: Blog items
Date: 11th Jul 2023 @ 5:09pm
Date: 11th Jul 2023 @ 4:41pm
Over the last few weeks the children in Year 3 have been attending Little Big Book Club. We have watched an interview from authors, made our own books, created a recipe for a book and shared and discussed what we have enjoyed. The children and parents have thoroughly enjoyed this process and have learnt ways to talk about and appreciate books.
Date: 11th Jul 2023 @ 4:01pm
This week in French club we learned all about French cheeses. There are over 350 different types of cheese that originate from France and we tasted some of them this afternoon. All of the children enjoyed brie but the French goats cheese was not a favourite!.
Date: 11th Jul 2023 @ 2:18pm
Over the past two weeks, both Year 1 classes have been to visit the Blackpool Tower Circus! We had lots of fun watching the entertaining acts, including the acrobats, motorbikes and of course Mooky and Mr Boo!
Date: 11th Jul 2023 @ 7:53am
Last week we had our Heritage Day and learnt about our local area. In Year 3 we learnt about Fisherman’s Friend and how Doreen Lofthouse had a huge impact on ours and neighbouring towns. We learnt about the Lofthouse family, the history of the throat sweets and even tried some!
Date: 11th Jul 2023 @ 7:23am
Date: 10th Jul 2023 @ 10:22pm
This week on a rather rainy day, Reception harvested the peas they had grown in their outdoor area. They enjoyed eating them, counting the peas and calculating how many were left in the pod.
"The peas needed water to grow and the sun too" Lana- Rose.
"They taste yummy!" Halleigh.
"Peas are healthy for you- they are a vegetable".Harper.
"I had five peas. i ate one and had four left" Amelia.
Date: 10th Jul 2023 @ 1:36pm
We were so thrilled to be visited by author, James Harris on Friday 7th July. He conducted a whole school assembly where he talked about writing books and how he got into it. James grew up in seaside town, near Middlesbrough (just like Blackpool). James definitely inspired some of our aspiring young writers to follow in his footsteps and begin writing their own books.
Year 6 - It's Your Move Transition
Date: 10th Jul 2023 @ 9:46am
This morning, Year 6 had a visit from The Church Army who led a session about transition to secondary school. The children discussed what they would miss about being at Boundary and what they are looking forward to. We talked about the journey to school, meeting new friends, meeting new teachers and the challenges of completing more difficult work.
Date: 7th Jul 2023 @ 3:46pm
Today we were visited by children's author, James Harris. James entertained the whole school with a fantastic assembly and told us about himself and the books he has written. This afternoon, children in year 5 spend time with James and found out more about how he became a published author. We also used some of his methods to create interesting monsters, which we then made up stories about.
Date: 7th Jul 2023 @ 9:18am
Over the last few weeks we have been combining lots of movement into our Music Session and doing some dances to accompany the songs we have been learning. For World Music Day we learned the song Sanibonani from the Zulu Language which means 'Hello Good Day'. We talked about the African Jungle and selected jungle animals to dance in the style of to create our own dance routine. We started to sing some Seaside songs in preparation for our trip to the beach and acted like pirates! We have had lots of fun learning the lyrics and describing how the songs make us feel.
Date: 7th Jul 2023 @ 7:41am
Today our Forest School session was all about plants! We began by identifying plants around the area, looking closely at their leaves to help us. We then made our own transient flowers out of natural objects, planted seeds and small plants and used paint pens and charcoal to create drawings of flowers. By the end of our session we had found lots of different wild plants and garden plants, recapped on the parts of plants and the 5 things plants need to survive.
Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 1:42pm
At the start of today's lesson we used coloured beanbags to practise our French colours. This half term we have been looking at 'Goldilocks and The Three Bears' in French. Today, we used French dictionaries to translate parts of the story.
Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 12:21pm
We found a very sleepy bumble bee in our nursery garden this week. To help him get some energy back we gave him some sugar water and he was soon off flying again. The children showed a real interest in the bugs so we went on a big bug hunt around the nursery garden. We found grasshoppers, more bees and a little grass beetle. The children were so excited we're going to carry on exploring for bugs next week.
Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 12:06pm
As part of whole school Heritage Day, Nursery thought about what clothes they would wear to Stanley Park in the winter and in the summer. We talked about clothes that would keep us warm, clothes that would keep us cool and clothes that would protect us from the different elements. Have a look to see the clothes we chose.
Year 3- Brilliant branching database!
Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 8:28am
In Computing we have started learning about branching databases. We have looked at catogorising questions into ‘yes’ and ‘no’ questions. The children uses software to explore and build their own branching databases.
Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 8:21am
In Maths we have been looking at Shapes. In this lesson we looked at making and drawing regular polygons. We thought about the sides and vertices when making these shapes.
Date: 5th Jul 2023 @ 4:01pm
This week we celebrated heritage day where each year group has learnt about the History of different things in Blackpool. Year 2 explored the history of Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Both classes were excited to go to the pleasure beach where we learnt about how it came about, got it's name and looked at how the park has developed over time- some of us were shocked to learn that the flying machine is still there after being built and opened in 1904. Whilst we learnt about the history we also got a tour of the park and watched different rollercoasters thinking about how they work and what makes them exciting/scary. We used our knowledge and photos to create an inspiration page all about the Pleasure Beach and are incredibly grateful for the staff there who shared their expertise and knowledge. Lastly, we learnt about Amanda Thompson- one of the few females to be in the amusement park industry and she is carrying on family tradition of being the director.
Date: 4th Jul 2023 @ 2:19pm
WOW! We cannot believe the perseverance from Year 4 today. They have shown all their learning from the last few weeks to explore repeated codes to make shapes and pictures. The children used forward (FD), pen up (PU), pen down (PD), RT (right turn), LT (left turn) and repeat (repeat code) on Turtle Academy to create their shapes and images. Year 4 were able to recognise angles in shapes to input the correct right or left turn.
Date: 4th Jul 2023 @ 10:48am
Today for Heritage Day, we were given the question: How has Basil Newby influenced the LGBTQ+ community in Blackpool? To answer this, we looked at his life and how he became one of Blackpool's most successful entrepreneurs. This is due to him creating clubs and pubs that catered for the LGBTQ+ community. Basil owns and runs Funny Girls in town and we were visited by two of his employees, Alex and India. They gave us more background information about Basil and answered lots of questions that we had. We can't thank them enough for their time.
Date: 4th Jul 2023 @ 10:40am
For Boundary’s Heritage Day 2023, we were asked to answer the question, 'Why did Boundary become a popular tourist resort?' We discovered lots of interesting facts about our town's history, including that in the 1930s the town had over 10 million visitors per year! We presented our finding on a google slideshow and shared these with the rest of the school in an assembly.
Date: 4th Jul 2023 @ 10:29am
Our Reading into Writing journey this half term has been persuasive letters. We have explored the genre and read many examples in order to gather useful words and phrases. As a year group, we decided we would write a letter to Rishi Sunak to highlight the issues the world is facing with plastic pollution. We made sure that our writing was formal and we experimented with ambitious vocabulary. When we are finished, we are going to post our letters to Downing Street!
Date: 3rd Jul 2023 @ 9:23pm
During 'Health Week', Year 6 got to experience a brand new sport - wheelchair rugby. We all got to use a specially made wheelchair - these chairs have wheels that are titlted for speed and the front of the chair has a crash bar for when the wheelchairs bang into each other. We picked up quickly how to manoeuvre the chairs and how to bang into one another. As the session progressed, we learned how to take part in small team games, which included passing a rugby ball between players. We had a great time and left with an appreciation of how demanding the sport is!
Date: 3rd Jul 2023 @ 6:10pm
Today we explored the key question, 'how has the Blackpool Tower Circus changed?' We began by learning about the circus in the past, the year it opened, what acts performed there and how it looked. We looked at both photo evidence and posters, discussing what clues we could see that gave us information about the past. We then learnt about how the circus has changed over time and created a timeline of the promotional posters used. Finally we created our own posters for the present circus! We are also all looking forward to our circus trip as part of our Heritage learning!
Date: 3rd Jul 2023 @ 4:42pm
Health Week
Year 5 and 6 enjoyed spending time with coaches from Wigan Warriors who showed our pupils how to play wheelchair rugby. Pupils learnt how to control the wheelchairs and took part in a number of activities and drills before playing small sided games. Pupils also got the opportunity to ask coaches questions about the sport and how the sport came about.
