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Year Group Newsletter 2019/2020
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Year Group Newsletter Spring 2 2019/2020
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Topic Overview Spring 2 2019/2020
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Year Group Newsletter Spring 2 2019/2020
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Topic Overview Spring 2 2019/2020
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Year Group Newsletter Spring 2 2019/2020
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Topic Overview Spring 2 2019/2020
Date: 24th Feb 2020 @ 10:46am
Date: 17th Feb 2020 @ 7:29pm
Alongside our learning about recycling this week, we have also been taking parts in Valentines Day activities. We have been exploring shape and symmetry by making symmetrical hearts using paper and paint, practising our counting by making love bugs, and explored mark making with shaving foam and flowers. We have also made and completed maths puzzles, matching halves of hearts with numbers on one side and dots on the other. We have continued to explore ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ using our story telling basket and table, and lots of our children in Nursery have enjoyed ordering and retelling the story. We have been making Valentines cards and messages at our writing tables, and we have even created love potions! We hope you all have a lovely half term break and stay safe.
Date: 13th Feb 2020 @ 8:12pm
We had a very muddy but fun forest school session this week. We explored natural and man made materials. We worked as a team to build and light a campfire then prepared jam doughnuts to cook. We sang songs around the campfire while they coked then ate them and they were delicious.
Date: 13th Feb 2020 @ 7:52pm
In History we have been looking at how toys have changed over time. This week we invited out parents in to share their childhood memories of the toys they used to play with. We enjoyed looking at all the old toys such as pickup sticks, tiddly winks and a jack in the box. We were able to compare that all of these toys were made of wood, unlike all our current toys which are mainly plastic, we also observed that non of the old toys needed batteries or power unlike the high tec toys we have today.
We would like to say a big thank you to all the parents and carers who shared their toys and memories with us.
Date: 13th Feb 2020 @ 7:27pm
We have been exploring the properties of different materials in science and today we tested materials to discover which were waterproof and would make a good umbrella. We ensured we conducted a fair test by treating each material the same. We found that although glass was waterproof it would not make a good umbrella because it was fragile. We learned that paper was not waterproof, nor was fabric but plastic was.
Date: 13th Feb 2020 @ 1:00pm
The adults from Fit 2 Go have visited us in Nursery for the past few weeks. This week we talked about the importance of having a balanced and healthy diet, and what can happen if we don't. We firstly had to 'brush our teeth,' using a laminated set of teeth and a whiteboard pen, we had to draw the plaque onto our teeth, before cleaning it all off again! We had to make sure we went in between each tooth so that they were clean, shiny and bright! We then had two pictures of two very different teeth. One was a happy tooth, and we had to make sure we fed it healthy foods to keep it happy and healthy. The other picture was an unhappy tooth, who showed us what our teeth may be like if we choose to eat lots of sugary foods and don't clean our teeth enough! We then took part in some active exercise to finish off the session, working on our teamwork and balance skills!
Date: 13th Feb 2020 @ 10:18am
This week, the mini-cadets were back at base learning all about the 'response' team and their role and the equipment needed. Two officers talked through the grading system and the amount of time they have to respond to different incidents. Keeping people safe is their main aim and they stated how they avoid using the pepper spray and batons at all costs. They also showed us how to hand-cuff somebody! Another informative session which challenged some of the cadets' misconceptions about the police.
Date: 13th Feb 2020 @ 9:19am
Year Five have been rehearsing for the forthcoming Shakespeare festival which is being held on Tuesday 3rd March at the Blackpool Grand Theatre. 14 children are performing in Taming of the Shrew alongside children from eight other schools. The children are all extremely excited to perform!
We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo!
Date: 7th Feb 2020 @ 8:55am
Year 2 had lovely day at Blackpool Zoo. We saw lots of interesting animals and we learnt lots of new facts! Did you know that elephants have 40,000 muscles in their trunk alone?!
During the day, we also had a lesson about habitats. We learnt how animals adapt to their surroundings to survive. We also got to touch a bearded dragon and elephant poo! We had a brilliant time and luckily the weather was perfect!
Eco Warriors - Nursery Children helping to save our future planet!
Date: 13th Feb 2020 @ 12:37pm
This week we have taken part in lots of recycling activities. Firstly, we talked about how to look after our planet and the importance of recycling. This linked to our previous knowledge of Eco Bricks, as we have been building them as part of a whole school project for the last few months. As part of our BLT for last week we were asked to either start to make our own Eco Bricks or bring some plastic bits and pieces into Nursery. Lots of children brought in bits to help us on our school project of making Eco Bricks. Our teachers in Nursery then cut up the big bits of plastic into smaller bits so we could use a long stick to push the bits of plastic into the bottles. We have also made pictures and models from recycled bits, along with cleaning out our water tray after someone had put a lot of plastic in there! We all enjoyed learning about how and what we can recycle, and how we can look after the planet for our future.
The One With @SaferInternetDay #FreeToBe
Date: 12th Feb 2020 @ 3:08pm
Today is Safer Internet Day, where we look at the importance of staying safe online. We recapped what we already know on how to keep safe online:
- Don't share personal information
- Report cyber bulling by using the CEOP button and telling a trusted adult
- Ask for permission when uploading a picture or video of someone
- Use a safe password with characters, numbers and symbols
- Only use websites that are appropriate for your age
- Be an upstander and do the right thing online
- Don't trust everything you read online
In class we then looked at different messaging apps and the age you should be to use them. We also discussed what it would feel like if someone excluded you on a messaging app and how to deal with that. All of the children could explain the importance of staying safe and what they need to do in order to do this : Report (CEOP button), Record and Reach Out (speak to a trusted adult).
Date: 11th Feb 2020 @ 10:12pm
As part of our Safer Internet Day Year 2 joined the #Freetobe campaign, we discussed some very important questions such as; how we could be free to ourselves, free to play, free to be kind, free to be safe and free to talk. Children worked in groups and came up with different examples of what this would look like online. Next we looked at the positives and negatives associated with each of these questions and how we could overcome and protect ourselves from the dangers of the internet whilst also celebrating the benefits. Children were then given a secret mission to create their own super robot which would help support keeping the internet a fun and safe place to be. They programmed all the essential characteristics and then created lines of coding explaining their very important job roles. So watch out, there could be a robot on the loose online but don't worry our Year 2 children have been giving them lots of important jobs to keep everybody safe.
Date: 11th Feb 2020 @ 12:59pm
On a very windy Monday evening and having been rehearsing since September, Boundary joined pupils from virtually every Blackpool school at The Grand Theatre, performing hundreds of songs and dances, playing in bands and orchestras and enjoying a wonderful introduction to theatre!
Pupil's from Years 5 an 6 performed a medley of songs from Oliver and WOW, they were amazing! The hard-work, determination, perseverance and team work that each child demonstrated throughout each rehearsal and during the final performance really paid off - we could not be more proud of each and every performer!
Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to watch and to the children and staff for the time and energy they put into rehearsing and the final show.
Date: 7th Feb 2020 @ 7:32pm
This week we have read and enjoyed the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.’ We started off the week by exploring instruments to represent the sounds in the story, ‘swish, splash, squelch, and stumble trip!’ We have been retelling the story using our instruments and our sensory story tray, exploring trays of mud, water, sticks and snow! We have continued to focus on our counting, number recognition and matching numeral to quantity by finding the missing bears and putting them back in the correct cave! We have also had our own ‘bear cave’ in Nursery, which has been our special mark making space for the week, with bear hunt story telling paper and pencils. We have even made binoculars in our creative area to take on our own bear hunt! We followed the clues that had been left for us to find the bear in his deep dark cave!
Date: 7th Feb 2020 @ 11:45am
The mini-cadets have been working with another of the emergency services this week. During the session, they learnt about the range of jobs fire fighters have to attend, explored a fire engine and even tested out the hose. They learnt how the police and fire service have to work well together in emergencies and how they support each other to keep the public safe.
