai
"Chocolate is a treat" Thomas
"You should have 5 fruit and vegetable a day" Isla
"Exercise make you strong" Levi
Have a look at some of our learning.
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 10:57am
Acorns have had a great week exploring space and shape. Our story of the week, Whatever Next, saw us travelling into space. We enjoyed the sensory experience of boxes as a rocket and a collander for a helmet. For maths, we explored shapes and made colourful rockets using lots of different shapes. We used a space theme to support our writing and mark making skills. What a busy week.
Date: 12th Apr 2024 @ 2:21pm
Every week, during Always Time, we have a different theme. This week, we did Origami and we loved it! We listened to calming music and coloured our creations in afterwards too.
Nursery Get a Little Bit Muddy!
Date: 11th Apr 2024 @ 11:30am
Nursery had a very muddy forest school experience! It was a very rainy day but that didn't stop us having lots of fun! We hunted for food for the Very Hungry Caterpillar, made a home home for a caterpillar and splashed and squelched in the muddy puddles!
Date: 10th Apr 2024 @ 8:57am
After spending time exploring a variety of existing shell structures, looked at creating nets and CAD, it was finally time to make our final products. We made our very own Easter themes boxes to hold a chocolate surprise. We had to carefully use a hot glue gun and measure accurately to ensure that they folded together correctly. We also used moulds to create different chocolate shapes to go inside, proving our designs were fit for purpose!
Reception The Easter Bunny visits Reception
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 3:02pm
On our final afternoon, before the Easter half term, Reception had a very special visit from the Easter Bunny. He had hidden lots if egg in our outside area. The children put on their Easter bonnets and bunny ears and enjoyed working together to find the eggs. What great fun we had!
Reception- Holly Trip To The Zoo.
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 2:40pm
On Tuesday Holly Class visited Blackpool Zoo. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny Spring day and everyone enjoyed visiting all the different animals and the habitats they live in. Some were hot, some were wet and some were very smelly!
We saw lions, tigers, zebras, monkeys, gorillas, orangutans, flamingoes, pelicans, farm animals, wolves, lemurs, parrots, camels, elephants and many more! We watched the sea lion show, and learnt a few interesting facts, and had an exciting classroom experience where we looked at parrot feathers, camel fur, a turtle shell, a huge elephant tooth and some of us were even brave enough to hold a cockroach!
"The camel fur was soft and tickly" Esme.
"The cockroach was tickly!" Lucy.
"What a huge tooth- it's so heavy I can't lift up properly!" Mathew.
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 11:35am
Over the past few weeks the children in Reception have been learning about why Christains celebrate Easter. We have listened to the Easter story and talked about the different events leading up to Jesus' crucification. We found out that Jesus was crucified on a cross on Good Friday . Then people took his body to a tomb but when his friends visited his body had gone. We talked about how Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead. As a class we discussed the different ways people including Christians celebrate Easter. To help us remember the importance of Easter we made our own cross on a hill.
"Jesus died at Easter" Oliver
"He came backnto life and went to be with God" Isabelle.
"I go to church with my family" Sid
"My mummy and daddy get me Easter eggs" Alaiya
Reception Willow Class visit the zoo.
Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 12:35pm
This week the children in Willow class had a great day visiting Blackpool Zoo. Although it was a little bit wet and rainy it didnt stop us getting our water proofs and wellies on. We travelled to the zoo on the mini bus and when we arrived we took part in a workshop. During the workshop we were lucky enough to meet and hold a hissing cockroach aswell as explore lots of different items like; camel fur, elephant and snake skin, an elephant's tooth and a turtle shell. We saw lots of animals whilst exploring the zoo includuing; tigers, lions, giraffes, zebra, camels, gorillas, lemurs, red pandas, elephants and even a baby orangatan. What a great day we had!
Date: 23rd Mar 2024 @ 2:31pm
This week Year 1 children visitied the Sea Life centre. We enjoyed seeing all the different marine life, including sea turtles, jellyfish, starfish and lots more! We learnt lots about the different animals, their diets, size and where they come from in the world.
Reception The Day the Dinosaurs came to Boundary
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 2:22pm
Today, dinosaurs arrived at Boundary! We begun the day with an assembly where we met Jam the T-Rex and learnt about what he ate and dentifyied his different physical features. Later on in the day 3 baby dinosaurs visited our classroom; Sky, Roger and Dinky. We compared how they were similar and different. The children had a great time throughout the day exploring our small world dinosar area, painting their own T-Rex, drawing and labelling their own dinosaurs and finding out about the job of a paleontologist.
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 11:36am
In RE, we looked at the Vaisakhi festival. We looked at traditional jewellery and clothing, learnt about the traditions of the festival and even got to try some traditional foods. We had a great time and enjoyed learning about a different culture.
Raising Money for 'Always Elmer'
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 9:14am
Acorns - The day the dinosaurs came
Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 4:41pm
Acorns have had a fun-filled dinosaur themed day today. We have enjoyed exploring dinosaurs in our tuff tray, listening to our sensory story, 10 little dinosaurs and incorporating dinosaurs into our number and literacy learning. Our favourite part was meeting the baby dinosaur Sky. She let us touch her and feel her skin and then we had fun feeding her balls so she could throw them for us to catch. What a great day!
