: Blog items
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 3:38pm
Year 6 had a great time in Boundary's forest school area today. They completed a variety of independent activities including den building, filling the pond, making bracelets, working with clay and making pesto from nettle leaves! The children worked really well together and demonstrated many of our school characteristics.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 2:16pm
Over the past few weeks we have been watching caterpillars go through the process of during in to butterflies. We were so excited to see that they had completed the process and we had five beautiful butterflies. Today we let them go and we think they loved the beautiful flowers in the garden.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 2:09pm
We have been reading the story "Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell". In the story, Norman meets lots of snails and thinks their shells are amazing! We looked closey at the spiral patterns on shells and then recreated it through drawing and baking! We made some deliciious jam spirals and drew super spirals.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 2:08pm
Today we completed our DT food unit and used our knowledge of fruits and where they come from to make our fruit smoothies. This morning, we carefully cut our fruits before we blended them to make a smoothie and evaluated their taste, texture and appearance.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 12:07pm
Wow! Our butterflies have emerged from their chrysalis!
We were excited to see our butterflies fluttering around. We looked at the chrysalis that they had emerged from and then watched them flying around and eating some food.
We learnt the butterfly Makaton sign and some of us tried to copy it.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 11:36am
This week the children have been enjoying hunting for minibeasts in our outdoor area. They used magnifying glasses and viewing jars to inspect them. looking at their colour, number of legs, if they have antennae and naming them too.
"I think i have found a wood louse" Perisa.
"This minibeast has antennae" Kevin.
"I've found a butterfly on the bush" Dina
"Look at the snail...it's on my finger...it's small" Levi.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 9:12am
This week children in Year 5 have continued their art journey into fashion design. In this lesson, pupils were inspired by three British designers and created the designs for their final piece.
Year 3 - Cloth, thread and paint!
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 7:54pm
In Art, we have completed a short journey called ‘cloth, paint and thread’ in which we combined painting and sewing! The children used acrylic paint to create their background on cloth and then used the running stitch to add detail to their paintings.
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 7:51pm
In DT, we have looked at making a balanced meal, using all of the food groups such as, proteins, carbohydrates, fibre, dairy and oils and spread. We learned why we need each of these to keep our bodies healthy and to keep everything working s it should. We then created some wraps and pittas containing as many as the food groups we could. As soon as we made them, the children couldn’t wait to tuck into them and write up their evaluation.
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 10:19am
Today, we explored patterns. To start the day we used sugar paper and pins to make wholes with our drawn on patterns. Afterwards, we looked at Surface Pattern Design artist Rachel Parker. She designs patterns for things such as bedding, bags, curtains and clothes. We used her pattern making skills to make our own continuous patterns, which our teachers then scanned into the computers so that we could use our computer skills to screenshot, copy and paste our original design to make it a continuous pattern. The results are fantastic!
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 8:04am
Year 6 have really enjoyed their latest Geography unit - a local area study of Blackpool. We have learned how our town and region fit into the wider world, identified key physical and human geographical features on maps and asked how our region might meet the needs of people. Finally, we used field work to answer the question: Is Blackpool still a fit place for people? The children produced some excellent work and were really inetested in finding out more about where they live.
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 8:02am
This half term, Year 6 have been focussing on acitvism and art. We have explored the idea of activism and why people protest. We also discussed words and vocabulary linked to activism. Then, throughout our journey we have experiemented with collaging, printing, letter formation in order to create our final piece of work. We put together everything we have learned to create a placard linked to activism. I think you'll agree that our end products are amazing!
Year 6 - Inheritance and Evolution
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 8:01am
This week we have completed our unit on 'Inheritance and Evolution'. Our lessons centred around understanding how genes are passed on from parents to their offspring in both the animal and plant world. We then looked at how plants and animals have adaptedover time to survive in their environments. The idea of evolution took us on a journey of how change happens over millions of years and how we can learn about the past from fossils.
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 5:19pm
This week in PE we played some games to develop our teamwork and listening skills. We focused on our spacial awareness and reaction to others movements aswell as developing our own tactics and sportsmanship skills.
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 5:07pm
This week we have been exploring shapes. We have learnt the names of four 2D shapes - square, rectangle, triangle and circle. We have also explored how many sides and corners these shapes have and then used the shapes to create pictures.
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 3:52pm
All of the year 5 pupils had a brilliant time at the zoo. We saw lots of fantastic animals including lions, tigers and penguins. We also had a lesson from the zoo staff about 'Animal Classification', which linked to our science topic.
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 2:45pm
This week, we have been exploring 2D and 3D shapes. We have identified and matched shapes, sorted shapes into categories and created 2D and 3D shape patterns.
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 2:24pm
This week we have been reading the story The Bog Bay. It about two little girls who discover a magical pond in Bluebell Wood. Inside the pond they find a 'Bog Baby'- a jelly like creature with ting wings and a spikey tail. The girls take the Bog Baby home to look after and care for it- they even make it a special home in a bucket. However, soon the Bog Baby gets sick and the girls realise (with the help of their mum) that the need to return the Bog Baby to magical pond where it lives.
The children have then crated their own Bog Baby models using clay trying hard to include all his different features- googly eyes, a spikey tail and tiny wings. They had to carefully mould the clay to the correct shape and use the skills; slip, score and blend to ensure they correctly attached all the different features. When the clay had dried they painted their models and made a magical pond for it to live in using a range of different meduims and materials at the creative area.
Have a look at our wonderful models!
Reception The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 2:11pm
The children ihn Reception have been busy completing lots of work based around the story of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' We have been orally retelling and sequencing the story using a range of scienfic vocabularly, learning about the butterfly lifecycle, writing sentences, painting and collaging caterpillars and butterflies aswell as lots of maths themed activities. We have been completing butterfly doubles aswell as adding and subtracting single digit numbers. Have a look at all our learning!
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 2:00pm
In this maths lesson, pupils had to use a variety of strategies to solve a tricky fraction puzzle. They found the best way was to use a 'bar model' to organise their work and use their knowledge of times tables and fractions to calculate at each step. The pupils worked in pairs and they showed amazing resilience and perseverance to find the solution.
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 1:54pm
As part of their writing journey, year 5 pupils have been working collaboratively to write part of a historical narrative. Working together, pupils have changed part of the classical poem, The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes, into a narrative.
Reception- Keeping Safe in the Sun.
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 1:36pm
Over the last few weeks, the weather has become quite warm and sunny- some days it has even been hot!
The children in Reception have been learning about sun safety.
"Wear sunglasses to protect your eyes from the bright sunshine" Myla- Gray.
"You need to wear a sun hat to stop your head from getting too much sun" Lilah.
"Make sure you wear sun screen. It stops you from getting sunburnt" Hazel.
"Always drink lots of water to stay hydrated" Kevin.
"Remember to stay in the shade too" Theo.
Take a look at us keeping safe in the sun while we play outside.
Planting Our Wild Flower Garden
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 10:02am
We have recycled some our our donated tires into planters and created two wild flower gardens. These are to help the bees, butterflies and other creatures have homes and to provide food for them over the summer season. We cant wait to see them grow and we will keep you updated.
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 9:43am
This week we have been exploring the life cycle of a bean and reading Jasper's Beanstalk. We've enjoyed using lots of props during story telling, especially getting wet with the water spray!
We planted our own beans and are excited to water them daily, watching and waiting for the shoots to appear.
We've also been very creative this week, finishing our caterpillars ready to plant them with cress and using potatoes to print leaves onto our beanstalks.
Year 3 - Geography News Reporters
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 8:54pm
In this week's Geography lesson we learnt about the eruption at Mount St Helen’s which occurred on Sunday 18th May 1980 at 8:32 am. We learnt that this eruption has been likened to that of the dramatic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. Thankfully, through scientists observing the volcano, they noticed that the north side of the peak began to bulge and earthquakes were being detected under the mountain. This led to the prediction that an eruption would happen imminently, which meant that they could evacuate the surrounding areas as best as they could. With the information that the children had learned, they had to do a news report on it. They got into trios and had: one reporter, one eye witness and a scientist. They did such a fantastic job - I defintiely think we have some future broadcasters on our hands!
