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Reception- Willow class make bread
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 11:12am
This week the children in Reception have been reading the traditional tale 'Little Red Hen' After role playing the story and writing about the characters the children went up to your school kitchen Redcliffs to make bread. The followed a recipe and used the correct ingredients flour, water, salt, yeast and oil. The children kneaded the dough just like the Little Red Hen. We then put it in the oven and waited for it to bake. In the afternoon the children enjoyed tasting the bread.
"The flour is very soft" Oliver
"You need to knead the dough" Esmai
""The yeast makes it get bigger" Elisha
It is very tasty" Summer
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 10:36am
WOW! What a great trip to Aspire this morning. We learned how to be safe when using bunsen burners to heat up water and produce steam. We changed a liquid to a gas.
Year 4- Creating Christmas Cards
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 8:13pm
This half term in DT, Year 4 have been working towards designing, making and evaluating their own Christmas card using linkage and lever systems. Therefore, we have been mastering the practical skills needed to create our first moving mechanism. Using cards and split pins, we were able to create a waving hand! We will use these new practical skills when we start making our cards later in the half term.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 3:35pm
Today, despite the weather, we enjoyed our second forest school session. Michelle read us a book called 'cool by the pool' and we pretended to be the animals in the book before we split into two groups; one group went pond dipping to look for bugs, plants and animals that we might find in a pond habitat and others explored the forest school garden opting to play in the mud puddle, mud kitchen, creating art or playing 'what time is it Mr Owl?' before we swapped over. Just before we came inside, we warmed up by having a cup of warm vimto.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 12:52pm
In today's history lesson we were given a mystery to solve. We were told the story of an archaeologist called Alberto Ruz, who spent time searching through Maya temples in the 1940s. In one of the temples he found evidence of a secret area under the base of the temple. After a long time trying to get into the space, he eventually opened up the hatch to reveal the resting place of the great Maya king Pacal. The children had to work out who this person could have been based on evidence from the tomb.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 9:15am
This week, pupils used their map reading skills to find the highest peaks in the UK. First, we discussed what the UK is and what is meant by 'Great Britain and Ireland'. Pupils then identified the highest mountain in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and marked them on a map of the UK. Some pupils went further, and found out facts about the mountains, such as their height in metres.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 9:07am
In this lesson Year 3 looked at completing a fair test experiment that we had planned the week before. We investigated how friction changed on different surfaces then we measured and recorded our results. We had to use the measuring skills that we had learnt in Maths to support in carrying out the test accurately.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 9:05am
In computing we have been doing programming and we have been learning how to use Scratch. This week we focused on creating an algorithm to make our sprite draw. We first of all explored an existing algorithm and identified how it worked. We then created our own and made our individual sprites draw.
Date: 4th Oct 2023 @ 6:15pm
In this week's French lesson, we continued learning about French grammar. We looked in more depth at the gender of nouns. We used French dictionaries to find the correct gender and then added the appropriate definate article (le, la, les or l'). Some children completed a challenge where they had to add the correct ending to make the noun plural.
Date: 3rd Oct 2023 @ 3:42pm
This week we started our work on Black History Month. We focused on Ruby Bridges and the struggles she faced in life. We spent the afternoon creating work based on her. Keep a look out for the diary entries we will be writing based on the experiences of Ruby Bridges.
Date: 3rd Oct 2023 @ 9:14am
This week, we looked at whether states of matter can be changed. We used coloured ice cubes from the freezer and observed what happened when we changed the temperature (we kept them in our classroom).
Date: 3rd Oct 2023 @ 8:22am
Last week the children went to the Globe Theatre in Blackpool to watch a Royal Ballet demonstration. The children enjoyed watching the older students dance and were impressed by the strength of the dancers!
Date: 2nd Oct 2023 @ 7:11pm
Today we continued to learn about our senses in Science whilst focusing on our sense of taste. We learnt new vocabulary associated with taste, which bit of the tongue is associated with each taste and all the different parts of the mouth. We then used the new vocabulary we had learnt to try and to describe the taste of lots of different foods!
Date: 2nd Oct 2023 @ 7:05pm
Today in Art we explored using our whole body to create spiral drawings. We used chalk, pens, pastels and pencils to create spiral drawings – first outside with large-scale drawings and then in our sketchbooks. We also practised making spirals to music; talking about how the music made us feel and how we could use this to create spirals that reflect our emotions and mood. We created quiet spirals and LOUD spirals!
Date: 2nd Oct 2023 @ 6:31pm
In this week's PE lesson, we swapped tennis for badminton - utilising the skills we have already learned. We focused on the serve and learned the most effective technique to perform a consistent serve. We practised effectively hitting the shuttlecock at a target before using forehand and backhand to take part in a rally.
Reception- Rosies Walk- outside learning
Date: 1st Oct 2023 @ 7:35pm
This week the children created an obstacle course outside to act out the story Rosies Walk and learn the positional language, under, through, past, across and around.
" I went around the pond" Esmai
"Rosie went across the farmyard" George
"The fox went over the haystack and then fell in it!" Isla
"Rosie went under the beehives" Kierah
"I went past the windmill like Rosie" Esme
Date: 29th Sep 2023 @ 3:12pm
Date: 29th Sep 2023 @ 12:48pm
Sometimes in Nursery things can get a little bit messy! The children have been making shaving foam ice creams - I think they got more ice cream on themselves than in the cones! This activity is great fro developing the children's social skills, communication skills and fine motor skills.
Date: 29th Sep 2023 @ 12:34pm
Nursery discovered some dragons frozen in ice this week! They worked together to find ways to set them free. They learnt that making the ice warm would help to melt it so they tried warm water and moving the ice around. Once the ice began to melt the children could wiggle the dragons free.
Reception Rosie the Hen went for a walk
Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 10:53pm
This week the children have been reading the story 'Rosie's Walk'. It is about a little hen called Rosie who goes for a walk around the farmyard. But little does she know she is being followed by a very sneaky fox. The story explores the use of perpositions as Rosie goes over the hay stack, around the pond and under the beehive. The children have enjoyed being emersed in the story using the props at the story telling table to retell the story with their friends. They have been painting and collaging foxes as well as producing their own story maps. What a fantastic week of learning!
Year 1 School Council Elections
Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 5:43pm
Today Year 1 voted for our class school councillors! This week we have been learning about democracy and what it means. We learnt that in Year 1 we get to make important decisions, such as who we want to be our class representatives for the school council. Children who wanted to be considered delivered their manifestos and explained why they would be a good school councillor and what they would do to make Boundary a better place. Well done to everyone who participated and to our new Year 1 school council representatives!
Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 3:46pm
We began our Forest School sessions today. To start we reminded ourselves of the Forest School rules that are in place to keep us all safe. We then went on a scavenger hunt to find a range of items that we then used to create a piece of art. Some of us chose to play in the mud kitchen and some of us worked together to build a shelter. Then it was onto the pond habitat to search for frogs. We were very excited to see a few hopping about as they were tiny tadpoles last time we visited in Spring.
Year 2 - School Council Elections
Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 3:45pm
This week, alongside the whole school we have been celebrating democracy and exploring what that means. With the start of a new school year means making new decisions about who we want to be our classes representative and member of the school council. The children were incredibly brave and delivered their manifesto's explaining why they would be a good school councillor and what they would do to make Boundary a better place before we all went and placed a confidential vote today. Well done to our new representatives:
Elm- Sab
Birch- Marleigh
Year 5 - A Day of Democratic Decisions
Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 2:54pm
Today was the election day for our school council members. Four Hawthorn pupils put themselves forward to be chosen and presented their manifesto to the class. This morning, all of the pupils voted in secret to select our representative. Good luck, everyone.
Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 2:48pm
Today, pupils began to create their final piece of artwork for our typography and maps journey. As you can see, pupils are creating a 3D map of an island, which has been inspired by Michael Morpurgo's book, Kensuke's Kingdom. Pupils are using their typography skills to create words and lettering to make the map look aesteically pleasing.
