PSHE & RSE: Blog items
Date: 5th Nov 2021 @ 3:48pm
October was Black History month, and in Year 5 we enjoyed finding out about promenent Black muscians from the past. This linked with our learning in Music, where we were listening to, and making observations about Motown music from the 1960s and 1970s. In our writing journey, we researched the singer and musician, Stevie Wonder, and wrote a historical narrative about his amazing life. As part of our guided reading sessions, we read about other famous Black people who have had an impact on the world; Sislin Fay Allen, Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela.
Date: 1st Nov 2021 @ 9:26pm
In Reception, it's not only our teachers who help us- there are lots of other people at school who help us too.
Mrs Bunday, Deputy Head Teacher, Mrs Jones- Boast, School Business Manager and Mr Galloway and Mr Harding, the Premises Team all visited us and explained what their role was within school. At the end of the week, we went to the dance studio and took part in the activity 'Now Press Play' all about 'People Who Help Us'. Here, we listened to a story, using head phones, followed the instructions to act out a narrative- such good fun!
Take a look at some of our memories from the week.
Date: 22nd Oct 2021 @ 2:20pm
Date: 22nd Oct 2021 @ 12:50pm
While black history is celebrated year round, Black History Month is marked annually. It recognises and values the inspirational individuals and events that have shaped the black generation. During Black History Month, we remember and celebrate the important people from the past and also those who contribute to and help our society today.
Alongside shared class books highlighting the work and impact of Black people, the month of October began with an assembly to introduce the themes of Black History Month and its importance for us all. Classes have woven some significant figures from Black History into a range of lessons including Reading into Writing:
EYFS and Year 1 – People around the world
Year 2 – Rosa Parks
Year 3 – Mary Seacole
Year 4 – Sporting achievements
Year 5 – Influential musicians
The children's work will be displayed on specially designed black and gold post boxes that will feature, as in previous years, in prominent positions throughout school as we share our learning with other classes and visitors to Boundary.
Date: 21st Oct 2021 @ 7:48pm
Today Year 1 experienced the musical delights of Travelling By Tuba! During the morning show we watched Stewart and Chris perform different musical intruments and pieces from around the world. It was a very entertaining tour around the world, which we all very much enjoyed! We then took part in a workshop where we had the oppourtunity to play some of the musical instruments. Our workshop involved creating a piece of music to a Brazillian Samba! Our day ended in a musical performance where we shared our learning with our audience!
Blackpool School's OAA Competition
Date: 21st Oct 2021 @ 11:02am
School Council Meeting 19th October
Date: 20th Oct 2021 @ 7:11pm
This week we all met to discuss the results of which charities we are going to support. The councillors had met with their class and had taken notes of what was their most popular charity- some even had to exercise a democratic vote to achieve a fair result.
After exchanging their ideas, the school council reached a decision.
Local Charity- Donna's dream House
National Charity- The British Heart Foundation
International Charity- Water Aid.
Date: 19th Oct 2021 @ 7:25pm
Today we enjoyed our first Now Press Play session in Year 1! Our experience today was all about the United Kingdom. We put on our headphones and we we're on a school trip to Buckingham Palace, where we met the Queen! However, something very strange was going on and the Queen was behaving very strangely! When we discovered the real Queen in the basement we went on a mission across the UK to foil her imposter and save the Queen!
Date: 19th Oct 2021 @ 12:21pm
Year 5 have had a great 6 weeks of football coaching in PE, delivered by our local FA qualified coach. In our final lesson this week we were playing small-sided, competitive matches on the MUGA. To be successful pupils had to use the skills that they have learned over the course of the unit: controlling the ball, dribbling, defending and shooting. As we were playing as a team, pupils also had to work together to attack and defend as team, and support others to win the match. Pupils developed their tactical awareness, developing tactics to beat the other team by scoring and defending. Everyone enjoyed this, and has made progress with their football skills and their tactical awareness in games. A big 'thank you' to Mr Williams for supporting our learning this half-term.
Date: 15th Oct 2021 @ 4:06pm
During Black History Month, Year 5 have been given the topic of 'Influential Musicians' to research and create work about.
Over the past week, we have looked at numerous Black musicians, including: Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin and Martha and the Vandellas. We have had so much fun singing and dancing to their songs, but had even more fun writing about them.
We have been planning our historical narrative around Stevie Wonder so we spent a lesson researching his life.
Year 3 and 4 Multi-skills Festival 2021
Date: 15th Oct 2021 @ 3:00pm
Our Year 3 and 4 children took part in the Blackpool Schools Games Multi Skills Festival at Stanley park. They had great fun whilst performing their traveling, sending and receiving skills in a variety of different games.
Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 4:45pm
As part of Black History Month, Year Two have been finding out about the amazing Rosa Parks. We found out about her life and how she was treated as a black person living in Alabama in the 1950's. We learned about how Rosa's actions sparked the 'Bus Boycott', which in turn helped to bring about a change in equality laws. We made links between her actions and our character curriculum and we discussed how she was brave, resilient, courageous, self-controlled and a great leader.
Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 4:17pm
Over this half term Year two have been learning about ways to keep ourselves healthy. We have been learning about how sleep, excercise, a balanced diet and looking after our mental wellbeing are all important parts of staying healthy. This week our focus was on hygiene. We took part in a little experiment where we covered our hands in glitter to represent how bacteria can spread so easily if we do not wash our hands properly. We also practsied a good hand-washing regime.
Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 10:32am
In Reading into Writing we were being immersed into a variety of diaries and we were on a mission to find features! We were all given a label and we were the chief finder of our feature. We did a great job and we are looking forward to writing our own diaries soon, inspired by Mary Seacole.
Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 10:26am
In PSHE we have been looking at a variety of feelings, reasons for our feelings and way to manage them. We then went on to looking at how our actions can affect others and make their feelings change.
First School Council Meeting 12th October
Date: 13th Oct 2021 @ 8:33pm
The school councillors met on Tuesday for the very first time since being elected. After introducing themselves, they began to eagerly discuss ideas they had about their first task. Each councillor had the task of determining what charities the school would support over the next year. A meeting to discuss these results will be held next week.
Date: 13th Oct 2021 @ 9:26am
Today in Science we made our very own sensory bottles using a range of colourful and textured objects. We recapped the five senses and how our senses help us explore the world and keep us safe. We linked our learning to World Mental Health Day and identified objects we wanted to add to create a sensory bottle to convey a certain emotion. Children classified the items into sensory groups and thought about how different items and colours might make people feel.
Boundary's Football Team - Back in Action
Date: 13th Oct 2021 @ 9:13am
As part of the EFL Kids Club / Blackpool FC Community Trust Partnership, our school team played in their first tournament with other local schools (for what seems like years...and it has been!) this week. They were able to reach the semi finals after topping the group with 5 wins and 1 draw. Unfortunately we were beaten in the semi finals but it was great to be back in action.
Well done to all who took part, we are very proud of you all!
Date: 11th Oct 2021 @ 7:17am
This week we took part in No Pen Day! This included doing our normal lessons but in a slightly different way... with no pens! Some people might think this is hard, but in Year 5, we rose to the challenge!
During Reading into Writing, we annotate a historical narrative using typed features and gluing them down and in Maths, we completed another tri-jigsaw (to do with addition and subtraction, our current topic). During PSHE we took paert in an activity where we tested how far sneezes and coughs go by using a water sprayer, and finally in Geography we had a research lesson about rivers. The research lesson allowed children to find out what they wanted about rivers, and some children even found rivers from their home countries that they didn't know about.
A great day was had by all in Year 5.
Date: 5th Oct 2021 @ 7:01pm
After reading the story 'Little Red Hen', Reception decided to bake their own bread but, unlike the story, they all helped each other to do it. Once it had baked in the oven, they all sat down and enjoyed eating their bread together.
They talked about the different ingredients in bread and why they were using a recipe. They discussed how the wheat grew and was then cut and ground at the mill where it turned into flour. All children mixed and kneaded the dough and, after sharing the bread to eat, many of them wanted another piece!
'It tastes warm" Mercedes.
"It is the best bread ever- so crunchy and then soft!" Charlie
'It's yummy!" Amelia
Date: 5th Oct 2021 @ 3:55pm
Today we put the pens down and used our communication and listening skills to get through the day! In Maths, we used cereal to practise our Key Instant Recall Facts and found different ways to make numbers up to 20. We also completed some speaking and listening games and tested out our memory.
To finish off the day we found ourselves being secret agents in Paris. We learnt basic French greetings and destroyed the bad guy!
A day with no pens.....but plenty of discussion!
Date: 5th Oct 2021 @ 3:38pm
Tuesday 5th October was No Pen Day. Pens and pencils were removed from tables and we had a whole day of discussion, problem solving and debate. The aim of the day was to improve our communication skills. We started by working in groups to solve mental maths problems, before moving on to talk about the slave trade as part of Black History month. We considered various dilemmas, talked about how to control infection in PSHE and debated the importance of various foods in our History lesson on the Mayan civilisation.
Date: 4th Oct 2021 @ 2:33pm
On Thursday 30th September, it was our school council election day. Candidates from Year 6 presented their maifestos to the rest of the class, outlining the characteristics that made them a suitable candidate and how they would help to improve the school. We discussed democracy and how it is one of the British values, before voting in a secret ballot in the hall. Congractulations to Tilly and Emily, who were been elected as school councillors for Elder and Oak classes.
Date: 1st Oct 2021 @ 4:44pm
On Thursday, alongside the rest of School, Year 2 participated in Election Day. Throughout the week, children from both classes presented a manifesto to their peers before an anonymous vote was made in the hall. We also had a special Election Day dinner and discussed democracy and it's importance.
Miss Duckworth and Miss Hooson were proud of all the children for participating and congratulating their winners who are:
Elm - Miya
Birch - Elsie
Well done girls!
Date: 1st Oct 2021 @ 4:25pm
This week we have been electing our school councillors! We have had a great week in Year 4 prepping our manifestos and perfecting our speeches. We learned all about democracy and what makes up a good manifesto. Lots of our little politicians across Year 4 entered the running for school councillor, wrote fantastic manifesto's and presented them in front of the class! We then got our ballot papers, and took them into the hall where our very own voting station had been set up! Well done to Layla and Lucas on your new appointments!
