Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC): Blog items
Date: 9th Jan 2023 @ 3:56pm
Today, we began our Design Technology food journey by fruit tasting so we are aware of the fruits we like and dislike before designing and making our own healthy fruit snack. We tried lots of different fruits including: blackberries, strawberries, mango, pineapple, pears, bananas, kiwi and apples. We realised we all enjoyed different fruits for different reasons and used adjectives to describe each fruits texture and taste.
Date: 9th Jan 2023 @ 3:46pm
This week, the whole School is taking part in Road Safety Awareness week. We begun the week with an assembly by Miss Moyes thinking about all the people that use the roads and pavements and all the things that are in place to keep us safe whilst using them. We then thought about how we need to take responsibility for our own safety and explored some of the ways we could do this. In Year Two, we today explored safe and unsafe places to cross a road; we learnt that it is not safe to cross in between cars or diagonally and where possible we need to use pedestrian crossings with traffic lights or a zebra crossing.
KS2 - Blackpool Schools Football Tournament
Date: 9th Jan 2023 @ 2:08pm
This morning our KS2 boys football team took part in the Blackpool Schools Football Tournament, which they qualified for before Christmas. The rescheduled event saw all schools from Blackpool take part in a couple of fixtures to determine who would go on to represent Blackpool at the finals on Friday.
As always, our Boundary boys put on a great show of character, determination and although they didn't qualify for the final, they came away smiling after a spirited performance.
Well done to all KS2 boys involved in today's event, you've done your school proud!
Date: 6th Jan 2023 @ 2:46pm
This half term we will be completing our Fit2Go programmes with Blackpool Football Club Community Trust. The programme consists of a practical lesson and a theory lesson. Each week there is a different theme to the week.
Week one: Healthy lifestyles
Week two: The Eat Well Guide
Week three: Physical activity
Week four: It's all about balance
Week five: Snacks and label reading
Week six: Teeth and hydration
For our theory about healthy lifestyles this week, we looked at what we need to stay healthy. For example, 9-11 hours sleep, drink water and a balance of foods from different food groups. Then for our practical we did some warm ups and then played dodgeball.
Year 2 Where in the world am I?
Date: 6th Jan 2023 @ 7:34am
This half term in Year Two, we will be exploring the world by looking at the worlds continents and oceans. We began our learning journey by exploring where in the world we are focusing on key vocabulary: house, street, village, town, city, county, country, continent and hemisphere. We learnt what each of these words meant and used Google Earth to explore the places further. We began looking at the world and kept zooming in until we reached our School. We know know we are in the Northern hemisphere and we live in the county Lancashire. We are looking forwards to continuing our learning journey further in the coming weeks.
Date: 5th Jan 2023 @ 3:37pm
Today was our first Forest School Session! Although it was very rainy and muddy, we had lots of fun thinking about the new Year. We played Robins and Frost Sprites, a game of hide and seek, to think about how the frost comes in winter and we made wands/staffs to warn off the cold of winter and keep the light shining in our hearts throughout this period of time. The children had great fun despite their muddy clothes!
Year 4 Emile Timestable World Cup Update!
Date: 5th Jan 2023 @ 11:37am
We are so proud to share that 10 Boundary children came in the top 100 out of over 250,000 children from across the country who took part in the Emile Timestable World Cup with one child coming in the TOP 50!
Year 4 have been working hard on their times tables, improving their knowledge, recall and application skills and their hard work is really beginning to show in the classroom and in competitions like this! Well done Year 4!
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 1:49pm
Everyone had such a great time dancing, singing and playing party games!
Children took turns playing pass the parcel and were even visited by Father Christmas who gave each child a present!
School Council- Raising money for Brian House
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 1:26pm
Christmas Jumper Day was a great way to raise money for one of the School Council's charities. Every child paid £1 and all the proceeds were sent to Brian House.
Watch this space for more fund raising events!
Date: 15th Dec 2022 @ 7:36pm
Today, Year Two took part in a Primary Futures event called 'Who's line is it anyway?'. We met three different people who all had Christmas jobs and we had to guess what their job was from the clues they gave. We met a range of interesting people including: Pia the Christmas decorator, Sarah the theatre director and Shaun the chef at Buckingham Palace. Finally, there was a surprise mystery guest who surprised the children.
Date: 15th Dec 2022 @ 11:01am
What a successful end to our Enterprise this half term!
Date: 15th Dec 2022 @ 10:23am
Nursery put on a super performance at out annual Christmas Sing-along. The children worked so hard to learn a selection of Christmas songs, learnt how to sign along to "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and used a variety of instruments to accompany the songs. It was lovely to see so many parents and grandparents at the sing-along and they even enjoyed a tasty mince pie at the end of the performance.
Date: 15th Dec 2022 @ 8:06am
In Reception we have been learning about special times. We have celebrated Diwali by learning lots about Hindu and Sikh traditions, including how they prepare their homes and where they go to pray. We also made and painted diya lamps, created rangoli patterns, took part in some traditional dancing and tried on some of the traditional clothing and jewellery.
In Year 1 we have been answering the key question, ‘why is Jesus special to Christians?’ We have learnt how new life is celebrated, why we should give babies love and care and why we should help others who cannot help themselves. We have also completed lots of work around the nativity story. We have sequenced and retold the story, talked about the important roles of the characters and the important message. We also went on a trip to St Marks church where we impressed Reverend Mathew with all our knowledge about Christianity so far.
Year 2 have been exploring the key question ‘why do Christians say that Jesus is the light of the world?' After discussing the Christian story and exploring different lights we began exploring Christingle. We learnt that Christingles are a symbol of advent and were taught what each part of a christingle symbolism is.
Year 3 have been looking at Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). We have looked at what a good role model is and why Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is important to Muslims. We read a range of stories surrounding the prophet and focussed on which characteristics he demonstrated and how this made him a role model. As a class we looked at the third pillar of Islam Zakat, and considered how we could be charitable in our own lives.
In Year 4, we have been learning about Hinduism and how Hindus live their lives. We learnt all about the story of Rama and Sita and how this story can help Hindus live a good life in today’s society. Through the story, we learnt that displaying positive characteristics in life will always put you on the right track.
Year 5 have been learning about where Muslims find guidance and why the Qur'an is an important part of their lives. We then looked at where we find guidance and what or who supports us.
Year 6 has been learning about Hinduism. We have explored the 4 Ashramas (stages of a Hindu's life), reincarnation and the Sacred Thread ceremony. The children have been reflecting on their own lives and have planned their own ceremony for when they leave primary school.
Date: 14th Dec 2022 @ 12:10pm
Over the last few weeks the children have been learning about why Christians celebrate Christmas. We have been using figures at the storytelling table to retell the the Christmas story. The children have been working hard to perfect their performance of the Wriggly Nativity. They sang the songs beautifully and acted out what happend with confidence. Well done Reception, we are very proud of you!
Date: 14th Dec 2022 @ 11:57am
Reception have enjoyed wearing our Christmas Jumpers to raise money for our local charity Brian House. The children had a great day and were even lucky enjoy to enjoy a traditional Christmas Dinner with their friends. They pulled crackers, listened to festive music and wore our party hats. What a fabulous time they had!
Date: 14th Dec 2022 @ 7:55am
Today in French we developed our dictionary skills by looking up the items of clothing that Father Christmas wears. We worked in pairs to find the vocabulary and labelled Pere Noel!
Date: 13th Dec 2022 @ 7:09pm
Year 1 have been enjoying all the Christmas activities around school over the past few weeks! We had lots of fun on Christmas jumper day where we also enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch!
Date: 13th Dec 2022 @ 7:03pm
Today we took part in the Now Press Play Christmas story. We played lots of different central figures including: the Angel Gabriel, Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, the innkeepers, shepherds and wise men. The experience took us through the main events of the story and the main places to understand that Jesus’ birth was – and is – important to many people.
‘The Angel Gabriel delivered very important news to Mary’
‘The wise men brought presents to Jesus to show respect and love’
‘Mary and Joseph travelled to Bethlehem. It was a very long journey and they were tired. The donkey was tired too!’
Reception- One Cold and Frosty Morning ...
Date: 12th Dec 2022 @ 10:00pm
The children in Reception were very excited to explore the outside area where they found ice in the most unusual places!
Water left in buckets, trays, and bowls had frozen over night as the temperatures fell. They chatted together about how the ice had formed, why it was wet, slippy and turning into water.
"It is very cold and the water in the bucket turned to ice" Clio.
"It feels wet and slippy" Phoebe.
"Look! Water...the ice is melting and turning into water" Miley.
"The sun is melting it because it is hot" Lennox.
"
Date: 12th Dec 2022 @ 4:01pm
During this Primary Futures video, we looked at different festive careers. The Children met Katie the brand manager of a wrapping paper company, Jason the craftsman at Buckingham Palace, Andrew and Jane the Christmas tree grower and decoration shop owner and Oliver the warehouse manager for Crisis Christmas centres supporting vulnerable people experiencing homelessness.
Key Stage 2 Boccia Competition
Date: 12th Dec 2022 @ 12:00pm
This morning saw 6 of our KS2 pupils visit Blackpool Sixth Form to take part in the School Games Boccia Competition. Boccia is a game designed for all, where pupils sit down and take turns throwing balls towards a target. To score points, you must get as close as you can to the jack (white ball), against an opposition.
Not only did our pupils represent Boundary with fantastic behaviour and respect, they finished first place in the competition, meaning they will now go on to represent Blackpool in the School Games finals in February 2023! A massive well done to all who took part, a great display of concentration, skill and effort!
Date: 12th Dec 2022 @ 9:46am
In preparation for our christmas fair on Wednesday the children in Year Three have been busy learning all about enterprise. We decided to make reindeer hot chocolates that we are going to sell. We worked as part of a team to make them, filling the bags, adding marshmallows and decorating the outside to make the best product to sell.
Date: 8th Dec 2022 @ 4:10pm
It's been all sparkles and magic in nursery as we begin the count down to Christmas! we've been making Christmas cards, writing letters to Santa, making snow monsters out of playdough and christmas candy canes using pipe cleaners and beads. We've even been helping Santa wrap all the presents in the Elf workshop! As well as all this, we all wore our Christmas jumpers and had a Christmas disco! All that and there's still one more week to go!
Year 5 French learning As tu un animal?
Date: 8th Dec 2022 @ 1:16pm
This half term we have been learning in French how to talk about animals. We have improved our pronunciation of the animals, asked questions, introduced the characters and said if our animals have a name. We have also learned the negative 'Je ne pas' and started to use the connective but 'mais' to explain different examples. We did some excellent listening tasks too!
Reading into Writing so far this half-term...
Date: 8th Dec 2022 @ 12:14pm
