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Nursery - Developing our Mark Making Skills
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 9:09am
The children are working really hard developing their mark making skills. At this stage there are alot of skills for the children to develop. They have to develop their fine and gross motor skills so their muscles are strong enough to support their pencil grip, they have lots of opportunities to practise drawing lines and circles which goes on to support letter formation and once they have made marks on paper or begun to copy some letter shapes, the children give meaning to the marks they have made on the paper. This week we have been reading "Dear Zoo" and the children practsied their writing and mark making by writing labels for the zoo animal and writing to the zoo to tell them which pet they would like.
Date: 8th Mar 2023 @ 5:17pm
This half-term, Year 5 have been studying forces. We have learned about gravity and friction and how they affect the world around us. This week the children were asked to investigate air resistance. They worked together to plan an investigation into the affect of air resistance on falling objects. Pupils decided to create 'helicopters' and see how they fell to the ground. Following a class discussion, we suggested a number of variables which would affect the rate of descent, and decided to investigate the size of the spinner - all of the other variables were kept the same. Following the investigation pupils identified that the larger the spinner, the slower the rate of descent. We concluded that this was because a larger surface area created more air resistance.
Year 4 - Finding the ancient tombs
Date: 7th Mar 2023 @ 6:55pm
This week in History we used our History, Geography and Oracy skills. We started by locating Egypt and England on a world map, then we zoomed in to Europe and North Africa so see how far away Egypt is. Next, we were given a map of just Egypt and in groups we had to discuss and decide where we think would have been best to built the Pharaoh tombs. We came up with some sentence starters to support each other in our discussions. We decided that nearest the River Nile was the best option because of the supply of water for not only building but living whilst building the tombs/pyramids. Many groups recognised mountainous areas on the map of Egypt and we discussed that this would be impractical for building. We then zoomed in on an area called Esna and Thebes - an area in The Valley of the Kings. This is where the tombs were built. To finish the lesson we did a zone of inference task with a drawing found in the richly decorated tomb of Nebamun - discovered in 1820.
Date: 7th Mar 2023 @ 6:43pm
This week in PSHE we continued to practise our oracy skills. Miss Crystal and Mr Bamber read out statements, such as 'School uniforms should be banned' and we had to decide whether or not we agreed, disagreed or weren't sure. Before we started we came up with a class list of sentence starters to help us when we answer why we have the opinion we did. We are beginning to understand the importance of listening when developing our oracy skills too.
Date: 6th Mar 2023 @ 8:57pm
This week in Reception the children have been learning about the importance of keeping our bodies and minds healthy. We have been talking about the importance of a healthy diet and understanding that things like biscuits, sweets and cakes are a 'treat'. We also talked about hygiene including brishing our teeth regualry and visiting the dentist, washing our hands and keeping our bodies clean including have a shower and bath. The children have exercising in the garden by riding on the balance bikes, playing ball games and having races. The children designed healthy lunch boxes and wrote simple sentences about how to keep healthy.
Date: 6th Mar 2023 @ 8:00pm
The following information was shared with Year 5 parents/carers today about the upcoming PGL trip in July. If you need to contact Mrs. Hamilton at any time please do so at oakteacher@boundaryprimary.co.uk
Date: 6th Mar 2023 @ 6:32pm
Today we consolidated our understanding of tens and ones. We worked together to practise counting the number of groups of ten and then the ones to find the total. We then chose a number card and used a range of resources, including Numicon, Base ten, place value counters and counters to represent the number.
We verbalised the STEM sentence ‘there are __ groups of 10 and __ more, there are __ objects in total.
‘I have made 41 all these different ways. There are 4 groups of ten and 1 more, there are 41 in total’
‘There are 2 groups of ten and 9 more, there are 29 in total’
Date: 3rd Mar 2023 @ 3:47pm
Today, we continued our Judaism learning journey by exploring the story of Moses. We looked at his background and then learnt that God gave Moses the Ten Commandments on two scriptures. We looked at what each of the Ten Commandments meant and how to say them in everyday language. Then, we discussed with our groups which of the Ten Commandments we felt was the most important and ordered them most to least important. Finally, as a class we discussed the order that we put them in and gave reasons for our ideas appreciating the fact we all have different beliefs and value different things more highly than others.
Reception celebrate World Book Day
Date: 3rd Mar 2023 @ 12:29pm
Today, alongside the whole School, Reception have celebrated World Book Day. The children have all dressed up as characters from some of their favourite books and all looked incredible- thank you for all the effort you have gone to! We had a special assembly where we were visited by an author Shane Hegarty. When we returned to class we enjoyed listening to some of our favourite stories, making book marks, role playing in our costumes and drawing and paint our favourite book characters. What a great day we had!
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 10:15pm
We had some visitors in Nursery today. Woody from Toy Story came for a snack, The Grufflo explored the maths area, we had a visit from Harry and his Bucketful of Dinosaurs, Little Red Riding Hood built a tower and Peter Rabbit hopped by! Then Dorethy came by with Toto the dog, Alice in Wonderland did some drawing and a Cheerleader shook her pom poms! Later they all sat together to make a bookmark. If only everyday could be like World Book Day!
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 8:49pm
Nursery have been undertaking their superhero training this week. They had to complete a superhero obstacle course being careful not to fall in the river of crocodiles and making their way carefully down the slide of snakes! They designed and made their own superhero cuff that gave them superpowers and made their own masks. There were lots of superhero activities including measuring superheroes, rescuing the superheroes who had been captured by the baddies and making up stories using the small world figures. We also read a fab story called "There's A Superhero In Your Book" by Tom Fletcher. It has been a super week!
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 7:13pm
This week we began our instructions journey in Reading into Writing. We have focussed on identifying the features of instructions and reading lots of different texts to develop our confidence with this.
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 6:36pm
We have all been looking forward to celebrating World Book Day!
Alongside our special assembly with Shane Hegarty, we also made reading crowns displaying our favourite books, completed traditional tale word searches, designed reading bookmarks and shared our favourite stories!
We all enjoyed coming to school as our favourite book character and celebrating our love of reading.
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 3:45pm
Reception have been reading a story about Smartie the Penguin. Smartie is a little penguin who is very excited that he got a new tablet for his birthday. However, throughout the story Smartie faces several problems relating to keeping himself safe. The children had to help Smartie make the right descisions to make sure he was safe and happy playing on his new device.
"If someone is mean to you online you can block them" Logan
"Always tell you mummy if your don't know what to do" Kit
"Keep you private information safe" Alfie
The children then discussed some different scernios and talked about how and why it is important to keep safe!
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 3:42pm
Today we celebrated World Book Day! The children dressed up as their favourite book character and celebrated their love of reading. We completed quizzes about books and designed our own book covers.
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 3:39pm
Today we celebrated World Book Day 2023. We were very impressed with the children's costumes.
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 3:32pm
Today we began our new Computing unit, which is based on 3D design. We started the lesson by discussing how 3D design is used in the real world, including in the construction and engineering industries. We used a site called Tinkercad and learned the basic functions needed to manipulate 3D shapes. We learned how to place, rotate, resize, duplicate and align shapes. All the children completed each tutorial successfully and we had a great afternoon.
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 1:19pm
Today, alongside the whole School, Year Two have celebrated World Book Day. The children have all dressed up as characters from some of their favourite books and all looked incredible- thank you for all the effort you have gone to! To start the celebrations we took inspiration from Willy Wonka and created our own exciting new chocolate/sweet and used our knowledge of adjectives to describe it before we were treated to a visit by author Shane Hegarty who told us where he gets his inspiration from and got us thinking creatively too. We have enjoyed the day celebrated and shared some of the stories we love with each other.
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 11:48am
What great World Book Day outfits today! We had a brilliant assembly and then we did some activities which included a quiz and predicting then ending to our class book and creating our own ending.
Shane Hegarty Author visits Boundary
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 11:48am
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 11:37am
Shane Hegarty author visits Boundary!
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 11:32am
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 9:26am
What a great Forest School session! We learned how to tie knots then we had a competition to get from one side of the site to the other tying ropes together. Then, we learned about the pond and the frog spawn living there. During the session we were able to look at and hold a frog. We had to wet our hands first so that our hands felt smoother for the frog.
Reception- Balance Bike Safety
Date: 28th Feb 2023 @ 4:20pm
Reception had a very exciting start to the week- learning how to ride balance bikes safely!
Eevery week, for the next four weeks, Reception will learn how to ride a balance bike and why we wear protective clothing when doing so.
They learnt to ride safely, not collide with each other and push with their feet- it was such fun!
"You wear a helmet so you don't hurt your head if you fall off" Lana- Rose
"You push with your feet" Dolly- Anne
Year 6 - DT: Evaluating existing products
Date: 28th Feb 2023 @ 4:10pm
As part of our Food Technology unit we will be making savoury scones. Today, we tested several different savoury products and evaluated them for their appearance, texture, taste and smell. By doing this, it gives us ideas about what we like and what we can use in our own product when we make them in a few weeks time.
