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Year 1 and Year 2 Move for Mental Health
Date: 7th May 2024 @ 8:03am
This week as part of Mental Health Awareness week Year 1 and Year 2 have been exploring how exercise keeps us healthy both physically and mentally. We have continued to complete our daily four laps of the playground and found lots of different ways to keep moving for our whole break time! During Always Time this week, we also danced outside to music and created chalk art.
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 9:54pm
Acorns have been learning about the life cycle of butterflies. We have enjoyed singing the life cycle rhyme to support our understanding and even had tiny little caterpillars come to live in class with us. We have been very curious over the last two weeks, watching them growing. We now have 5 very big caterpillars who are just turning into their chrysalis. It has been very exciting watching the caterpillars get bigger every day and we can’t wait to see what emerges from their cocoons.
Acorns - The Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 9:36pm
This week Acorns have been reading the Hungry Caterpillar. We have engaged in a variety of learning activities and experiences to support our understanding of the world around us and the life cycles of butterflies. We have enjoyed making hungry caterpillars in Art and even feeding our very own hungry caterpillar. We found caterpillars and butterflies everywhere, including in our tuff tray and our 'Bucket'. We even had our very own caterpillars come to live in Acorns! We can't wait to see what happens.
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 9:18pm
Acorns have been developing an understanding about how plants grow. We have explored the need for sunlight, water and soil to be able to grow. Acorns have planted their own beanstalks and cress. We enjoyed filling the plant pots and planting the big seed (bean) and the smaller seeds (cress) and listening to an adult talking about these. We have had fun watering them and checking to see how they have been growing over the last two weeks. We are excited to see the beans beginning to grow taller!!
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 9:00pm
We have enjoyed our sensory story this week all about Jaspers Beanstalk. We have been engaging in small adult led activities to support our understanding, learning and developing our focus and concentration. We have loved copying the actions from the book, planting, digging, watering and watching to see what grows. We have enjoyed exploring a variety of vegetables through touch, smell and taste if we were brave enough. We also enjoyed counting vegetables and trying to order beanstalks from smallest to biggest. For some of us we counted to 10 and others showed great listening skills and engagement. What a busy week.
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 8:41pm
Over the last few weeks Acorns have been exploring how our bodies can move. We have enjoyed rolling over yoga balls and trying out yoga, kicking and throwing a variety of equipment and running and jumping. Our most enjoyable moments are when we are watching ourselves move in the large mirrors. We also had lots of fun taking part in some turn taking activities, including rolling the balls to our peers. Through PE, Acorns are developing their gross motor skills and social interactions with others. We are also exploring healthy bodies leading to happy minds and we certainly have lots of fun!
Year 6 - Mental Health Awareness Week
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 12:50pm
This week, Boundary have been holding their own Mental Health Awareness week. One thing we have discussed is how exercise and movement can boost your mood. We all made sure we moved for the whole break time, with many of us running around the playground - including Mrs. Hamilton and Mr. Jones!!
Reception- What Does a Beanstalk Need to Grow?
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 11:57am
A very mysterious letter arrived in Reception from Jack (and the Beanstalk!). He wanted us to find out what a beanstalk needs to grow so off we went to investigate.
We discovered that it needed soil, water, sunlight and air. The children looked at the different phases in the lifecycle of a bean and how it changes each time. We then labelled the parts of the bean using scientific vocabulary, root, shoot, seedling, leaf, and flower. Then we planted our own beans with Mrs McAllister and wrote instructions on how to plant them.
"The bean needs sunlight for it to grow" Lucy
"We need to water it " Isla
"The plant gets the goodness from the soil" Oliver J
"The roots grow under ground" Levi
"When it gets leaves it's a seedling" Esmai
Date: 2nd May 2024 @ 4:50pm
This week we have been reading "Superworm" by Julia Donaldson and the children have made their very own Superworms! They were able to practise lots of skills as they made their worms. These included counting as they rolled the dice and added the matching number of beads to their worm. Putting the beads on to the pipecleaner supported their fine motor developement and taking turns to roll the dice was great for developeing their social interactions. The worms looked pretty amazing too!
Date: 2nd May 2024 @ 2:43pm
In our History lesson we were exploring artefacts from World War Two. We were exploring their significance and discussed what they could teach us about how Britain stayed strong in the war. The children worked collaboratively and discussed which they considered to be the most important. They children used our ABC’s when sharing their ideas. We also explored what the artefacts could teach us about women in war, the home guard and schemes such as rationing.
Date: 2nd May 2024 @ 2:39pm
Today we learnt about the different ways that seeds disperse. We did a carousel around the room completing different activities that included an experiment, a cloze passage, sorting activities and even popping balloons!
Date: 2nd May 2024 @ 2:06pm
Today, Year 6 took part in a live webinar centred around SATs and how to deal with any stress or anxiety we are feeling around our tests. We discussed the kind of feelings we might be having and how to deal with these. We were then introduced to the website 'Kooth', which has lots of advice and guidance for helping to improve our mental health.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 10:29pm
Nursery had a visit from Zoo to You this week. The children got to meet Mishell the snail, Milly the millipede, Jagger the bearded dragon, Zeus the snake & Spike the guinea pig. Gemma from Zoo to You told a story about walking through the woods and we met all the different animals on the way. The children were so excited to meet the animals and were brave enough to stroke them all!
Year 2 - Finding three quarters
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 8:54pm
We have been using cubes to find three quarters of given amounts. First we had to count out the whole, then we had to share the whole into four equal groups. Each of these groups represented a quarter. Finally, we added three of the equal groups to find three quarters. This is a tricky concept, but we all worked well on this and we have deepened our understanding of non-unit fractions and finding a fraction of an amount.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 5:11pm
This half term, in PE, we have been practising our Gymnastics skills. For a few weeks we have been practising different types of rolls and different ways of travelling. This week, we explored how we can balance on different amounts of body parts and tested how good our balances were by balancing cones on us. Some of us were very creative at finding different ways to get the cones to balance.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 4:53pm
We had all been looking forward to meeting our visitor and learning lots about Hinduism! This morning we enjoyed a whole school assembly which taught us about respect in Hinduism, the Hindu shrine and the story of Rama and Sita. This afternoon we then took part in a pracitcal workshop to learn about the use of murti in Hindu worship through storytelling, music, dance and dressing up!
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 1:02pm
What a great morning we have had with Krishna our Hindu visitor. Firstly, we had a whole school assembly where we recapped the story of Diwali and were introduced to the characters. Then, we introduced to the Hindu shrine and the murtis on the shrine. After break, we had a go at dressing up and had such good fun learning why Hindus wearing the items they do.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 9:49am
As part of our journey into 'properties of shapes', children in year 5 have been exploring 2-D and 3-D shapes. We used practical objects to support learners finding the number of faces, edges and vertices, and used an online tool to make a variety of 2-D shapes on a virtual pinboard.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 9:39am
This morning the whole school was involved in a whole school assembly that centred around the religion of Hinduism. Our visitor - Krishna - gave us lots of background information about the religion, including the story of Rama and Sita and why oil lamps are lit. We also learned about each of the gods and the role they play. It was a very interesting and informative assembly.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 9:35am
This morning the whole school was involved in a whole school assembly that centred around the religion of Hinduism. Our visitor - Krishna - gave us lots of background information about the religion, including the story of Rama and Sita and why oil lamps are lit. We also learned about each of the gods and the role they play. It was a very interesting and informative assembly.
Year 4 - What is it like in a rainforest city?
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 8:56am
What an interesting lesson learning about the city of Manaus, which is situated in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. We couldn't believe that 2 million people live there! We looked at human and physical features of the city and compared them with life here in Blackpool.
Date: 30th Apr 2024 @ 6:20pm
Today we used our previous learning of recognising equal groups to now add equal groups together to find a total. We focused on counting equal groups of 2, 5 and 10 within 50, identifying and recording the number sentence to match the groups. We discussed and began to use the language of multiplication, e.g. ‘there are 5 equal groups of 2, so there are 10 in total.’
Year 5 - Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Date: 29th Apr 2024 @ 4:03pm
We are please to share with you some of the official performance photos from the RSC Playmaking Festival. Year 5 pupils from Boundary worked with a director from the RSC to perform part of Hamlet, which was combined with performaces from other schools to tell the whole story. The performances were fantastic and we were pleased to be able to offer this amazing experience to our pupils.
Date: 29th Apr 2024 @ 8:02am
Over the last two lessons we have looked at the K-Pop genre. Using our listening and appraising skills, we heard a track called Into the Night. This track brought out the K-Pop fans in the classroom and started a discussion about foreign language music and its impact on the world - we talked about how useful it could be to learn a new language and learn about other cultures.
We also started learning the song Into the Night (our favourite of the year so far!) and some of us even choreographed some dance moves for our final performance!
Year 2- Continuous line drawing
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 4:12pm
This week, we moved on from creating patterns with nature to exploring different drawing techniques. We focused on continuous line drawings and after some careful modelling, the children had a go at creating some continuous line drawings of objects from nature including flowers, sticks, acorns and leaves. The children really tried to focus on the shapes they could see, lines and paid attention to the smaller details of dealing with natural resources. They were all incredibly proud of their drawings and couldn't believe how fantastic they were!
