Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC): Blog items
Date: 11th Jul 2024 @ 12:52pm
Today we were lucky enough to go up to the Key Stage 2 playground and visit Fishers Farm! We enjoyed seeing and learning about all the different animals and talking to the people who look after them. We asked lots of questions to help our understanding and we were very calm and gentle with the animals.
Date: 11th Jul 2024 @ 10:48am
Today we were lucky enough to go up to the Key Stage 2 playground and visit Fishers Farm! We enjoyed seeing and learning about all the different animals and talking to the people who look after them. We asked lots of questions to help our understanding and we were very calm and gentle with the animals.
Date: 10th Jul 2024 @ 3:54pm
Poetry by Heart
Well done to Year 6 who took part in a national poetry competition highlighting poetry and oracy in Primary Schools. They have been Highly Commended by the Poetry by Heart judges who said:
"We were impressed by the unity of voices and actions and that you all memorised this long poem..."
Boundary is proud of you all!
Reception- Heritage Week Blackpool
Date: 8th Jul 2024 @ 12:22pm
Thiw week Reception have had fun learning about where we live in Blackpool.
We learnt about what Blackpool was like in the past and what it is like now. We looked at some artefacts, such as a stick of Blackpool rock, a souvenir mug, a bucket and spade, a sun hat and different types of swimming costumes from now and from the past. We also discussed our favourite places we like to visit in Blackpool.
"Old swimming costumes are very long!" Isla.
"You wear a little hat to go swimming in the past." Esme.
"Old photos from the past are black and white- new ones are colour." Ellie- May
" I like to visit the ballroom in Blackpool Tower ...you can go dancing there." Lucy
" We have a beach and I take a bucket and a spade, sun hat, swimming costume and a picninc with me when I go ." Esmai.
"I go on the trams" Luca.
"My favourite is Blackpool Tower it is like the Eiffel Tower." Mathew.
"There is a roller coaster at the Pleasure Beach- I go on the blue one with my Mummy." George.
Date: 5th Jul 2024 @ 4:23pm
This week Acorns have been exploring the seaside.
We have had lots of fun sensory experiences including splat the sandcastle, underwater tuff trays and our sensory story, 'What the ladybird heard at the seaside'.
We also read Billy's Bucket and enjoyed choosing what we would put in our own buckets. We even created our own seaside scene.
Year 4- Congratulations Albie!
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 5:24pm
Earlier this year, Albie was entered into a creative writing competition called 'Once Upon A Dream- A Collection of Fantastic Words!' He wrote a poem which was about the dangers that our planet faces and how we can save it. This week, we recieved the fantastic news that Albie has been selected for his work to be published in a book! We are so proud of you Albie and we look forward to buying some copies of the book for our library!
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 2:54pm
Today we enjoyed going back out into the Forest School area to learn about animals and habitats. We talked about how habitats provide things that animals need and the size of their habitat. We all enjoyed exploring the forest school area and seeing how it had changed since the last time we had Forest School in Autumn.
Acorns - A visit from the Naughty Bus
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 2:27pm
Acorns have been celebrating Geography day with a visit from the Naughty Bus.
We enjoyed reading the story about the naughty bus and its journey.
Acorns then went on their own journey to explore our school community. Soon the naughty bus was popping up everywhere!! We found he had been to reception class, he had visited Mrs Bunday's office, Year 1, Elmer, the reading tree and Miss Moyes office. We had great fun exploring the school and finally found the bus un the sensory room where we enjoyed spending some time.
We can't wait for the naughty bus to come and visit again to see what our next journey could be!!!
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 11:37am
Together Time
Today we enjoyed exploring materials and tools to connect them together in a playful way. We began by recapping on different ways we can manipulate and change the shape of paper, before becoming explorers and inventors to create a range of sculptures using prompt cards. Our prompt cards asked us to make ‘something which has a seed and grows a root and a shoot,’ ‘a family of something’ and ‘something small enough to fit in your palm.’ We enjoyed sharing our learning with our adults, being creative, using our imagination and creating something unique and individual to us!
Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 5:19pm
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 learnt about how the circus has changed over time and sorted a range of pictures into past and present. We then created a timeline of the promotional posters used. Finally we created our own posters for the present circus!
Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 4:09pm
Today, Year Two had a heritage day where we explored a location in our town. We studied Blackpool Pleasure Beach, starting by looking at where it is and looking at some of the different things that are there before we put them in chronological order thinking about which parts are the oldest and which are from the present day. We put these in order on a timeline. Then, we compared photos of the Pleasure Beach from the past and present, including the flying machine which has been there from the opening day in 1894. Finally, we looked at the managing director Amanda Thompson and the influence she has had over the Pleasure Beach in recent years since she took the role in 2004. We have loved looking and learning about the Pleasure Beach in more detail.
Acorns - Supertato and Health week
Date: 30th Jun 2024 @ 5:40pm
Acorns have been celebrating Health & Well-Being week this week through a variety of activities. Firstly, our very successful interactive sports session which we all loved. Our sensory story was Supertato. We loved listening to the story and exploring the Superveggies!! We had a selection of vegetables to touch, smell and taste before matching them to the correct cards. We also made fruit kebabs and loved tasting a variety of fruit and strengthening our fine motor skills, threading the fruit onto skewers. We counted potatoes and vegetables during maths and even made our own Supertato art work. We finished the week off wearing bright and sporty outfits and developing some turn taking skills during our activities.
Date: 28th Jun 2024 @ 8:05pm
Today we all enjoyed dressing in bright and sporty clothes to celebrate 'Elmer Day' and raise money for charity!
Date: 27th Jun 2024 @ 4:48pm
Nursery enjoyed exploring oranges and lemons this week. They squeezed and squeezed until all the juice came out and then made some delicious fruit cocktails. They had to learn to take turns with the squeezers and did really well waiting their turn.
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 7:14pm
Today we enjoyed a rugby workshop with Josh from Wigan Warriors! Through a range of different activities, we learnt to hold the ball, pass it correctly, run with it and how to score a try! We all had a great afternoon and loved learning new skills!
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 4:15pm
This week Reception held their Sports Day. It was a lovely , warm , sunny morning and everyone was in high spirits! The children were cheering each other on, taking turns, playing fairly, showing respect and following the rules- true sportsmanship! They also tried their very best and showed resilience too.
They took part in running races, welly throwing, beanbag races, speed jumps and cup stacking.
"I threw my welly really far" Luca.
"The speed bumps were really tricky- jumping really fast" Elektra.
"I tried my very best at running- I nearly won!" Niko.
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 3:39pm
Last week, we celebrated Music and Art day all about celebrating our identity. In Art, we explored portraits and representing ourselves in portrait form. We practiced different mark making techniques that would help us when drawing before identifying shapes on our faces. Then we used all our knowledge to draw and colour a portrait. In music, we created a lemotif in small groups that represents us.
Year 2- Wigan Warriors Workshop
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 2:54pm
Today, we had a visit from Josh from Wigan Warriors Rugby Club. He did a workshop with us teaching us how to hold the ball and we played various games that involved us travelling with the ball safely in two hands and begun to practice our catching skills, throwing it a short distance to a partner. We ended the session by learning how to score a try in Rugby and practiced by trying to collect as many cones as we could in a relay race, tapping the ball on the cone to collect it and score the points. The children loved learning some basic rugby skills and enjoyed the session.
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 2:40pm
Yesterday, Year Two participated in our annual Sports Day. Children took part in a variety of activities from throwing practice to running races and games like dishes and domes. The children had a fantastic afternoon and were great sports people, supporting each other no matter what team they were in. Well done everyone!
Acorns - Interactive Sports Session
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 2:07pm
Acorns had a fantastic interactive sports session.
We enjoyed welcoming our parents into our interactive session in the hall and had so much fun climbing, jumping, throwing and running.
Thank you to all the parents supporting us and we can't wait to do it again.
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 1:55pm
Acorns have enjoyed meeting the ducklings and learning about their growth and life cycle.
We have incorporated lots of eggciting activities into our learning this week.
We loved our sensory duck themed tuff trays, maths activities and writing activities.
We have been reading Oh Dear and looking for the eggs and enjoyed matching the animals during our sensory story and using the correct noises of the animals.
Acorns have also been busy making ducks during art.
Our highlight was watching the ducks take a paddle in the reception play area before we said good bye.
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 1:47pm
Acorns have been exploring the frog life cycle.
To support our learning, we have been reading The Perfect Ribbit and signing the frog life cycle song.
We have enjoyed listening to the story, practicing frogs sounds, singing and using the sensory animals to support our understanding.
We even had a visit from the tadpoles in our pond.
We looked at how they have changed from the last time we saw them and noticed they had grown some back legs.
We are looking forward to their next visit when they become froglets and then frogs.
Date: 24th Jun 2024 @ 7:44pm
Today we enjoyed Sports Day! It was a very warm day but we all showed lots of determination, resilience and team work on each station. We took part in races, archery, speed bounce, bean bag throwing and cup stacking! We all thoroughly enjoyed sharing the afternoon with our grown ups and showing them our sports skills!
Date: 23rd Jun 2024 @ 8:58pm
Over the past two weeks the children have enjoyed looking after our five classroon ducklings; Sunny, Cher, Ozzy, Freddie and Bertie. The children have been finding out the importance of ensuring they have enough food and water, warmth and a clean cage. the children have taken responsibility for cleaning out their cage, topping up their ood and water and making sure then can enjoy swimming in the water trays out side, The children have produced some lovely writing about the ducks and have enjoyed taking part in lots of duckling themed activities including; making a duck the creative table, labelling the lifecycle, painting a duck and building a duckling nest. aLl the children had the opportunity to handle the duckling (some children even overcame their fear). What a fabulous few weeks!
