Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC): Blog items
Year 1 and Year 2 Move for Mental Health
Date: 7th May 2024 @ 8:03am
This week as part of Mental Health Awareness week Year 1 and Year 2 have been exploring how exercise keeps us healthy both physically and mentally. We have continued to complete our daily four laps of the playground and found lots of different ways to keep moving for our whole break time! During Always Time this week, we also danced outside to music and created chalk art.
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 9:54pm
Acorns have been learning about the life cycle of butterflies. We have enjoyed singing the life cycle rhyme to support our understanding and even had tiny little caterpillars come to live in class with us. We have been very curious over the last two weeks, watching them growing. We now have 5 very big caterpillars who are just turning into their chrysalis. It has been very exciting watching the caterpillars get bigger every day and we can’t wait to see what emerges from their cocoons.
Acorns - The Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 9:36pm
This week Acorns have been reading the Hungry Caterpillar. We have engaged in a variety of learning activities and experiences to support our understanding of the world around us and the life cycles of butterflies. We have enjoyed making hungry caterpillars in Art and even feeding our very own hungry caterpillar. We found caterpillars and butterflies everywhere, including in our tuff tray and our 'Bucket'. We even had our very own caterpillars come to live in Acorns! We can't wait to see what happens.
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 9:18pm
Acorns have been developing an understanding about how plants grow. We have explored the need for sunlight, water and soil to be able to grow. Acorns have planted their own beanstalks and cress. We enjoyed filling the plant pots and planting the big seed (bean) and the smaller seeds (cress) and listening to an adult talking about these. We have had fun watering them and checking to see how they have been growing over the last two weeks. We are excited to see the beans beginning to grow taller!!
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 9:00pm
We have enjoyed our sensory story this week all about Jaspers Beanstalk. We have been engaging in small adult led activities to support our understanding, learning and developing our focus and concentration. We have loved copying the actions from the book, planting, digging, watering and watching to see what grows. We have enjoyed exploring a variety of vegetables through touch, smell and taste if we were brave enough. We also enjoyed counting vegetables and trying to order beanstalks from smallest to biggest. For some of us we counted to 10 and others showed great listening skills and engagement. What a busy week.
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 8:41pm
Over the last few weeks Acorns have been exploring how our bodies can move. We have enjoyed rolling over yoga balls and trying out yoga, kicking and throwing a variety of equipment and running and jumping. Our most enjoyable moments are when we are watching ourselves move in the large mirrors. We also had lots of fun taking part in some turn taking activities, including rolling the balls to our peers. Through PE, Acorns are developing their gross motor skills and social interactions with others. We are also exploring healthy bodies leading to happy minds and we certainly have lots of fun!
Year 6 - Mental Health Awareness Week
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 12:50pm
This week, Boundary have been holding their own Mental Health Awareness week. One thing we have discussed is how exercise and movement can boost your mood. We all made sure we moved for the whole break time, with many of us running around the playground - including Mrs. Hamilton and Mr. Jones!!
Reception- What Does a Beanstalk Need to Grow?
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 11:57am
A very mysterious letter arrived in Reception from Jack (and the Beanstalk!). He wanted us to find out what a beanstalk needs to grow so off we went to investigate.
We discovered that it needed soil, water, sunlight and air. The children looked at the different phases in the lifecycle of a bean and how it changes each time. We then labelled the parts of the bean using scientific vocabulary, root, shoot, seedling, leaf, and flower. Then we planted our own beans with Mrs McAllister and wrote instructions on how to plant them.
"The bean needs sunlight for it to grow" Lucy
"We need to water it " Isla
"The plant gets the goodness from the soil" Oliver J
"The roots grow under ground" Levi
"When it gets leaves it's a seedling" Esmai
Date: 2nd May 2024 @ 2:43pm
In our History lesson we were exploring artefacts from World War Two. We were exploring their significance and discussed what they could teach us about how Britain stayed strong in the war. The children worked collaboratively and discussed which they considered to be the most important. They children used our ABC’s when sharing their ideas. We also explored what the artefacts could teach us about women in war, the home guard and schemes such as rationing.
Date: 2nd May 2024 @ 2:06pm
Today, Year 6 took part in a live webinar centred around SATs and how to deal with any stress or anxiety we are feeling around our tests. We discussed the kind of feelings we might be having and how to deal with these. We were then introduced to the website 'Kooth', which has lots of advice and guidance for helping to improve our mental health.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 5:11pm
This half term, in PE, we have been practising our Gymnastics skills. For a few weeks we have been practising different types of rolls and different ways of travelling. This week, we explored how we can balance on different amounts of body parts and tested how good our balances were by balancing cones on us. Some of us were very creative at finding different ways to get the cones to balance.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 4:53pm
We had all been looking forward to meeting our visitor and learning lots about Hinduism! This morning we enjoyed a whole school assembly which taught us about respect in Hinduism, the Hindu shrine and the story of Rama and Sita. This afternoon we then took part in a pracitcal workshop to learn about the use of murti in Hindu worship through storytelling, music, dance and dressing up!
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 1:02pm
What a great morning we have had with Krishna our Hindu visitor. Firstly, we had a whole school assembly where we recapped the story of Diwali and were introduced to the characters. Then, we introduced to the Hindu shrine and the murtis on the shrine. After break, we had a go at dressing up and had such good fun learning why Hindus wearing the items they do.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 9:39am
This morning the whole school was involved in a whole school assembly that centred around the religion of Hinduism. Our visitor - Krishna - gave us lots of background information about the religion, including the story of Rama and Sita and why oil lamps are lit. We also learned about each of the gods and the role they play. It was a very interesting and informative assembly.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 9:35am
This morning the whole school was involved in a whole school assembly that centred around the religion of Hinduism. Our visitor - Krishna - gave us lots of background information about the religion, including the story of Rama and Sita and why oil lamps are lit. We also learned about each of the gods and the role they play. It was a very interesting and informative assembly.
Date: 29th Apr 2024 @ 8:02am
Over the last two lessons we have looked at the K-Pop genre. Using our listening and appraising skills, we heard a track called Into the Night. This track brought out the K-Pop fans in the classroom and started a discussion about foreign language music and its impact on the world - we talked about how useful it could be to learn a new language and learn about other cultures.
We also started learning the song Into the Night (our favourite of the year so far!) and some of us even choreographed some dance moves for our final performance!
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 12:06pm
This week, Oak class have begun their new class novel of Wonder by R.J. Palacio. We don't want to give too much away so read the following blurb and see if it's something you'd like to read:
'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'
Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go.
Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 11:26am
This week in Forest School, we were very busy completing parts of our Wild Passport. Pupils were challenged to make a whistle from a carrot, cook welshcakes on the fire and build a den. It was much warmer and sunnier than last week!
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 11:23am
Over the last few weeks the children in Reception have been using the Boomwhackers to explore sound and pitch. We worked together to count them and place them in order from the lowest sound to the highest sound. The children enjoyed explring the different sounds and making different different tunes.
"This shortest boomwhaker its the highest" Alaiya
"I've have the lowest sound" Sid
Eco at Boundary- Black Path Collaboration Litter Picking.
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 11:06am
This week the Eco Warriors and a group of parent helpers, took part in the Black Path Collaboration Day, a community based group who have agreed to look after and maintain the pathways around the new housing development on Grange Park.
Altough it was a very wet start to our day, the Eco Warriors managed to pick up lots of rubbish along the paths. We started at @The Grange and then worked our way up to the green areas near the new park.
"Why don't people just put the plastic bottles in the recycling bin?" Lyra- Rose
"Litter on the street is dirty and has germs." Jessica.
"I saw a shampoo bottle- why would you throw this on the path? Recycle it!" Lacey.
Date: 25th Apr 2024 @ 2:52pm
In History this week, the children explored a World War Two museum and discovered what we could learn from artefacts. We were focussing on the question of how Britain stayed strong during the war. The children learnt about the Home Guard, shelters, gas masks, evacuation and blackouts.
Acorns - Healthy Eating & Lifestyles
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 2:44pm
This week Acorns have been exploring how to keep ourselves healthy. We have experienced lots of fun sensory activities to learn about healthy eating and keeping our bodies healthy. We even found giant grapes in our 'Bucket' activity. We particularly enjoyed making and trying fruit kebabs. Strawberries were a definite favourite and we loved watching ourselves move in the big mirrors.
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 2:30pm
This term Acorns topic is Let's Grow. We will be looking at the growth of plants, flowers, fruit and vegetables as well as the life cycles of butterflies and frogs. We will be exploring spring as we see the new growth all around us. This week we have incorportated the story Jack and the Beanstalk and Jasper's Beanstalk in our learning and learnt about planting and growing. We planted our very own beans and are excited to watch them grow.
Reception- Looking for signs of Spring.
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 4:37pm
This week we have been looking for signs of Spring in our school grounds.
It was a little bit chilly but we wrapped up warmly and ventured out into the sunshine.
Around school, we found tulips growing, buds beginning to sprout on branches, pink and white blossom blowing in the wind, a birds nest and even some tadpoles swimming in our school pond.
As we discovered something new, we ticked it off our list until everything had been found- we were very lucky indeed!
Take a look at what Spring looks like at Boundary Primary School.
"Blossom grows on trees in Spring...it is pink and white" Esme.
"I can see tulips and they are red" Melani.
"We have a birds nest and baby birds in it in our outdoor area" Niko.
"Buds grow on trees in Spring" Elie- May.
"The tadpoles in the pond will grow up to be frogs" Mathew.
Year 6 - Opinions about school subjects in French
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 2:50pm
Year 6 continued their unit based on school subjects. After learning how to tell the time in French to the nearest hour, the children went on to create longer sentences which involved saying what day and time they study a particular subject. They also completed a listening activity which focused on children's opinions about school subjects. Everyone did really well.
