Today, all classes had the fantastic opportunity to visit the mobile farm from Fishers Farm, and it was an absolute highlight for everyone involved. As Year 5 teachers, we were especially proud of how our pupils conducted themselves throughout the visit. Their curiosity, thoughtful questions, and respectful behaviour really stood out, and it was lovely to see them so engaged with the animals and eager to learn more. The staff from Fishers Farm even took the time to compliment the children on their excellent manners and enthusiasm, which made us incredibly proud. It was a wonderful experience that brought learning to life and showcased the very best of our Year 5 pupils.
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Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 8:19pm
This half term, Year 1 will be exploring place value to 10. During this unit, we will deepen our understanding of numbers to 10, building on our pre-existing knowledge learnt in Reception. This week, through provision and teacher led tasks, we have complete a range of tasks looking at representing numbers in different ways, ordering numbers to 10 as well as counting a range of objects up to 10. We look forward to continuing our learning in the coming weeks!
Nursery Get to Know Each Other
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 2:45pm
It has been great to welcome all of our nursery new starters. They are starting to settle in really well and are becoming familiar with the nursery routines. We can see some great freinships being formed and some super play skills - we think its going to be a fantastic year!
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 12:33pm
Year 6 have begun the year with a tirp to one of Mrs. Hamilton's favourite places - the library. The have all picked new books and looking forward to a year of reading!
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 9:10am
In Science, Year Two are looking at the use of everyday materials. In our first session we were focussing on the question ‘How can materials be changed?’. The children looked at a range of materials to see if we could bend, stretch, pull, bend, snap and twist them and recorded our results in a table. We then explored a challenge question thinking about if every solid is hard.
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 9:07am
Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful summer!
Here is some information which was shared during the Meet The Teacher session this week.
- Overview for the year (attached)
- PE days- Monday and Tuesday. Please keep your PE kits in school all week.
- Homework - set online every Friday to be completed by the following Friday (Spag.com, Mathshed)
- Spelling - set online every Friday. Tested the following Friday (Spelling Shed)
- Reading books will start to go out next week. Please aim to read at least 3 times a week.
- We can be contacted using the class email address- birchteacher@boundary.blackpool.sch.uk and elmteacher@boundary.blackpool.sch.uk
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 8:00am
Each day, Year 5 and all classes in school, will take part in a range of short activities in order to help regulate and prepare us for the day ahead. The activities cover 3 key areas that are proven in research to support children's focus, mental health and general wellbeing: Alerting, Organising and Calmning. Please feel free to talk to your child about these activities - you might find them useful to use at home.
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 7:56am
Thank you to those who were able to attend this session. Do not worry if you were not able to, here is some information which was shared during the Meet the Teacher session this week.
- Overview for the year has been attached.
- Read at least 3 times a week with your child, this will help them grow in confidence as well as supporting them accessing all areas of the curriculum.
- Weekly BLT is set on a Friday and must be completed by the following Thursday. This will include differentiated Maths and English work which will be set using spag.com and maths.co.uk.
- Weekly spellings will be given out for the children to learn and they are expected to use Spelling Shed to support this. The children will be tested on a Friday.
- Half Termly project/creative homework. This will be given out on the first day back and be due on the final Monday of the half term.
- Children are expected to use the websites TimesTable RockStars and Maths Frame to support their learning of the Times Tables.
- If homework is not completed by the following Thursday morning, the child will be expected to complete it during their own time.
- BLT club is available for children to sign up to.
- Our P.E days will be Monday and Wednesday
Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to working with you throughout the year!
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 7:54am
We have had a fantastic first few days back at school. Our new Year 1 children have settled into their new classroom environments very well and we are proud of how well our children have adapted. Miss Kay and Miss Duckworth have enjoyed hearing about what children have been up to over summer and how much they have been looking forward to coming back to school!
This week we have been getting used to the new rules and routines in Year 1 and settling back into school life. We have taken parts in lots of different activities to explore our new environments. We have read 'The Colour Monster,' labelled the characters, retold the story, practised counting and recognising numbers and built models in our construction area.
Date: 3rd Sep 2025 @ 8:28pm
Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful summer!
Here is some information which was shared during the Meet the Teacher session this week.
- Overview for the year has been attached.
- Read at least 3 times a week with your child, this will help them grow in confidence as well as supporting them accessing all areas of the curriculum.
- Homework is set on Seesaw every Friday and needs to be completed by the following Thursday (Find login details in your child's reading diary).
- In Summer, your child will undertake the statutory Phonics Screening Check. It is helpful to read regularly with your child to help them with their fluency of phonics knowledge. Further meetings will be scheduled to help you best support your child for the screening.
- Whilst Year 1 does look different to Reception, all children still have access to continuous provision to learn through play following on from the EYFS framework.
- Complete BLT tasks (please find attached) and bring them in once completed so we can share them with the class and display them proudly outside Miss Moyes office.
- Practice this half terms KIRFS with your child working on their instant recall of key mathematical facts (please find attached).
Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to working with you throughout the year!
Date: 3rd Sep 2025 @ 2:09pm
Acorns have had lots of fun exploring our new classroom and outdoor environment and meeting new friends.
This term our topic is All about me and People who help us. We have lots of fun multi sensory activities to develop our learning and engagement.
Date: 3rd Sep 2025 @ 10:19am
This year, we are introducing Sensory Circuits at the beginning of the school day to make sure we are ready for the day. Today, we did our first one and we loved it. We felt woken up and relaxed ready to learn!
Date: 1st Sep 2025 @ 3:13pm
Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful summer!
Here is some information which was shared during the Meet The Teacher session this week.
- Overview for the year (attached)
- Swimming - every Wednesday - you will need a costume/shorts, towel and a swimming cap if your hair is passed shoulder length. You will only be allowed to wear goggles if you have a consent form filled in.
- Homework - set online every Thursday to be completed by the following Friday (Spag.com, TTRS and Reading Plus)
- Spelling - set online every Thursday. Tested the following Friday (Spelling Shed)
- W/C 8th June 2026 - Y4 will take part in the statutory Multiplication Check. You need to be practising your times tables throughout the year.
- Year 3/4 statutory words are attached for you to practise spelling throughout the year
- Reading books will start to go out next week
Acorns - Thank you and Happy summer
Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 8:21am
Acorns staff would like to wish our families a happy summer break and big thank you for your support over the year. See you in September.
Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 8:03am
Acorns had a moo-vellous time when they visited the mobile farm. Children were excited to see and interact with lots of different animals. We enjoyed brushing the horses, petting the rabbits, sheep and goats and vocalising some of the animal sounds.
Date: 17th Jul 2025 @ 6:48pm
Over the past few weeks, Year 1 have enjoyed our second set of Forest School sessions. We were very lucky with the weather and made the most of our last sessions this year. Through the sessions, we learnt about different types of birds and made nests using different natural resources, we made mud creations in the mud kitchen and explored the pond area and found frogs. We even enjoyed a campfire in our last session.
Date: 17th Jul 2025 @ 6:33pm
Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the farm on our Key Stage 2 playground. We talked about what animals we know live on a farm and what we hoped to see before our visit. We also talked about the importance of handwashing and being hygenic around the animals. During our visit we had lots of opportunities to ask questions, stroke the animals, brush them and learn more about them.
Date: 17th Jul 2025 @ 1:43pm
Nursery had a moo-vellous time when they visited the mobile farm. They enjoyed learning about all the animlas and were so gentle and caring towards them. The farm dog was our favourtie though. She was very soft and gentle and loved getting lots of cuddles!
Date: 17th Jul 2025 @ 12:41pm
Here’s a selection of photos from our children’s recent PGL residential. They had a fantastic time learning new skills, making memories, and working together as a team.
A big thank you to our dedicated staff for supporting the children and making the trip so special!
Year 6 - Games morning and picnic in the park
Date: 17th Jul 2025 @ 7:44am
The weather was kind today and we were able to enjoy our annual trip to Stanley Park. Lots more memories made for our wonderful Year 6!
Date: 17th Jul 2025 @ 7:36am
Pur Year 6 children had a great time at their leavers' disco last night. We hope you enjoy the photos!
Date: 16th Jul 2025 @ 3:06pm
This half term, in reading into writing we have explored persuasive adverts and in Geography we have looked at hot and cold places. To link the two topics together, we wrote a persuasive advert to persuade someone to visit either the desert, rainforest or Antarctica- we even used the computers to create our hot write to make them look bright and colourful as well as improve our digital literacy skills.
Year 2- Looking after the environment
Date: 16th Jul 2025 @ 3:02pm
Today, we explored the key question how does rubbish affect our environment? We read the story a rubbish day at the beach, thinking about the problems we saw in the story and how we could improve the problem. We then made a pledge to do one thing to help the environment including: giving things to charity, recycling more or picking up litter.
Date: 15th Jul 2025 @ 2:33pm
This week in Science, we research animals which are extinct and how they became extinct. Some of us were shocked that animals such as the West African Black Rhino became extinct as little as 14 years ago. Have a look at some of our presentations about them.
