: Blog items
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 ⭐🎶
Year 4 - Storytelling through drawing
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 4:34pm
Today we evaluated our art from last week (based on the poem 'A Day in Autumn'). We used evaluation post it notes and stem sentences to write about our illustrations. Then we used our reflections to start our final pieces.
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 1:51pm
Acorn had a wonderful day filled with some Christmas activities, a delicious Christmas dinner and even wearing our Christmas jumpers. We can't wait to do more Christmas activities over the next 2 weeks! Keep your eyes peeled to see what we do next!
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 1:44pm
In Acorn, we have been reading the story 'Gingerbread Man'. We have been using props at the storytelling table to retell the story, using playdough during our Dough Disco sessions that smell of gingerbread too. We made salt dough and cut them into gingerbread shapes ready to paint them. What a busy week! Have a look at our wonderful learning.
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 9:49am
Today we had our Christmas jumper day in school. We all looked fabulous! We also enjoyed a christmas dinner with our friends. It was great fun pulling the crackers and telling the jokes.
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 9:45am
Today, we had our fantastic Christmas dinner and wore our Christmas jumpers. Everyone was very full after enjoying their dinner!
Year 5 - Text Feature Detectives
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 9:37am
As our Reading into Writing journey into stories from other cultures continues, pupils were challenged to find structure and language features from a variety of different text. We have been learning about the Australian Aborigional Dreamtime stories, a group of creation stories from their culture. Pupils identified the features before working collaboratively to find them in different stories.
Year 4 - Elf-lympics and Christmas dinner!
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 7:49pm
Today we took part in the Elf-lympics playing for points for our houses. Then we enjoyed a yummy Christmas Dinner in our Christmas jumpers!
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 4:58pm
Year 1 are all looking forward to enjoying the Christmas activities around school over the next couple of weeks! Today, we had lots of fun on Christmas jumper day and enjoyed our delicious Christmas lunch!
Year 2- Christmas Jumper/Christmas Dinner Day
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 4:31pm
Today, alongside the whole school we enjoyed our annual Christmas dinner and Christmas jumper day. We all looked fabulous in our Christmas jumpers and enjoyed our festive dinner including Turkey and all the trimmings followed by a dessert of cake. It was delicious and we all enjoyed celebrating Christmas together!
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 4:25pm
This half term, Year Two have been working hard with their teachers and Mr Perkins practicing their fundamental skills including: throwing, catching and rolling. Over the last 7 weeks, we have learnt to do an underarm throw, thinking about bending the opposite leg, placing our palm towards the target and keeping a straight arm to ensure we throw accurately. We have completed many games where we have had to aim at targets on different levels and today we completed relay races to see who could get the most amount of balls into the baskets at the end as it was thrown down the line.
Year 3- Mastering multiplication !
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 10:28am
In Year 3, we have been looking at multiplying a 2-digit number by a 1- digit number (no exchange). The children used place value charts, base ten and counters to visually see the multiplication.
Reception- Christmas Is On It's Way!
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 7:49pm
The decorations are up, the tree is dressed and presents are wrapped! it's all happening in Reception this week.
Children have been working together, sharing ideas and using their critical thinking skills to get into the spiirit of Christmas. They have been using their fine motor skills to place baubles, tinsel and beads on the Christmas tree in the home corner and they have been measuring and cutting wrapping paper to wrap Christmas presents for each other.
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 3:34pm
Today in Year 3 we looked at enterprise. We looked at what it meant to have a budget, what a profit was and what it meant to have a loss. We then started to think about our own enterprise for the school fair. We calculated what we had spent to buy the stock we needed and then decided on a price so that we could make a profit. Our maths skills came in very handy! Finally, we make our reindeer hot chocolates ready to sell and raise money for school.
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 1:16pm
We always ensure that the resources we have in nursery are enganging and stimulate the children's imagination. Using open ended resources allows chidren the time to think about what they would like to do and how they would like to use the reosurces. It is also encourages the chidlren to work together and build positive realtionships. They always come up with super ideas and it's a pleasure to watch their play unfold.
