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Date: 15th Oct 2024 @ 10:44am
This week we brought all our learning about spirals and lines together to create a new snail shell for 'Normal the Slug with the Silly Shell.' We read the story together, before designing our own spiral shells for Norman, using pastels and chalk.
Reception learn about Nocturnal Animals
Date: 14th Oct 2024 @ 10:07pm
This week we have been reading the story Oliver's Wood'. It is all about a little owl Oliver who stays up late on night. He stays up so late he see something strange that he has never seen before 'the big, round, warm sun'. Oliver is so exvited to tell al his friends but when he goes to find them they are all asleep.
The children have been identifying different nocturnal animals sich as bats, hedgehogs, owls and badgers. They have been exploring what it means to be nocturnal animal and how they have adapted to being awake a night like having excellent eyesight and hearing. They also found out what the animals look like, and what they eat. We were even lucky enough to be visited by Carolynne from Blackpool's Hedgehog Rescue who brought '---------" the hedge to meet us.
We have completed lots of different activities based around this theme including; labelling animals, sorting animals and even using different materails at the creative table to make them. What a busy week!
"Bats have very good hearing' Dennis
"Owls have good eye sight so they can see in the dark' Lily-Mae
"My nanny has a hedgehog and it eats the worms and slugs in her garden" Freyja
"Nocturnal animals sleep in the dark and wake up at night" Kevin
Date: 14th Oct 2024 @ 2:32pm
To start our Black History Month learning, we used our previous knowledge and online resources to create a PowerPoint slide about what Black History Month is, when it is celebrated in the UK and why we celebrate it. When looking at sporting achievements, we focused on the Men’s England National Team. We first looked at all the players heritages and we were surprised to find 8 out of 11 players heritage is black. We imagined what the England time would be like without them – we would only have three players!
Year 4 focused on sporting achievements for Black History Month and we are linking this to our Reading into Writing non-chronological report writing. We will be writing about Jude Bellingham, but to start our journey of non-chronological reports we have been looking at lots of WAGOLLs.
Year 3 - Magnetic Investigation
Date: 13th Oct 2024 @ 2:37pm
We have been investigating magnetic strength and how magnets can act at a distance. We started off by seeing if a magnet was strong enough to lift a paperclip off the table. We were amazed to see that we could make the paperclip hover in the air. This was because the magnetic force was pulling the paperclip towards it.
We then conducted an investigation into magnet strength. We wanted to find out if the size of a magnet affected its strength. We measured the distance that a magnet could attract a metal ball from. From the magnets we used, we concluded that the larger magnets had the strongest magnetic pull. We also found out that a magnetic force can act from a distance so it doesn't need to be touching a magnetic object to attract it.
Year 3 - Iron Age Investigators
Date: 13th Oct 2024 @ 2:31pm
Following on from our learning about the Stone Age, we started to investigate how life changed during the Iron Age. We studied the Iron Age settlement, Danebury and completed some paired work. One of the tasks was to examine the arial photograph of Danebury and discuss what we thought the holes may be. Some of our ideas were shelters, wells and tunnels. We then found out that they were storage pits were they hid grain as it was such a precious resource to them. Our other paired task was to study a photograph of artefacts found at the Danebury site and try and figure out what they were and what that tells us about how people lived in the Iron Age.
We also studied an illustration of an Iron Age hill fort. We thought about what we could see and then what we could work out from what we could see. For example, we saw a plough so we could work out that they were farming and we saw a dog so we could work out that they kept pets.We also thought about questions we had from the picture. Some of our questions included: Why are there antlers on poles? and Why is there a wall and a gate?
Year 2- Final Forest School Fun
Date: 11th Oct 2024 @ 3:44pm
This week, we enjoyed our last forest school session. As it was a chilly day, we did some fun exercises to warm up before making our own journey sticks using loppers to make twigs smaller and collecting items from the garden, wrapping them onto the stick using threads. Some of us created fishing rods and tried to catch fish in the muddy puddles. Finally, we made a fire and toasted a selection of breads before enjoying them with butter and jam! We have loved our first three sessions and cannot wait until our final three sessions later next year!
Reception - The Owls Visit EYFS
Date: 11th Oct 2024 @ 9:57am
Everyone was very excited to have a special visit from the owls.
We watched them fly around the dance studio, listened to their wings as they flapped and watched how they enjoyed eating their snacks, They were called Pike, Bugs and Midge.
We also learnt that owls have incredible hearing and can spin their head around to be able to hunt for mice and other small animals. Everyone then had a turn at holding the owl on their arm.
Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 4:23pm
Acorns have been reading Owl Babies. We have had lots of fun engaging with the sensory story.
Acorns have enjoyed the owl theme running through their learning experiences in maths, mark making and even developing their cutting skills. We even made our very own owls in art.
The best bit was getting to meet the owls when they came to visit!
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Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 4:06pm
Acorns have been exploring and celebrating Harvest. Today we have been making bread.
We had lots of fun mixing the ingredients and trying to knead the dough.
Our bread rolls turned out great. Have a look.
Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 2:29pm
Nursery have thoroughly enjoyed reading "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen. They can all join in beautifully with the story and loved using musical instuements to make the sound of swishy swashy grass and squelchy squerchy mud. They created some fabulous bear puppets, counted and sorted bears by colour and even baked some delicious bear paw print biscuits.
Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 2:20pm
After reading the story "Owl Babies" the children were really interested in owls. So you can imagine their excitment when four real life owls came to visit! The children throughly enjoyed leaning about the different tyrpes of owls, where they live and what they like to eat. They even got to hold Midge who is a very wise owl at 13 yeasr old!
Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 12:32pm
Our Year 1 children were very excited to recieve our Dazzle pack today! We are looking forward to reading our new books.
Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 11:34am
We love a museum here at Boundary! This week, our loan box from the Heritage Museum arrived and we set up Redcliffes as a Roman Museum for the children to explore. We looked at Roman Army uniform and lots of other artefacts. The uniform was very heavy!
School Council- Our First Meeting
Date: 9th Oct 2024 @ 5:18pm
We had our very first meeting this week and were excited to be joined by Miss Moyes who set us our first tasks as school councillors.
She explained how she needed to buy new reading books for the school and would like the children to choose what they would like to read. She also asked us to find out what charities we would like to support this year. Lydia in Y5, suggested Alder Hey as she had been in hospital there and they had helped her get better.
Miss Moyes also had exciting news about Blackpool's School Symposium which aims to bring all Pupil Councils together to work collaboratively and allow young people to feed directly into the BEIB. She explained how Boundary will be hosting the first meeting with all the schools in our area.
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 7:38pm
This week in Music, Year 5 performed the song 'Words Can Hurt'. We have been analysing the lyrics, looking at the structure of the composition and then practising hwo to perform as a group.
The song has meant a lot to us as it has lead to some excellent discussions about how words can hurt our Mental Health just as much as physical pain. Some of us even performed some role plays about how to act kindly and with respect - following the Boundary Always Promises.
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 7:33pm
Today we took part in our first Spelling Bee of the year. Each house was represented by the best spellers from Year 2 - Year 6 and the children were tested on spellings they have been learning in Autumn 1. After a spelling test in class last week, Jake, Felix, Rose and Reinier represented their houses from Year 5 today.
The over all winners were Bathurst, who managed to spell 14/15 spellings across all 5 years groups. Well done to all who took part!
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 5:26pm
For our final lesson in our current Christianity unit of work we talked about our own identities as part of a family and part of the school community. We talked about where we each belong, and recorded this through the use of widget. We also discussed how we would show a new child in our school that they were welcome and how we could help them to feel like they belong.
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 5:19pm
Today we looked closely at some different parts of the body, noticing the different parts that make up one body part, e.g. on our hand we have our fingers, nails, knuckles and thumb. We discussed the key parts that make up our hands, legs, ears and eye, before trying our very best to draw these key body parts, including the key features and detail. We began to understand the important role different body parts play and to orally explain what the main parts of our body do.
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 3:55pm
Today we held our first Spelling Bee of the year. Each house was represented by the best spellers from Year 2 - Year 6 and the children were tested on spellings they have been learning in Autumn 1. We are very proud of all the children for being their house representative and spelling some very tricky words in front of the whole school. The over all winners were Bathurst, who managed to spell 14/15 spellings across all 5 years groups.
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 3:01pm
Today, Year Two participated in our house competiton of the spelling bee. The children represented their houses with pride and tried really hard to spell some of the words aloud that we have learnt so far. Well done to our four representatives, you did great!
Reception Learning to use our Mini Me
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 12:04pm
Today we have introduced the children to their 'Mini Mes' A 'mini me' is a pictiure of themselves which they must find it the provision. The children are then encouraged to complete the task their 'Mini Me' is on. This is to help the children to become more independent and encourage them to work in a range of different areas within the classroom. Have a look at the children working hard with their 'Mini Me'.
Date: 7th Oct 2024 @ 7:52pm
This week the children in Reception have been reading the traditional tail 'Little Red Hen' the children have taken part in lots of different activities themeed arounf the story including sequencing the story using the correct language, labelling the characters with the initial sounds, collaging their own little red hen using a range of materials at the creative table, ordering the hen number cards and counting out the correct quantity and retelling the story using the puppets and using the playdough to make their own little red hen.. The children even mafe bread in the school kitchen. What a busy week.
Date: 7th Oct 2024 @ 12:38pm
Our unit this half term has been the Ancient Maya. We have learned all about the ancient Maya, a civilisation that lived in the rainforests of Mesoamerica and spanned over 300 years. We have learned how their people used the resources at hand to make tools, weapons and places to live. We have learned about what they ate, what they wore and how they entertained themselves. We have really enjoyed learning all about this ancient civilisation.
Date: 7th Oct 2024 @ 8:35am
This week Boundary Primary School celebrated Harvest Festival. Year 6 led the celebration assembly together with our special guest, Reverend Peter. We talked about being thankful for the food we eat, our good health and the life we live. The children and their families helped by donating food to Vincent House.Thank you to everyone for their support.
Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 4:54pm
This week Boundary Primary School celebrated Harvest Festival.
Year 6 led the celebration assembly together with our special guest, Reverend Peter. We talked about being thankful for the food we eat, our good health and the life we live.
The children and their families helped by donating food to Vincent House.
Thank you to everyone for their support.
