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Year 4 - Discovering Tutankhamun's Tomb
Date: 14th Mar 2023 @ 7:04pm
Today, like Howard Carter in 1922, we entered King Tutankhamun’s tomb. What an experience searching around for clues about the young pharaoh. The tomb was extremely dark, so we used torches to make our way round. Once, we had made note of things we had found, we went back to class and started to discuss the sources of evidence that has survived thousands of years and how they were discovered. At first, we watched the opening scene of a film called Prince of Egypt. This showed that the pyramids were built by slaves. We then investigated evidence as to whether or not that is true. There were argument for and arguments against, however overall mainly agreed that that was not true.
Year 4 - Music 'Old Joe Clark' improvising
Date: 14th Mar 2023 @ 6:49pm
We started the lesson with a recap of Old Joe Clark and musical vocabulary such as beat, staccato, legato, crotchet, quaver, minim, semibreve, dotted minim, tone (major and minor) and ostinato. Then we finished our own compositions on our manuscript paper. We composed using all of the notes on the stave, trying to keep 4 beats in a bar, made up of crotchets. We labelled the stave to know which notes to play and practiced our piece with the backing track Old Joe Clark. We then listened to individual performances.
Date: 14th Mar 2023 @ 6:38pm
Today Year 1 enjoyed a fantastic story telling experience with Dan Worsley. We all used fantastic listening skills whilst Dan told us a very exciting, funny and engaging story 'Junk in the Trunk.' We could all remember lots of details from the story from the brilliant pictures Dan protrayed whilst using lots of description!
Date: 14th Mar 2023 @ 5:20pm
In today's lesson we learnt how to follow instructions to achieve an outcome. We recapped on the features of instructions and how they need to be in the chronological order to make sense. We learnt the importance of checking our instructions and ensuring they have every step included. We then gave instructions to Miss Kay and Mrs Webster, to tell them how to make a disgusting sandwich. Again, we worked hard to give clear and precise instructions. We saw what happens when we weren’t clear and how the end goal wasn’t quite what we wanted! We then designed our own disgusting sandwich and created them, giving us an opportunity to talk through and order instructions before writing our own instructions over the next few days. As these were disgusting sandwiches - we didn't eat them!
Date: 12th Mar 2023 @ 9:03pm
This week Reception have been very busy taking part in Waste Week!
They have been remembering to place all waste paper in the brown recycling bag and only use one paper towel to dry their hands. This is so all waste paper can be recycled to make new paper and reduce the cost of paper towels in school.
"We have to use only one paper towel when we dry our hands" Logan.
"Put the paper you have cut up and don't need anymore in the brown recycling bag" Harper.
Date: 12th Mar 2023 @ 8:52pm
It's Waste Week at Boundary and our aim is to reduce the use of paper and paper towels in school.
All paper MUST be placed in the brown paper recycling bag and not the general waste bins. This will ensure ithe majority of paper is recycycled and made into paper again. The Eco Warriors will be checking all the recycling bags and general waste bins to ensure the correct items are placed in them.
We have also stopped using paper towels in the KS1&2 toilets. Hand dryers will be used which are much more cost and energy efficient than paper towels. EYFS will still use paper towels but are being extremely careful to use only one at a time to dry their hands. Although these are made from recycled paper, they are not able to be recycled so it is very important that we are not wasteful.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 7:21pm
As part of our Science Day, we also completed some astronaut art to show what we might see if we were to look outside the window of a spaceship. We watched a video to explore what astronauts might see from their spaceship and used that alongside photgraphs to inspire our own art. We used oil pastels and collage to create our pieces.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 6:39pm
Today, alongside the rest of our school, Year 1 had lots of fun celebrating Science day! We began the day by becoming NASA astronauts! We learnt what an astronaut is, how you become an astronaut and what characteristics you need to have. We then looked at what astronauts wear in space, how they sleep and eat and drink! We watched a short video where astronauts talked about what life is like in space. After this we thought about what we would take to space with us. Then it was time for our Wonderdome experience! We were all amazed and thoroughly enjoyed the space exploration!
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 6:24pm
Today, as part of Science day we learnt about a number of different astronauts including Neil Armstrong. We watched a video which explored Neil Armstrongs life and the key events that led up to what he is famous for! We learnt that Neil Armstrong was born in 1930 and his first time in a plane was when he was just 5 years old. We placed key events in his life onto a timeline, including 1969 when he became the first man to walk on the moon!
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 4:20pm
Today, alongside the whole school we celebrated Science Day with our theme of Space and year two were tasked with learning about the sun. We begun the day by watching videos about the sun and learnt lots of facts including: it would take 20 years to fly to the sun from Earth, the sun is the centre of the solar system, Earth orbits the sun and completes 1 full orbit every year and the sun is actually a star made up of gases. We recorded our information on strips of card and stuck them down as sun rays beaming out of our big sun in the middle. Next, we used our new knowledge of obitting to model how the Earth orbits the sun and the moon orbits the Earth and learnt it takes 28 days for the moon to orbit the Earth- our models also helped us imagine the size difference between the sun, moon and Earth. The excitement continued as we visited the space wonder dome exploring stars, the sun, the moon and all the other planets which we named. We also were fully immersed and amazed by exploring what it would look like and feel like in space. During the afternoon, we got more creative listening to two pieces of space themed music- the final countdown as well as Holst Venus and appraised them. We also thought about the similarities and differences between the two pieces of music. Lastly, we ended our exciting day by creating our own sun art using different techniques including pointilism to complete our paintings.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 4:05pm
Year 5 have had a fantastic day learning about the 1969 Moon landing, as part of National Science Day 2023. Pupils watch actual footage of the Moon landing, watched documentary footage and read newspaper articles about the event. We had an amazing oportunity to visit the Wonder Dome, where we were taken on a guided tour of the Milky Way, and beyond, which the children loved. The children then created a space picture, using a variety of techniques including pencil sketches and a watercolour wash.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 3:52pm
As part of Science Day, all classes had a 20 minute session in the space dome. We learned about stars and glaxaxies, along with the planets of the Milky Way and space missions to the moon. It was an incredible expereince and all children (and staff) had a brilliant time.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 3:37pm
What a day! Today we celebrated Science day with a focus on space. We were lucky enough to have the brilliant Wonderdome visit our school for an amazing space experience. The children absolutely loved it. Throughout the day each year had their own focus from astronauts to constellations. Not only did we learn many scientific facts, we also created beautiful art, pieces of writing and listened to space themed music.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 2:07pm
Wow! What a great Science Day! First thing this morning we were treated to a visit in the Wonderdome. We had an amazing Solar System experience where we found out lots about our planets, moons and stars. We couldn't believe the size of some of the planets and super stars compared to Earth. It really was mindblowing. Then in the afternoon we did some planet Art with oil pastels.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 12:53pm
Today in music we were listening to some songs about animals ready for our trip to the Zoo. We played the glockenspiel to the Big Bear Funk which was lots of fun and started to think about how to play the notes nicely. We sang the song Lets go to the Zoo and did the actions.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 11:25am
Our focus for this year's science day was space. We recapped on everything we knew about planets from our lessons in Year 5, before moving on to learn about constellations. We listened to space themed music including the Planets by Holst and Space Odessy by David Bowie. Finally, we created constellation art work. A great day!
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 10:21am
Science day ! First we listened to Gustav Holst- The Planets, Full Suite. We thought about how the song was structure and what ‘personality’ it gave us of the planets. Then we listened to Muse- Starlight.
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 3:01pm
In Music, we have been improving to the song 'You're a Shining Star' using the notes GABCD. We worked in beats of 5 and performed to the rest of the class. We worked hard to stay in time with the music.
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 3:00pm
In today's lesson we had our second lesson on Tinkercad. This involved placing shapes onto a plane and change the heights and widths of each shape. We then experimented with adding shapes on top of others and group them to create one shape. We are becoming much more proficient at using Tinkercad.
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 2:58pm
In DT, we have been exploring shell structures. We looked at a variety of existing shell structures and evaluated them based on their purpose, appearance and their strength.
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 2:55pm
This week, we continue practising and making up a Roman dance. We listened to a piece of Roman music first. We found the beat and decided the type of movements we needed to be making.
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 2:53pm
This week we have begun our new Reading into Writing journey of poetry. We will be writing poems about the sea using a range of figurative language, especially metaphor. Here is the first few lessons.
One of the Year 6 pupils has even been inspired to go home and write their own poem about rainbows.
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 2:53pm
This week we continued our Yoga sessions in PE. We perfected the mountain pose, tree pose and warrior pose before moving on to learn the cobra pose, downward dog and butterfly pose. We put all of the poses together into a sequence. Everyone ended the session very relaxed.
Year 2 Exploring free and fixed axles
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 1:28pm
We investigated different types of axles - fixed axles and free axles to see if they were different. We found that the free axles moved faster and they were able to turn . The fixed axles were slower and they could only travel in straight lines.
Year 5 - RSC: Sandgrown Shakespeare
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 9:42am
We are very proud of the Year 5 children who performed in the Sandgrown Shakespeare show at The Grand Theatre on Tuesday night- Eviee's artwork even took pride of place on the front cover of the program!
Well done to all who took part - please see the Year 5 blog for more pictures!
