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

Year 1 Easter Eggs

Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 12:40pm

These are some of our Year 1 entries for our Boundary Easter Egg competition. Well done to all the children who entered and we are looking forward to finding out the winner!

Year 1 Gymnastics

Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 12:27pm

This half term, we have been exploring balance, coordination and sequences of movement through gymnastics. We have developed individual movements aswell as working with others to create sequences in unison. 

Acorns - Walking through the Jungle

Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 4:18pm

Acorns have loved exploring animals and their habitats this week. We have enjoyed multi sensory activities along with our story, Walking Through the Jungle, to support our learning, understanding and engagement. 

We enjoyed exploring that people live in homes and different animals live in different places including jungles, oceans, mountains and deserts, but we all lived together on Earth. 

Year 5 - Forest Fun!

Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 3:44pm

In this week’s Forest School lesson, pupils cooked on the campfire. They made gluten-free welsh cakes which were delicious, especially when eaten warm! Pupils also made clay models and built dens in the wild area. What a brilliant time in the spring sunshine!

Year 5 - Groovy Greeks

Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 12:14pm

This week, pupils in year 5 have had the chance to investigate a range of artefacts from Ancient Greece thanks to Lancashire County Council’s museum loan service. Pupils made observations of the objects and discussed what they were. The children sketched the artefacts and made notes about them from research and their own ideas. They also had the chance to dress up as a Greek hoplite and hold the weapons they would have used.

Year 3 and Year 4 - Police Horses

Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:11am

Recently, we had a fantastic day meeting some very important members of our community—the police horses and officers from Lancashire Constabulary! It was so exciting to see these magnificent horses up close. The officers explained that police horses can be seen at big events, making sure everyone is happy and safe. They even showed us how the horses received their training! We learned that these brave animals and their human partners work together to protect us. What an incredible experience it was!

Boundary's Budding Stars!

Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:09am

On Wednesday a range of children across school performed in our music concert. We had choir, peripatetic drummers, samba, Shakespeare, peripatetic guitars and School Alive. All the children were wonderful, and should be very proud of their hard work!

Nursery Easter Stay and Play

Date: 2nd Apr 2025 @ 5:00pm

The children were so excited to welcome their parents and carers in to nursery for our Easter Stay and Play. They made some Easter crafts together and iced an Easter biscuit. The children throughly enjoyed showing their favourite people around nursery and sharing with them what they do when they are at school. 

OPAL Play in KS1

Date: 1st Apr 2025 @ 3:44pm

We have begun to add different provisions and areas to our KS1 playground at lunch times. We are having so much fun playing all together.

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Year 4 - Art

Date: 1st Apr 2025 @ 11:56am

What a great half term of art for Year 4. We have been exploring a number of different mediums this half term all with a 'Feast' theme. We have made and painted clay foods and we have also created a communal picnic of foods.

Reception Learn about the Lifecycle of a Frog.

Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 9:22pm

During our spring walk the children noticed some frogspawn in our school pond.  We took a small amount of frogspawn back to the classroom to observe what was happening.  The children enjoyed using the magnifying glasses to look closely at the frogspawn and used a range of new vocabulary to desrcibe what they could see. During our oracy session we introduced some new vocabularly and practiced projecting our voices when saying the words.  We looked at some different images and watch some short video clips and discusses as a class what we could see and what we thought was happening in the pictures.  The children practised using the a range of different sentence starters  and expanding their sentences using because.  The children used our signals for agree, build and challenge to beging to have a discussion with their peers.

"I think the frog is laying its eggs" Lily-Mae

"I agree with Lilly-Mae.  IT's calle frogspawn" Lilah

"Next the tadpoles nibble a hole and swim in the pond" Freyja

"They get front and back legs" Rosie

"It's called a froglet because it has a long tail" Dennis.

 

The children then worked indentedently to correctly order the pictures in the lifecycle and label the pictures with the correct vocabulary.  Some of the children even chose to paint a picture of the frog in the pond.  Come and have a look at our learning.

Year 1 Police Horses

Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 6:14pm

Today Year 1 enjoyed meeting two police horses! We began by watching the police officers get the horses ready by putting their bridles and saddles on. We then had lots of oppourtunity to ask questions to gain a better understanding of why police horses are important, when they are used and how they are looked after. We were also able to give them some commands which they followed to enable them to move forwards, backwards, left and right. 

School Council- Opal Ideas For The Playground.

Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 5:02pm

The School Council met with Mrs Webster to discuss the resources needed for outdoor play in KS1&2 playgrounds. They will discuss this with their class and a letter will go home to parents/ carers asking for donations.

The School Council also talked about the rules for outdoor play and decided that they will use a 'bee' logo, for example, 'bee safe'.  

Reception Meet The Police Horses

Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 4:48pm

This afternoon, Reception enjoyed a visit from The Blackpool Police Horses. The police officers explained that  horses were used as they can see over fences and walls and can travel down narrow alleys and through parkland- places that police cars may struggle to go. They then demonstrated how the horses can go left, right, forward and backwards and turn in a circle. 

Spelling Bee March 2025

Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 10:30am

Today we held our second Spelling Bee of the school year. 4 children were chosen from each group to represent their house and were given 3 spellings each. They have been learning these words over the last few weeks and we could all tell. The children did brilliantly and did themselves (and their house) proud. We are already looking forward to the final Spelling Bee in the Summer term.

Year 4 - Egyptian dance sequence

Date: 27th Mar 2025 @ 8:50am

This week, we used all our learning so far to start to put together a dance sequence. We thought about gods/goddesses, hieroglyphics, making the pyramids and what all those things mean. We created a mind map of ideas on the board, then started putting our sequences together.

Reception Music during Spring Term

Date: 26th Mar 2025 @ 11:39pm

We began this term by learning lots of winter songs. Snowflakes, Snowflakes and I’m a Little Snowman were some of our favourites. We learnt songs and explored music linked with Chinese New Year. Recently we have focused on learning animal songs. We all love Tiger, Tiger Orange and Black and Walking Though the Jungle. We continue to learn lots of Nursery Rhyme and songs to help with speaking, phonics as well as our musical understanding.

We can now name many percussion instruments and have experimented playing maracas, claves, drums, glockenspiels and tambourines. We can stop and start together and can nearly keep a steady beat as a class!

Year 6 - Careers in Aviation

Date: 26th Mar 2025 @ 4:49pm

Today Year 6 took part in an online event hosted by Primary Futures. We learnt all about jobs in aviation including an aeronautical engineer, a police aircraft pilot and a researcher from Manchester University. 

Acorns - Blackpool Zoo

Date: 25th Mar 2025 @ 6:23pm

Acorns had a fabulous time visiting Blackpool Zoo today. The sun was shining and the children were amazing. We loved looking at all the different animals including elephants, lions and tigers, giraffes, lots of different monkeys and apes and our favourites, the sea lions! We enjoyed repeating their animal names and even tried signing them. We also listened to the different sounds and loved feeling the raised animal sketches around each area. We had a great day! 

Year 2- Forest School

Date: 25th Mar 2025 @ 3:32pm

Today we enjoyed our final Forest school session of the year. We explored the areas, built some dens, looked at the frog spawn and continued emptying the pond. Finally, we used the firefighters to create some sparks so we could toast marshmallows and make smores. 

Year 1 Judaism - Visit

Date: 24th Mar 2025 @ 5:27pm

Today we enjoyed meeting a member of the Jewish faith who came in to our school to support our current learning about Judaism. We shared everything we have learnt so far with our visitor and enjoyed learning about the festival of Sukkot and how this is celebrated by Jewish families today. 

Year 1 Red Nose Day

Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 11:22am

Today we came to school dressed in something red to celebrate Red Nose Day! We enjoyed raising money to help others and completing Red Nose Day activities in Always Time.

Year 3- Red Nose Day!

Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 9:33am

As part of Red Nose Day, the children in Year 3 came dressed with one item of red! The children wore red to raise money for charity, and thought about how we could be more considerate to those in need.

Reception Animals and their habitats

Date: 20th Mar 2025 @ 9:43pm

As part of our learning about animals, today we had a visit from the fabulous Teach Rex.  We had a special assembly where we were lucky enough to meet Thomas the Gorilla.  We listened carefully to a story about Thomas and his family and participated in some different games to find out more about where he lives and the different foods he eats.  When we when back to the classroom we further explored different animal habitats.  We sorted different animals to the correct habitat and discuss why lived in this environment.  We also had the opportunity to meet Rodger the Sloth and Derek the Cherokee.  We has a fabulous time learning about the diffeerent animals.

"Sloths live in the rainforest" Dennis

"The gorilla had black fur" Aurora

"Thomas lives int he rainforest" Kamiyah

"Lions and elephants live in the savanna.  It's hot there" Kevin

"Camels live in the desert.  They have water in their humps" Freyja

Year 3 - Science and Geography Day!

Date: 20th Mar 2025 @ 8:57pm

What an exciting day we've had today at Boundary - when Science and Geography come together...

We started off the day by looking at what extinct and endangered meant and then explored a range of animals that are now on the endangered list.

Then utter excitement erupted within our children as TeachRex came into school and we got to meet Thomas, the gorilla. We were told a story about Thomas and how his life has been effected by the hands of humans - poaching! Back in the classroon, we looked at the reasons why they were endangered and looked at the conservation efforts that are being done to save them. We then made a fact file about these animals, including their habitat, threats, conservation status and located where these animals live on a world map. Finally, the afternoon was spent creating videos on a greenscreen, where the children got bananas thrown at them by some very cheeky gorillas. 

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