As part of Health Week, our class explored the inspiring journey of an England Lioness, learning about her achievements both on and off the pitch. We discovered how her dedication, resilience, and healthy lifestyle contributed to her success in women's football. Through this lesson, we gained a deeper understanding of the importance of physical and mental wellbeing in reaching personal goals. The session also highlighted the value of teamwork, perseverance, and having strong role models in sport, encouraging us to lead active, healthy lives ourselves.
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Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 3:26pm
Ahead of Heritage Week, Year 3 went to Hangar 42 in Blackpool. We learnt so much about Blackpool during the Second World War and how the RAF operated during the war. We had sessions on code breaking, evacuees and woman at war. The children really enjoyed looking at the different aircrafts and learning how they operated.
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 3:08pm
In R.E, the children have been learning about dharma. We looked a range of texts to see what we could learn about dharma. We discussed about reincarnation, and how some have a belief that if you follow your life following dharma, your soul is reborn into a good life.
Year 3- Understanding features of a balanced argument
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 3:04pm
As part of out Reading into Writing journey, the children have been looking at rhetorical questions, understanding fact and opinion as well as emotive language. The children completed a range of activities in which they had to sort statements, create examples and identify examples in a range of texts. The children will then use these features in their final piece.
Year 3 - Perfecting out art skills!
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 2:55pm
In Art, the children will be making creative monsters out of clay. The key skill the children needed to master was how to work with clay. We tested a range of skills such as coiling, twisting, pinching, sculpting and rolling. We then applied these skills in making a range of different animals! We will use these in our final piece!
Date: 24th Jun 2025 @ 1:23pm
As part of our DT journey, we have spent some time looking at careers related to textiles. We watched videos of a fashion designer, wedding dress designer and a tailor. Perhaps one day, one of us will use the skills we have learned in DT to support our career.
Date: 23rd Jun 2025 @ 7:34pm
School Council Symposium
A group of our School Council representatives from Boundary Primary School joined children from Stanley Primary School at the Blackpool School Council Symposium, hosted by St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School.
It started with some fun icebreaker games, helping everyone get to know each other and work together as a team.
Our pupils proudly presented to the group, sharing:
- What they have been working on recently
- What issues are important to the children in our school
- Topics they were keen to discuss
It was a fantastic opportunity for our children to build confidence, share ideas and collaborate with peers from other local schools.
Well done, everyone! 
Date: 23rd Jun 2025 @ 6:45pm
The children and staff in Year 5 were excited to kick off Health Week with our first big event—inflatable football! It was a fantastic way to get everyone moving and having fun right from the start. The energy was high, and the children threw themselves into the challenge (sometimes quite literally!). For those who preferred something a bit different, archery offered a great alternative, and it was lovely to see how focused and engaged they were. Overall, it was a brilliant start to the week, and we’re looking forward to what’s next!
Date: 22nd Jun 2025 @ 8:49am
What a fun lesson this was! We got the chance to use our new Microbits! As part of our Computing unit this half term, we had to do some data logging. We decided we would take the temperature in different areas of school - it was a hot day! We programmed the Microbits to be thermometers and walked around school taking temperatures. We them decided to keep the Microbits for Always Time and programmed them to display our names, play rock, paper scissors and some of us were even able to programmed them to display different emojis.
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 3:23pm
This week Acorns have been reading "Oh! Dear" and learning about the life cycle of a duck. We have loved observing the ducks over the last two weeks, watching them hatch and grow.
We have also been exploring farm animals and the babies, developing our understanding of animal names, sounds, and what their young were called. We enjoyed matching objects to pictures and matching the adults to their young.
we made our own hatching ducks in art, getting messy and using our handprints for their wings. Wow! It's been a busy week. Enjoy looking.
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 3:11pm
Acorns have been using their music sessions to explore instruments but also to support the learning and progression in a variety of areas, including being part of a group, sustaining focus and concentration and engagement.
This week Acorns have been focusing on making and communicating choices verbally and non verbally, using visuals and signing. After exploring a bariety of instruments, we engaged in choosing our preferred instrument out of a choice of three. The recorder, drum or xylophone. Mrs Richardson modelled choice making and we all communicated a choice, including not wanting to play an instrument. Take a look at our learning!
Year 2- Gets taken over by Year 5
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 3:06pm
Yesterday, year two were taken over by year five. Miss Hester-Hopwood and Mr Cooke were in our class teaching us all about homophones and number bonds. We did a matching activity to match the correct spelling to the picture before doing Maths recapping our number bonds to 20. We loved the Year 5 children teaching us!
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 3:03pm
This week, we were visited by the school nursing team who talked to us all about keeping ourself healthy focusing on hygiene. They talked to us about what germs were and we did an experiment to show how easily they are spread every time we touch something. Finally, we practiced washing our hands correctly to remove those germs and keep healthy.
Acorns - Sam plants a sunflower
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 2:58pm
Acorns have enjoyed listening and interacting with this weeks story "Sam plants a sunflower". We have used the story to continue to develop our learning in small group activities and sensory activities.
We loved planting our own sunflowers and learning how a plant grows. Especially the water spray!
In art, we developed our cutting skills, creating our own sunflowers.
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 2:08pm
Over the past few weeks Recption have enjoyed looking after and caring for our classroom ducklings; Sonny, Donal, Sophia and Mr Duck. From the moment our duck eggs arrived the children enjoyed observing them in the incubator eagerly awaiting them hatching.
"Look the egg is cracking" Hayleigh
"I can see his bill" Aurora.
Once the ducklings hatched the children have been busy learning about the ducks lifecycle, what they eat and how to care for them. They learnt lots of new vocabary and practiced building different sentences using the new words. The children also enjoys painting and collaging the ducks, writing sentences about them and researching different facts about ducks.The children thoroughly enjoyed holding the ducklings, making sure they had enough food and water and even cleaned out the cage. Have a look at our fantastic learning!
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 1:48pm
Today Year 5 took over the school! 4 children from Rowan and Hawthorn came across to teach our classes for the morning. They taught Math, PSHE and a gave the children a spelling test. We were all very impressed with out new teachers.
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 1:14pm
Today we started our DT journey of textiles. Our first lesson was looking at existing felt products and discussing stitches used, intended user and design. Then we practised previously learned stitches on binca squares.
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 2:40pm
Nursery were visited by the duckligs from our Reception class and they sure did make a splash! The children loved watching as the ducklings swam and waddled around. They noticed how the duckings didn't have adult feathers yet and were very fluffy instead! The ducklings were trying to look for food on the grass and even tried to nibble a couple of shoes and socks! We discussed how the ducklings had hatched out of eggs that the mummy duck had laid.
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 12:30pm
Today our Year 1 classes were taken over by Year 5 teachers! We enjoyed meeting our new teachers and TAs first thing this morning, before listening to our new head teacher during assembly time. We then spent the morning exploring Beebots, what their buttons do and how to make them perform commands we want to give them.
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 10:00am
Year 5 Takeover Day was an absolute blast, with the children stepping into the shoes of adults and running the show! From Class Teachers and Teaching Assistants to even taking on the big role of Head of School, they gave it their all and really rose to the challenge. It was amazing to see them leading lessons, helping younger pupils, and making real decisions—it felt like the school was in safe hands! The day was all part of our ongoing effort to raise aspirations and build those all-important Skills for Life, and judging by the confidence and enthusiasm on display, the future looks very bright indeed!
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 9:14am
Year 4 learned about funk music this week.
The children really enjoyed listening to a variety of funk music and finding out where it originated from. The children selected the song 'September' by Earth, Wind and Fire and sang it with enthusiasm in class! The children could not stop themselves from swaying and moving to the music.
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 8:58am
This week, we started to look at classification keys, how they work and what questions we need to ask to make them work. We learned we needed to ask closed questions and we needed to know similar and unique characteristics about the animals we were classifying.
Date: 18th Jun 2025 @ 5:02pm
Nursery had a wonderful time at Forest School. They searched for bugs in the environment, dug big holes in the mud and found out about all the different leaves you can find on the plants and trees,
Date: 17th Jun 2025 @ 4:30pm
We had a wonderful visit from Rachel, who came in to talk to us about the Jewish faith. She shared some really fascinating insights into Judaism, including central beliefs like the importance of family, keeping kosher, and observing the Sabbath. Rachel explained how these traditions help guide daily life and bring people closer to their faith. The class were really engaged and asked some brilliant questions – from what Hanukkah is all about to how Jewish people celebrate Passover. It was a great opportunity to learn more about a different culture and everyone came away with a deeper understanding and lots to think about!
Year 5 - Flying High with Aspirations
Date: 17th Jun 2025 @ 4:27pm
Flying High with Aspirations: Our Aviation Zoom with Primary Futures ✈️
Last week, our children had the exciting opportunity to take part in a special Zoom session, set up in partnership with the amazing team at Primary Futures. The aim? To spark curiosity, raise aspirations, and open young eyes to the wide world of work — and what better theme to start with than aviation!
We were thrilled to be joined by two real-life pilots and an aerospace engineer, who each shared their fascinating career journeys, talked about what their day-to-day roles involve, and answered some very thoughtful (and sometimes very funny!) questions from our curious students.
The children were wide-eyed as they learned about flying commercial planes, navigating through challenging weather, and even helping design and maintain aircraft. It was an inspiring session that really brought home the message: you can be anything you want to be with passion, perseverance, and a love of learning.
We’re so grateful to Primary Futures and our guest speakers for helping our children dream big. We can't wait to see where their imaginations — and ambitions — will take them next!
