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Year 5 - Digital Learning in RE
Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 4:46pm
To support the pupils' learning in RE, we have been using an online resource called Kahoot!. Kahoot! is an interactive quiz that engages the pupils and helps them to learn the facts and knowledge required in the lesson. Using the Kahoot! over time also helps the children to commit the new knowledge to their long-term memory.
Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 4:37pm
After two weeks away over Christmas, pupils in year 5 are back and hard at work improving their reading and reading comprehension skills. As usual, this week pupils have been exploring texts related to our writing journey, Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories from Australia. Pupils read and discuss the text in a small group before answering comprehension questions about what they have read. Other children were working independently on our online resource, 'Reading Plus' - reading different genres of text and answering questions.
Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 2:55pm
Today we began to discuss our key question in RE, ‘How might beliefs about creation affect the way people treat the world?’ We began by learning the name of the religion we will be learning about and that Muslims believe there is only one God – Allah. Todays lesson involved learning about how we should treat the environment, why it is important and whose responsibility it is. We did this through looking at images and real life nature examples. We went on a nature walk to collect lots of natural resources and we then used these natural resources to create transient nature pictures. After this, we looked at a number of images and decided which are examples of looking after the environment and which are not. We sorted them together, verbally discussing and justifying each example.
Year 3- Forest School Fun is Back!
Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 2:49pm
Today we had our first forest school session. We created our own celebration and made crowns, sang songs and drank warm apple juice. We explored the outdoors and planned our next two sessions. We can't wait!
Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 2:44pm
This half term our French unit is 'Les Vikings' and runs alongside our Viking history unit. We started by using our knowledge of familiar language and cognates to translate several passages of French into English. We used French dictionaries to look up the meaning of any words we did not know. We then completed a short listening activity where we had to insert words from the spoken passage into a written paragraph. Throughout the unit we will be learning a song 'Nous Sommes Les Vikings' (We are the Vikings).
Year 4- Finding Features of News Articles
Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 1:06pm
In Reading into Writing, Year 4 have been identifying structural and language features of newspaper reports and online news articles. Firstly, we looked at some examples of newspaper articles and highlighted the features that we noticed. After this, we used our digital literacy skills to look at some news articles online and were given post it notes to label the features that we found. We will continue to read and annotate a range of news articles and will plan and write our own news article in the next couple of weeks.
Date: 10th Jan 2024 @ 9:31pm
As part of our PSHE learning this week, Year 2 have focused on Road Safety and in particular, staying safe when crossing the road. Firstly, we looked at different images and spotted safe and unsafe behaviours. Some of the safe behaviours were holding hands with an adult, stopping and looking both ways and using zebra crossings. Some of the unsafe behaviours we spotted were playing with balls at the side of the road, playing on mobile phones and crossing between parked cars. We then worked in small groups to sort images into safe or unsafe road crossing scenarios.
Year 2- Where in the world am I?
Date: 10th Jan 2024 @ 5:06pm
Today, Year Two explored the key question 'Where in the world am I?' for the beginning of our Geography unit Continents and Oceans. We found our School on Google Earth and discussed what we could see before zooming out to discuss the Grange Park area. We continued to zoom out to find the town we are in (Blackpool), the county (Lancashire), country (England, United Kingdom), the continent (Europe) and finally the hemisphere (Northern hemisphere). We had great fun exploring where we are in the world.
Date: 10th Jan 2024 @ 3:46pm
Today we began our new History unit of Vikings. We began by having a whole class flashback on what the children have already covered during their time in Boundary. We ordered a range of periods of time and key dates in Blackpool history, using lots of oracy and discussion. We then had a quick introduction to who the Vikings were, where they came from and why they came to Britain.
Year 4 - UK Flashback and discovering what a river is
Date: 9th Jan 2024 @ 8:25pm
Today we started our Geography unit about Rivers. To start the lesson, we did our flashback about the UK; naming the countries, capital cities, oceans and seas. Then we used information around the room to discover what a river is. Afterwards, we looked for some of the longest rivers in the world on a map.
Year 3's Festive Celebrations!
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 2:05pm
Year 3 enjoyed spending time together celebrating christmas and how hard we have worked over the last term. We played some fun festive games, danced with our friends, had some sweet treats and most exciting of all we had a visit from the main man... SANTA CLAUSE!
What a great end to the Autumn term!
Year 3- Studying the Stone Age!
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 1:58pm
Year 3 started their learning about The Stone Age to Iron Age. We began this journey by creating a timeline of key events in our lives, including histgorical events we have previously studied. We then added the Stone Age into this to compare where in History it came. We then used artefacts to answer the question 'Was the Stone age man simply a hunter and gatherer?' We discovered that from artefacts found they were much more than this!
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 1:58pm
After learning about the Christmas story Year 3 created pictures representing the birth of Jesus.
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 1:36pm
Acorn class have had a great week exploring the Christmas festivities.
Christmas theme tuff trays, fake snow and sensory stories topped off with a great Christmas party and meeting Santa.
Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year.
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 10:11am
This week Reception had their Christmas Party.
They had fun dancing, playing musical statues, musical bumps and pass the parcel. Everyone took turns and clapped the winners.
After the games we had some party food and then we were visited by a very special guest- Father Christmas! He had brought presents for everyone because they had all been good this year.
Merry Christmas to you all!
School Council- Fund Raising For Elmer
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 10:02am
We have been busy raising money for Elmer by wearing our Christmas jumpers. it was so successful that one of the Brian House collection boxes is already full!
Watch this space for more exciting fund raising events!
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 8:44am
What an afternoon!! And a special guest appearance...
Year 6 - Textiles (felt mobile phone cases)
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 3:38pm
This week we have carried out a full journey of textiles. We began with discussing what we already knew about sewing and textiles and discussed key vocabulary. We then began looking at felt products that already exist and evaluating them. We then practised a range of stitches using Binca - we practised running stitch, back stitch, over stich and blanket stitch. After that, we planned and designed our own mobile phone cases using an agreed success criteria. To ensure our plan was effective, we created a prototype and then evaulated the product so that changes could be made if needed. Finally, we made our final product.
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 11:48am
We really tested our tired Christmas brains this morning! Miss Crystal and Miss Bates were really proud of how well we worked together to solve this NRich problem.
Year 5 - Anglo-Saxon World Map
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 11:29am
As our journey into Anglo-Saxon Britain comes to an end, two pupils added a note about Anglo-Saxons to the school's world map. The tribes, who invaded Britain during the early medieval period, were called the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. They came from Denmark, Germany and Netherlands.
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 11:22am
As we get closer to Christmas, pupils in year 5 were asked to use the art skills we learned earlier in the year to produce a Nativity image. Using pencils, pupils sketched images of the Nativity over an ancient map of the Holy Land.
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 10:37am
Today we completed a piece of Art to show an important aspect of the Christmas Nativity story. We recapped on the key events in the story, the order they happen and the important characters. We then chose which scene we wanted to use to inspire our own artwork and completed our own version of this.
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 4:25pm
This afternoon Year 2 enjoyed their party. We did lots of dancing, ate delicious snack, played games including musical bumps, pass the parcel and pin the nose on Rudolph as well as having a special visit from the man himself- Santa!
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 4:23pm
This week, we have been busy using our sculpture skills to transform sticks into stick men. We thought about the pose we wanted our stick to be in and joined different sticks together to create our vision. Once our sticks were secure, we wrapped them in wool to create some clothes for it.
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 2:36pm
Today Year 1 enjoyed our Christmas party. We played games, ate party food and even had a visit from Santa!!
