Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC): Blog items
Date: 17th Dec 2025 @ 1:27pm
Today, we used our knowledge of Christianity to produce a picture of the key characters in the nativity. We used silhouettes on a colourful background to make the characters stand out and create a stained glass effect. We then used silhouettes of Mary, baby Jesus, Joseph and the star shining brightly above the manger.
Date: 16th Dec 2025 @ 2:57pm
This week, Year 1 took on a range of challenges as a circuit with the aim of raising money for Brian House and the Trinity Hospice. We had elf/christmas accessories and undertook a range of fun games including snow ball toss, reindeer races and present races.
Date: 16th Dec 2025 @ 2:29pm
🎄 The Christmas carol service was a truly joyful occasion, filled with festive music 🎶 and a warm sense of community.
⭐ Year 6 took the lead with confidence, guiding the younger pupils through the readings 📖 and setting a wonderful example.
✨ Their clear voices and expressive delivery brought the Christmas story to life, making the service both meaningful and memorable.
🎶 The combination of traditional carols, thoughtful readings, and the children’s enthusiasm created a magical atmosphere that everyone enjoyed.
Year 4 - Parliament assembly and workshop
Date: 16th Dec 2025 @ 1:25pm
Today, we had a visit from Parliament. The afternoon started with an assembly all about the UK Government then Year 4 were lucky enough to have a workshop with Rachael Dodgson (Education and engagement officer for the North West). Rachael talked to us about the House of Lords and the House of Commons. Did you know that the King isn't allowed in the House of Commons at all? We also learned that school is in the Blackpool South constituency and our MP is called Chris Webb. Rachael told us we can find all of his details if we want to contact him about something or find our MP for our home address if we live further away by searching 'find my MP'. We discussed what qualities an MP would need. Rachael was impressed with our answers such as good oracy skills, confident and approachable. After the assembly, Rachael did a workshop with us where we debated like we were in the House of Commons. To start with, we watched a video of MPs debating and learned what to call each other and how to act/ speak. Rachael was super impressed with our oracy skills during our debate about whether all pupils should walk to school at least once a week. One member of Year 4 acted as the speaker and each person debating had to address her as Madam Speaker each time. What a fun afternoon!
Date: 16th Dec 2025 @ 12:08pm
This week the children in nativity have performed our annual 'Wriggly Nativity'. The children performed brilliantly singing the songs beautifully, participating in the dances as well as remembering where to stand on stage. They looked fantastic in their costumes and we are so proud of every single child.
Date: 16th Dec 2025 @ 7:32am
This week, we have been writing letters to Santa. We told him why we thought we deserved him to visit our houses and politely asked for what we would like for Christmas. We made sure we used our learning from throughout the half term to use capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and correct letter formation in our letters.
Date: 12th Dec 2025 @ 10:11am
The National Trust are committed to preserving the natural beauty of the landscape and, as a testament to this, they encourage festive tree dressing at this time of year.
Here at Boundary, we decided it would be fun to celebrate this and chose three trees in our school grounds to dress- one in Nursery outdoor area, one in Reception outdoor area and one in KS2 garden area.
Take a look at how great they look!
Reception rehearse the Nativity
Date: 12th Dec 2025 @ 9:59am
As part of our learning about why Christians Christmas we have been preparing our annual Nativity performance. The children have been busy learning the songs and actions as well as practising when they need to move and stand on stage. We are very proud of how the children have listened carefully and shown patience and hardwork during rehearsals. They can't wait to put their costumes on and perform the the rest of the school and their families next week.
Date: 9th Dec 2025 @ 2:27pm
We loved our visit from Stage Ed today for our annual pantomime. This year was Cinderella. The panto began with Cinderella and Prince Charming telling the story of how they met. It was so much fun!
Date: 9th Dec 2025 @ 7:37am
Lots of our Year 1 children attended our Christmas disco this week! The children had a fantastic time and enjoyed playing games, dancing and eating some party food!
Year 1 Christmas Jumper Day & Christmas Dinner
Date: 9th Dec 2025 @ 7:18am
Today, Year 1 enjoyed coming to school wearing our Christmas jumpers! Everyone was in the festive spirit and enjoyed a fantastic Christmas lunch with all the trimmings!
Reception enjoy Christmas dinner
Date: 8th Dec 2025 @ 9:55pm
Today the children in Reception enjoyed having Christmas dinner with their friends. Thei chi;drem were invited to get into the Christmas spirit by wearing a Christmas jumper. Evertone looked fabulous! They enjoyed a lovely turkey dinner with all the trimmings whilst they sang along to Christmas songs and pulled crackers with their friends.
Year 4 - Christmas jumpers and Christmas dinner
Date: 8th Dec 2025 @ 10:54am
We loved getting festive today wearing our Christmas jumpers!
At lunchtime, we enjoyed a yummy Christmas dinner and enjoyed the Christmas tunes!
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 10:48am
We have been reading the story The Gingerbreadman.
It is one of our favourite stories and everyone loves joining in saying "Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the Gingerbreadman!".
Everyone collaged and painted a Gingerbreadman, wrote a list of the characters from the story and retold the story at the story telling table.
"Everyone chased the Gingerbreadman" Raya
"They couldn't catch him" Ibrahim
"He was a very fast Gingerbreadman" Harrison- Bleu
"The fox was sneaky- he tricked him and ate him all up!" Bonnie
Reception- Christmas Role Play
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 10:37am
It has been a very exciting week in Reception- Christmas has arrived!
All the children have been enjoying dressing up in the home corner as Elves and reindeers. They sang songs, made "hot chocolate" and "Christmas dinner" and wrote Christmas lists to Santa. They also helped each other put their costumes on too.
Reception get busy in Santa's Workshop
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 10:26am
This week the children have hand a great time role playing in Santa's Workshop. They have been practising their scissor skills by cutting wrapping paper and working their finger muscles to wrapp a range of different presents. They have been creating their own role plays by using their imagination and developing thewir sharing and turn taking skills whislt playing together. The children have been busy designing teir own toys and writing Chirstmas lists. What a fabulous time they have had!
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 9:22am
🎄 The Christmas Kindness Challenge: Small Acts, Big Joy
This week, our Christmas Kindness Challenge has encouraged pupils to spread festive cheer through simple, thoughtful actions.
Day 1: Make a card for your teacher
Students created colourful, heartfelt cards to show their appreciation. A lovely start to the week!
Day 2: Hold the door open
A small act with a big impact—our corridors were full of smiles and good manners.
Day 3: Say something nice to a friend
Kind words filled the classrooms as pupils shared compliments and encouragement.
Day 4: Tidy the classroom
Everyone pitched in to make our learning spaces clean, organised, and welcoming.
A little kindness goes a long way—especially at Christmas! Let’s keep the festive goodwill flowing. 🎅✨
Year 4 - December Kindness Challenge
Date: 2nd Dec 2025 @ 10:22am
Our December kindness challenge is up and running in Year 4!
1st - Make your teacher a Christmas card
2nd - Hold the door open for someone
We can't wait to see more kindness not just in school but outside of school throughout December!
Date: 1st Dec 2025 @ 6:41pm
This week Reverend Peter from St Marks Church visited us to talk about the important message in the Christmas story. We told him everything that we have learnt about Christianity so far. Reverend Peter then read the nativity story to us and we all joined in with different parts. He taught us about the key messages in the story and the roles of different characters. We then had some time to ask questions about the Nativity story and the Christian faith.
Date: 1st Dec 2025 @ 6:37pm
Today we learnt to recognise the symbols used on an Ordnance Survey map. We learnt that these maps are used to help people find places of interest in an area. We then looked at different map symbols together and worked out what each meant. We learnt that symbols are used to save space on a map and clearly show where different things area located.
Date: 28th Nov 2025 @ 8:52am
As part of our PSHE and Science curriculum, today we invited PCSO Debby Savage to talk to Year 6 about the effects and dangers of drugs and alcohol. The children were very sensible listening to what she had to say and asked some very good questions. We discussed smoking, vaping, alcohol and illegal/legal drugs and how they can affect our bodies.
Date: 25th Nov 2025 @ 10:04am
What a great morning at our Together Time today. We welcomed in parents and carers to our programming lesson on Scratch. Before we got started, we showed our parents our Sensory Circuit which gets us ready for the day! Then we followed instructions from Scratch to code a fun game. Our teachers were very impressed with our knowledge...and the parents!
Date: 21st Nov 2025 @ 11:23am
This week Acorns have been exploring the celebration of Diwali.
We have enjoyed sharing songs and stories, exploring light up toys and lamps in our 'Bucket time' sessions and creating Diva lamps.
We have had so much fun.
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.
