Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC): Blog items
Date: 10th Jul 2023 @ 1:36pm
We were so thrilled to be visited by author, James Harris on Friday 7th July. He conducted a whole school assembly where he talked about writing books and how he got into it. James grew up in seaside town, near Middlesbrough (just like Blackpool). James definitely inspired some of our aspiring young writers to follow in his footsteps and begin writing their own books.
Year 6 - It's Your Move Transition
Date: 10th Jul 2023 @ 9:46am
This morning, Year 6 had a visit from The Church Army who led a session about transition to secondary school. The children discussed what they would miss about being at Boundary and what they are looking forward to. We talked about the journey to school, meeting new friends, meeting new teachers and the challenges of completing more difficult work.
Date: 5th Jul 2023 @ 4:01pm
This week we celebrated heritage day where each year group has learnt about the History of different things in Blackpool. Year 2 explored the history of Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Both classes were excited to go to the pleasure beach where we learnt about how it came about, got it's name and looked at how the park has developed over time- some of us were shocked to learn that the flying machine is still there after being built and opened in 1904. Whilst we learnt about the history we also got a tour of the park and watched different rollercoasters thinking about how they work and what makes them exciting/scary. We used our knowledge and photos to create an inspiration page all about the Pleasure Beach and are incredibly grateful for the staff there who shared their expertise and knowledge. Lastly, we learnt about Amanda Thompson- one of the few females to be in the amusement park industry and she is carrying on family tradition of being the director.
Date: 3rd Jul 2023 @ 6:10pm
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 then learnt about how the circus has changed over time and created a timeline of the promotional posters used. Finally we created our own posters for the present circus! We are also all looking forward to our circus trip as part of our Heritage learning!
Date: 3rd Jul 2023 @ 4:42pm
Health Week
Year 5 and 6 enjoyed spending time with coaches from Wigan Warriors who showed our pupils how to play wheelchair rugby. Pupils learnt how to control the wheelchairs and took part in a number of activities and drills before playing small sided games. Pupils also got the opportunity to ask coaches questions about the sport and how the sport came about.
Date: 29th Jun 2023 @ 4:09pm
Today we finished our health week activities with a double dose of health. First, the school nurses visited us and taught us about the eatwell plate; after she read us a story about eating the different food groups, we sorted some items into the correct parts of a plate remembering we need to eat the most fruit and vegetables. She even challenged us to create rainbow plates with our meals.
Next, we had a yoga session with Miss Sophie where we focused on our breathing ensuring we were calm and relaxed. Miss Sophie recapped lots of our poses and we enjoyed trying to recreate them.
We have thoroughly enjoyed all our health week activities and we will remember all the ways we can keep ourselves healthy and the importance of it.
Date: 29th Jun 2023 @ 12:29pm
To celebrate World Music Day, we focused on listening and appraising a range of music from the United Kingdom, before creating a short dance sequence inspired by a sea shanty.
Date: 28th Jun 2023 @ 7:03pm
This week Year 1 have taken part in lots of different activities for Health Week, including a yoga workshop, a dance workshop and a visit from our school nurse. We have enjoyed taking the oppourtunity to learn new skills and to take part in these different experiences.
Date: 28th Jun 2023 @ 6:53pm
Today we enjoyed 'Together Time' with some of our grown ups. We began to explore coins for the first time, recognising the value of different denominations of coins. We matched the correct coin to the correct value, before using coins to make given amounts.
Date: 28th Jun 2023 @ 7:32am
Yesterday, Year 2 were grateful to have a workshop with Tom from Wigan Warriors. Tom did a stuck in the mud themed warm up which taught us how to hold a rugby ball correctly to ensure an opponent cannot knock it out of our hands before we learnt how to score a tri. In teams, we had to run across the hall and get passed the tri line and tap the ball on a cone to take it back to our team in the style of a relay; to make it more challenging, Tom added some defenders who tried to stop the attackers getting to the tri line. We really enjoyed the activity and we are looking forward to our other activities still to come as part of Health Week.
Date: 26th Jun 2023 @ 7:58pm
This week Reception class was taken over by some of the Year 5 children. We had brand new teachers and teaching assistants took charge of the classroom for the full morning. The children listened to readers, supported the children in continuous provision, modelled writing sentences and delivered some small group maths activities. The childrem proved to be excellent role models demonstrating all of our school characteristics.
Date: 26th Jun 2023 @ 2:42pm
Today, to begin Health Week, Year 2 were lucky to have a dance teacher come into School and give us a dance workshop. After completing a fun warm up, we learnt a few basic cha cha steps which could be encorporated into our showcase dance. The teacher introduced our song and set the scene that we were completing a dance that showcases our pride, strength and self-belief. We learnt the timings to a cha cha and then learnt some steps for a paso doble styled dance as it is a powerful dance and that was what we wanted to showcase. We practised the steps lots to the music- I'm a Survivor, trying to remain in time and did a final performance at the end of the workshop. Everyone really enjoyed it and tried their best to get into character. We are looking forward to the rest of health week!
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 5:52pm
Today was takeover day! With our new teachers we revisited the concept of 1 more and 1 less in the context of numbers from 50 to 100 by applying the counting skills we have previously learnt. We read the story ‘More or Less’ to introduce our lesson. Together, we then revisited the words ‘more’ and ‘less’ reinforcing the fact that 1 more is the number after the given number and 1 less is the number before the given number. We then worked independently to choose a task card, identify the number and then find one more and one less than this number. Finally we played a one more and one less game on Topmarks to show our new teachers everything we had learnt!
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 2:53pm
Today, we got taken over by some Year 5 children; we started the day with an assembly by our new head and deputy headteacher Miss Bell and Mr Binns to introduce our characteristics of tolerance. When we returned to our classroom our new teachers helped us recap what the different word classes are and helped us complete a sorting activity of different verbs, adjectives, nouns and adverbs. After playtime, we chanted our 2, 5 and 10 times tables before completing some sheets thinking about the multiples of each and calculating multiplication questions. We ended our Takeover morning with Guided Reading. We enjoyed being taught by the Year 5 children although they found it tiring and hard.
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 12:26pm
Nursery Get Taken Over By Year 5!
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 12:18pm
Year 5 took over the school today and became teachers, teaching assistants, office staff, the Head and Deputy Head and even Site staff! We had some super teachers and teaching assisitants in nursery. They really looked after the children and were great role models. Well done Year 5 - you can come again!
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 11:57am
What a great morning! Today was Year 5's Takeover Day. In Year 4, our teachers, Miss Shepherd, Miss Lewis and Miss Morrison, taught us lines of symmetry in Maths, how to back up our answers with evidence using the text in Guided Reading and figurative language in Reading into Writing. The teachers were helped out throughout the morning by Miss Roberts and Mr Butterfield. Well done Year 5! You did a great job and showed so many characteristics such as confidence and enthusiasm.
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 11:48am
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 7:58am
Yesterday, we celebrated World Music Day 2023. Each year group had been allocated a different continent to explore music from and ours was Oceania. We read the story about Tiddalick the frog to introduce the unit and found Australia on the map; then we practised singing the song about Tiddalick and him drinking all the water thinking about the rhythm and pitch of the notes. We then were introduced to a traditional Australian instrument- the didgeridoo and watched a video explaining how to play it before we had a go at making a sound ourselves. It was hard work as we had to try and blow really hard and create the correct shape with our mouths. We also used some other instruments to play alongside our singing. We enjoyed celebrating World Music Day and thinking about how other people across the world enjoy Music.
Date: 14th Jun 2023 @ 11:50am
On Monday Recepton had 5 little eggs delivered to your classroom. The eggs were placed in the incubator to keep them warm. The children waiting in anticipation for the eggs to begin to hatch. On Tuesday some cracks appeared in one of the eggs and at lunchline a little baby duckling hatched. the duckling had to stay in the incubator until her feather dried out. The children will be watching closely all week to observe the nest for eggs hatching.
Date: 25th May 2023 @ 1:38pm
This week Reception have been enjoying Sports Day.
They took part in teams, working together, following the rules and always trying their best.
Take a look at the photos of us cup stacking, speed bouncing, throwing bean bags into hoops, running in the egg and spoon race, competing in an obstacle course and we mustn't forget- welly throwing!
Date: 25th May 2023 @ 11:23am
Year 6 have done some brilliant work in their French lessons this half term. Our unit was called ' Le Week-end' and focused on activities that the children might do at the weekend. We learned the correct vocabulary for each activity, language to give opinions and how to tell the time to the nearest five minutes. As always, our lessons covered listening, speaking, reading and writing activities and the children produced great work in each.
Date: 24th May 2023 @ 7:04pm
Today Year 1 enjoyed sports day! We participated in team races, cup stacking, speed bounce, dome and dishes, welly throwing and bean bag throwing. We all had a fantastic morning and thoroughly enjoyed participating in all the different activities.
Date: 24th May 2023 @ 5:02pm
Today, Year Two participated in our annual sports day. We completed lots of different activities including: races, speed bounce, welly throw, bean bag challenge, under and over team races, stuck in the mud, speed stack and a rest station where we refuelled with water and had a much needed sit down. Throughout the afternoon, we demonstrated many characteristics such as team work, determination, perseverance and participation and everybody should be proud of the effort they showed. Well done Year 2!
Date: 23rd May 2023 @ 5:50pm
Today we enjoyed a visit from Fisher's Farm and their very friendly animals! We were all looking forward to seeing the animals and finding out more about them. We looked around the different pens and asked the visitors questions such as, 'What food do they eat?' 'How old are they?' and 'How do you care for them?' We even stroked and brushed some of the animals!