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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!
Reception - Jack and the Beanstalk
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 12:38pm
This week the children have been reading the classic fairytale 'Jack and the Beanstalk. The children have enjoyed taking part in a range of different activities themed around the story. Have a look at some of our wonderful learning.
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 12:06pm
This week, Oak class have begun their new class novel of Wonder by R.J. Palacio. We don't want to give too much away so read the following blurb and see if it's something you'd like to read:
'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'
Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go.
Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 11:26am
This week in Forest School, we were very busy completing parts of our Wild Passport. Pupils were challenged to make a whistle from a carrot, cook welshcakes on the fire and build a den. It was much warmer and sunnier than last week!
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 11:23am
Over the last few weeks the children in Reception have been using the Boomwhackers to explore sound and pitch. We worked together to count them and place them in order from the lowest sound to the highest sound. The children enjoyed explring the different sounds and making different different tunes.
"This shortest boomwhaker its the highest" Alaiya
"I've have the lowest sound" Sid
Eco at Boundary- Black Path Collaboration Litter Picking.
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 11:06am
This week the Eco Warriors and a group of parent helpers, took part in the Black Path Collaboration Day, a community based group who have agreed to look after and maintain the pathways around the new housing development on Grange Park.
Altough it was a very wet start to our day, the Eco Warriors managed to pick up lots of rubbish along the paths. We started at @The Grange and then worked our way up to the green areas near the new park.
"Why don't people just put the plastic bottles in the recycling bin?" Lyra- Rose
"Litter on the street is dirty and has germs." Jessica.
"I saw a shampoo bottle- why would you throw this on the path? Recycle it!" Lacey.
Year 5 - Matching and Mirroring
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 10:57am
In PE this term, we have been building on our previous learning in gymnastics. Pupils are creating a routine with a partner, using balances and movements from earlier in the year. The routine they are making must include a range of matched or mirrored balances.
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 9:34am
This week, Year 4 have listened and responded to 'O Euchari.' We discussed the Medieval style of music and where it sat on the music timeline. Then, we learnt all about the life of Hildegard of Bingen, the composer of 'O Euchari,' and why her music was so different to others of that era. We walked around the classroom to find interesting facts about her life and created a class mindmap using post it notes.
Date: 25th Apr 2024 @ 2:57pm
In PE, we have been developing our striking and fielding skills. We have finally been able to put these skills into practise and we have started to play a game of cricket.
Date: 25th Apr 2024 @ 2:52pm
In History this week, the children explored a World War Two museum and discovered what we could learn from artefacts. We were focussing on the question of how Britain stayed strong during the war. The children learnt about the Home Guard, shelters, gas masks, evacuation and blackouts.
Date: 25th Apr 2024 @ 11:50am
Today we completed the 'Improve a WABOLL' part of our journey. We worked collaboratively to find errors and improve muddled up poems about rivers.
Nursery and Repeating Patterns
Date: 25th Apr 2024 @ 11:31am
We have been looking at repeating patterns this week using two objects or colours. To embed this learning, the children have made their very own Hungry Caterpillar neclaces. This is also great for developing the childrens fine motor skills.
Nursery and The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 25th Apr 2024 @ 11:25am
We have been reading the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. The story is brilliant for teaching the children the days of the week, counting and exploring the life cycle of the butterfly. The children have been busy outside looking for caterpillars - we haven't found any yet! We have leanrt the caterpillar starts with a "C" and thought of other things that start with a "c". The children have also enjoyed leanring a new song that teaches us about the liec cycle of a butterfly.
Date: 24th Apr 2024 @ 12:00pm
Today, as we continue with our fractions unit, we used the ones to find a third of an amount. We carefully counted the correct amount of ones before sharing the whole amount into 3 equal groups. We were able to apply our knowledge of finding halves and quarters of amounts to help us find thirds.
Date: 23rd Apr 2024 @ 4:57pm
Today we built on our previous learning of counting by making groups of 10 by learning to count forwards and backwards in 10s. We began our lesson with reading the story ‘Toasty Toes’ which introduced us to counting in tens by counting the number of toes on the beach. We then used a variety of representations, including tens frames, hundred squares and bead strings to support us to understand multiples of 10.
