Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC): Blog items
Boundary Budding Stars round-up!
Date: 24th Mar 2023 @ 1:07pm
After running so many amazing clubs this year, we hosted our first Boundary Budding Star's Showcase evening where pupils from across school performed.
Talented pupils from Reception to Year 6 showed us their skills in drama, dance and song with Ballet Club, Bollywood, Schools Alive, Samba and Choir all performing brilliantly. Year 5 showed us their Tempest performance from the Grand Theatre and Key stage 1 music Club sang too.
Thank you to all our wonderful children for taking part and for the support and encouragement of their parents and carers!
Date: 24th Mar 2023 @ 11:22am
On Thursday all the children fully embraced a whole school art day. From Nursery to Year 6 you could hear the sound of paper being ripped and cut as the children created collages of different things you can find in their home town of Blackpool. From transport in Year 3 to famous landmarks in Year 5, from trees and flowers in Year 1 to collaged signs in Year 6. The children have created some superb pieces of artwork and these are all going to be displayed together to create a whole school mural.
Key Stage 2 Boccia Team - Regional Finals!
Date: 24th Mar 2023 @ 9:02am
Congratulations to our Key Stage 2 Boccia Team who yesterday travelled to Greenbank Sports Academy in Liverpool to compete in the KS2 Boccia Regional Finals!
Reception Willow Class Forest School
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 8:21pm
This week Willow Class have been busy outside enjoying Forest School!
Although the weather was rainy and it was extremely muddy, the children had a fabulous time. The children spent some of the session talking about spring and spotting some of the sign of spring outside. These included finding new plants growinf like daffodils, finds blossom on the tress and finding some birds nests in the trees. The children were even lucky enough to find some frog spawn in the ponds. We talked about how the frog spawn would change into tadpoles in the coming weeks.
"In spring blossom grows on trees" Lana-Rose
"Baby lambs are born in spring" Logan
"The days get longer and warmer" Alfie
"Leaf buds grown on trees" Noor-Fatima
"Daffodils grow outside" Albie
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 8:16pm
Over the past few weeks the children in Reception has been learning about Space. The children have taken part in lots of space activities in the classroom including counting moon rocks, reading books about space, making rockets out of recycled materials, using 2D shapes to make rockets and using small world characters to create their own narratives. We read the story 'Whatever Next' and used the props and pictures at the story telling table to retell and sequence the story correctly. As a class we explored what the moon would been like if we visited it, comparing it to Earth. We explored what it was like when Neil Armstorng landed on the moon and why it is important to wear the correct clothing. We talked about how the mooon orbits the Earth and how and why it changed shape in the sky. We also explored the different planets in the solar system and found out which were the closest and furthest from the sun.
"The Earth has land and water on it. That's why it's blue and green" Alfie
"Mercury is the closest to the sun" Kit
"The Earth has one moon and it goes round it" Skylor
"The moon is made of rock and it has lots of crators in it" Logan
The children produced some lovely pieces of non-fictiion writing all about space.
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 8:16pm
Over the past few weeks some of the children from Reception have been attending ballet club. They have been working extremly hard to practice their ballet dance to the music 'Sugar Plum Fairy'. The children listened carefully, worked as a team and demonstrated lots of our Boundary characteristics. The made sure they pointed their toes and moved elegantly in time to the music. The children performed their dance at our Boundary Budding Stars event infront of approximately 120 parents and carers. They did a very a fantastic job. We are very proud of each and every one of them.
Year 4 - Threats to living things
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 1:53pm
After flashing back to recap the five vertebrates we have been learning about, we started to look at how these living things habitats are under threat. Each table was given an area to research, then they presented their findings to the rest of the class.
We researched:
- Urbanisation
- Pollution
- Deforestation
- Natural disasters
Date: 21st Mar 2023 @ 4:43pm
Today, we continued our wheels and axles unit by practicing our marking our skills ensuring we measured our lines accurately to ensure it would fit on our vehicle. Also, we practiced accurately and neatly cutting out our markings ready to be stuck on our vehicle. We are looking forward to beginning building our moving vehicles next week!
Key Stage Choir perform at Choir of the Year!
Date: 21st Mar 2023 @ 7:55am
Date: 20th Mar 2023 @ 5:24pm
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 4:22pm
Today we celebrated the achievements of Lola and Callum, some of our KS2 Drummers. They achieved Blackpool Music school Medals in Gold and Silver for their committment and learning in drumming. They attend weekly Peri lessons in school and we are very proud of them! Well done!
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 3:01pm
Today in Music, Year Two continued to explore the key question 'How does Music make the world a better place?' by exploring different instruments and songs. We practised singing the songs I am the music man and hands, feet, heart as well as comparing different music from around the world. Lastly, we listened carefully to different instruments playing and had to identify the instrument it came from.
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 2:52pm
Date: 15th Mar 2023 @ 12:01pm
Today, we continued our measuring journey by practicing measuring in metres. We discussed appropriate things to measure using a metre ruler before going outside and using our ruler to mark 1m, move the ruler along and measure another metre for longer objects.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 4:20pm
Today, alongside the whole school we celebrated Science Day with our theme of Space and year two were tasked with learning about the sun. We begun the day by watching videos about the sun and learnt lots of facts including: it would take 20 years to fly to the sun from Earth, the sun is the centre of the solar system, Earth orbits the sun and completes 1 full orbit every year and the sun is actually a star made up of gases. We recorded our information on strips of card and stuck them down as sun rays beaming out of our big sun in the middle. Next, we used our new knowledge of obitting to model how the Earth orbits the sun and the moon orbits the Earth and learnt it takes 28 days for the moon to orbit the Earth- our models also helped us imagine the size difference between the sun, moon and Earth. The excitement continued as we visited the space wonder dome exploring stars, the sun, the moon and all the other planets which we named. We also were fully immersed and amazed by exploring what it would look like and feel like in space. During the afternoon, we got more creative listening to two pieces of space themed music- the final countdown as well as Holst Venus and appraised them. We also thought about the similarities and differences between the two pieces of music. Lastly, we ended our exciting day by creating our own sun art using different techniques including pointilism to complete our paintings.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 12:53pm
Today in music we were listening to some songs about animals ready for our trip to the Zoo. We played the glockenspiel to the Big Bear Funk which was lots of fun and started to think about how to play the notes nicely. We sang the song Lets go to the Zoo and did the actions.
Year 2 Exploring free and fixed axles
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 1:28pm
We investigated different types of axles - fixed axles and free axles to see if they were different. We found that the free axles moved faster and they were able to turn . The fixed axles were slower and they could only travel in straight lines.
Year 5 - RSC: Sandgrown Shakespeare
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 9:42am
We are very proud of the Year 5 children who performed in the Sandgrown Shakespeare show at The Grand Theatre on Tuesday night- Eviee's artwork even took pride of place on the front cover of the program!
Well done to all who took part - please see the Year 5 blog for more pictures!
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: 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 @ 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 @ 11:37am
Shane Hegarty author visits Boundary!
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 11:32am
Date: 28th Feb 2023 @ 3:58pm
Today was the first day of our new art journey. This unit focuses on activisim and looks at how to use words and images to create strong messages. Today we discussed what activism is and words associated with it. We then created a double-page spread linked to what we had been discussing.
