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Date: 11th Mar 2025 @ 1:22pm
In Design Technology, Year Three have been learning all about Shell Structures. This week we used CAD software to practice making nets more appealing for our user. The children looked at changing the colour and adding images and drawings. We also looked at adding in text and changing the colour and the font. The children will use these skills when making their final product.
Year 3- Stop motion animation!
Date: 11th Mar 2025 @ 1:12pm
In this lesson, Year 3 looked at learning how to use the computers to create stop motion animation. Last week we created flipbooks looking at changing one thing per frame to make a smooth animation. This week we applied this to the animation software and used a white board to create simple animations using a stickman.
Date: 11th Mar 2025 @ 8:09am
Today, Year Two enjoyed a fantastic visit to the zoo. We looked at the different animals enclosures for what things they have to meet their needs of survival as well as exploring their habitats for adaptations to help them. We were lucky enough to see some baby animals including the Orangutans and looked at how they differed from their adult. We also loved watching the sea lion show and watching all of their amazing tricks. We had a fabulous time!
Date: 11th Mar 2025 @ 8:05am
Today, we had the pleasure of Noor Fatima bringing in her prayer mat and prayer beads to show the class. It was such a lovely addition to our lessons! We have been learning all about Islam, and Noor was eager to share her faith with her classmates. She explained the significance of each item, and it really opened up an important discussion about different cultural practices.
Not only that, but she also crafted a model of the Kaaba, the cubed structure in Mecca that holds great significance for Muslims. It was impressive to see her creativity and effort! The children were thoroughly engaged and curious, asking questions and sharing their thoughts.
What a wonderful experience for her to share her beliefs and values with everyone! It truly enriched our understanding and appreciation of different cultures and religions. Thank you, Noor Fatima, for such a meaningful contribution!
Date: 10th Mar 2025 @ 8:33pm
This week, we looked at what happens to sounds the further away they get. We used the school hall and measured (using a sound meter) the sound (in decibels) of four different sources. We used a whistle, a drum, a whispered sentence and crumpling paper. Using a trundle wheel, we measured 5m, 10m, 15m and 18m. We found that the further away the sound got, the more quiet it became. This is because the sound energy starts to run out - this is called dissipation.
Eco at Boundary- World Book Day Book Swap!
Date: 10th Mar 2025 @ 12:17pm
On World Book Day the whole school took part in a giant 'Book Swap' in order to recycle books.
Lots of children had books in good condition that they had read so they swapped them for another book they had not read before.
" I bought in Winnie the Witch- I have read it loads of times... I have chosen Minecraft! I can't wait to read it at home- it's my favourite!" Harry in Reception.
Date: 10th Mar 2025 @ 12:09pm
This week sees the launch of Waste Week but what is waste? Waste is something that someone doesn’t’ need or want anymore.
Here at Boundary we are trying reduce the amount of food left on our plate at lunchtime. Every year, we waste approximately the equivalent in weight to that of an elephant!
Also, the Eco warriors will be ensuring that everyone in school recycles all the paper, card and cardboard by placing it in the brown recycling bags and not the bins where it will be sent to landfill!
Don’t forget we also recycle school uniform and batteries.
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 11:55am
Reception had a fabulous time celebrating World Book Day. The children enjoyed dressing up as their favourite book character including Zog, Matilda, Spiderman, Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins and The Tiger who came to tea. Throughout the day we enjoyed sharing lots of different stories and even enjoyed spending some times in our school libray 'The Attic'. The children also enjoyed making their own book marks and drawing and writing about their favourite stories.
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 10:43am
This week the children in Reception have been making pancakes. We talked about the tradition of pancake day how some people decide to give something up, during the Christain period of Lent. The children then enjoyed following a recipe to make and then eat their own pancakes. When we returned to the classroom we sequenced the pictures correctly and wrote our own insgtructions.
"You have to mix the eggs, milk and flour with a whisk" Harley
"Cook it in a frying pan" Dina
"The pancakes were yummy. I liked the chocolate the best" Kevin.
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 7:33am
Yesterday, we enjoyed our second Forest school session. We began by looking around the area for blackthorn trees so we knew where to be careful before we used the equipment to build some dens. Some of us helped clear out the pond area and helped to dig some of it out to try and make it deeper so the frogs will have a better habitat.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 5:22pm
Year 4 celebrated World Book Day by talking part in a BBC Live Lesson. During the live lesson, children from around the UK were reading at the same time! The childremn discussed their favourite genres and places to read.
The class then read an information text about the benefits of reading and created an acrostic poem using the information gathered.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 4:48pm
This week pupils in year 5 were investigating the force of friction. Using force metres, pupils measured the force rquired to move a 500g load up an inclined ramp made from different materials. We discussed how to make it a fair test by keeping certain variables the same: E.g. the people conducting the test, the weight of the load, the incline of the ramp and even the force of gravity! Pupils then discussed their findings and made conclusions about the smoothness of a material and the amount of friction that it creates.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 4:32pm
We had an exciting and interesting World Book Day - we were visited by Princesses, witches and wizards, authors and many, many more. We talked about our favourite books, authors and books that had been made into films. We then took part in a fun quiz about our last class novel 'Kensuke's Kingdom' and then a special World Book Day quiz.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 3:34pm
This afternoon, Year 6 spent time in our library picking new books. We dicussed which books they had chosen and why? We finished the session by reading our class novel 'Pig Heart Boy'.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 2:28pm
As part of our World Book Day celebrations, the children were invited to come in dressed up as a book character. We had a range of creative costumes from Harry Potter to an Ancient Egyptian! The children enjoyed going up into the library and reading a book, we also completed a book review and spoke about who we were dressed up as.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 2:13pm
Acorns loved engaging in world book day activities. We looked fantastic in our outfits.
We enjoyed lots of mark making with crayons until they quit and we had to use different mediums including paint and chalk instead.
We all engaged in listening to the story for a short burst and loved listening to each other’s stories that we came dressed up in.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 2:08pm
Acorns enjoyed lots of fun and messy play on pancake day. We even made our own pancake faces with a choice of fruit. Some of us tried the bananas or strawberries and enjoyed eating the pancakes.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 1:57pm
How incredible do we all look?! What a turn out for World Book Day 2025. Today we all dressed as our favourite book characters. We used our oracy skills to talk about who we were and why we picked our character. We then solved some book themed riddles and wrote our own riddle about our character.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 12:54pm
We were very excited to come to school today dressed as our favourite book characters. We started the day by taking part in our whole school assembly, before coming back to class to complete lots of World Book Day related activities!
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 12:34pm
We are having a very excited World Book Day! We have been making boomarks, creating self portraits of ourselves and sharing our favourite stories.
We all look fabulous.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 11:01am
We were very excited to come to school today dressed as our favourite book characters. We started the day by taking part in our whole school assembly, before coming back to class to complete lots of World Book Day related activities! We drew pictures of us in our costumes, wrote sentences to explain who we were, read different stories and made World Book Day bookmarks.
Date: 5th Mar 2025 @ 10:56am
This half term we have been learning how to count objects more efficiently by grouping into tens and ones. Today we practised counting groups of tens using tens frames to support our understanding.
Date: 4th Mar 2025 @ 5:18pm
Nursery celebrated Pancake day with a stack of delicious pancakes! We read the story "Mr Wolf's Pancakes" and talked about the ingredients you need to make the pancake batter. We talked a little bit about why we celebrate Shrove Tuesday before the children helped to mix the pancake batter. They children watched patiently as Mrs Welch cooked the pancakes and even managed to successfully toss a few! It was all worth the wait as the chidlren thought the pancakes were delicious!
Nursery get in to Bubbly Troubly!
Date: 4th Mar 2025 @ 5:10pm
We have really enjoyed reading another Supertato adventure - Supertato Bubbly Troubly! This time the Evil Pea cause chaos by swapping normal bubbles for bubbles that cause trouble! The children created their own bubbly trouble by seeing who could blow the biggest bubble mountain and then making a picture! They did this by using a mixture of water, food colouring annd washing up liquid and then creating a print from the bubble on paper. It was a lot of bubbly fun!
Year 1 Polar and Desert Habitats
Date: 3rd Mar 2025 @ 7:52pm
Today we learnt about two habitats – a polar habitat and a desert habitat. We began by identifying the features of a polar habitat, watching a short video and looking at photos. We looked at the climate in a polar habitat, animals that live there and how they are suitable to their habitat. We then began to look at a desert habitat, again identifying the features by watching a short video and looking at photos. We then looked at a number of animals that live in the desert and learnt about how they are suited to that habitat. We then completed a desert and polar habitat sort with a partner, verbally discussing the reasons and explaining how we know which animals live where.
