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Year 2- Exploring the Commonwealth
Date: 15th Sep 2022 @ 3:02pm
As part of our remembrance of the Queen, Year 2 explored the commonwealth. We looked at the 56 countries that are part of the commonwealth and identified some of these places on a world map as well as exploring each of the nations different flags. Also, we discussed the role the Queen had in the commonwealth and looked at a variety of pictures of her visiting the different members. We found it interesting looking at pictures of the Queen from the time across her reign and created a collage using pictures, flags and facts to display our learning.
Year 2- Phenomenal Pointillism
Date: 15th Sep 2022 @ 2:53pm
This half term, Year 2's Computing unit is to create multimedia art using the online tool Paintz. This week, we focused on Pointillism and after we had learnt that pointillism is a picture made up of lots of dots, we created our own masterpieces. Some of us decided to create rainbows and fireworks whilst others challenged themselves to create animals. We really enjoyed the session and demonstrated some excellent patience. Next week we shall be influenced by Mondrian.
Nursery Become Archaeologists!
Date: 15th Sep 2022 @ 2:37pm
After reading "Harry and his Bucketful of Dinosaurs go to School" nursery immersed themselves in all things dinosaur! We looked for dinosaur bones and fossils and one day we even found some dinosaur eggs! We waited patiently for the babies to hatch and then had great fun making up stories about the dinosaurs together. The children also learnt about shapes by creating shape dinosaurs and worked together to paint some big dinosaurs!
Nursery Take Care of the Outdoors
Date: 13th Sep 2022 @ 8:35pm
We are lucky to have a wonderful outdoor area in nursery and everyone takes pride in keeping the area neat and tidy. The children love caring for the plants and creatures that are living in the garden and work together to keep it looking fabulous. This week the children have been busy picking up the litter that gets blown in. Using the litter pickers is a great way of developing fine motor skills! They have also been sharing the hose pipe and watering cans to keep the plants healthy and building realtionships with each other at the same time. Speaking of relationships, we found a new friend in our garden - a giant slug! We were all fasinated by the little fella and wanted to make sure he didn't go hungry. What else would you feed a slug but the carrots growing in the garden!
Year 4 The start of our French journey
Date: 13th Sep 2022 @ 7:40pm
We recapped counting to 10 in French, then we looked at the French phonics. This term we are focusing on French phonics! After looking at the pronunciation of the alphabet today - we focused on French vowels.
Year 4's Trip to Boundary's Roman Museum
Date: 13th Sep 2022 @ 7:33pm
Today Redcliffes turned into Boundary's Roman museum. The children had the chance to explore lots of aspects of Roman life and their invasion and reign over Britain. Children looked at artefacts and examples of lots of Roman equipment, utensils, coins and a fantastic replica of a legionary's amour - some even tried it on! It was SO heavy!
Reception's First Week of School Dinners!
Date: 12th Sep 2022 @ 9:45pm
This week the children have stayed for lunch for the first time. Choosing their meal, learning to hold their tray and having good table manners were just a few of the things the children had to contemplate at lunchtime. However they all handled it superbly!
Take a look at some of our photos!
Date: 12th Sep 2022 @ 9:40pm
As part of our topic 'Marvellous Me' Reception have been finding out all about each other identifying our similarities and differences. We read the book 'Marvellous Me' and talked about our likes, disklikes and the different things we are good at. We then used some mirrors to identify the different features on our faces .
"I have blue eyes" Phoebe
"My hair is black and long" Ishaanvir
"My glasses help me see" Alfred
The children the selected the correct coloured paints and painted their own self portrait with the support of an adult. They were give lots of opportunities in the classroom areas to create their own faces and portrails. Have a look at some of wonderful work.
Year 1 Human & Physical Features
Date: 12th Sep 2022 @ 7:10pm
In todays lesson we worked to explore the question, ‘what are the main features of our school grounds?’ We firstly had to understand some new key vocabulary; human features, physical features and birds eye view. We learnt what these new words meant and created an initial mind map of examples of both. We then explored our school environment. We worked to identify the features of our playground, the forest school area, the Key Stage 2 playground and our classroom outdoor area. We found lots of different features we were able to identify!
Date: 12th Sep 2022 @ 4:47pm
Our science topic this half-term is all about materials and their properties. In this lesson, pupils learned about the 'fire triangle', which explains that there must be fuel, oxygen and heat for combustion to take place. To help children to undertsnt this, we conducted two experiments which showed that oxygen is needed for a candle to burn and that as a candle burns it decreases in mass. The children carried out these experiments using equipment safely, measuring time and mass, and recording results.
Year 2 - Everything in its place....
Date: 9th Sep 2022 @ 4:27pm
During our work on place value, we have been using Base 10 and Place Value charts to make 2-digit numbers. We discussed how many tens and how many ones were in each number. We also wrote addition calculations to show how these numbers are made up of tens and ones. This will lead nicely into our next step of maths learning - partitioning numbers into tens and ones using a part-whole model.
Reception exploring the outdoor area
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 8:34pm
This week the children in Reception have had a great time in our outdoor area. The children have been practising putting on their waterproofs and wellie boots ready to explore our wonderful outdoor provision. They have been role playing in the mud kitchen, riding on the balance bikes, building in our construction shed, exploring the water and mark making using paint brushes. The children have worked together brillianlty ensuring take turns, share the resources and put them away properly. Have a look at what we have been up to!
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 8:23pm
Today the children in Reception have been busy making their very own mini mes. In order to help develop the children independence each day the children will be expected to locate their 'Mini Me' in the classroom provision and complete the learning task independently. This helps the children to develop their confidence by completing open ended activities at their own level. Keep you eyes peels for pictures of the children completing their 'Mini Mes' in the coming weeks.
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 7:27pm
We began our learning in Geography by beginning to answer the question, 'what sort of area do I live in?' We learnt and discussed the meaning of new key words, including urban, rural, village, town and city. We then read the story 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.' This story included lots of different features of urban and rural areas and we were able to discuss these together. We then worked indpendently to sort a number of photos into urban and rural areas. We talked about the similarities and differences between the two whilst working and compared these to our local area. We then evidenced our learning on Seesaw!
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 7:18pm
This week we began learning about Christianity by exploring families and belonging. We explored the fact that all families are unique and discussed who is in our family. We thought about different relationships and about how they might be similar and different to others. We learnt that Christians believe that God is like a father who guides them and helps them. We then created our own family portrait, sharing our ideas with others to two key questions. What makes a good family? How do families look after each other and look after children?
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 7:06pm
Our first week in Year 1 has been extremely busy! We have been exploring our new classrooms, getting used to our new rules/routines and learning inside and outside the classroom. We have used our phonics skills to read and write captions and sentences, practised ordering numbers and learnt how to evidence our own work on Seesaw!
Year 6 - Our First Rugby Session
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 5:33pm
This afternoon, the children in Year 6 had their first session with a coach from Wigan Warriors Rugby League Club. We learned how to hold the ball correctly before practising skills needed for the game. All the children really enjoyed learning a new sport and can't wait for their next session.
Hooray! We've successfully renewed The Green Flag!
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 5:02pm
Reception 's First Week at School- Indoor Fun!
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 4:52pm
What an exciting week it has been! The children in Reception have had a great time exploring their new classrooms and learning both inside and outside. They have made new friends, got to know all their teachers and are beginning to understand the new rules and routines of Reception.
Take a look at some of the things we've been up to inside our classrooms this week!
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 4:37pm
In Maths, Year Two have been focusing on place value in 2-digit numbers. We used a range of concrete resources such as Base 10, bead strings, place value counters and Numicon to represent numbers. We had to count in tens and ones to make our numbers, considering the value of each digit.
Year 5 Art begins with Typography
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 12:36pm
We have started our learning in Art by creating our own different styles of Typography. We learnt that typography is any form of print style designed to create an idea or emotion. We learned about Louise Fili who is a famous graphic designer who created posters for the New York Subway using different type fonts. By cutting up paper and sketching, we started to create our own letters.
Year 5 A Fresh look at Forest School
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 12:31pm
What a great time of Year to be outdoors! We managed to avoid the showers and had a lovely morning exploring the Forest School environment. We went on a mini beast hunt with the magnifying glasses and observed the habitats. We found lots of insects, arachnids and bugs lurking under the rocks and logs. A Frog leapt in! We all looked at it's camoflage, while learning the differences between frogs and toads. There was lots of seasonal fruit including mini apples, pears and plums, but they weren't yet ripe enough to pick. We also explored and enjoyed spending time with our friends outdoors and catching up casually after the holidays.
Karson planted some trees using the fallen fruit's seed.
Harley enjoyed working with his team to build dens and shelters.
Molliemae worked with her friends to make a chill out zone in their den, with books and colouring.
Darin made a cake masterpiece recipe including flowers, mud and fruits. He used his imagination to create a bakery business too!
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 11:33am
We started our Rubgy lessons today with Tom from Wigan Warriors. We will be learning lots of new rugby skills over this half term when Tom comes in every Thursday! We absolutely loved it. We learned how to hold the rugby ball and even started to tag each other with it when we were trying to score a try!
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 7:26am
This half term, Year Two will be following a journey to create our own animal puppets. For our first lesson, we explored different types of puppets including: Marionettes, Glove puppets, Shadow puppets and Finger puppets looking at the materials they had used to create the puppets, who would use the puppet as well as exploring how the different parts had been joined together. We particularly enjoyed exploring the glove and finger puppet as they are easy to use and felt soft on our hands. We are looking forward to learning how to sew to eventually create our own to take home.
Year 2 - Promises, promises, promises.
Date: 7th Sep 2022 @ 8:19pm
The beginning of a new school year is the perfect time to recap on our all important Boundary Promises. We discussed why we have rules and why they are important in a range different of environments, not just in school. We then recapped on our five key Always Promises at Boundary; be in the right place at the right time with the right things, act with honesty and respect, always try your best, work well together and use safe and friendly words and behaviours. We then worked well together to sort different scenarios, discuss how they linked to each Promise and whether they were a good choice or a bad choice.
