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School Council - New Reading Books
Date: 8th Apr 2024 @ 10:07pm
The school council met today to discuss what kind of books they like to read? Which authors do they like?
The school councillors brought the results of their class discussions and they had many great ideas. This included, the authors Julia Donaldson and Roald Dahl and books such as, Horrid Henry, fairytales, and non fiction books about the world and dinosaurs etc.
We will meet nearer the time to discuss the Summer Fair and how to organise the toy sale.
Date: 8th Apr 2024 @ 6:51pm
We began todays lesson by thinking about how many different homes we could think of and what types of homes people live in around the world. Together, we then looked at a number of different homes, talking about what kind of home it was, what shapes we could see in the home and what materials the home was made from. We then looked a number of different picture cards showing different types of homes. We read and orally answered a number of different question cards and identified which houses fit each question/description. We also went outside to observe the different types of homes we can see from our school environment, revisiting our local area knowledge from earlier in the year.
Date: 8th Apr 2024 @ 6:43pm
Today, we went on a ‘Sound Walk’ around school. Before we went, we discussed what areas of school might be loud and which might be quiet. We spoke about how there might not be areas around school which are silent because of outside factors such as the building works and vehicles.
When we returned from our walk, we spoke about HOW we hear sounds. Our teachers banged on drums with rice and we noticed that they moved. The banging of the drum caused vibrations!
Date: 8th Apr 2024 @ 4:04pm
Today, we began to explore what capacity meant and after predicting what we thought might be the capacity of different containers we measured it out using cups. We had to be careful we were filling the cup the same amount each time and carefully counted how many cups filled each container to its capacity.
Date: 2nd Apr 2024 @ 1:48pm
Today, Year 4 learnt about stages of embalming. We discussed how Egyptians tried to preserve the bodies to keep them as life-like as possible. We learnt that the organs of the person were removed before placing them in capopic jars. They then covered the bodies in a special type of salt and wrapped them in linen. Once we had discussed the process of embalming, we tried to remember the order of the key stages in our table groups. After this, we asked a set of instructions for an embalmer to use which outlined the stages that they must follow to carry out embalming process.
Reception The Easter Bunny visits Reception
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 3:02pm
On our final afternoon, before the Easter half term, Reception had a very special visit from the Easter Bunny. He had hidden lots if egg in our outside area. The children put on their Easter bonnets and bunny ears and enjoyed working together to find the eggs. What great fun we had!
Reception- Holly Trip To The Zoo.
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 2:40pm
On Tuesday Holly Class visited Blackpool Zoo. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny Spring day and everyone enjoyed visiting all the different animals and the habitats they live in. Some were hot, some were wet and some were very smelly!
We saw lions, tigers, zebras, monkeys, gorillas, orangutans, flamingoes, pelicans, farm animals, wolves, lemurs, parrots, camels, elephants and many more! We watched the sea lion show, and learnt a few interesting facts, and had an exciting classroom experience where we looked at parrot feathers, camel fur, a turtle shell, a huge elephant tooth and some of us were even brave enough to hold a cockroach!
"The camel fur was soft and tickly" Esme.
"The cockroach was tickly!" Lucy.
"What a huge tooth- it's so heavy I can't lift up properly!" Mathew.
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 11:35am
Over the past few weeks the children in Reception have been learning about why Christains celebrate Easter. We have listened to the Easter story and talked about the different events leading up to Jesus' crucification. We found out that Jesus was crucified on a cross on Good Friday . Then people took his body to a tomb but when his friends visited his body had gone. We talked about how Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead. As a class we discussed the different ways people including Christians celebrate Easter. To help us remember the importance of Easter we made our own cross on a hill.
"Jesus died at Easter" Oliver
"He came backnto life and went to be with God" Isabelle.
"I go to church with my family" Sid
"My mummy and daddy get me Easter eggs" Alaiya
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 10:44am
Today we explored how the weather affects different jobs. We began by talking about the different jobs we know people may do and used picture prompts to explore a number of different jobs. We then thought about how the weather might affect these people’s jobs, looking at different examples and sharing our ideas. For each job, we thought about how two different types of weather would affect that persons daily tasks.
Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 5:16pm
The last couple of weeks we have been making our clay sculptures. We have made tinned food or jars of food. The children showed lots of perseverance sculpting their tins/jars and then again when painting them.
Year 5 - Shakespeare Aspiring Actors
Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 4:41pm
This term several of the year 5 pupils have been rehearsing for their performance of William Shakespeare's, Hamlet. Pupils had to learn their parts so they would be 'off script' for the performance, and develop their own take on the characters and dialogue. The attached photos are from our final dress rehearsal, where they were directed and encouraged by Emma Manton from the Royal Shakespeare Company. The pupils delivered an amazing performance on the night, and we are all excited to share the professional photos from the performance when they arrive.
Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 3:52pm
This half term Year 2 have been working on their fundamental skills of throwing, catching, running and jumping. Throughout the half term we have enjoyed practising our skills in isolation as well as applying them to games.
Year 2- Making Moving Vehicles
Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 3:48pm
Today, we used our designs to make our moving vehicles. We painted the wheels before using our marking out skills to mark out windows and doors to cut out. We used cellophane to create a glass effect in the windows before painting them the colours we had chosen in our design. We cannot wait to test them out tomorrow to see if we were successful in meeting the design brief.
Reception Willow Class visit the zoo.
Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 12:35pm
This week the children in Willow class had a great day visiting Blackpool Zoo. Although it was a little bit wet and rainy it didnt stop us getting our water proofs and wellies on. We travelled to the zoo on the mini bus and when we arrived we took part in a workshop. During the workshop we were lucky enough to meet and hold a hissing cockroach aswell as explore lots of different items like; camel fur, elephant and snake skin, an elephant's tooth and a turtle shell. We saw lots of animals whilst exploring the zoo includuing; tigers, lions, giraffes, zebra, camels, gorillas, lemurs, red pandas, elephants and even a baby orangatan. What a great day we had!
Date: 25th Mar 2024 @ 10:25am
Some of our children in Year 1 created some fantastic Easter Eggs at home for our egg competition this week. Have a look at our brilliant creations!
Date: 23rd Mar 2024 @ 2:31pm
This week Year 1 children visitied the Sea Life centre. We enjoyed seeing all the different marine life, including sea turtles, jellyfish, starfish and lots more! We learnt lots about the different animals, their diets, size and where they come from in the world.
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 3:51pm
Have a look at some of the amazing easter egg competition entries that link to Science!
Well done to everyone that participated!
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 3:39pm
Today we held out second Speling Bee of the year and it was another fantastic occasion. 4 children from each year group represented their house and were given three spellings each to spell out loud from a bank of words they have been learning since September. The competition was extremely close, with Rodwell and Elston finishing joint first as the children from these houses spelled all of their words correctly.
Well done to all of the children who took part today.
Reception The Day the Dinosaurs came to Boundary
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 2:22pm
Today, dinosaurs arrived at Boundary! We begun the day with an assembly where we met Jam the T-Rex and learnt about what he ate and dentifyied his different physical features. Later on in the day 3 baby dinosaurs visited our classroom; Sky, Roger and Dinky. We compared how they were similar and different. The children had a great time throughout the day exploring our small world dinosar area, painting their own T-Rex, drawing and labelling their own dinosaurs and finding out about the job of a paleontologist.
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 11:36am
In RE, we looked at the Vaisakhi festival. We looked at traditional jewellery and clothing, learnt about the traditions of the festival and even got to try some traditional foods. We had a great time and enjoyed learning about a different culture.
Year 3- The Day the Dinosaurs visited Boundary!
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 11:24am
What a day we have had!
Raising Money for 'Always Elmer'
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 9:14am
Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 9:22pm
As part of our Science learning, we conducted an experiment to find out how far germs spread when we sneeze. We also wanted to know if a tissue would stop the spread of sneezes and coughs. In small groups, we planned what we would do and how to keep the test fair. We thought about what we would change and what we would measure to help us answer the question.
We then applied our maths measures knowldge to mark out different distances, before conducting our experiment to see how far germs can travel.
Our shared conclusion was:
Using a tissue does not stop all of the germs spreading when you sneeze but it does reduce the amount of germs that spread because they are caught in the tissue.
We also found out that the closer you are to someone when they sneeze, the more the germs spread. There was much more spray (germs) at 25cm and 50 cm that reached the paper than at 150cm.
Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 5:02pm
We couldn't believe our eyes this week when some dinosaurs came to viist our School! We met Jam the big T-Rex and two very cute baby dinosaurs. We learnt all about how Jam can sniff out his food and has amazing hearing. Mrs Welch had to try and sneak past Jam and try and pinch his chicken - she only just made it and nearly became a snack for Jam! Some of the chidlren were brave enough to give Jam and tickle under the chin and others met the baby dinosaurs. It was a brilliant day!
Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 4:55pm
We invited our nursery families in for an Easter themed stay and play this week. The children had a great time doing Easter crafts with their families and making an Easter biscuit. We also has a special visitor from Communicate who came in to share information about supporting children with their communication and langauge.
