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Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 10:41am
In Music our focus question is ‘How Does Music Improve Our World?’. In our third lesson we sung the Freedom is Coming song again, changing the key and the dynamics. We then used Chromebooks to composed using YUMU through charanga, composing using our own ABA structure using the notes provided recap Ternary form.
Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 12:39pm
This half term, the Book Club has been getting comfortable in The Attic and immersing themselves in the book, 'The Shop of Impossible Ice Creams - Big Berry Robbery' by our local, visiting author Shane Hegarty. In the story so far, we have met some very interesting characters including, Liam (aka Limpet, who is often dressed as a cucumber and smells of onions), the eccentric Mrs Cricket (who lives on a roundabout inhabited by fairies), the evil, rival ice cream shop owner Mr Fluffy and a chicken that walks around on a dogs lead called Curtis! Every Tuesday, we look forward to hearing the latest escapades of Limpet and his friends in their quest to discover who indeed has stolen the Miracle Berry- an essential ingredient for any ice cream parlour taking part in the Golden Sprinkle Awards!
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 4:17pm
Today, we used our knowledge of simple circuits to predict whether a light bulb will light thinking about what was included in the circuit and the role they had.
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 3:40pm
This week in our Science we practised our oracy skills. We were given a concept cartoon and 'Challenge' stem sentences. First we practised our responses in a Nest then we did Pair work.
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 12:03pm
As part of our learning around 'Chinese New Year' the children have been making their own dragon puppets. They have been using lots of different skills that they have learnt since September to help them fix, join and assemble their puppet. The children worked independently and produced some fantastic work.
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 11:12am
This week, Year 1 have been reading the story 'The Girl With Two Dads.' We have been talking about the main characters in the story, their families and how they are different. We have talked to each other about our own families and completed different activites in our classrooms to celebrate our similarities and differences.
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 8:15am
This week we went up to the library, we read a story as a class before we all chose a book to bring back to class and enjoy.
Date: 27th Jan 2025 @ 6:54pm
This week we created moving pictures to bring a bit of a story to life! We have been reading the story 'Lost and Found' by Oliver Jeffers and chose different key parts of this story to inspire our creations. We began by looking at existing products, before learning how to make a lever and a slider mechanism. We then created our design and made a prototype, before creating our final product!
Year 5 - PSHE - Managing Impulsivity
Date: 27th Jan 2025 @ 11:46am
In this lesson we talked about IMPULSIVITY. Impulsivity means acting quickly without thinking about the consequences. It can make us say or do things we later regret. Understanding impulsivity helps us make smarter choices and respond to situations more thoughtfully
As a Year Group, we discussed how to manage our impulses and make better decisions in our lives. We thought about how to manage impulsivity, we first need to recognise impulsive behaviours in ourselves. This can include interrupting others, making snap decisions, or acting before thinking in. By understanding our own habits, we can start to control our reactions and think before we act, leading to better outcomes.
Finally, we looked at some strategies for managing our impulses, starting by simply acknowledge and them. There are several techniques that can help manage impulsivity. One useful method is to pause and take a deep breath before responding. Another is to count to ten. These strategies give us a moment to think, allowing us to make more thoughtful decisions rather than reacting impulsively. You can see that we practiced these and put them to the test. Scan the QR code for some role plays too!
Acorns - Artic animals and habitats
Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 12:55pm
This week Acorns have continued their learning about Arctic animals with a focus on polar bears. We have enjoyed listening to 'What the polar bear heard' and enjoying multisensory activities about their habitat.
We have loved engaging in the sensory tuff trays with snow and ice, especially making snow storms! We also rescued animals and numbers from frozen ice.
During art we made our own polar bears using different materials and tools. We've had a great week.
Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 12:07pm
Reception had a great time this week when Travelling by Tuba visited our school.
They listened to the different sounds instruments make, some made a high pitch sound and others a low pitch sound. They clapped their hands and knees to the beat, looked at historical instruments and other instruments from around the world.
Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 11:59am
Acorns have been developing their understanding of big and small alongside reading Goldilocks and the three bears.
We have been comparing real objects in a multisensory approach to support our learning. We enjoyed comparing the big bed and small bed, big and small spoons, and we loved looking at our small wellies and Mrs Richardson big wellies!
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 5:44pm
Today we were lucky enough to work with Travelling by Tuba. In our whole school assembly, we were taken on a trip around the world, where we listened to different pieces of music played on lots of different instruments. In the afternoon, we were then lucky enough to take part in a workshop where we all learnt to play an instrument. We learnt the rhythm and how to play each instrument, before coming together to perform our final piece!
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 2:47pm
This week nursery were lucky enough to listen to a story told my the author Dan Worsley. The story had a pirate theme and the chidlren were hooked! When we got back to nursery, we decdied to carry on the Pirate theme and raided our Pirate box! The chidlren made up their own stories using small world figures and then made a pirate ship out of wooden blocks.We had such a wonderful time that we decided to carry on the pirate theme next week!
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 2:43pm
Today we were lucky enough to start the day off with a fantastic performance from Travelling by Tuba. They took us on a journey around the world, showing us instruments from around the world and explaining the history of instruments and how theyhave developed into what we have today.
We then attended a workshop with Travelling by Tuba where we were all given an instrument to learn how to play. We all learnt our set rhythm and came together as an ensemble to perform our piece. We had a fantastic day linking Music, History and Geography!
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 2:41pm
Nursery explored a different way to paint when they were provided with blocks of ice, paint and paint brushes. We talked about the texture of the ice, how it was hard to paint on it because the ice was slippy and obserevd how the ice began to melt the more we painted on it. The children also enjoyed discovering what happened to the colours as they mixed together and water was added.
Year 5 - Charanga YUMU - Composing
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 10:09am
This week we recapped Musical Vocabulary and the names and values of notes on the stave and time signature. We sung the Freedom is Coming song again, changing the key and the dynamics.Using Chromebooks we composed using YUMU through charanga, composing using our own ABA structure using the notes provided recap Ternary form.
Year 5 - Aujourd'hui , c'est quel jour?
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 10:06am
This half term, Year 5 are focusing on how to say the date in French. They have been learning how to say the days of the week, the months of the year and numbers up to 31. They have also been learning how to ask and respond in French to questions about the days of the week.
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 9:25am
This week in Reading into Writing we have been learning about the History of Pride and the Stonewall Riots. Using what we learned, we created non-chronological reports. Here are some examples of our work to look through.
Year 6 - Jumping in Gymnastics
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 9:21am
Year 6 had a great gymnastics session this week practising leaps and jumps. We focused on pencil and tuck jumps and how to take off and land safely. We then used various pieces of equipment to continue our practice.
Date: 22nd Jan 2025 @ 5:30pm
This week, we listened to the song, ‘Bringing us together’, again. We recapped the features of the song and then started to listen to the first part using the notes GAC so we could learn how to play it on the glockenspiels. We first started with a slower tempo (90bpm) and gradually increased the tempo to matching the song (112bpm). We performed the song to the class and the were fantastic. They were all in time and it sounded like the song!
Year 4 - What journeys do rivers make?
Date: 22nd Jan 2025 @ 2:38pm
This week, we looked at the journey of a river from the source to the mouth. We started the lesson by matching 20 definitions and parts of rivers and then we used the information we learned to complete a glossary game and label some features on a river diagram. We also looked at how the land around a river changes from the upper course to the middle course and lower course.
Dan Worsley- Storytelling workshop!
Date: 22nd Jan 2025 @ 9:58am
Today the children had a visit from Dan Worsley, who is a fantastic local author! Firstly KS2 had a special assembly from Dan. He told us all about his writing journey and how he has to work as a team to create his book. He then told us a fantastic story called ‘Pat on the head’.
Then, Year Three has a writing workshop. Dan told us a story describing a witch, we looked at how to add detail into writing by focusing on different features. This children then described their own witch using what they have learnt.
Dan Worsley's Storytelling Assembly
Date: 21st Jan 2025 @ 8:03pm
Today the children in EYFS and Key Stage one participated in a special storytelling assembly led by one of our school's favourite author's Dan Worsley. During the assembly, Dan put on the superpowered storytelling waistcoat and used a variety of props to perform one of his weird and wacky ‘Impossible Tales’. The children were engrossed while Dan took them on an adventure meeting the 'Boss Pirate' and enjoyed thoroughly enjoyed participating at different of the story . All the children listened carefully and were an absolute credit to Boundary.
Year 2- A visit from Dan Worsley
Date: 21st Jan 2025 @ 4:17pm
Today, after a story telling assembly, we were joined in class by author Dan Worsley who worked with us with our descriptive writing. We came up with our own penguin character, taking inspiration from 'And Tango Makes Three' and used adjectives and similes to describe it. Some of us even got to put on Dan's special story telling jacket and share our ideas with the class.
