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Date: 11th Nov 2019 @ 8:32pm
Today the Nursery children joined the whole school for a special Remembrance service. During the week we have been learning about why we wear poppies, and what they symbolise. As well as taking part in the whole school art activity of attaching our poppy art to the silhouette of a soldier, we have painted poppies and created poppies in our Play Dough area. During the Remembrance service we planted poppies together in the school garden, to remember the fallen soldiers.
Date: 13th Nov 2019 @ 8:15pm
Our story for the week has been the 'Stick Man.' We read the story together and learnt all about the 'Stick Mans' journey to return to his home. We went for a walk around the school gardens to search for the perfect sticks to make our own 'Stickmen.' We found lots of different natural materials in the garden, including lots of different sizes of sticks! We took them back into Nursery, where we looked sorted them into length order, talking about the longest and shortest sticks. We have made 'Stick Men' at our Play Dough table, using the different tools and resources available to create individual features on our men. At our Maths table we have been practising creating squares, triangles, and rectangles using sticks, and in our water tray we have been looking at floating and sinking! We also created our very own 'Stick Man' sun catchers, have a look at them next time you come into Nursery! Hopefully the sun will be shining through them!
Date: 12th Nov 2019 @ 8:07pm
It was a blustery day but the whole school remembered the fallen during a special Remembrance Service held outside the school, next to Boundary's Remembrance Garden. Prior to the service, Reception had been busy learning about why we wear poppies and had been involved in painting poppies, creating transient art poppies, collaging poppies and making poppy pictures on a light box. We had also taken part in the whole school art activity, attaching all our poppy art to the silhouette of a soldier which was then displayed in the hall.
Here are some photos of us planting poppies in the Boundary Remembrance Garden, creating a field of poppies on a light box and our display of artwork on our soldiers.
"We wear poppies to remember the soldiers who died" Rosalie.
Date: 12th Nov 2019 @ 7:17pm
The children have been busy making fireworks using play dough, creating transient art pictures, collaging rockets and even doing firework maths! They were so excited and could not wait to tell us about their fun filled night watching fireworks, using sparklers and eating hotdogs with their friends and families!
"I saw a rocket shoot up in the air and then it went whoosh!" Mia.
"I held my sparkler safely" Elsie.
"I watched them with my mummy, daddy, Isaac and Finley" Lucas.
Embracing African Culture In Year Five!
Date: 12th Nov 2019 @ 4:46pm
Year Five are currently writing stories from another culture. We are focusing on African stories and the language, settings and features associated with them. Today, we looked at African vocabulary, traditional stories, the clothing and customs. The children loved learning about such a varied and interesting country!
Date: 12th Nov 2019 @ 2:47pm
Year 2 had a lovely morning when parents came into visit to see what they were learning in Maths. Parents supported their children by helping them count and use their problems solving skills. Children had to work out different number bonds to 10, 20 and 100. The children had to solve the puzzle matching all the correct number bonds and had to make sure in the end that they had made a triangle.
Date: 9th Sep 2019 @ 2:57pm
It was a little bit chilly but the rain held off as Year 3 began their hike to Blackpool Zoo, bright and early! 'It's not far...keep going!' the teachers said. Finally, the children and staff arrived at the zoo and were ready for a fun filled day of learning. After a quick look at some animals, it was time for the educational workshop. Here, the children learnt so much new information including lots about diet and nutrition which links to Year 3's science topic this half-term. After a quick bite to eat, the adventure continued and the children visited all the different animals, finding out lots of interesting facts. As the day came to an end, the children had to find one last bit of energy for the walk home. We returned to school with some very tired children but a great day was had by all!
Ambassadors, Ambassadors, Where for art thou Ambassadors?
Date: 12th Nov 2019 @ 9:16am
Our Royal Shakespeare Ambassadors had a fantastic day working collaboratively with children from schools from Wyre, Fylde and Blackpool. They worked together to help plan the forthcoming Shakespeare Festival and were involved in joint projects and discussion groups. The children learnt about the role of being a Shakespeare Champion and played speaking and listening games with the other schools. A fantastic day was had by all!
Date: 11th Nov 2019 @ 8:12pm
Today, we held our own Remembrance service to honour those brave men and women who have fought for their country. We each made our poppy, which held the name of a soldier who died in WW1. Each poppy was planted, row upon row, in our own remembrance garden. Year 6 then led the service at the front of the school culminating in a two minute silence to remember the fallen.
Date: 11th Nov 2019 @ 5:29pm
Does anyone know what we call people who study rocks? Petrologists! So today, children in year three became a petrologist! (Petrologists study rocks while Geologists study the science of the Earth and its rocks). Children were put into groups to experiment. They had an acid test, (with vinegar) to see whether or not the rock ‘fizzed’. A water test to decide if the rocks were permeable (allowed water in) and a hardness test to see if they let off sediments (small particles). The results helped us decide as to whether the rocks were igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic. Ask your children how rocks are made!
Date: 8th Nov 2019 @ 4:41pm
This week our grown ups came into Nursery for our 'Stay & Play!' We took them all around Nursery, showing them the work we have been doing and telling them all about our daily routines. Together with our grown ups, we then played phonics bingo! We each had a board with lots of different pictures on, and we had to listen very carefully until we heard one of the sounds on our board. We used a counter to cover up each sound we heard. The person with all the sounds covered up on their board first was the winner!
Date: 7th Nov 2019 @ 4:00pm
The children and parents were Nature Detectives. Parents learnt ways to support their child's reading. writing and maths with a Nature theme. They learnt how to support learning at home and in school and each family made a scrap book to record their learning. Parents learned more about the KS1 curriculum and went on an educational visit and learnt about how we grow our fruit and vegetables.
They also made a planter out of paper, planted a seed, to grow in the ground.
Date: 6th Nov 2019 @ 7:38pm
This week we have also taken part in Bonfire night activities! Lots of the children in Nursery were very excited about seeing fireworks flying through the night sky and seeing the creative patterns as they explode into the sky with the stars. Some of our children also talked about their own experiences of Bonfire nights and fireworks. We then explored painting and collaging techniques to create firework pictures and the patterns they create when they explode. We have also been practising numbers 1-5. We counted the number of fireworks first and then matched the correct number of fireworks to the numeral. It's been another busy week!
Date: 6th Nov 2019 @ 7:16pm
This week in Nursery we have been learning about Remembrance Day and taking part in lots of Poppy themed activities! We created some particularly special Poppy art ready for our Remembrance Day ceremony next week. We use different techniques to create our painting. First we used our fingerprints and red paint for the Poppy leaves. We then had to add the black spot to the middle of our flower, being very careful not to smudge the flowers leaves! Finally we used a paint brush to add the flowers stem and the grass at the bottom of the Poppy field.
Open Morning - Come and see how we write!
Date: 5th Nov 2019 @ 12:07pm
This morning we made a Forky from Toy Story, we wrote about Halloween and created bonfire pictures. We chose these things as they are events in Autumn and a character from a film we enjoy and we wanted to write about them. We invited family members into school for the morning to help us learn. They helped us with our writing and spelling. It was great fun!
Date: 5th Nov 2019 @ 7:54pm
This week in Reception our classroom has been transformed! The home corner became a haunted house where we could dress up as our favourite characters and create our own spooky narratives. In the maths area we have been counting different halloween objects including pumpkins, ghosts, spiders, bats and skeletons and ordering number correctly up to 20. We have also been carving pumpkins and talking about different ways we have celebrated halloween with our family and friends. At the creative table we have been using our knowledge of collage to make our very own spiders. At the phonics table we have been scooping different objects our of the silly soup cauldron and writing the words out using our phonic knowledge. What a busy week we have had! Come and have a look at our learning!
The One With The Open Morning!
Date: 5th Nov 2019 @ 3:55pm
Today parents were invited in to join us for an hour and assist with our learning. To link in with Remembrance Day on Monday, we all produced poppy art. We were given an A3 sheet with a war poem on and a set of water colours. We were given 4 designs to use as a stimulus and were asked to recreate one of the pictures on the poem - or a design of our own. We produced some excellent paintings and some of them will be used to put up in the hall on Monday.
Date: 5th Nov 2019 @ 3:38pm
Children have been making Poppy art in preparation for our Remembrance day ceremony next week. Year three's objective was to make it stand out for effect. We used old newspaper articles printed in the time of the first and the second world war and cut them up to create the background. We then built a 3D poppy using tissue paper, paper shredding or different red materials to contrast. We will remember them.
Date: 4th Nov 2019 @ 8:04pm
Children in year three have been learning about the Stone Age and exactly how we find out about the past. In order to learn about human past, we have become Archaeologists. Excavation is the method that archaeologists use to extract out of the ground. The work is difficult and has to be detail-orientated since the archaeologist is destroying the very thing they are trying to study- and there are no ‘do-overs’. It is impossible for them to know exactly what is underground so they have to be very careful not to damage what’s underneath. Children have had a cookie, (the site) and needed to extract the chocolate chips (artefacts) to gain an understanding of how careful an Archeologist needs to work.
The One Where Year 6 Do Forest School!
Date: 1st Nov 2019 @ 9:55am
Wow - what a day we had during our forest school session! We started off our session by gathering the resources around the outdoor area to create a spooky structure (Halloween style). We had to work in groups to show our team-building skills and we had to use our imagination to come up with a creative design. Finally, we finished our session by sitting around the campfire fire - we drank delicious hot chocolate and tested out our singing skills as we sang some fun campfire songs. We thoroughly enjoyed our session and we can't wait to see what is in store for us in our next session!
The One Where Year 6 Ride Their Bikes!
Date: 31st Oct 2019 @ 8:23am
Congratulations to the Year 6 children who took part in a 2-day Bikeability course - they all passed with flying colours. All children can now ride their bike safely using what they have learned. Well done Year 6!
Date: 30th Oct 2019 @ 7:15pm
Welcome back everyone! We have enjoyed hearing about all the exciting things you have done during half term. We have had a spectacularly spooky first week back! We arrived into Nursery to find our home corner had been taken over by a witch, who had turned it into a 'Witches Kitchen.' She has been making potions and leaving us secret messages on ghost paper! We had to use special torches to read the message she had left us! We have also been decorating pumpkins, witches and monsters. We have used different shapes for the different body parts on our 'shape monsters,' looking at the properties and how to recognise the shapes we used. 'Whats in the Witches Kitchen', 'Room on the Broom' and 'Five Little Monsters,' have been our stories this week and we have been looking at rhyming Halloween songs and rhymes. Try singing some of these songs together at home! Happy Halloween!
Date: 30th Oct 2019 @ 10:28am
To launch our ‘Sensational Seasons’ topic we explored the physical effects of autumn. We went on an autumn treasure hunt and found lots of wonderful natural items such as leaves,twigs and pinecones and used these natural items to make our own autumn art. We explored the colours of the leaves and mixed paint to make our own autumn colours then painted leaves to create an autumn tree for our classroom. We examined the texture of leaves and bark through wax rubbing which created a range of interesting patterns. We looked at foods which are harvested during autumn and designed our own pumpkins.
Date: 29th Oct 2019 @ 8:58am
Autumn 2 Topic Overview 2019/20
Date: 29th Oct 2019 @ 8:48am
