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Year 6 - Fire Service Road Safety Visit
Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 8:36am
Year 6 had a visit from Blackpool Fire Service, who talked to the children about road safety. This tied in nicely with our school Road Safety Week. We discussed how to travel safely by foot, on a bike and in a car - especially important for the Year 6 children who will be starting high school in September. The Fire Service also taught the children about fire safety. Thanks to Luke and Chris for talking to the children.
Nursery Find a Seagull in the Garden
Date: 15th Jan 2024 @ 10:27pm
Sometimes leanring opportunites just fly in to the garden! The children were so excited to see a baby seagull on the nursery roof. We talked about why is might be sat there and some ideas were becasue it was waiting for its mummy and daddy and because it was looking for food. Some of the children made links to their own experiences by talking about seeing seagulls in their garden and it aslo prompted the children to notice lots of seagulls flying in the sky, Eventually the seagull flew off and the chidlren thought that he must of been picked up by his mummy and daddy.
Nursery Explore What Winter Feels Like
Date: 15th Jan 2024 @ 10:19pm
This week we read the story "A Little Bit of Winter" about a hedghog who asks his friend rabbit to save him a little bit of winter so he knows what it feels like. The children have held ice to and talked about what it feels like and compared it to holding something warm. We have also explored cold colours through painting and collage and made some winter cocktails, There were some lovely conversations about snow at our winter sensory tray and discussions about fun things we can do in the winter as the children played with the mini ice skating rink.
Date: 15th Jan 2024 @ 6:30pm
This morning we had a Road Safety assembly and then this afternoon we did some more work around Road Safety. We started by looking at maps and finding either our own house or someone we know who lives close by and looking at their walking route to school. We looked at how many roads would have to be crossed over and what help there is (if at all). Then we looked at pictures and had to decide if they were safe or unsafe. Last we were given four scenarios and we had to decide how we would keep safe in that scenario.
Year 4 - Fitness (Circuit training)
Date: 15th Jan 2024 @ 6:26pm
Today we start our Fitness unit. We recapped some circuit activities such as step up and star jumps, then we learned to how to do squats, lateral side steps and lunges.
Date: 15th Jan 2024 @ 12:34pm
This week the children have starting learning the phase 3 digraphs. The children have been busy applying their phonics knowledge when reading and writing in the areas. The children have been using their robot arms to orally segement the words and then finding the correct sound on the sounds mat. Have a look at some of our wonderful writing.
Date: 15th Jan 2024 @ 12:28pm
This week our classroom was transformed into a winter wonderland. We have had a lovely week exploring the season winter and discussing the changes that occur. The children have been busy completing lots of wintery activities including building Elsa, reading wintery stories, role playing in our winter house and exploring melting ice in the water.
"The temperature is very cold" Nikola
"It gets frosty" Levi
"The water freezes" Esmai
"It goes dark quickly" Elisha
Date: 15th Jan 2024 @ 8:57am
To introduce the children to our new R.E topic the children visited St Mark’s Church. We learnt all about disciples and how people show they are disciples to God and Jesus today.
Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 4:41pm
Happy New Year Everyone
Welcome back to Acorns. This term our topic is Winter Wonderland.
We have enjoyed exploring our winter theme through our sensory tough tray, songs and activities.
Year 4 - Learning our spellings
Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 1:13pm
We kicked off the first Friday of Spring 1 learning our spelling rules and the definitions of our words.
Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 6:00pm
Today we focussed on understanding 10. We recapped counting to 20 from different starting points, both forwards and backwards before looking in-depth at the number 10. We used a range of resources such as, base 10, counters, cubes, tens frames and Numicon to investigate 10. We made 10 using either 2 or 3 parts and wrote the corresponding addition sum. Some of us then moved on to investigating 10 further with our number mats. We wrote the number in words, identified the tens and ones, displayed 10 on a part part whole, found one more and one less and identified if the number 10 is odd or even.
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.
