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Year 2 - We're Electric!

Date: 23rd Jan 2024 @ 4:48pm

Today in Science we were investigating how to make a bulb light.  We started off by trying to light up Energy Sticks.  We worked together and found out that in order to light, the sticks needed to be part of a circuit.  We learned that energy travels around a circuit and if there is a break in the circuit, the energy can no longer travel all the way around.  We then applied what we had learned to build a circuit that would make a bulb light.  We also used an interactive program to build a circuit that would make a bulb light.  We experimented with using more than one bulb in a circuit and using more than one power source.

Year 2- Fruit Tasting

Date: 23rd Jan 2024 @ 4:29pm

In Year Two, we have been busy trying lots of fruit to think about what we like and dislike in preparation for making our smoothies. We tried a variety of fruits including: raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, peaches, mango, pineapple, melon and kiwi. We described the texture, the smell and the taste of each fruit and will use it to help us design and make our own smoothie in the coming weeks. 

Year 6 - Primary Futures event

Date: 23rd Jan 2024 @ 1:32pm

On Friday, Year 6 were involved in a Primary Futures event based around guessing 4 people's jobs. We were tasked with picking a set of 5 questions to ask the people about their jobs and had to guess what they did for a living at the end. Our 5 questions were:

Can you do your job from home?
Did you need to go to university for your job?
Do you ever get to travel at your job?
Is there a lot of writing involved in your job?
Do you work with children?
 
With extra clues given, we worked out that the first jobs were:
Working on the trams
Working for BBC Sport
Working in marketing
Working in a digital role in the NHS
 
It was a thoroughly enjoyable session in which we were exposed to a range of different jobs we could have when we are older.
 

Year 3- Travelling by Tuba

Date: 23rd Jan 2024 @ 10:47am

Year 3 got to experience Travelling by Tuba, an interactive musical trip through the year ! The children loved looking at all the different instruments and hearing the amazing music!

Year 4 - LGBTQ+ research

Date: 22nd Jan 2024 @ 9:05pm

We started our LGBTQ+ research today. In Reading into Writing, our genre is News Reports. We used our digital literacy skills to research Blackpool Pride. We will use this information to write News Reports about Pride in Blackpool.

Year 4- Taste Testing

Date: 22nd Jan 2024 @ 8:22pm

This half term, Year 4 are creating their own platter of sandwiches. To help decide what fillings they wanted in their sandwich, they tasted 15 different fillings and 3 types of bread. Whilst tasting the different foods, the children wrote down their thoughts about the appearance, smell, taste and texture of the foods. We then used these ideas to create a class table of descriptions. 

Year 6 - Viking artefacts

Date: 22nd Jan 2024 @ 7:31pm

In History today we explored how recent excavations can help us to change the way we viewed the Vikings. We learned that they were skilled craftsmen, who were able to make items such as weapons, clothes and jewellery. We also learned about the excavaiton in \york in 1978 that led to the discovery of a whole Viking settlement right under the streets of the city. We were then given the opportunity to look at a range of replica artefacts and discuss what they told us about the Vikings.

Reception- Road Safety Week

Date: 22nd Jan 2024 @ 7:36am

This week Reception have been learning how to keep safe and be responsible when crossing the road.

They had a special visitor from Zoe our crossing patrol warden or, as we like to say, our lollypop lady! 

We all learnt that we have to :

1- Find a safe place to cross.

2- Stay on the curb.

3- Look both ways.

4- Listen for the traffic.

5-Then walk sensibly across the road.

 

"I have to hold my mummy's hand when I cross the road" Lucy.

"Zoe helps me cross the road safely when I come to school" 

Acorns Winter Wonderland

Date: 21st Jan 2024 @ 1:38pm

Acorns have enjoyed exploring all things wintery this week.

Ice, snow and snowmen have all made an appearance inside the classroom as well as outside. 

Students have had fun exploring all things wintery.

Year 5 - Travel by Tuba

Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 3:43pm

This week we had a visit from two amazing musicians. We were taken on a musical trip around the world, listening to different instruments and learning about musical styles from different cultures. The children really enjoyed the assembly and learned more about music appreciation. 

Year 6 SATs meeting 18.1.2024

Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 3:33pm

Please read the slides below for key information about the 2024 Year 6 SATs.

Year 1 Travelling by Tuba

Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 7:58am

Today, we had a very exciting from Travelling by Tuba. Alongside the rest of our school, we began the day with an assembly, where we were introduced to lots of different instruments from around the world. In the afternoon we then took part in a workshop with Chris and Stewart who helped us create a Mexican Samba. We learnt how to play each instrument before working in groups to play the correct rhythm in time we the music. We then put all our learning together to create our final performance!

Nursey - Exploring Puffy Paint

Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 7:03am

With all the snow this week and discovering how it starts to melt when the temperture warms up, the children have been making some melted snowman pictures! We used shaving foam and PVA glue to create our snowman pictures. We talked about what had made the snowmen melt. Here are some of the things the children said "It melted becasue of the rain"."He got too hot". "The sun did it". 

Nursery explore the snow and ice

Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 6:50am

Brrrrrrr! It's been a cold one this week - but that didn't stop us exploring! The children have had a great time playing in the snow and ice and made some amazing dicoveries! The water in our sink in the mud kitchen was frozen with very thick ice - so thick that matter what the children tired, they couldn't crack it! We also found a pair of gloves that had been left outside and were frozen to the table! There was no moving them no matter what we did! Best of all, we managed to have a quick snowball fight before or all the snow melted. 

Year 3- Forest School Fun Part 2!

Date: 18th Jan 2024 @ 3:30pm

Today we created a fire and made our own hand warmers by heating rocks. We also used moss, leaves and twigs to make our own bird nests. Due to the cold weather, we found that our pond was frozen. We experiemented to find gthe best way to break the ice. We are looking forward to our final session next week!

Year 2- Travelling by Tuba

Date: 18th Jan 2024 @ 1:42pm

Today, we had a special visit from Stuart and Chris from Travelling by Tuba. We started the day with an exciting assembly where we were introduced to lots of different instruments from across the world including: the didgeridoo, a horn, the tuba and other interesting instruments. They also showed us how they are played. Then we participated in a workshop where we created a Brazillian Samba using triangles, tambourines, bells, scrapers, shakers and maracas. We learnt all the different rhythms of each instrument and practiced them on our arms before we split into groups and practiced playing the correct rhythm on the instruments. Finally, we did a performance using our instuments all playing in unison. We had a fantastic morning and loved it! 

Year 4 - River Ribble Trust Week 1

Date: 18th Jan 2024 @ 9:33am

Today we welcomed colleagues from River Ribble Trust for their first session with us. We focused on the key question ‘How do people use rivers?’ We looked at various ways in which people use rivers for their livelihood, leisure and the environment around the world. We looked at the importance of rivers in our daily lives and why we need to minimise pollution. We looked at key features of rivers  and used maps to identify them.

Acorns Snow day

Date: 17th Jan 2024 @ 5:58pm

Acorn class had great fun in the snow yesterday. Lots of snowballs and sledging. 

Year 2- No Pen Morning

Date: 17th Jan 2024 @ 8:06am

Yesterday, we took part in no pen morning. In Reading into Writing, we were starting to look at present and past tense verbs; we did a loop card game to start before we sorted verbs and sentences into past and present tense. In Maths, we started our new unit of money, we counted pence to find different amounts and matched it to the correct price label. 

Year 1 No Pen Morning

Date: 17th Jan 2024 @ 7:41am

This morning we had lots of fun learning without the aid of a pen/pencil. We started off the day with our music lesson. We used the glockenspiels to learn how to play the backing track to ‘We All Sing A Song’.  This song had three notes, ‘F, G. A’ which we had to listen to and then repeat back. This was is the style of the Waltz.

After, during our PHSE lesson, we learnt about all the hazards that you would find around the home. We worked in small groups, using our oracy skills, to explain why each picture may or may not be a hazard. We all had the opportunity to give a reason for their picture while the other children listened to their answers.

In our PE session we explored different ways of moving to begin to create a winter dance.

Year 1 The Crying Camel

Date: 17th Jan 2024 @ 7:39am

We began todays lesson by recapping on the key features of our religion for this half term, using accurate vocabulary. We then watched two videos, which told us two Islamic stories, ‘The Prophet and the Ants’ and ‘The Crying Camel’ We discussed each story together, thinking about why Muslims might think that is it important to teach children to care for all living things. We learnt that Muslims believe in one God who created the world with the view that all living things should be cared for.

Year 5 - Digital Literacy No Pen Morning

Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 8:24pm

To develop our digital literacy skills, pupils at Boundary spent the morning completing maths and writing lessons using only digital devices. For reading into writing, pupils used their chromebooks to publish their creation stories from Aboriginal culture. For maths, pupils used the BBC Micro:bits to create a rock, paper, scissors game. This was the first time pupils have used these tiny computers, and they even improved the code to reset after each turn, display a welcome message when the device was turned on, and make sound effects! 

Year 4 - No Pen morning

Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 1:28pm

In Year 4, we were introduced to a multiplication competition on a website called Emile first thing this morning and we did lots of times tables to gain points for our school. Then we went on a typing skills website (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3c6tfr#zn9s3qt) where we put on headphones and practised some typing skills. After we learnt typing skills, we learned how to use some of the skills on Google Docs (e.g bold, italic). We then used these skills to highlight some of the features of a Newspaper report like we have been doing in Reading into Writing. In Maths, some children matched 3D and 2D shapes into the correct columns on a worksheet. Everyone else continued their work on multiplying 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers.

Year 6 - Digital Literacy No Pen Morning

Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 1:26pm

Our No Pen Morning focused on digital literacy. We began by completing a skills session. We recapped on how to change the font, size of font, colour and background before learning how to add pictures and change the transition of slides. We then moved on to typing skills. We talked about why it is important to be able to type accurately and quickly. The children enjoyed our typing completion. We finished by completing a PSHE lesson about images we see on line and how it may affect how we feel about ourselves. 

Reception One Snowy Day

Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 10:15am

The children in Reception were very excited this morning to find our outdoor area covered in white, fluffy snow.  The children had a great time exploring the snow, making snow angels, sledging down the hill, build snowmen and even having a snowball fight.  

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