Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC): Blog items
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.
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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
Date: 8th Dec 2022 @ 11:53am
We looked at the following 'I can...' statements:
I can explain the difference between a ‘belief’, an ‘opinion’ and a ‘fact and can give examples of how and where they might be shared online,
I can explain that not all opinions shared may be accepted as true or fair by others
I can describe and demonstrate how we can get help from a trusted adult if we see content that makes us feel sad, uncomfortable, worried or frightened.
We even practised using our oracy skills using our ABC statements!
Date: 8th Dec 2022 @ 11:17am
This year for our enterprise task we have been making and preparing 'Reindeer Food' for Christmas Eve and Sweet Bags for the Christmas festivities. We spoke about what enterprise means and understood that we were making things to be sold. The 'Reindeer Food' and Sweet Bags will be sold at the school Christmas Fair next Wednesday!
Date: 6th Dec 2022 @ 12:34pm
As the final part of our 'Reading into Writing' journey, we have peer assessed our writing. We have been learning about stories from other cultures and this week pupils wrote their own Aborigional Dreamtime story. Today, pupils worked together to assess whether they had been successful in including all of the features from this text type.
Date: 5th Dec 2022 @ 9:05pm
To finish our Animals including Humans Science unit this half term we looked at food chains. We mainly focused on looking at producers, prey and predators. We knew that predators were at the top of the chain, but we soon discovered that some predators are really at THE top and are no other animal's prey. These are called apex predators.
Date: 5th Dec 2022 @ 7:04pm
This week we were lucky enough to visit St Mark’s Church. We met Reverend Matthew and told him everything that we have leant about Christianity so far. Reverend Matthew then read the nativity story to us and we all joined in with different parts. He taught us about the key messages in the story and the roles of different characters. We then learnt about the advent wreath and the symbolism of the different candles. Finally we looked around the church and asked and answered lots of questions about features of the church.
‘The pink candle on the wreath is for Mary’
‘The white candle is for Jesus and it is lit on Christmas Day’
‘The font is where Christians baptise a baby to welcome them into the Church family’
‘Matthew, Mark, Luke and Josh are the four gospels’
‘Christmas is about Jesus being born, not just presents!’
Year 5 - Aspirational Scientists
Date: 5th Dec 2022 @ 4:21pm
As part of our learning journey in science, we have learned about Sally Ride, who became the first American woman in Space when she was part of the Challenger Shuttle crew in 1983. Pupils found out about her life, before using their literacy skills to write a biography about this amazing person. As a child, Sally Ride was a star pupil and outstanding tennis player. She has degrees in physics and English, and helped design the Challenger Shuttle's 'arm' which was used in space. After working for NASA, Sally was a professor at the University of California, wrote children's books about science, and started a school program to encourage children, especially girls, to become scientists. After her death in 2012, Sally's sister revelled that she had been in a same-sex relationship with a fellow scientist, and had sadly felt that she needed to keep it a secret for 27 years to protect her career.
Date: 5th Dec 2022 @ 4:19pm
Today, Year Two began celebrating Christmas by wearing Christmas jumpers and tucking into a delicious Christmas dinner. We ate whilst listening to Christmas music and enjoyed pulling our crackers to reveal a joke and a toy. It really has begun to put everyone in the Christmas spirit and we are looking forward to the KS1 disco later this week! Well done everyone for your effort raising money for Brian's House!
Date: 5th Dec 2022 @ 3:37pm
Amazing news coming out of Year 4 - we have won our Fylde Coast and Lancashire League for the mile Timestable World Cup and we are now through to the National finals!
The Nationals will commence over the coming days, so please support your Year 4 child in practising as much as they can to get Boundary to the top once again!
Date: 2nd Dec 2022 @ 1:33pm
During Music in Year 5 we have been learning lots about the musical vocabulary and how to use it to describe the pieces of music we listen to. We have been composing on Charanga as well as on the musical score using crotchets, minims and quavers. We did a Menti quiz to see what we had learned and began to practise playing Deck the Halls for Christmas on the Glockenspiels.
Year 3 Listening and performing in Music
Date: 30th Nov 2022 @ 4:24pm
In Year 3 we have been doing lots of listening and describing with our new Musical Vocabulary mats. We have discussed the key vocabulary and thought about how we can use it to describe the pieces of music that we have listened to. We have improved our use of sentence starters because we now have examples. We have started to think about our Christmas songs and have begun to learn about the musical score, treble clef and time signature. We started to play the glockenspeil to Jingle Bells!
Year 1 Musical Listening and Composing
Date: 30th Nov 2022 @ 4:06pm
In Year 1 we have been doing lots of listening to different types of music. We used our new Musical Listening Mats to think about the tempo, pitch and how the music made us feel. We also started composing using Chrome Music Lab and understood that different patterns and marks represent different notes and sounds. We made our own ostinato patterns which repeat. We have been playing percussion instruments in time to the music and learning the names of other common instruments.
Year 3- What makes a good role model?
Date: 29th Nov 2022 @ 1:16pm
In R.E we were exploring a wide variety of stories surrounding Prophet Muhammed. We explored which characteristics he demonstrated and how these made him role model. We created a freeze frame from the stories that pin- pointed the most important part of each. We had to explain why it was the most important section. Then we identified what characteristics, message and how he was portrayed as a role model. We then had to teach other groups what we had found.
Year 3- Dancing with charcoal!
Date: 29th Nov 2022 @ 1:05pm
In Art, Year Three have been exploring how to draw with charcoal. We were inspired this week by the artist Heather Hansen who mixes art with dance! We noticed that with gestural drawing we use long sweeping movements and the use of our whole body to create our masterpieces!
Date: 29th Nov 2022 @ 9:40am
Date: 29th Nov 2022 @ 8:47am
On Monday morning we travelled to Blackpool Sports Centre to take part in this year's Sportshall Athletics competition. The competition saw students compete in various field and track events, such as Standing Long Jump and the 4x1 Relay.
Unfortunately we fell short of qualifying for the North schools section but, as always, our pupils represented the school with great pride and attitude, with the team scoring highly in plenty of their events.
Reception visited by Hedgehog Rescue
Date: 28th Nov 2022 @ 9:59pm
Today the children in Reception have had a special visit from Hedgehog Rescue. Carolyn from Hedgehog Rescue talked about what a nocturnal animal is and shared lots of intersting facts about hedgehogs including what they eat, where they live and what to do if an hedgehog is poorly. The children enjoyed meeting Sid, even though he was very sleepy!
The children recalled lots of facts about hedgehogs.
"They have 44 teeth" Emelia
"You shouldn't feed them milk, it makes them poorly" Lana-Rose
"Hedgehogs hibernate in the winter" Kristian
"They sleep in the day and wake up at night. They are nocturnal" Logan
"Badgers like to eat hedgehogs" Lelan
""They eat slugs, snails and worms" Ishaanvir
"Their spikes are called quills" Noor-Fatima.
Following the session the children completed lots of activities including writing about nocturnal animals, making hedgehogs at the creative table and counting out the correct amount on spikes for each hedgehog. The children are even planning on making a hedgehog house for our outside area, just incase we have any prickly friends come and visit. Have a look at some of our work.
Date: 27th Nov 2022 @ 8:56pm
This week we have been busy taking part in the energy saving campaign ‘’Switch Off Fortnight”.
The children will take part, with other schools from around the UK, and will make small changes in their lives that save energy and help protect the planet. It is a fun and rewarding campaign led by Boundary Primary School’s Eco Warriors and will bring Cop 27 to life for our pupils.
Switching off lights when we are not in the room, turning off interactive screens when not in use and ensuring fewer electrical items are turned off at the plug socket, and not just on standby, are the main issues we are tackling in school now and for the rest of the year. Hopefully, Miss Ashton should see a reduction the school fuel bill!
Be smart- start saving energy NOW!
