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Date: 21st Feb 2023 @ 11:05am
Today is the 100th day in school. Our Maths lesson was based around the story “365 penguins”. We were told that penguins eat around 2kg of fish a day and that amount of fish costs £29.25. First, we worked out how many days are in each month of the year and in a week. Then we had to work out how much it would cost to feed ONE penguin for a week, each month of the year and for the whole year. Mr Bamber and Miss Crystal then challenged us to work out how much it would cost to feed the penguin on our birthday! Year 4 showed super perseverance and growth mindset.
Reception- PE Throwing and Catching!
Date: 21st Feb 2023 @ 11:05am
The children in Reception have been learning how to throw and catch a ball using their hand eye coordination skills.
They worked together to throw the ball into a hoop, then they practised bouncing and catching it on their own and finally they had to throw a ball to each other .
Take a look at how we did!
Reception Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Date: 20th Feb 2023 @ 9:06pm
This week the children have been reading the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children have enjoyed using the props at the storytelling table to retell the story, using lego to build different sized chairs and beds, making bear faces using loose parts, labelling the characters in the story, drawing pictures and writing sentences about the story, painting and collaging bears at the creative area and completing lots of bear themed maths activities. What a busy week! Have a look at our super learning.
Date: 20th Feb 2023 @ 8:53pm
The children in Reception have been learning about the importance of understanding and exploring different emotions. We talked about how different situations can make us feel different ways like happy, sad, angry, scared or worried. We talked about how we can manage these emotions effectively including talking to trusted adults.
"I feel scared when its dark in my room. Mummy gives me cuddles" Emelia
:"I was worried on my first day at school" Lana-Rose
"When you get angry you can count to ten" Logan
We listened to different stories about friendships and discussed being kind to our friends and how it is importance to say sorry and forgive others. We also explored a range of different families and discussed in small groups how all families are diffeent but are all equally special. We drew pictures of our families and wrote sentence about why they are special to us!
Date: 20th Feb 2023 @ 8:42pm
The children in Reception have been learning about Luna New Year and how it is celebrated across the Uk and the world. The children enjoyed taking part in lots of different activities inclduing making lantern and dragons, reading the story of the 'New Year Animal Race' and role playing in the home corner. The children learnt why each year is named after different animals, how people prepared for the celebrations aswell as enjoying some different themed maths activities.
"People clean their houses ready for Luna New Year" Lelan
"They wear red clothes because they think it is a lucky colour" Kit
"People have a special meal with their family" Kazimir
"They have a big celebration with music and fireworks" Lennox
"Each year is named after a different animal. This year it is the year of the rabbit" Lana-Rose
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Date: 20th Feb 2023 @ 8:33pm
This week the children have been learning about different cultural celebrations including taking part in dragon dancing, The children watched some videos of different festivals and observed how the dragon moved to the music. During PE the children have been exploring different ways in which they can move their bodies to music. They worked together in groups to create their own dragon dances and performed them to the other children in the class.
Year 4 - The start of our Ancient Egyptian adventure
Date: 20th Feb 2023 @ 7:26pm
Today we started our Ancient Egyptians unit. First, we did our start of a new unit timeline flashback. We were given flashback cards for everything we have learned so far in History at Boundary and we had to put them in chronological order. We also went to look at where Ancient Egypt appears on the big timeline in the hall and we soon realised it is a HUGE period of time – around 2500 years. Next, we were given a placemat on our tables and together we noted down anything we already knew from the picture stimulus’. Then, we watched a video and did information runs in our table groups. These activities meant that we learned as many new things as we could about Ancient Egypt, spoke about them to peers on our desks and told the rest of the class. After that, we looked at an anachronism picture and we had to use the knowledge we had gained so far to spot the things wish were the odd ones out. Lastly, we went on an Ancient Egyptian Now, Press, Play adventure where we learned more about the afterlife and how pharaohs were preserved.
Date: 20th Feb 2023 @ 7:01pm
In Music this week we have focussed on using Chrome Music Lab to create our own piece of music. We had to create something that fits in with the theme of disco as this is what we have been listening to.
Date: 20th Feb 2023 @ 6:55pm
In our last History session we took part in a Viking themed Now Press Play session. The children learned about:
- Life in Viking Denmark: the Assembly, reasons for leaving Scandinavia, longships
- Raids on monasteries and the invasion of England
- Viking attacks on Wessex and resistance by Alfred the Great
- Viking religion and gods (such as Thor), and writing in runes
Year 6 - healthy relationships and consent
Date: 20th Feb 2023 @ 6:51pm
During our RSE week, we explored different relationships and the qualities we want others to have in order to be in a relationship with them. We also disucssed what makes an unhealthy relationship and what to look for when we get older. We finished the session by looking at what consent means and why we must always ask for consent before we touch someone else.
Date: 20th Feb 2023 @ 5:31pm
Today, we explored some existing toy cars and looked at how the cars moved. We discussed that the cars moved because they all had wheels and thought about why different sized vehicles have different sized/different amount of wheels. We then explored how the wheels are connected and learnt they are joined by an axle that ensures the wheels move together.
Date: 20th Feb 2023 @ 4:02pm
As part of RSE week, Year 6 have been learning about how the body changes as we go through puberty. We have explored the importance of communication in relationships and considered different ways in which people might start a family.
Nursery Try and Stop the Naughty Bus
Date: 20th Feb 2023 @ 10:08am
We have been reading a super story called "The Naughty Bus" all about a little red bus who gets himself in to all sorts of trouble! The chilldren have enjoyed making their own buses using chairs, painting pictures of buses and playing a bus counting game. We decided that the bus needed stopping so we made stop signs. The children worked hard writing the letter "s" and loved holding up their stop sighs for the naughty bus!
Date: 20th Feb 2023 @ 9:49am
The nursery children have shown a real interest in building over the last few weeks. They have worked together to build some amazing constructions and have worked as a team to build tall towers, ramps for cars and houses. The children were so good at solving problems that they only needed a little help from the adults - super work!
Date: 19th Feb 2023 @ 7:50pm
On the last day of Spring 1, we welcomed parents and carers into school so that the children could showcase everything they have learned during our Fit 2 Go course. From living a healthy lifestyle, to teeth health, as well as physical and mental health, the children showcased their work brilliantly. Four children from the year group won certificates for their fantastic efforts during Fit2Go. Well done everyone!
Date: 19th Feb 2023 @ 7:44pm
During the last week of Spring 1, we completed our RSE week activities. Together in our own classroom, we looked at what a lifecycle is and what it looks like for humans. We then began to discuss the stage of life Year 4 are entering into, which is puberty. Puberty can begin to start from the age of 8. We discussed changes that will happen to our bodies, for both the girls and the boys. Then we split into a girl group and a boy group. One group completed some activities about what healthy relationships are and who our trusted adults are and the other group learned about periods - then we swapped so that everyone learned about everything. Both the girls and the boys were really sensible and asked some really important questions. Well done Year 4!
Date: 20th Jan 2023 @ 10:13am
This week we have been learning about the prigins of 'Pride' month as part of our LGBTQ+ work. During 'No Pen Day', we had lots of discussions about what Pride month is and why it was first introduced. As part of Reading into Wriitng, we used what we have learned to write a non-chronological report. Here are our drafts - we are looking forward to completing our final piece of writing.
Reception- A Winter Wonderland!
Date: 20th Jan 2023 @ 10:01am
What a surprise! We woke up Tuesday morning to find everywhere had turned white- it had been snowing!
The children could not wait to go outside and explore the garden, mark making in the snow and making snow angels.
" It looks different- it's all white- snow is white!" Halliegh.
"Snow is cold... slippy..wet!" Kian.
"The sun is coming out ...the snow will melt and be water again because it is hot" William.
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Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 6:53pm
This week in PSHE we have been learning about how to keep safe in and around our home. We learnt and discussed what medicines are, when they should be taken and how they should be kept. We also talked about other substances that can be dangerous and poisonous in and around the home,
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 6:47pm
This week we enjoyed our DT day! We began by tasting lots of different fruits, talking about how we knew if certain foods are fruits or vegetables. We then moved on to designing our own fruit salad. We wanted it to be colourful, have at least four fruits in and to be cut up into bite sized pieces!
After creating our design, we then practised our cutting skills using play dough. We learnt how to use the bridge grip and the claw grip and once we had mastered the skills we moved onto making our fruit salad. We used the two cuts we had learnt to safely and sensibly prepare and make our individual fruit salad. We all enjoyed tasting them! Finally we completed our evaluation to identify what we liked about our design and what we might change if we were to make another fruit salad.
YEAR 5 - Animals (including Humans): Gestation Vs Lifespan
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 3:01pm
In our last Science lesson, we found out the meaning of the words 'gestation' and 'lifespan'. Pupils then drew a scatter-graph of several mammals to show their gestation length against their lifespan. Pupils correctly identified that, generally, the longer an animal's gestation, the longer its lifespan, and also that the animals with the longest lifespan were large mammals, such as elephants and whales. The only animal that did not fit this generalisation was humans - we hypothesised that this is because humans have knowledge of medicine and how to stay healthy, which helps us to live longer.
Year 3- Our Final Forest School Fun!
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 3:01pm
For our final forest school session, we had lots of fun outside in the mud. We learnt how to tie knots in order to build dens. We then made a fire and toasted marshmallows. They were yummy!
We also used our fire to warm up water and make hot vimto to warm us up. We can't wait for our next forest school fun in Summer!
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 2:54pm
This week, year 5 pupils have drafted, edited and presented informal letters in the role of a character from a story. We discussed how the character of Sam, from 'My Brother is called Jessica' by John Boyle, would be feeling about the changes that are going on in his family, and how his behaviour would impact on his brother and his parents. Pupils were challenged to include all the features of a letter, whilst using a tone, grammar and sentence structure that suited a letter written to a close relative.
Year 3- Stone Age to Iron Age Museum
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 2:52pm
In History, we were posed with the question 'What can we learn about life in the Stone Age?'. We answered this question by firstly studying Skara Brae. We looked at what has been discovered and we infered what that could tell us about life all those years ago.
We then moved on into our very own 'Boundary Stone Age to Iron Age Museum' where we were able to explore a varety of artefacts from the Stone Age. Once again, we infered what this could tell us so that we could build up a picture of life in the Stone Age.
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 2:42pm
Year 3 enjoyed a No Pen Morning and used their Reading into Writing lessons to put down their pens and use their voices! In Reading into Writing, we focused on stereotypes (in theme with our playscripts) and we debated the issues that were put forward. This has helped us in creating conversations for our play scripts. We thought about how we can develop conversations but asking questions and developed our listenign skills.
In Maths, we worked in pairs to practically do flexible partitioning. We used our grouping skills to divide numbers. We had to discuss how we were solving the questons and worked on justifying our answers.
