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Nursery Sing Christmas Sing Along
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 1:23pm
Nursery put on a very festive sing along in our garden this week. We invited our families and we had a lovely time singing the Christmas songs we have been busy learning. The children sang brillinatly and gave everyone some Christmas cheer!
School Council- Business Enterprise
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 12:02pm
At the School Council Meeting, Miss Moyes was our guest. She was here to talk about her recent enterprise visit to Highfurlong with some of the Key Stage 2 children. They explained how they had visited their shop and looked at the different items they have made to sell. Dayle explained that they had to calculate how much each item would cost to make and how much it would have to be sold at the Summer Fair in order to make a profit. The School Council were very excited and were keen to make cards, keyrings and sell mugs. We will be holding a further meeting to discuss our next steps.
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 11:51am
There has been a lot of excitement in school this week, as as we took delivery of our Elmer sculpture.
The school council excitedly unwrapped it and it was taken to a safe place in school until it is ready to be decorated by the children.
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 11:46am
Today we used our Art pathway skills (Storytelling through drawing) to draw and paint a scene from the Christmas Story. We used the medium of watercolours for the background and we used a stencil to cut out a silhouette for Mary, Joseph and the donkey.
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 10:57am
Year 6 have produced some amazing packaging as part of their graphic design art journey. After studying graphic design and looking at existing packaging, we learned about typography and the different fonts used on products. We then created out own packaging using the original as inspiration. We used differnet techniques including collaging.
Date: 19th Dec 2023 @ 9:22pm
Today we used Geoboards to create different 2-D shapes. We had to count the vertices and the sides to check that we had made the correct 2-D shape. We could see that, apart from squares, the same 2-D shapes can look very different but they must have shared properties - For example, all hexagons must have 6 vertices and 6 straight sides but these sides do not have to be an equal length.
Date: 19th Dec 2023 @ 4:08pm
Year 5 have worked really hard in our French lessons this half term. They have been learning about animals and how to say what animals they do have and don't have in French. They have looked at masculine and feminine animals to help them to correctly form the sentences in French.
Date: 19th Dec 2023 @ 8:09am
Yesterday, our Key Stag 2 pupils took part in the School Games Boccia Competition. Boccia is a game designed for all, where pupils sit down and take turns throwing balls towards a target. To score points, you must get as close as you can to the jack (white ball), against an opposition and...they came 1st! Well done team!
Date: 18th Dec 2023 @ 12:19pm
Over the past week the children have been learning about the story off first Christmas and why Christmas is an important time of year for Christians. We have been retelling the story in our own words at the story telling. We have also been practicing our nativty and learning our songs. We enjoyed performing to the other children in school and can wait to perform for our families and friends.
"Mary and Joseph had to go to Bethlehem" Isla
"There was no room so they went into a stable" Esmai
"Jesus was born in the stable" George
"The angels told the shepherds to go to see Jesus" Oliver
"The kings brought some presents; gold, frankinsence and myrrh"
Date: 18th Dec 2023 @ 11:58am
On Friday the children in Reception enjoyed taking parting in our interhouse competition organised by the Sports Council 'The Elf Olympics. The children worked in their house teams to complete a range of festive games including team relays races, a bauble and spoon race and dress the snowman. The children had a great time working together to earn point for their houses Chepstow, Bathurst, Rodwell and Elston. Well done everyone!
Date: 18th Dec 2023 @ 9:23am
Continuing with our focus on oracy this year, together we wrote our discussion guidelines. These are rules that we all agree we need to follow to be able to have good oracy skills. Afterwards, we introduced two new oracy groupings: Nest and Traverse. Previously, we have used the groupings Pair, Trio and Circle. The children were brilliant at remembering how the groupinga worked and what was expected of them whilst listening and speaking.
Date: 18th Dec 2023 @ 8:05am
Well done to Thearush who won the Boundary Primary 'Road Safety Awareness' poster competition. His prize? An afternoon with the PCSOs on Traffic Duty!
Nursery Christmas Stay and Play
Date: 15th Dec 2023 @ 2:02pm
We had a super time at our Christmas Stay and Play this week. It was lovely to see so many of our parents and they really enjoyed making Christmas crafts and snowman biscuits with their child.
Our Stay and Play sessions are a great opportunity for our parents o see what thier children have been doing at nursery and gain an insight in to the nursery day.
Date: 15th Dec 2023 @ 1:55pm
Nursery looked fabulous in their Christmas jumpers. We had everything from reindeers to santa and even a unicorn reindeer! The chidren loved designing their own jumpers and we had some super speaking and listening as they talked about their christmas jumpers.
Date: 15th Dec 2023 @ 1:42pm
This week we were lucky enough to visit St Mark’s Church in Layton. We met Reverend Matthew and told him everything that we have learnt about Christianity so far. Reverend Matthew then read the nativity story to us and we all joined in with different parts. He taught us about the key messages in the story and the roles of different characters. We then learnt about the advent wreath and the symbolism of the different candles. Finally we looked around the church and asked and answered lots of questions about features of the church.
Date: 15th Dec 2023 @ 9:15am
One of Santa's elves has been visiting us recently. Today, we brought a snowman from the North Pole to visit us. Unfortunately, the snowman had melted. We discussed why he had melted and used our States of Matter knowledge from Science to work out that the classroom was too hot. Someone asked if we could take him to the freezer but we realised we couldn't because he would then freeze in the shape of the container.
Date: 15th Dec 2023 @ 7:47am
Year 6 completed their final ever Forest School session at Boundary by putting all the skills they had learned over the years into practice. They built camp fires and cooked their very own pizzas. It was a lovely sessions and the weather was very kind to us.
Reception Christmas Jumper Day
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 9:46pm
Today the children in schoool were invited by our school council to wear their Christmas Jumpers. Pupils donated £1 towards our chosen charity 'Brian House' . During Christmas Jumper Day the children enjoyed a delicious Christmas dinner including turkey, pigs in blanket and lots of delicious veggies. The children listened to Christmas songs, pulled crackers with their friends and toasted to the festivities. What a super day everyone had!
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 9:33pm
The children in Reception have been reading the story 'The Gingerbread Man'. They have been using the props at the story telling table to act out the story, making gingerbread men at the creative table, writing sentences about the story and exploring the composing of humbers up to 5 using the part part whole model. Have a lookat our learning
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 6:23pm
Today we learnt to recognise the symbols used on an Ordnance Survey map. We learnt that these maps are used to help people find places of interest in an area. We looked at different map symbols together and worked out what each meant.
We then worked collaboratively to make a map of our local area. Together, we discussed the important features we should expect to see on our maps and then worked in pairs/small groups to create our own map of the local area. Some of us created our ‘messy map’ using loose parts and some of us made our maps by creating our own symbols on paper and placing them onto the correct part of Grange Park.
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 2:54pm
In Reading into Writing we have been looking at shape poems. From our learning of alliteration, similes and metaphors we then applied this to create a bank of phrases and words linking to our christmas theme.
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 2:54pm
Today we took part in the Elf Olympics where we played lots of games to try and win points for our house. These will be added to our total house points that we win via dojos for going above and beyond!
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 2:44pm
This half term we have been working with the medium of charcoal. After practising a variety of skills and looking at artists such as Laura McKendry, we created our final pieces.
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 12:56pm
Today we began our Art journey of graphic design. By the end of the unit we will turn 2D drawings into 3D models based on food packaging. Today we looked at what graphic design is and how companies employ graphic designers to create appealing packages to appeal to consumers. We also looked at how typography is used to make words stand out and changing the style of letters will add an extra layer to the overall design.
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 6:57pm
What a lovely community event we attended this evening - the Walking Nativity. The choir performed two songs and played a part in acting out the Christmas story with our friends from Christ the King ⭐🎶
