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Acorns - Commotion in the Ocean
Date: 1st Mar 2025 @ 7:53am
This terms topic is Let's go wild! This week Acorns have been reading Commotion in the Ocean and learning about all things fishy!
We enjoyed listening to the story and exploring all the different animals. We hunted for the animals in our understanding the sea tuff tray and developed our counting skills, counting the sea creatures during maths.
We loved the sensory spaghetti seaweed in our outdoor area and getting messy playing with the animals alongside our peers.
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 6:07pm
After our assembly about Mental Health Week, we learnt more about this years theme 'know yourself, grow yourself' through our PSHE lesson. We recapped on what mental health is, the importance of our own mental health and what we can do to look after ourselves. We also took part in lots of discussion to talk about our differences, things we are interested in, talents we have and our dreams for the future.
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 6:00pm
Today, Eshal was so excited to share her religion with the class! Since we’ve been learning about Islam in R.E., she brought in some special items she uses during her prayer ceremonies. Eshal unveiled her beautiful prayer mat, showed us her prayer beads, explaining their significance and shared the Kida that she reads daily. She even demonstrated how she performs her prayers, inviting us to ask questions throughout. It was lovely to see her enthusiasm as she described the importance of her faith and the way she connects with it daily. The whole class really enjoyed her sharing her religion and can’t wait to learn more about it over the next few weeks!
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 8:10am
Yesterday, we had our first forest school session of the Spring term. Whilst in the forest school area, we went searching for worms in the area as well as other bugs that were out there and discussed how the conditions were right for their survival.
Nursery Try to Capture the Evil Pea!
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 2:42pm
We have been reading the story "Supertato" and came to school to find that the Evil Pea had captured all the veggies and then disappeared! We decided we needed to find the Evil Pea so we made some Wanted Posters. The children drew a picture of the Evil Pea and then wrote P for pea. Let's hope it helps to capture the Evil Pea!
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 2:33pm
Nursery had a visit from Zoe who works for the library service. We were very excitied to show her our school Library and Zoe was equally excited to see it! While she was here, Zoe read us a Supertato story and then we were given a Bookstart pack to take home with some lovely stories to share at home.
Reception Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 1:47pm
This week we have been reading the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. The children have been been busy completing lots of different activities based around the story. The children have enjoyed writng about the story and character, retelling the story at the storytelling table, collaging their own bears using a range of materials, making different sized bears out of playdough and using the lego to make beds and chairs for the the bear. They have also been ordering bears up to 10, comparing different quantitiees of bears using the vocabularly more than or less than andexploring number bonds to 5 and ten at our Goldilocks themed maths table.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 11:59am
This week the children we invited to bring their favourite teddy to school. Our focus was to compare how teddies have changed and evolved over time. Mrs Clark brought a very old traditional teddy bear in from home and the children identified siliarities and differences with their bear. We recapped some key vocabularly 'past' and 'present' and used these words to create our own sentences.
"My teddy is different because it has sequins on it"
"Teddy bears from the present can be different colours"
"My teddy is a Ninja Turtle. They only made bears in the past"
As a follow up activity the children collaged their own traditional teddy bear at the creative table, sorted pictures correctly into past and present and dreew and labelled their bears explaining to an adult how it was similiar or different to Mrs Clarks.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 10:04am
In Oracy, we played a game of ‘Taboo’ to start. We had to use appropriate vocabulary to describe things on a card but we were not allowed to use some common words! Next, we practised how we would say a sentence in different ways. Finally, our main task was focusing on reasoning. We had to decide what we would do if we ruled the world and give a reason why. Other children in class then had to disagree with the statement and explain their challenge.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:19am
Mr Jones' maths group have been working really hard in Maths this week to understand Algebra. We started by looking at 1 and 2 step function machines before learning about formulas, expressions and substitution.
Year 3 - Improvising and composing!
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:17am
In Year 3, we have been looking at composing and improvising skills. The children used the Glockenspiels to accompany the track “You’re a shining star”. Firstly, the children used the notes G, A, B , C, D to improvise with the music. When then uses a 4/4 score paper to compose our own piece along with the backing track.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:16am
Year 6 talked about our whole school focus - Mental Health Week - and discussed the theme 'Know Yourself, Grow Yourself'. We discussed that if we can understand ourselves and what triggers our emotions, we can better manage these. We completed some activities based around the characters in the film 'Inside Out'.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:12am
In DT we have been looking at frame structures and as a class we have designed, built and evaluated bug habitats and bird feeders. Addison took this idea and made her own bird feeder at home and has donated it to Year 5 so that we can keep an eye out for any winged visitors! Well Done and Thank You Addison!
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:04am
As we continue to develop the oracy skills of the pupils at Boundary, pupils were given discussion prompts and asked to 'instigate', 'probe' and 'challenge' during their discussions and also ask for clarification if they were unsure of what someone was saying. Pupils followed our 'discussion guidlines' and showed 'active listening' during the debates.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 8:53am
In Year 3, we have started our new Science topic of Light. In this lesson we looked at our key questions 'What is light?'. We looked at placing objects in a box and thinking about if we could see the objects inside. Slowly, we added more light and saw that we could see. From this we then looked at what produces light and what doesn't. We then looked at identifying, classifying and grouping light sources into natural and human made sources.
Year 2- Exploring Moving Vehicles
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 8:10am
This week we started our new Design Technology unit of Moving Vehicles. To begin any unit we explore products that are already out there so we looked at different moving vehicles and explored how they move. We learnt they have wheels and axles to allow them to move and will use this knowledge in future lessons to help us when making our own.
Year 4 - Introduction to Ancient Egypt
Date: 25th Feb 2025 @ 3:35pm
Information we found on our information run:
- The people that ruled are called Pharaohs
- The ancient Egyptians used a form of picture of writing called hieroglyphics
- The pharaohs stopped ruling when Romans took control about 2000 years ago
- Pyramid contained the dead pharaoh who was buried with jewels and objects that were often robbed
- The ancient Egyptians lived in mud houses with flat roofs
- Most of Egypt is a desert of sand and rocks
- The river Nile floods every year. As the water goes down after the flood it leaves behind very rich soil
- The boy king Tutankhamun is the most famous pharaoh
- The ancient Egypt had lots of gold
- The people were ruled by a king called a pharaoh
- There were people living in Egypt about 5,000 years ago
- The ancient Egyptians used a form of picture writing called hieroglyphics
- The most important crops to the ancient Egyptians were wheat and barley from which they made bread and beer
In the smart task we found these things which were incorrect:
- Measuring tape
- Our alphabet
- Tractor
- Dome shaped buildings
- Watering hose
- Books
- Flask
- Fishing rod
Date: 24th Feb 2025 @ 7:25pm
Today we began our new half term with a new story 'Monkey Puzzle!' We read the story together, talked about the characters, the setting and the key events before ordering the stories ourselves. We also completed lots of different mini me challenges in our provision, including counting jungle animals, retelling the story at our story telling table and writing sentences about the jungle setting.
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 2:01pm
Year 6 have had a great week in the kitchen! During our DT cooking journey we researched, designed and made our own pizzas. Part of the journey was to learn new skills and we focused on safely cutting and chopping ingredients using the claw and bridge grips. Linking to our careers curriclum, we talked about how the skills we learned during this journey could link to future careers. We watched a video about a sous chef who talked about his career path and the skills needed to do his job.
The children's finished pizza's looked and tasted amazing. We have some future chefs in the making!
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 12:27pm
Acorns have been celebrating 100 days in school with lots of maths activities this week. We have love developing our knowledge and understanding of number and geometry through a variety of activities.
We have loved listening too and counting along with songs to 100. We have been using building blocks to count and explore repeated patterns. We continued to explore repeated patterns through our art activities and 'Bucket time'.
Year 1 How We Treat The Natural World
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 7:02pm
Today we brought all our learning for this half term together to reflect on how we each treat the natural world. We recapped on the key vocabulary associated with Islam and used it accurately to contribute to our whole class learning today. Throughout today lesson we thought about rules that we could implement in our local area to make the environment better in our community. We also painted a picture to show our own beliefs and values about how the natural world should be.
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 2:39pm
This week we started our maths with an assembly based on the book 'How mahy jelly beans?' by Andrea Menotti.
Year 4 then took part in a 'jelly bean' based maths lesson recapping their statistics skills. The children used a tally chart to collect data. The children found which jelly bean flavour was most popular and created a bar chart graph to show. Finally, the children analysed the graph to answer questions based on the data collected.
Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 8:18pm
Today we took part in our whole school Safer Internet Day. We began the day by listening to Mr Taylors assembly all about how to be safe and protect ourselves and others online. Back in class, we read the story 'Buddy the Dogs Internet Safety Story.' We talked through the story together, answering questions to help the character Ben make safe choices whilst using his tablet. We created some internet safety rules, including not talking to strangers online, asking a grown up if you see anything strange and don't download anything without asking an adult. We then revisted our trusted adults and shared these through drawing and writing.
Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 7:24pm
Today was safer internet day at school. In Year Three we watched a live lesson by the BBC that spoke about being careful for online scams. They taught us a helpful acronym to ensure we say safe and think twice before we click any pop ups. We then looked at different websites and links and thought about if they were reliable or not and how to protect ourselves.
Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 4:43pm
Today, Year Two celebrated safer internet day. After an assembly, where we learnt about what a scam is we put our knowledge to the test in class. We discussed the ways we use the internet and who is actually in charge of putting things on the internet. When we realised anyone can put anything on the internet we found it a lot less trustworthy. We focused on what information we should never share online and what to do if something make us feel uncomfortable online. Lastly, we thought about who our trusted adults are and the signs to look out for.
