: Blog items
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 4:22pm
Today Year 6 visited Manchester Museum. There were lots of different areas to explore, including Ancient Egypt, Fossils, The Natural World and Ancient Asia. We were able to link our learning in Science to the fossil and dinosaur section as well as looking at how animals and plants have evolved over time. We had a great time and learned lots.
Nursery and their Excellent Fine Motor Skills
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 2:47pm
This week the children have been developeing their fine motor skills with activtiies link to the story "Handa'a Surprise". The chidlren have weaved baskets, made pineapples and cut them out and squeezed fruit to create some juice.
Nursery New and Improved Mud Kitchen
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 2:43pm
Our mud kitchen has recently recieved a make over! We have made it bigger, added a water butt so the chidlren can collect their own water and added some new pots, pans and tools. The children are also able use the
herbs that are avalaible in the near by garden. It has been lovely to watch the chidlren working togther to create their own recipes - we have had brocolli, soup and hot chocolate!
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 9:03am
This half term, we are looking at classifying animals. This week we focused on vertebrates. We used information around the classroom to find the characteristics of five vertebrates and then used Carroll and Venn diagrams to start to classify (group) some animals.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 9:00am
This week we used music staves and the glockenspiels to create our own music. We focused on using the notes C, D, E, G and A and making sure they were written on the staves accurately.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 8:25am
We have some new arrivals in school this week. On Monday , we had a delivery of eggs and an incubater. On Tuesday Acorns went to visit the eggs and noticed some were cracked and one was moving, with a beak peeping out. We were excited to see some duckling hatching.
Omer "chicks"
We were even more excited to see one of the ducks that had already hatch and touch their soft fur. We will be visiting the ducklings regularly over the next couple of weeks and watching how they grow.
Date: 10th Jun 2025 @ 3:41pm
Today we looked at what plants need to grow to be strong and healthy. Once we had learnt how to care for plants and identified plants that were healthy or unhealthy we planted a sunflower seed to take home and practice our new learning. We look forward to seeing how your sunflowers grow!
Date: 10th Jun 2025 @ 3:38pm
This week our Skills for life theme is innovation. Today, in PSHE we used our creativity to design our own educational board game. We chose a topic and made dice, question cards and designed it how we wanted. We also thought about all the subjects where we have to be innovative to help us in all areas of the curriculum.
Date: 10th Jun 2025 @ 12:19pm
This week we have been reading 'Snail and the Whale.' We began by talking about the key events in the story and created a story map to help us retell the key events. We have also completed lots of activities in our provision relating to the story, including retelling the story at the story telling table and labelling the key characters.
Date: 2nd Jun 2025 @ 10:58am
Last half term, we learned about different food types in DT. In addition, we looked at what chefs are required to do and what skills they need to be successful in their careers.
We then conducted market research and discovered what others would like on blinis (small pancakes). We designed small blinis for a party. On our last day before half term break, we followed recipes and made our blinis. The children used a variety of spreads, fruits, sauces and creams! They looked very tasty!
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 3:38pm
Year 6 had a great time in Boundary's forest school area today. They completed a variety of independent activities including den building, filling the pond, making bracelets, working with clay and making pesto from nettle leaves! The children worked really well together and demonstrated many of our school characteristics.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 2:16pm
Over the past few weeks we have been watching caterpillars go through the process of during in to butterflies. We were so excited to see that they had completed the process and we had five beautiful butterflies. Today we let them go and we think they loved the beautiful flowers in the garden.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 2:09pm
We have been reading the story "Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell". In the story, Norman meets lots of snails and thinks their shells are amazing! We looked closey at the spiral patterns on shells and then recreated it through drawing and baking! We made some deliciious jam spirals and drew super spirals.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 2:08pm
Today we completed our DT food unit and used our knowledge of fruits and where they come from to make our fruit smoothies. This morning, we carefully cut our fruits before we blended them to make a smoothie and evaluated their taste, texture and appearance.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 12:07pm
Wow! Our butterflies have emerged from their chrysalis!
We were excited to see our butterflies fluttering around. We looked at the chrysalis that they had emerged from and then watched them flying around and eating some food.
We learnt the butterfly Makaton sign and some of us tried to copy it.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 11:36am
This week the children have been enjoying hunting for minibeasts in our outdoor area. They used magnifying glasses and viewing jars to inspect them. looking at their colour, number of legs, if they have antennae and naming them too.
"I think i have found a wood louse" Perisa.
"This minibeast has antennae" Kevin.
"I've found a butterfly on the bush" Dina
"Look at the snail...it's on my finger...it's small" Levi.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 9:12am
This week children in Year 5 have continued their art journey into fashion design. In this lesson, pupils were inspired by three British designers and created the designs for their final piece.
Year 3 - Cloth, thread and paint!
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 7:54pm
In Art, we have completed a short journey called ‘cloth, paint and thread’ in which we combined painting and sewing! The children used acrylic paint to create their background on cloth and then used the running stitch to add detail to their paintings.
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 7:51pm
In DT, we have looked at making a balanced meal, using all of the food groups such as, proteins, carbohydrates, fibre, dairy and oils and spread. We learned why we need each of these to keep our bodies healthy and to keep everything working s it should. We then created some wraps and pittas containing as many as the food groups we could. As soon as we made them, the children couldn’t wait to tuck into them and write up their evaluation.
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 10:19am
Today, we explored patterns. To start the day we used sugar paper and pins to make wholes with our drawn on patterns. Afterwards, we looked at Surface Pattern Design artist Rachel Parker. She designs patterns for things such as bedding, bags, curtains and clothes. We used her pattern making skills to make our own continuous patterns, which our teachers then scanned into the computers so that we could use our computer skills to screenshot, copy and paste our original design to make it a continuous pattern. The results are fantastic!
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 8:04am
Year 6 have really enjoyed their latest Geography unit - a local area study of Blackpool. We have learned how our town and region fit into the wider world, identified key physical and human geographical features on maps and asked how our region might meet the needs of people. Finally, we used field work to answer the question: Is Blackpool still a fit place for people? The children produced some excellent work and were really inetested in finding out more about where they live.
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 8:02am
This half term, Year 6 have been focussing on acitvism and art. We have explored the idea of activism and why people protest. We also discussed words and vocabulary linked to activism. Then, throughout our journey we have experiemented with collaging, printing, letter formation in order to create our final piece of work. We put together everything we have learned to create a placard linked to activism. I think you'll agree that our end products are amazing!
Year 6 - Inheritance and Evolution
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 8:01am
This week we have completed our unit on 'Inheritance and Evolution'. Our lessons centred around understanding how genes are passed on from parents to their offspring in both the animal and plant world. We then looked at how plants and animals have adaptedover time to survive in their environments. The idea of evolution took us on a journey of how change happens over millions of years and how we can learn about the past from fossils.
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 5:19pm
This week in PE we played some games to develop our teamwork and listening skills. We focused on our spacial awareness and reaction to others movements aswell as developing our own tactics and sportsmanship skills.
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 5:07pm
This week we have been exploring shapes. We have learnt the names of four 2D shapes - square, rectangle, triangle and circle. We have also explored how many sides and corners these shapes have and then used the shapes to create pictures.
