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Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 1:47pm
Acorns have been exploring the frog life cycle.
To support our learning, we have been reading The Perfect Ribbit and signing the frog life cycle song.
We have enjoyed listening to the story, practicing frogs sounds, singing and using the sensory animals to support our understanding.
We even had a visit from the tadpoles in our pond.
We looked at how they have changed from the last time we saw them and noticed they had grown some back legs.
We are looking forward to their next visit when they become froglets and then frogs.
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 1:24pm
We had a great morning in the sun for our Sports Day. The children showed good perseverance and we even saw some people supporting each other when they were unsure what to do. Well done everyone!
Date: 24th Jun 2024 @ 7:44pm
Today we enjoyed Sports Day! It was a very warm day but we all showed lots of determination, resilience and team work on each station. We took part in races, archery, speed bounce, bean bag throwing and cup stacking! We all thoroughly enjoyed sharing the afternoon with our grown ups and showing them our sports skills!
Date: 24th Jun 2024 @ 3:08pm
This week the children have been reading the story 'Billy's Bucket'. The children have been using their imagination to think about what they might see in their own magic bucket. The children used the props at the story telling table and then drew and labelled the different creatures. they have also been completing lots of other activities such as ordering the bucket numbers, making a repeated pattern in their bucket and collaging their favourite sea creature.
"I can see a beautiful mermaid in my bucket. She has scales on her tail" Alaiya
"A big shark is in my bucket" Archie
"I can see a pirate ship in my bucket" Summer S
Later in the week the children we be completing their own piece of writing about their own magic bucket.
Date: 23rd Jun 2024 @ 8:58pm
Over the past two weeks the children have enjoyed looking after our five classroon ducklings; Sunny, Cher, Ozzy, Freddie and Bertie. The children have been finding out the importance of ensuring they have enough food and water, warmth and a clean cage. the children have taken responsibility for cleaning out their cage, topping up their ood and water and making sure then can enjoy swimming in the water trays out side, The children have produced some lovely writing about the ducks and have enjoyed taking part in lots of duckling themed activities including; making a duck the creative table, labelling the lifecycle, painting a duck and building a duckling nest. aLl the children had the opportunity to handle the duckling (some children even overcame their fear). What a fabulous few weeks!
Date: 23rd Jun 2024 @ 7:44pm
On Friday the children enjoyed a Music and Art day! We loved thinking about our identify for Art and making links to our hobbies, likes and memories when painting our self portrait.
In Music, we listened to a range of songs and made notes on their styles. We learnt about Jazz scatting and loved singing in this style! We also tried our hand in syncopation.
Date: 23rd Jun 2024 @ 5:27pm
This year's theme for Music Day was connection! We had a fantastic day learning about syncopated rhythms. We clapped our own rhythms to a nursery rhyme and then created syncopated rhythms with body percussion and a range of different instruments.
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 4:02pm
This week Reception celebrated Music Day.
They sang songs independently, learnt how to sing using call and response and also sang at a higher pitch. They then danced in time to the music using their bodies to move rhythmically.
Take a look at our photos!
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 2:43pm
We had a great day learning about mark making and different shading techniques. We practised techniques in our sketch books before creating a self portrait.
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 2:17pm
A theme of identity! We've had a great day exploring mark making and then creating our own self-portraits.
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 2:03pm
In Science we recapped our learning on Rocks! We completed different activites to revisit our learning. We looked at the characteristics of metamorphic, sedimentary and igneous rocks. We used key vocabulary to complete matching activities and a Cloze. Finally, we also explored the layers of soils.
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 1:33pm
Today we enjoyed Art and Music Day! We learnt about the theme for the day and what the word 'identity' means. We then talked about the different things that make us individual and that contribute towards our identity. We completed different activities to explore our own identities before creating our own self portrait. We looked carefully at our own individual features and the shapes we can use to create our features using pastels and pencils.
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 6:03pm
Today, we all enjoyed takeover day with our Year 5 teachers! We were very excited to meet our new teachers and TAs and all tried our very best with everything they asked us to do.
After assembly, we began the morning by reading the story 'More or less' to recap our understanding of how to find one more and one less than a given number. We then used our knowledge to find one more and one less for given numbers within 100, showing our Year 5 teachers how we record our learning independently on Seesaw.
We then learnt how to draw a portrait of ourselves. Mr Ridley showed us a great example of his own portrait and gave us step by step instructions to follow.
We all had a super morning!
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 4:37pm
There are lots of opportunites for the children to work collaboratively in nursery as its a great way to develop communication and language skills and PSED skills. This week we have been reading story "The Singing Mermaid" By Juila Donaldson and the chidlren worlked togerher the create a beautiful tail for the mermaid.
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 4:27pm
We were so excited when the ducklings from our Reception classes came for a vsiit. We talked about how the mummy duck laid an egg and the ducklings hatched out of the egg, We loved watching them waddle around!
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 1:53pm
Today was our annual Year 5 Takeover Morning and Year 2 were lucky to spend the morning being taught by Mr Fleming, Mr Bell, Mr Hudson, Mr Zaleski and Mr Rhodes. We started off with Maths where we recapped our 2x, 5x and 10x multiplication facts. We played Hit The Button and then we completed independent tasks where we had to apply our 2x, 5x and 10x table knowledge.
After break we looked at word classes in Reading into Writing. We revisited nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. We identified them in sentences and discussed what their uses were. We then worked in groups to complete a sorting game.
We thoroughly enjoyed our morning with our Takeover teachers, we all worked hard and tried our very best for them and we hope that we have given them an idea of what it is like to work in a school.
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 12:05pm
Today the children in Year 5 took over the school, taking on the roles of all the staff!
Mrs Clarke and Mrs Farley were replaced by Mr Conlon and Miss McKenzie and the teaching assistants were replaced by Mr Clarke, Miss Pownall, Miss Homer and Mr Collier.
Holly Class and Willow Class enjoyed listening to the story Supertato followed by exciting activites, such as painting, writing and role playing.
Miss Mckenzie "I enjoyed today, especially reading with the children in the Book Nook and Reading Den."
Mr Clarke " It was a really good morning. I enjoyed helping the children with their learning."
Miss Pownall " I loved helping the children outside."
Mr Collier " I liked teaching them the duck life cycle."
Miss Homer " I liked helping them to paint a rainbow."
Mr Conlon " I read lots of stories to them, that was my favoutrite part of the morning."
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 11:58am
What a great morning! We had Mr Cooper (teacher) and Miss Ogden (TA) in Maple teaching us about capital letter and full stops, then about lines of symmetry. After break, they even helped to teach use about reading skills. Thank you Year 5! You did a great job.
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 11:14am
Today In Boundary Primary School Year 5 had Takeover Day when they takeover the teachers, teaching assistant, site staff, administration staff and social media roles!
About a week before Takeover Day, each child from both classes got to choose one job to work for the day - they then had to apply and interview for their chosen role.
Throughout the day Year 5 have been doing a wonderful job learning what it takes to have a real job. The reporters have been interviewing pupils and mini teaching staff; Mrs. Farley says that she wouldn't change anything about this Take Over Day.
Children told us that they have had a great time, the Deputy Head Teacher's were invloved with lesson observations, the Admin Team were taking phonecalls and ensuring classes had the correct letters to take home (and that the lunches for next week were ordered!). Mr. Humble our Sports Coach enjoyed having his Year 5 helpers, telling us "the Year 5 mini teachers were very organised and I would let them do it more often".
Overall the day has been a great success - with feedback from the adults who have the real jobs saying that this has probably been the best Take Over Day yet!
*Written by Thoma, Lacey, Jophina and Casey - Year 5 Social Media Team (for the day!)
Date: 19th Jun 2024 @ 5:01pm
Today we visited Martin Mere Wetland Centre as part of our Science consolidation. We got to explore the wetlands and see the different animals that habit there and looked at some of their features. We also completed some activities to help us connect with nature and become friends with it and value the things we have in natural environments.
Date: 19th Jun 2024 @ 4:49pm
Year 5 had a great session this afternoon learning how to ride a skateboard. The session covered safety, how to stand, ride in a straight line and how to change direction on the board. Some pupils manged to do a few tricks on the board. In the 50 minute session, some children who had never even been on a skateboard before were able to stay on and control their movement safely.
Date: 18th Jun 2024 @ 2:27pm
Year 6 had a great session this morning learning how to ride a skateboard. The session covered safety, how to stand, ride in a straight line, turn and we evenb attempted a trick or two!
Date: 18th Jun 2024 @ 2:22pm
What a great opportunity we've had today! Team Rubicon came in and showed us how to skateboard. We learned the basics about keeping our feet wide apart and being confident, then we were shown some tricks. The adults were really proud of us all giving it a go and Oliver said he was really impressed with us.
Date: 17th Jun 2024 @ 5:09pm
Reception very kindly let Year 1 borrow their ducklings for an afternoon this week. We were all very excited to see the new ducklings and learn a bit more about them! We were all very gentle with the animals and enjoyed them visiting our classroom.
Date: 17th Jun 2024 @ 5:01pm
In RE this week we have learnt the story of Noah's Ark. We read the story together, talking about the characters, key events and the meaning behind the story. We then retold the story together, before creating our own storyboards.
