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Date: 26th Sep 2019 @ 8:46pm
Children are currently on the journey to making their own photo frame. They are learning how to make products efficiently by selecting the right materials, refining their techniques and continually evaluating their progress. We needed to investigate how to make something stable and used pipe cleaners to create a free-standing, solid structure.
Date: 26th Sep 2019 @ 4:18pm
This week we have been learning more about our families and where we live. We have talked about who lives in our house, and made a family tree, using a different leaf for each persons name. We have made shape houses, and talked about how many family members we in each house. We have also thought about people who are special to us, including our friends!Â
This week we have also decorated cookies for MacMillan Coffee morning. We made the icing using icing sugar and water, mixing it together until it formed the paste. We then spread it over the biscuits, before adding sprinkles onto the top!
Date: 26th Sep 2019 @ 8:12am
Year 2 have been exploring the school grounds looking for lots of mini beasts and investigating the different micro-habitats in which they can be found. We found lots of bugs and insects lurking around under logs, stones and in plants and trees. We noticed that they all like damp and dark places where no one can find them. Great work Year 2!
Date: 23rd Sep 2019 @ 8:06pm
Year 5 have been making full use of Boundary's new Forest School area during our outdoor lessons. As well as problem solving skills, we have learned how to safely light fires, hunted for bugs, toasted marshmallows and sang songs around the camp fire. We can't wait for our next Forest School lesson, this Thursday!
Date: 16th Sep 2019 @ 12:33pm
It was the first week Reception children stayed for their dinner. Take a look at them tucking into and enjoying their food!
Date: 22nd Sep 2019 @ 7:50pm
Children have been leaning about our world, the continents and the North and the South poles. What better way to engage the children than to make a globe of our own out of plasticine. Children had to create the sphere in blue for the water. They then had to use a flattened map of the continents and mould the green plasticine into the correct shapes and add to the correct place on their sphere. Finally, we added a thinner white sheet on the top for the Artic and a thicker section at the bottom, for the Antarctic.
Bienvenue à la troisième année (Welcome to Year three)
Date: 19th Sep 2019 @ 9:19pm
Since the beginning of Year three, children have started to learn French. In lesson one, the children researched the country of France, the cities and monuments which make the country what it is. In week two, we dived further into the culture and the lifestyle of the people who live there and by week three we were learning some French words and phrases. Children have thoroughly enjoyed looking at Google Earth and walking through the streets of Paris, watching videos, singing French songs and playing 'Linguascope', an online interactive website where they can learn through playing games.
Witches, wizards and a whole lot of magic!
Date: 19th Sep 2019 @ 7:32pm
This week we have read the story 'Room on the Broom.' We talked about the different characters that are in the story and the order that they get onto the witches broomstick. We have made wands and broomsticks out of different materials, using sticks and comparing the sizes. We created magic potions and witches bubbling brew, blowing bubbles and exploring what was inside. We even painted with spaghetti broom sticks! The witch has also been very forgetful this week. She wrote us a letter to tell us that she had lost some of her items around Nursery! So we went on a scavenger hunt to find her hat, bow and broomstick! We found everything for her so she could get back on her broom and fly away.
Date: 19th Sep 2019 @ 4:02pm
We have been learning the name each of our senses as well as the body part we use for that sense. We explored and a range of foods using our sense of smell, touch, sight, and taste and we able to think of some fantastic describing words such as spiky, sour, rough, oval and juicy.
Date: 19th Sep 2019 @ 9:21am
Year 2 have been working hard on understanding the place value in numbers up to 100 in Maths. We have been using lots of images and manipulatives to help us understand the actual size of numbers. We have also been thinking about how many tens and how many ones make up each number. This will help us to go on to order and compare numbers. We had fun representing numbers with equipment such as bead strings, Dienes, place value counters and Numicon.
Date: 19th Sep 2019 @ 8:33am
What a brilliant few days we have all had together at PGL. From the moment we arrived to the moment we left, we were busy taking part in exciting activities. Throughout the stay we took part in :
- Canoeing
- Climbing wall
- Buggy building
- Survivor
- Raft building
- Archery
- Jacob's ladder
There was plenty of food to keep our strength up and lots of games with our leader Lewis in between activities. We all had a brilliant time and made memories for life.
Date: 19th Sep 2019 @ 8:11am
Today Year 6 had their first visit to the library @thegrange. We will be visiting every month so that the children can regularly change their books and be exposed to a variety of authors and genres. The books will stay in class as part of quiet reading time during Guided Reading sessions.
Date: 16th Sep 2019 @ 9:43pm
This week in Reception we have been thinking about ourselves and our families. We have been painting self portraits, making our faces using loose parts, drawing and labelling our families, role playing in our home corner and talking about all the special activities we do together as a family. We have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the children further and finding out more about their families and friends.
"I have a dog called Hugo and it was his birthday. He was six. Me and mummy take him for walks" Albie
"My mummy has had the baby now. He called Ryder" Skylar
"In my house its me, mummy, daddy and my baby Nevaya" Callon
"I go on my horse. My mummy takes me to the stable" Alexander
Date: 12th Sep 2019 @ 5:02pm
We had our first trip to the library at @thegrange. They have so much selection! Every child picked their own text to bring back to school to read in their down time.
Date: 12th Sep 2019 @ 9:31am
Year 4 enjoyed a fantastic Wow based on our new topic 'Tudor Takeover. We got to learn about how the Tudor Rose came about after the Battle of Bosworth. We learnt about key events within this battle and the impact that decisions had on the final outcome. The children created Tudor roses containing key facts of this historic event. We also looked at Elizabeth the first and created our own Tudor portraits.
Date: 12th Sep 2019 @ 9:23am
Our first trip to the library was very exciting! We walked to @Grange dodging the puddles along the way as it was a very wet day! When we arrived at the library we couldn't wait to choose a book to look at. There were lego books, princess books, robot books and one of our favourite books 'We're going on a bear hunt". We spent some time looking at the books before Miss James read us a story. It was about a little boy who told lies - we knew this was something we should not do and if the little boy was in our class he would not have an always badge!
Date: 12th Sep 2019 @ 4:20pm
We have had a very busy week in Nursery! We have been baking, building, and we have even made some super slippery dinosaur slime! We have also been investigating our dinosaur small world, and we have read the story 'Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs.' We have used different techniques to create dinosaur pictures, including printing, collaging and painting. We even washed the dinosaurs that had been stomping in the slippery slime!
We have also been painting self portraits. First we looked in the mirror and talked to our friends and teachers about what we could see, what colour are our eyes? What shape is our head? What colour is our hair? Some of us then chose to paint other members of our family!
Date: 12th Sep 2019 @ 9:23am
Children have been working hard this week on their place value skills. As this underpins all of maths, it is so important the children are aware of the value of each digit in a number. By using concrete items, doing various fluency challenges, children have used their understanding of number to solve one and two step problems.
Date: 11th Sep 2019 @ 5:00pm
This week we began our topic of 'Electricity'. We were given a range of electrical components and several tasks to try and complete within a given time. The tasks were to:
- Create a simple circuit to make a bulb light,
- Create more complex circuits to make a bulb dimmer/brighter,
- Add a range of other components into the circuit, such as motors and buzzers,
- Make a switch to turn the bulb on/off,
- Test a range of everyday items to work out which ones are conductors/insulators.
Some brilliant learning and discussions took place during the sessions.
Date: 11th Sep 2019 @ 4:54pm
Year 2 children paid a visit to the Library this week, all the children chose a book and are excited to start reading them in class and with their friends. The children will visit the library every half term, where they will be able to read books from many genres and experience the benefits of using a library. Children will also be able to change their books.
Date: 15th Sep 2019 @ 7:14pm
The children have had a great first week in Reception! They have been busy exploring the classroom environment, making new friends and get use to the new rules and routines.
As part of the children's induction period we have been focusing on ensuring the children fully understand the classroom rules and expectations, can recognise their name on sight and can write it correctly forming their letters properly. The children have been working very hard and we are looking forward to having them in school next week for lunch.
Date: 9th Sep 2019 @ 9:05am
Autumn 1 Topic Overview 2019/20
Date: 9th Sep 2019 @ 9:00am
Date: 6th Sep 2019 @ 2:39pm
Welcome back everyone after the Summer break! It has been lovely to hear all about your Summer trips and activities, and to meet our new children! This week we have been learning all about ourselves and how we are similar and different. We have made ourselves using collage and looking at our hair and eye colour. We have explored all the areas of Nursery and spent some time in the outside area creating and taking part in an obstacle course. We have started to talk about our families and who we live with, including our pets! We will be looking at this more next week.
Date: 5th Sep 2019 @ 4:34pm
Year 2 had a brilliant morning taking off in the Boundary rocket heading for the International Space Station. Once in space children began hunting for some ‘extraordinary’ photographs of our Earth and its capabilities. We then went on a scavenger hunt to find lots of different pictures by using our explorer binoculars.
