Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC): Blog items
Year 2's Final Forest School Fun!
Date: 4th May 2023 @ 5:20pm
Today was our final session of Forest School in Year 2 and what fun we had! We used lots of the resources we could find including leaves, flowers and string to create our own stick creations, some of us got creative enough and began to build a den. Other children helped chop up fruits so we could enjoy fruit kebabs by the fire and dip them in some melted chocolate or caramel. We loved our final session in Year 2 and cannot wait until it's our turn next year.
Reception Five Tiny Caterpillars
Date: 4th May 2023 @ 12:27pm
This week the children in Reception had a very special delivery. On Tuesday five tiny little caterpillars arrived in our classroom. Over the next few weeks the chidren are going to be observing the caterpillars grow and change and learning about the lifecycle of the caterpillar. Keep your eyes peeled for updates.
Date: 4th May 2023 @ 8:13am
This half term, in Computing, we are looking at algorithms and programming floor robots. Yesterday, we focused on making predictions of where different algorithms will land on the floor robot mats before testing how accurate our predictions were. Finally, we create our own 4 step algorithm and again predicted where it would land before testing how accurate we were.
Year 2 Forest School Fun Part 2
Date: 4th May 2023 @ 7:58am
Last week in Forest School, we learnt all about the Elder tree. We begun the lesson by creating a shelter using a parachute to protect us from the wind and after we came out we went on a hunt to find the only Elder tree in our Forest School area. We then used parts of Elder to use a hack saw to make a small piece and pushed the middle out so we could thread some string through to create necklaces or bracelets. We had so much fun and enjoyed getting creative with the Elder. Those that decided they didn't want to make something had plenty of fun den building and planting some seeds.
Date: 28th Apr 2023 @ 2:13pm
Date: 26th Apr 2023 @ 1:28pm
This week, we discussed what a community is. We discovered that a community can be a small group and a large group or area. Then, we made our perfect community and had to reason why we included what we did.
Year 2's Summer Forest School Fun
Date: 20th Apr 2023 @ 2:57pm
Today, Year Two enjoyed the first of their final three forest school sessions whilst they are in Year 2. Today we began the session by checking on the progress of the tadpoles and thought about where in their life cycle they are at. Then, Jenna and Michelle had set up lots of different dandelion activities for us to do. We could choose from making dandelion patterns on a piece of fabric by bashing rocks onto the dandelions and leaves to leave marks on the fabric, we could make dandelion pom-poms using wool as well as washing dandelions ready for us to make dandelion tea. At the end of the session, we tried the dandelion tea we had made, some of us enjoyed it whilst others thought it tasted disgusting. We are looking forward to continuing our forest school fun next week.
Year 4 - King Charles III's Coronation Song
Date: 18th Apr 2023 @ 3:43pm
Today we started to learn the song for King Charles III's Coronation Day in May. We listened and appraised it using our brilliant musical vocabulary and then we started to have a go at singing it.
Reception Spring Term Stay and Play
Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 2:03pm
This week the children in Reception invited their parents in to come into our termly stay and play. It was a fantastic turn out with 25 families coming into school to support their children. The children enjoyed showing their family members around the room, demonstrating how they complete their 'mini mes' indpendently and sharing what they had been learning over past term. Thank you for your continued support over the past term. Your input at home really does make a difference to the children's learning.
Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 1:52pm
Why do Christians celebrate Easter?
This week Reception have been learning about the Easter story. On Monday, in a whole school assembly, they listened to Year 6 and Reverend Matt explaining the Easter story. After assembly, the children then made an Easter picture of a cross on a hill.
"Jesus died on the cross" Finley.
"He was crucified" Logan.
"He died and was put in a cave" Lana- Rose
"Jesus came back to life" Lennox
Date: 5th Apr 2023 @ 4:58pm
This week, Year Two have been making their moving vehicles based upon their initial designs. First, the children built their axles, wheels and chassis using construction kits before chosing a box of an appropriate size to use as the body of their vehicle. Next, we painted the boxes the colour we stated in our design and today we thought about the features of a moving vehicle and added them to our final masterpiece. We used a variety of materials to create windows, doors, registration plates, handles, aerials and windscreen wipers. The children have loved making their cars and cannot wait to share their learning with you.
Date: 3rd Apr 2023 @ 4:17pm
Today we used the Now Press Play equipment to put ourselves into Mary Seacole’s shoes and live key events of her life. We started out working in Jamaica with our mother to heal sick soldiers and help treat a soldier who has cholera. We then see Florence Nightingale is recruiting nurses for the Crimean war but we got told they don’t want us. We then decide to use our own money to travel to Crimea alone to help soldiers on the battlefield. Eventually, after returning from the war we are rewarded with a medal from Queen Victoria.
Date: 31st Mar 2023 @ 5:26pm
We have all been looking forward to our zoo trip and today was finally the day! We enjoyed exploring the zoo and seeing all the animals we had been learning about in Science this half term. We all took part in a habitat workshop, where we impressed with our habitat knowledge and explored lots of different animal parts. We used these as clues to discuss which habitat each animal was from. We then visited the sealions and watched their fantastic show before having our lunchtime break. After lunch, we visited lemur wood, wallaby walkabout and wolf ridge. Finally we spent some time in the dinosaur safari, before finally seeing the giraffes and elephants. We all had a fantastic day exploring!
Date: 31st Mar 2023 @ 8:26am
Well done to our KS2 Boys Football Team who played in a football fixture against Marton Primary School.
Date: 30th Mar 2023 @ 2:10pm
This half term in Year Two we have been dancing. We have created our own dance to Matilda's Revolting Children as our class author is Roald Dahl. During the weeks we have really been focusing on dancing to the music using our emotion thinking about the lyrics and how the children would be behaving. Whilst improvising we had to think about the different levels of the dance and ensuring we were in time.
Date: 30th Mar 2023 @ 11:49am
Our pupil's make us proud everyday and as a school, we are proud of our community.
Two of our pupil's have been taking part in BBC Radio Lancashire's Community Connections. Groups from The Boathouse Youth and Blackpool Coastal Housing are making friends and memories together.
You can hear more about the work being done by listening here or visiting the Boat House Youth Facebook page https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f9szcp
Date: 29th Mar 2023 @ 11:56am
In RE our Question for the Year is 'Who should we follow?' and today we learned about who Sikhs follow, from Mrs. Kaur, a Sikh at our school. She told us about how Sikhs celebrate this festival of the new year called Vaisakhi and remember the Panj Pyare becoming Baptised into the Khalsa. We explained the 5 K's and how they were symbol and important to showing committment to faith. We talked about the special clothes that Sikhs wear for celebrations. We discussed the values that Sikhs live by and commitments that they show to other people and how everyone is equal. We recapped how the 11th Guru is the Guru Granth Sahib, which is a special book, that explains the teachings that Sikhs should live by.
Date: 29th Mar 2023 @ 8:11am
As part of their learning about Christianity in RE, Year 6 have visited St. Marks Church to understand more about the events of Holy Week in the run up to Easter.
We have been learning about how Holy Communion represents the blood and body of Christ in some denominations of Christianity, and how it becomes Jesus' body through transubstantiation in the Catholic Communion.
We met with Father Matt and Alison who lead us through the events of Holy week and we asked questions to further understand why Christians believe that Good Friday is a Good day.
Reception Willow Class visit the Zoo
Date: 28th Mar 2023 @ 9:53pm
Today Willow class went on a trip to Blackpool Zoo. The children put their wellies and waterproofs on ready to explore the zoo. Despite the cold and rainy weather the children had a fabulous time. We saw lots of different animals including giraffes, elephants, penguins, gorillas, zebras, flamingoes, wolves and camels. We even enjoyed watching the fabuluos sealion show. The children enjoyed finding out about the different animals, their natural habitats and what they eat. What a brilliant day we had!
"The giraffes have really longs necks" Alexa
"Babay wallabys stay in their mummys pouch. they are called Joeys" Alfie
""Gorillas live in the rainforest" Kayden
"Elephants have long trucks" Lexi
"Sealions like to eat fish. Sharks try to eat then in the wild" Lana-Rose
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Boundary Budding Stars round-up!
Date: 24th Mar 2023 @ 1:07pm
After running so many amazing clubs this year, we hosted our first Boundary Budding Star's Showcase evening where pupils from across school performed.
Talented pupils from Reception to Year 6 showed us their skills in drama, dance and song with Ballet Club, Bollywood, Schools Alive, Samba and Choir all performing brilliantly. Year 5 showed us their Tempest performance from the Grand Theatre and Key stage 1 music Club sang too.
Thank you to all our wonderful children for taking part and for the support and encouragement of their parents and carers!
Date: 24th Mar 2023 @ 11:22am
On Thursday all the children fully embraced a whole school art day. From Nursery to Year 6 you could hear the sound of paper being ripped and cut as the children created collages of different things you can find in their home town of Blackpool. From transport in Year 3 to famous landmarks in Year 5, from trees and flowers in Year 1 to collaged signs in Year 6. The children have created some superb pieces of artwork and these are all going to be displayed together to create a whole school mural.
Key Stage 2 Boccia Team - Regional Finals!
Date: 24th Mar 2023 @ 9:02am
Congratulations to our Key Stage 2 Boccia Team who yesterday travelled to Greenbank Sports Academy in Liverpool to compete in the KS2 Boccia Regional Finals!
Reception Willow Class Forest School
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 8:21pm
This week Willow Class have been busy outside enjoying Forest School!
Although the weather was rainy and it was extremely muddy, the children had a fabulous time. The children spent some of the session talking about spring and spotting some of the sign of spring outside. These included finding new plants growinf like daffodils, finds blossom on the tress and finding some birds nests in the trees. The children were even lucky enough to find some frog spawn in the ponds. We talked about how the frog spawn would change into tadpoles in the coming weeks.
"In spring blossom grows on trees" Lana-Rose
"Baby lambs are born in spring" Logan
"The days get longer and warmer" Alfie
"Leaf buds grown on trees" Noor-Fatima
"Daffodils grow outside" Albie
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 8:16pm
Over the past few weeks the children in Reception has been learning about Space. The children have taken part in lots of space activities in the classroom including counting moon rocks, reading books about space, making rockets out of recycled materials, using 2D shapes to make rockets and using small world characters to create their own narratives. We read the story 'Whatever Next' and used the props and pictures at the story telling table to retell and sequence the story correctly. As a class we explored what the moon would been like if we visited it, comparing it to Earth. We explored what it was like when Neil Armstorng landed on the moon and why it is important to wear the correct clothing. We talked about how the mooon orbits the Earth and how and why it changed shape in the sky. We also explored the different planets in the solar system and found out which were the closest and furthest from the sun.
"The Earth has land and water on it. That's why it's blue and green" Alfie
"Mercury is the closest to the sun" Kit
"The Earth has one moon and it goes round it" Skylor
"The moon is made of rock and it has lots of crators in it" Logan
The children produced some lovely pieces of non-fictiion writing all about space.
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 8:16pm
Over the past few weeks some of the children from Reception have been attending ballet club. They have been working extremly hard to practice their ballet dance to the music 'Sugar Plum Fairy'. The children listened carefully, worked as a team and demonstrated lots of our Boundary characteristics. The made sure they pointed their toes and moved elegantly in time to the music. The children performed their dance at our Boundary Budding Stars event infront of approximately 120 parents and carers. They did a very a fantastic job. We are very proud of each and every one of them.
