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Reception Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 1:47pm

This week we have been reading the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears'.  The children have been been busy completing lots of different activities based around the story.  The children have enjoyed writng about the story and character, retelling the story at the storytelling table, collaging their own bears using a range of materials, making different sized bears out of playdough and using the lego to make beds and chairs for the the bear.  They have also been ordering bears up to 10, comparing different quantitiees of bears using the vocabularly more than or less than andexploring number bonds to 5 and ten at our Goldilocks themed maths table.

Reception Past and Present

Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 11:59am

This week the children we invited to bring their favourite teddy to school.  Our focus was to compare how teddies have changed and evolved over time.  Mrs Clark brought a very old traditional teddy bear in from home and the children identified siliarities and differences with their bear.  We recapped some key vocabularly 'past' and 'present' and used these words to create our own sentences.

 

"My teddy is different because it has sequins on it" 

"Teddy bears from the present can be different colours"

"My teddy is a Ninja Turtle.  They only made bears in the past"

 

As a follow up activity the children collaged their own traditional teddy bear at the creative table, sorted pictures correctly into past and present and dreew and labelled their bears explaining to an adult how it was similiar or different to Mrs Clarks.

Year 4 - Oracy

Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 10:04am

In Oracy, we played a game of ‘Taboo’ to start. We had to use appropriate vocabulary to describe things on a card but we were not allowed to use some common words! Next, we practised how we would say a sentence in different ways. Finally, our main task was focusing on reasoning. We had to decide what we would do if we ruled the world and give a reason why. Other children in class then had to disagree with the statement and explain their challenge.

Year 6 - Algebra

Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:19am

Mr Jones' maths group have been working really hard in Maths this week to understand Algebra. We started by looking at 1 and 2 step function machines before learning about formulas, expressions and substitution. 

Year 3 - Improvising and composing!

Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:17am

In Year 3, we have been looking at composing and improvising skills. The children used the Glockenspiels to accompany the track “You’re a shining star”. Firstly, the children used the notes G, A, B , C, D to improvise with the music. When then uses a 4/4 score paper to compose our own piece along with the backing track.

Year 6 - Mental Health Week

Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:16am

Year 6 talked about our whole school focus - Mental Health Week - and discussed the theme 'Know Yourself, Grow Yourself'. We discussed that if we can understand ourselves and what triggers our emotions, we can better manage these. We completed some activities based around the characters in the film 'Inside Out'. 

Year 5 - Frame Structures BLT

Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:12am

In DT we have been looking at frame structures and as a class we have designed, built and evaluated bug habitats and bird feeders. Addison took this idea and made her own bird feeder at home and has donated it to Year 5 so that we can keep an eye out for any winged visitors! Well Done and Thank You Addison!

Year 5 - Oracy in Action

Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:04am

As we continue to develop the oracy skills of the pupils at Boundary, pupils were given discussion prompts and asked to 'instigate', 'probe' and 'challenge' during their discussions and also ask for clarification if they were unsure of what someone was saying. Pupils followed our 'discussion guidlines' and showed 'active listening' during the debates.

Year 3- Investigating light!

Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 8:53am

In Year 3, we have started our new Science topic of Light. In this lesson we looked at our key questions 'What is light?'. We looked at placing objects in a box and thinking about if we could see the objects inside. Slowly, we added more light and saw that we could see. From this we then looked at what produces light and what doesn't. We then looked at identifying, classifying and grouping light sources into natural and human made sources.

Year 2- Exploring Moving Vehicles

Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 8:10am

This week we started our new Design Technology unit of Moving Vehicles. To begin any unit we explore products that are already out there so we looked at different moving vehicles and explored how they move. We learnt they have wheels and axles to allow them to move and will use this knowledge in future lessons to help us when making our own.

Year 4 - Introduction to Ancient Egypt

Date: 25th Feb 2025 @ 3:35pm

Information we found on our information run:

  • The people that ruled are called Pharaohs
  • The ancient Egyptians used a form of picture of writing called hieroglyphics 
  • The pharaohs stopped ruling when Romans took control about 2000 years ago
  • Pyramid contained the dead pharaoh who was buried with jewels and objects that were often robbed
  • The ancient Egyptians lived in mud houses with flat roofs
  • Most of Egypt is a desert of sand and rocks
  • The river Nile floods every year. As the water goes down after the flood it leaves behind very rich soil
  • The boy king Tutankhamun is the most famous pharaoh
  • The ancient Egypt had lots of gold
  • The people were ruled by a king called a pharaoh
  • There were people living in Egypt about 5,000 years ago
  • The ancient Egyptians used a form of picture writing called hieroglyphics
  • The most important crops to the ancient Egyptians were wheat and barley from which they made bread and beer

 

In the smart task we found these things which were incorrect:

  • Measuring tape
  • Our alphabet
  • Tractor
  • Dome shaped buildings
  • Watering hose
  • Books
  • Flask
  • Fishing rod

Year 1 Monkey Puzzle

Date: 24th Feb 2025 @ 7:25pm

Today we began our new half term with a new story 'Monkey Puzzle!' We read the story together, talked about the characters, the setting and the key events before ordering the stories ourselves. We also completed lots of different mini me challenges in our provision, including counting jungle animals, retelling the story at our story telling table and writing sentences about the jungle setting.

Year 6 - Cooking Pizza

Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 2:01pm

Year 6 have had a great week in the kitchen! During our DT cooking journey we researched, designed and made our own pizzas. Part of the journey was to learn new skills and we focused on safely cutting and chopping ingredients using the claw and bridge grips. Linking to our careers curriclum, we talked about how the skills we learned during this journey could link to future careers. We watched a video about a sous chef who talked about his career path and the skills needed to do his job.

The children's finished pizza's looked and tasted amazing. We have some future chefs in the making!

Acorns - 100th day

Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 12:27pm

Acorns have been celebrating 100 days in school with lots of maths activities this week. We have love developing our knowledge and understanding of number and geometry through a variety of activities.

We have loved listening too and counting along with songs to 100. We have been using building blocks to count and explore repeated patterns. We continued to explore repeated patterns through our art activities and 'Bucket time'. 

Year 1 How We Treat The Natural World

Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 7:02pm

Today we brought all our learning for this half term together to reflect on how we each treat the natural world. We recapped on the key vocabulary associated with Islam and used it accurately to contribute to our whole class learning today. Throughout today lesson we thought about rules that we could implement in our local area to make the environment better in our community. We also painted a picture to show our own beliefs and values about how the natural world should be.

Year 4 - 100th days of maths

Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 2:39pm

This week we started our maths with an assembly based on the book 'How mahy jelly beans?' by Andrea Menotti. 

Year 4 then took part in a 'jelly bean' based maths lesson recapping their statistics skills. The children used a tally chart to collect data. The children found which jelly bean flavour was most popular and created a bar chart graph to show. Finally, the children analysed the graph to answer questions based on the data collected.

Year 1 Safer Internet Day

Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 8:18pm

Today we took part in our whole school Safer Internet Day. We began the day by listening to Mr Taylors assembly all about how to be safe and protect ourselves and others online. Back in class, we read the story 'Buddy the Dogs Internet Safety Story.' We talked through the story together, answering questions to help the character Ben make safe choices whilst using his tablet. We created some internet safety rules, including not talking to strangers online, asking a grown up if you see anything strange and don't download anything without asking an adult. We then revisted our trusted adults and shared these through drawing and writing. 

Year 3- Safer Internet Day!

Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 7:24pm

Today was safer internet day at school. In Year Three we watched a live lesson by the BBC that spoke about being careful for online scams. They taught us a helpful acronym to ensure we say safe and think twice before we click any pop ups. We then looked at different websites and links and thought about if they were reliable or not and how to protect ourselves.

Year 2- Safer Internet Day

Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 4:43pm

Today, Year Two celebrated safer internet day. After an assembly, where we learnt about what a scam is we put our knowledge to the test in class. We discussed the ways we use the internet and who is actually in charge of putting things on the internet. When we realised anyone can put anything on the internet we found it a lot less trustworthy. We focused on what information we should never share online and what to do if something make us feel uncomfortable online. Lastly, we thought about who our trusted adults are and the signs to look out for. 

Nursery and the Balance Bikes

Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 4:41pm

Nursery had a brilliant time on the Balance Bikes. They learnt all about taking care of the bikes and how to check the tyres. They then crusied their way aroind the hall balancing perfectly on the bikes!

Nursery and the 100th Day

Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 4:30pm

Nursery celebrated the 100th day in school with some super maths activities. We listened to the story "How Many Jelly Beans" and then counted out 100 jelly beans together - it took a long time! The children were given some jelly beans and had to find out how many they had. They then had to represent the number of jelly beans they had by drawing marks on paper. The children were also given 100 plastic cups and had to see how many different towers they could build with the cups there were some amazing creations!

Year 5 - Safer Internet Day

Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 3:03pm

Pupils in year 5 all took part in a live interactive lesson from the BBC called ‘Scam Smashers’. This helped pupils to spot scams online by looking for the following: Sounds too good to be true, Content you did not expect, Asks for personal information, Money or trade request. They then completed a range of activities to reinforce the learning, vocabulary and key points. We also learned about ‘phising scams’ and the importance of having a strong password.

Safer Internet Day 2025

Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 2:59pm

SAFER INTERNET DAY 2025

Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online.

 

Today, Tuesday 11th of February is ‘Safer Internet Day’. Safer Internet Day is an annual event which is organised by the UK Safer Internet Centre and is celebrated in approximately 170 countries worldwide! The aim of the day is to raise awareness of Internet safety, promoting positive and responsible usage.

During an amazing whole-school assembly, led by Mr. Taylor, pupils discussed the importance of Safer Internet Day. Pupils also suggested different ways we can use the internet and different devices they use to access the internet at home and in school. This year’s topic is “Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online”. This I important as over one million people in the UK were tricked by online scams last year. As a school, we discussed what this means and found the meaning of key vocabulary: online, deception and scam.

Following the assembly, pupils in EYFS read Buddy the Dog’s Internet Safety Story and completed follow up activities to support their learning. Key Stage 1 pupils were challenged to complete “The Great Online Safety Quest” as a class and complete independent activities to solve puzzles and spot online scams.

Pupils in Key Stage 2 all took part in a live interactive lesson from the BBC called ‘Scam Smashers’. This helped pupils to spot scams online by looking for the following: Sounds too good to be true, Content you did not expect, Asks for personal information, Money or trade request. They then completed a range of activities to reinforce the learning, vocabulary and key points. We also learned about ‘phising scams’ and the importance of having a strong password.

A strong password should have:

  • Random words
  • One number
  • One special symbol: E.g. ! @ %
  • A mixture of capital and lowercase letters

Safer Internet Day is a great day to remind us all of the dangers on being online. Please be aware of possible scams, and stop and think, “Is this too good to be true?”

Year 6 - Internet Safety Day

Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 12:21pm

Today is Internet Safety Day and we have been learning all about online scams. We began the day with a whole school assembly, where we learned about the different way people can be scammed online, including phishing, trying to get people's personal information or trying to get money out of people. We then took part in a whole class live lesson where we were given tips and advice to identify if we are being scammed online.

Reception- Internet Safety

Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 12:18pm

Today we have been learning about how to keep ourselves safe online.

It started with a whole school assembly and then we read a story in class too. After we had discussed who our trusted adult was, we then drew pictures and wrote labels and sentences about who our trusted adults were.

"I would tell my Mum and Dad" Dina.

"Never speak to anyone you don't know if you're playing a game on your mum's phone" Harry. 

"They are still strangers even if you are playing a game on the internet" Hazel.

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