: Blog items
Date: 2nd Jul 2021 @ 7:26pm
Along with the rest of Boundary this week we have taken part in and enjoyed sports week!
We had two brilliant afternoons filled with balloon races, speed bounce, hurdles and egg and spoon races.
We all had lots of fun, showing lots of our Boundary characeristics throughout the week and supporting our friends and team mates.
We enjoyed all these activities in the lovely sunshine and contributed to our Road to Tokyo goals with each physical activity we completed.
Date: 2nd Jul 2021 @ 7:11pm
During the last two weeks year 1 have enjoyed our final two sessions of Forest School. We were very excited to be able to take part in our last sessions before the summer holidays!
Over the past two weeks we have explored teamwork, resiliance and cooperation through a number of different activities. We also linked our learning to our current topic in DT, structures.
We recapped on the key fundamentals of Forest School, looking after nature, keeping ourselves and others safe and having fun!
During our sessions we matched different colours in nature, made plates of food for fairies, tried fruit growing from the trees, collected 'nectar' for the Queen Bee, toasted marshmallows and ate them!
Date: 2nd Jul 2021 @ 5:01pm
This week the children have took part in various sports day activities to earn points for their house teams. A favourite of theirs was completing the speed bounce and balloon races in their teams.
Date: 2nd Jul 2021 @ 4:56pm
This week the children learnt about how animals are separated into different groups based on their characteristics. The children then had a go at classifying liquorice alsorts into different groups based on what they look like using data branching.
Date: 1st Jul 2021 @ 3:09pm
For Sports Day this year Nursery took part in some fun balloon games. We practised skills included passing, throwing and catching and also developed our team work skills! We had so much fun and there were balloons flying everywhere!
Date: 1st Jul 2021 @ 2:03pm
It was the last of our activities! Who will win? Your guess is as good as ours! We took part in more team games: over and under, side to side, elbow passing and speed bouncing. There wasn't a particular team who won all of the games so this means it must be tight between the winners! We can't wait to find out which team takes the Number 1 spot! Fingers crossed it's your team...
Date: 30th Jun 2021 @ 8:15pm
This week we have started looking at Non-Chronological reports in Reading into Writing. We have been reading a variety of texts to highlight the features so that we can analyse what we need to include in our own success criteria. We have read about lots of interesting facts - we now know that they need to be factual and give information. Our Reports will be about our Geography topic Mountains and Volcanoes so we have been doing lots of reading and learning about different mountains around the world too so we have a great background knowledge for when we draft our reports.
Date: 30th Jun 2021 @ 12:18pm
This week we have changed our role play area in to a take away burger bar. We discovered that we didn't have enough burgers & the children decided that we could make some. They got some cardboard and we cut out some circles. The children then coloured them in to make burgers and buns. The Burger Bar has been create for developing speech and language and building relationships. It hasn't been so good for the teachers waist lines though! They've never eaten so many burgers and chips!
Date: 29th Jun 2021 @ 3:52pm
We had a brilliant sports afternoon in Year 3, with lots of races including the egg and spoon race, hurdles and an obstacle course. It was lots of fun, we all got very hot and we also contributed to our Road To Tokyo goals because of all the activity we did!
Date: 29th Jun 2021 @ 1:33pm
What a brilliant Sports Day Year 6 have had! We competed in lots of different events:
- Relay race
- Team work races
- Shot put
- Javelin
- Hurdles
- Sprint
As well as encouraging our team mates, we also cheered our entire year group on! We showed many characteristics during our afternoon: resilience, team work, tolerance, paitence, kindness, confidence, self-control, respect, fair and supportive. We worked hard in our teams (Chepstow, Bathurst, Elston and Rodwell). We wonder who'll win! Stay tuned...
Date: 29th Jun 2021 @ 8:14am
This half term we have been learning all about Animals including humans. This was revision from the January Lockdown. We have learned about food chains and which animals are consumers and producers, the types of skeletons animals have including endo and exo skeletons, vertebrates and invertebrates. We most recently talked about our own human skeletons and understood that we have a skeleton for movement, protection and support.
Date: 28th Jun 2021 @ 7:49am
We have been learning all about 3D shapes. Here we were sorting 3D shapes by identifying and counting their faces. We also identified the shapes of the faces and decided the bast way to sort our shapes into groups. We also arranged our shapes in order of the least to most faces.
Date: 26th Jun 2021 @ 7:59am
This week in Year 1 some of us were lucky enough to get a visit from the ducklings that had hatched in Reception class. We thought of different questions we wanted to ask about the ducklings and drew some pictures and did some writing about them in Always time!
Creating texture with play dough!
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 5:07pm
Today in Art, year four explored two of the seven elements of art which were texture and form. They used the play dough to make different forms and create various textures. We also linked this to geography by creating headlands and bays using the play dough which are created through erosion.
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 4:34pm
This week in RSE,Year 5 have been learning about puberty. We learned about the physical changes that happen to boys and girls as they grow older and discussed how to deal with these changes.
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 2:36pm
It has been RSE week in Boundary this week. Year Two have been looking at the differences between males and females. We started off by discussing if certain clothes or toys were specifically for males or females and this lead us into a discussion about gender stereotyping.
We then looked at the differences between male and female newborn babies and animals. We also learnt the proper names for male and female body parts. We discussed why it is important that we use the correct names for these body parts and how we should talk to a trusted adult if we feel uncomfortable about any physical contact.
Year Two showed great maturity throughout our learning in this topic area.
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 12:36pm
Tihis week we have been learning how to program with Turtle. We recapped on the definition of an algorithm and learned various commands to make the Turtle move, including forwards, backwards and left and right turns. We also leaned how to use the repeat command to so that we could reduce the number of lines of code needed. Finally, we learned how to debug an algorithm when the Turtle did not do as we expected.
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 10:09am
As the weather has been getting warmer, we have been learning outdoors more than ever! Therefore, it is very important that we stay safe in the sun. We listened to Mr Tumble's song to help us remember what to do!
"You need to wear a sun hat" Leo
"You need to wear sunglasses" Ella-Rose
"Put suncream on to stop yourself burning" Darcey
"Drink lots of water to stay hydrated" Leyton.
"Stay in the shade" Harley.
Football and Netball with Alan
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 8:11am
This week, we had a brilliant PE session with Alan Williams. We split up into 2 groups. and each group played in a football and netball match. After 30 minutes, we swapped over. We learnt many skills to succeed: working well as a team, accurate passing, on target shooting and good sportmanship. We thoroughly enjoy our PE sessions and can't wait to see what's in store for next week!
Date: 24th Jun 2021 @ 3:59pm
This week the children have learn about healthy relationships. The children look at various pictures that displayed unhealthy and healthy relationships and what makes them that way. The children have made brilliant points and engaged in lots of discussions around this topic.
There's a Whole Lot of Hatching Going On!
Date: 24th Jun 2021 @ 3:25pm
What an exciting week it's been in nursery! We have been closely watching the dinosaur eggs that arrived on Monday and when we came to school on Thursday the baby dinosaurs had hatched out of the eggs! The children have been really engaged with the dinosaurs and have been doing some drawings of the eggs, making up stores together with our toy dinosaurs and even made some dinosaurs out of bricks!
Dinosaurs weren't the only thing to visit us this week! We also had a visit from the ducklings that hatched in the Reception class! The children were fasinated by the ducklings and treated them with great care. What a busy week!
Date: 24th Jun 2021 @ 11:35am
We were lucy enough to experience a dance lesson with a wonderful lady from the Royal Ballet Company. We created our own dances and movements based on the rainforest and we loved it! We linked it to our Science topic and thought about the animals and plants that we would see to inspire us.
Date: 24th Jun 2021 @ 11:32am
We were very lucky to experience Now Press Play! We wnt on a virtual journey around the world idenitfying habitats and transforming our bodies inot the animals that live there. We were shocked to find out how us humans are destroying habitats and risking the lives of animals.
Growing and Caring for Ourselves
Date: 23rd Jun 2021 @ 8:20pm
This week in Year 1 we have been learning about how we grow and change and how we are all different but can still be friends.
We recapped on a number of different emotions and discussed examples of when we have all felt this way. We then read a story about two very different children. We paused at different parts to explore the emotions the characters were feeling and why. The two children initially thought they couldn't be friends, but we know that it is okay to have friends who are different to us! We talked about the ways we are all different and why it is important to be kind to those who are different to us.
Our learning has also involves discussing different types of families and who we can ask for help. We read another story and thought about all the different people who are a part of our families. We learnt that we all have lots of different people who are our family and we identified that all our families are different! We have also discussed how babies need lots of care and support, but as we grow and change we begin to learn and do more things for ourselves.
Date: 23rd Jun 2021 @ 7:48am
This week we have all taken part in our statutory RSE (relationship and sex education) lessons. In Year 6 we have looked at the changes that happen to our body during puberty as well as human reproduction and the science behind how babies are conceived. We have also looked at relationships and what makes a healthy/unhealthy relationship. This has also included the concept of consent and what it means - we have learned that it is ok to tell people if we don't enjoy physical contact and how to respond to people.
