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Year 3 School Council Elections
Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 10:32am
Year 3 voted for their school council representatives. We discussed democracy and why it is important to our school and communitiy. The children presented their manifestos and we then voted. Congratulations to Jake and Alexander who were chosen to represent Year 3.
Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 10:29am
In Reading into Writing, we have started learning about diaries. Today we started our immersion into reading and read a variety of WAGOLLs. We idenitfied the main points of the texts and began to idenitfy the features that linked in the texts. We did this in pairs and then joined to make a four and share our findings.
Year 3's Trip to The Royal Ballet
Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 10:26am
Year 3 had a very exciting trip to The Globe Theatre to watch ballet. We were lucky enough to learn new moves and watch the students of The Royal Ballet School dance. We were also shocked when one of our students were picked to be lifted by a ballet dancer!
Year 6 school council elections
Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 8:54am
Today was our school council elections. We began the day by listening to the potential candidates reading out their manifestos - a speech that explains why people should vote for a particular candidate. Later on in the day, each child cast their vote for who they wanted to be the school council representative for Oak and Elder. This helped children to understand the British Value of Democracy.
The School Council Elections 2022
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 10:01pm
Following a whole school assembly, the School Council Elections 2022 officially began. Any child who wanted to run for School Councillor had the opportunity to write their manifesto, explain why they would make a good school councillor and then present it to their class.
After this process, which took determination, perseverance and a lot of bravery to stand up in front of their class, the school took to the polls. The votes were counted and verified and the results announced during a results assembly.
We are very proud of all our children who worked hard to write their manifesto, to listen patiently to their peers as they presented their ideas and then take part in a democratic and fair election process.
Congratulations to our new School Councillors!
Year 1 School Council Elections
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 7:29pm
This week in Year 1 we have taken part in our whole school councillor elections. We spent time thinking about what would make a good school councillor and the school characteristics a good councillor would show. Lots of children then delivered a manifesto in front of their peers and did a brilliant job! Throughout the week, we discussed the importance of Democracy and that we vote to ensure a fair result.
Year 1 are proud to announce their School Councillors for 2022/23 are:
Beech - Charlie
Hazel - Isaac
Well done everyone!
Year 4 School Council Elections
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 3:46pm
Today we voted for our school council representatives. We voted for one representative in Maple and one from Laurel. The children listened well to the candidates manifestos yesterday and were respectful when voting in the school hall today. Well done to the winners!
Year 2's First Forest School Fun!
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 3:39pm
Today, Year Two enjoyed their first Forest School session with Jenna and Michelle who had planned some fun activities for us. We began the session by completing some tasks for the Gruffalo finding things that lived in trees, near flowers and under logs linking our learning from yesterday to the fun. Then Michelle kindly read us the story of the Gruffalo and we were experts and could join in with parts of the story! Lastly, we were tasked with the mission of creating a nest for a bird of our choosing, thinking carefully about where we were going to place the nest and the materials we used. We had lots of fun linking our Science learning of living things and their habitats to our forest school fun and cannot wait for our next two sessions.
Year 2 School Council Elections
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 3:34pm
This week was Democracy week at Boundary and in Year Two lots of children stood infront of their peers and delivered a manifesto about why they would be a good school councillor thinking about our Always promises and charactertistics. The children all showed great respect, pride and bravery to deliver their manifesto and Miss Hooson and Miss Duckworth are incredibly proud of them all. Throughout the week, we discussed the importance of Democracy and appreciate that we vote to ensure a fair result.
Year Two are proud to announce their School Councillors for 2022/23 are:
Birch- Reggie
Elm- Emily
Well done everyone!
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 3:02pm
This has been a great week for Democracy at Boundary! We have voted in the hall after reading out our Manifestos in class. Our new Student Councillors are Harris for Hawthorn and Jethro for Rowan.
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 2:58pm
This half-term, children in year 5 have been learning how to write a biography. We have read biographies of several famous people including, Roald Dahl, Stormzy and Wayne Rooney, and identified the language and structural features that make them different to other text types. Follwing the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, pupils carried out research, planned, drafted and edited a biography of her life, before presenting a final, polished piece of writing.
Year 2 Exploring Microhabitats
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 7:58am
Today we explored different types of microhabitat. Once we had learnt what a microhabitat was, we went into the forest school area to search for microhabitats and hunted for minibeasts. We explored a range of microhabitats including under logs, in the soil, leaf piles, rocks and grass. When we found minibeasts we got very excited! Once we returned inside, we discussed how different minibeasts prefer different habitats and came up with adjectives to describe the habitats.
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 7:56am
Today we began to practice the skill of sewing because we had decided this was the best method to join our material together to make a puppet. We began by threading the cotton thread through the eye hole of the needle before carefully tying a knot at the end of the thread. Next, we began to practice our sewing focusing on a running stitch. We had to demonstrate lots of patience, determination and perseverance as it was quite difficult but we displayed a growth mindset and never gave up!
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 10:05pm
Nursery have enjoyed reading "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell. The story is all about three baby owls who worry that their mummy won't come back when she flies off to hunt for some food. Of course everything is ok and their Mummy comes back! The children have been doing lots of owl based activites in continuous provision including making playdough owl babies, making owls at the craft table, building nests for the owls, using tweezers to pull worms out of the mud and retelling the story using our beautiful Owl Babies tuff tray. As well as all of this, we have also been practicing counting to 3 by putting 3 owls on a branch.
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 9:31pm
To help to support gross and fine motor development, the children take part in daily Dough Disco and Squiggle While You Wiggle sessions. During Dough Disco, each child is given a piece of playdough and they then carry out a number of exercises with their fingers. There are lots of videos on YouTube for the children to follow, you could even try some out at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnpILg6I6Nk During Squiggle While You Wiggle, each child is given a pair of flappers (2 pieces of material) and the then carry out a sequence of moves that help to strengthen their arm and shoulder muscles and is the beginning of their journey in to becoming a writer. Have a look at the video to see how it's done! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W5KWnhWwzs&t=7s
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 12:16pm
Reception have been busy learning out new letters sounds in phonics. We have been working hard to orally segement simple words and then blend the sounds together. We are beginning to recognise some of our phase 2 sounds and trying our best to hear the initial sound and form the letter sound correctly using our letter rhymes..
' s s s sock" Alfie
"p p p penguin" Nikodem
"t-a-p it's tap" Lana-Rose.
"Around the astonaunts helment, down and out into space. It's a a" Michael
The children have been completing a range of different phonics activities in continuous provision. Have a look at some of our work!
Reception Rosie the hen went for a walk
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 12:05pm
Reception have been reading the story 'Rosie's Walk'. It is all about a little hen who goes for a walk around the farmyard. However, Rosie the hen isn't aware that she is being followed by a very sneaky fox. She goes all over the farmyard "around the pond' 'over the haystack' and 'under the beehives'. The fox gets himself into allsorts of trouble including falling into the pond and it finally ends in him being chased away by the bees.
The children have been using the props at the storytelling table to help them sequence the story and used the correct positional language. That have made their own story maps and have been trying hard to hear the initial sound in words e.g. f for fox and h for hen.
Outside the children made their own obstacle course for Rosie and enjoyed acting out the story together.
Year 6 - How did the Maya empire grow to be so successful?
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 11:42am
Our History lesson today involved looking at how the Maya managed to survive in jungle conditions for such a long period of time. We learned that they were skills at clearning large areas of woodland in order to create flat land. They also learned how to farm the land and when the best time to grow crops was. Over time, they were able to gather precious raw materials in order to sell and trade with other Maya states. In turn, as states grew powerful, they were able to attack and conquer neighbouring cities and claim their land.
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 11:28am
In Year 6 we have finished our first Reading into Writing journey - explanatory texts. We followed all the stages of the journey:
- Cold write
- Looking at a WAGOLL for features
- Immersion in Reading
- GPS linked to the genre
- Teacher model/Shared write
- Improving a WABOLL
- Plan
- Draft
- Edit
- Hot write
We produced some excellent writing for our first piece in Year 6. Our end piece of writing was to explain how to use a 'Teacher Pleaser' machine. We think our teachers would be very happy if they had a machine like the ones we invented!!
Year 4 - Fantasy setting descriptions
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 10:42am
This week, we have started our next writing journey. For the first few days, we will be immersing ourselves in examples of fantasy setting descriptions. The children have been brilliant at picturing what the setting descriptions have been describing.
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 9:23am
In year 4 this year, we are really focusing on handwriting. We are doing handwriting lessons daily to try and help improve the children's handwriting. We are mainly focusing on letter formation, but we are also pushing the children to write the neatest they can and not to rush. You will notice when the children bring their spelling homework home each week, there is an opportunity for them to practise their handwriting with their spellings.
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 8:04am
Year 6 - Partitive Articles in French
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 7:36am
In this week’s French lesson, Year 6 have continued their French grammar unit. We started the lesson by recapping on French vowel sounds and numbers to 50 before reminding ourselves of the definite and indefinite articles we learned about in the last couple of lessons. We then went on to learn about partitive articles – the French word for ‘some’. Did you know there are four different words for 'some' in French? A different word is used for nouns that are masculine, feminine, plural and those that begin with a vowel or the letter h. We continued to work with French dictionaries to find the gender of nouns.
Year 5 Exploring mountains of the UK through Maps
Date: 27th Sep 2022 @ 7:29pm
We have been looking at the atlases to find the Mountain ranges of the UK and the highest peaks in the 4 countries. We practised a loop card game and continued to learn through the use of Kahoots quiz!
Date: 27th Sep 2022 @ 7:24pm
As we continue our unit Dancing Through the Ages, we have looked at some common dance moves from the HipHop genre and created our own motifs in time to the music. We tried to work at different levels, in unison and in canon so that we could add some interesting dynamics to the dance routine. We had to negotiate and work together as a team to create our motif and perform it to the rest of the class.
