Physical Education: Blog items
Date: 4th Jul 2022 @ 2:15pm
What another amazing Boundary Heritage Day! This year our theme was ‘Significant people and events in Blackpool’. From a trip to Bloomfield Road to a visit from a Funny Girl's Drag Queen, the children have had a great day. Each year group was given a different key question to investigate and enquire about.
Nursery/Reception: How has the seaside changed? What was it like in the past compared to now?
Year 1: How did William Cocker and Sir John Bickerstaffe influence Blackpool tourism by building Blackpool Tower?
Year 2: How did Thomas Sergenson and Frank Matcham influence theatre in Blackpool by building The Grand Theatre?
Year 3: Who are the Thompson family and more specifically who is Amanda Thompson?
Year 4: What is Fisherman’s Friend and how did Doreen Lofthouse help and continue to help the community after her passing?
Year 5: Who is Ian Holloway and what did he and Blackpool FC achieve in 2010?
Year 6: How has Basil Newby influenced the LGBT community in Blackpool?
Head to your child’s class page on the school website for more photos and information about their day. Well done everyone!
Date: 4th Jul 2022 @ 12:00pm
Today the children in Reception enjoyed taking part in the very first sports day. The took part in an egg and spoon race, running races, bean bag throw and the hurdles. The children showed resilence, teamwork and great sportsmanship, cheering on their friends and children in their houses. Well done Reception.
Date: 4th Jul 2022 @ 7:45am
This week we had some coaches from Wigan Warriors come in and run a rugby workshop. The coaches were fantastic and our Year 4's had a brilliant time! We practised our ball handling skills, agility and hand-eye coordination.
Date: 4th Jul 2022 @ 7:31am
Sports Day! What a fantastic day we had. Our Year 4's certainly tried their best and got into the spirit of sports day. Some fantastic performances and sporting events and what made it even better was that parents/carers were able to come and watch again this year!
Year 2 Rugby Sporting Superstars
Date: 1st Jul 2022 @ 4:49pm
Year 2 have been extremely active and busy today as we did not only complete our Sports Day but we also had a special visitor called Tom who kindly came in to teach us some Rugby skills. We began the session by looking at how to hold the ball to ensure we had a tight grip so it couldn't be easily stolen by an opponent and we practised this skill whilst playing a fun game of stuck in the mud. Then the fun continued, we learnt in Rugby you can only pass sideways or backwards and completed some races to see which team could accurately throw the ball down their team and back the quickest. Finally, we learnt how to kick a rugby ball along the floor using our laces. We played a fun game to practise our skills where we had to accurately kick to earn points for our team. Thank you Tom for an excellent session, we all enjoyed it!
Date: 1st Jul 2022 @ 4:42pm
Today, Year Two had their Sports Day. All the children competed in a variety of sporting activities including: individual sprint races, team relay races, egg and spoon races, obstacle races and a beanbag throw. Miss Duckworth and Miss Hooson are proud of all the children's enthusiasm, determination, teamwork and supportiveness throughout the morning as they all cheered each other on and applauded those who won. Everyone tried their hardest and whilst we do not know the results quite yet- you're all winners in our eyes! Well done Year 2!
Date: 30th Jun 2022 @ 8:42am
This week children have enjoyed taking part in rugby workshops with the Wigan Warriors and netball workshops with a Lancashire coach. We were lucky to be visited by the CommonWealth Games Baton, which is on a journey to Birmingham ready for the Commonwealth Games. Pupils got a chance to find out about the significance of the baton and got to hold it. We are looking forward to all our Sports Days.
Nursery What The Ladybird Heard At The Seaside
Date: 29th Jun 2022 @ 2:41pm
We have been reading the story "What The Ladybird Heard At The Seaside" By Julia Donaldson and have created lots of learning opportunites based on the story. We have been practsing our scissor skills by cutting the mermaids hair - it was very tough and sticky just like in the story! We have been counting spots on to ladybirds and subisiting how many spots we can see and learring all about the letter L by making ladybirds out of the letter. We have created some beautfiul transient art pictures of mermaids and made some spinning ladybirds to hang from the ceiling.
Date: 29th Jun 2022 @ 10:30am
Yesterday we were lucky enough to have some coaching from the players from Wigan Warriors. We learnt to hold a rugby ball correctly, pass, dodge and finally kick. We enjoyed learning about the importance of team work and learning more about rugby.
Date: 29th Jun 2022 @ 7:35am
Today a netball coach from Blackpool Netball Club came to give us an hour coaching session. We began with some quick warm up drills and then moved on to looking at the different passes in netball: chest pass, shoulder pass and bounce pass. After we were comfortable with these passes we moved on to practising shotting and making sure that we adopted the correct stance to shoot accurately.
Date: 25th Jun 2022 @ 8:25pm
This week, we continued our fundamental skills unit in PE by learning to dribble using our hands. We used basketballs to practice dribbling around the space, trying to keep the ball under control at all times to ensure we didn't have to chase it around the playground. Once we were more confident at dribbling the ball, we played a game where we had to use our hand-eye coordination to look ahead and weaved through spaces so other people couldn't tag us and take our ball. Finally, we had a quick relay race dribbling the ball to a certain point using one hand and then used our opposite hand to dribble it back to our team.
Date: 23rd Jun 2022 @ 9:14pm
This week has been a very busy week for lots of our Year 6 children, who have been taking part in various events at Stanley Park. Today, some of our Year 6 girls took part in a football event and did themselves and the school proud. The girls have never played as a team together before so to play as they did really demonstrated their team-work and determination. Well done to all the girls who took part.
Date: 23rd Jun 2022 @ 5:29pm
The chilren have been working really hard to keep our outside area clean and tidy. They went on a litter picking mission, collected a lot of rubbish and made the garden look beautiful! Using the litter pickers was a great for their fine motor skills too as they have to squeeze it hard to pinch the litter - a great work out for tiny fingers!
Date: 16th Jun 2022 @ 5:04pm
This week we have been reading the story "Billy's Bucket" By Kes Gray all about a little boy who wants a bucket for his birthday. It's no ordinary bucket though, Billy's bucket is special as he can see lots of sea creatures when he looks inside! The chidlren were brilliant at recalling parts of the story and by the end of the week they were telling the story without the book. The activities in continous provison were all based around the story and included matching numerals to the correct bucket, theading tentacles on to jelly fish, designing a bucket and creating some transient art to show what they would see in their bucket.
Year 6 An Introduction to Cricket
Date: 14th Jun 2022 @ 9:46am
This week, Year 6 have started their new PE unit of cricket, which is the perfect game for summer. Mr. Williams led a session with the children, which focused on the skills of throwing and catching. Through various games, the children learned how to accurately throw under arm.
Date: 25th May 2022 @ 4:45pm
Year 6 have continued their science unit about the human body by learning about how to stay healthy. We considered the impact of poor diet on our bodies, how important different types of exercise are and learned about the difference between drugs and medicine. We looked at different diary sheets and discussed the lifestyles of two individuals. We then made recommendations. about how they could change their lifestyles to become healthier.
Date: 23rd May 2022 @ 4:46pm
Over the half term we have been working on our gymnastics skills. We have focussed on spins, balances and forward rolls. As part of our journey we have created our routines and focussed on being symmetrical and asymmetrical. We worked on strengthening our core in order to balance well.
Date: 20th May 2022 @ 8:08am
In Year Three we had a Design Technology day where we designed, made and evaluated fruit kebabs to make a healthy snack. This involved tasting a range of pre-existing products including pineapple, mango, cantaloupe melon, watermelon and pomegranate seeds. We rated them on taste, smell and appearance. This then led to use designing our own fruit kebab and even considered how to stay safe in a kitchen. Finally we were able to make and eat our healthy snacks!
Year 4 Fit to Go visit Bloomfield Road
Date: 20th May 2022 @ 7:50am
Date: 11th May 2022 @ 8:24am
Some of our Year 5 children have worked very hard over the last two days to achieve their level 2 award. They have demonstrated many of our Boundary Characteristics while completing all of their assessments. They learnt about bike maintenance and road safety
Date: 10th May 2022 @ 7:30pm
In PE this half term our learning is all about object manipulation. During our first two weeks we have been practising dribbling with a football, trapping a ball with our feet and turning with a ball. We have joined in with lots of games to practise these skills, using our prior knowledge of spatial awareness and finding the spaces within an area. We have enjoyed using the footballs to travel with a ball with confidence and skill.
Date: 5th May 2022 @ 4:06pm
This half term Year Two are practicing skills needed to play invasion games. This week we explored chest passes, under arm throwing and over arm throwing to accurately throw a ball and have our partner catch it. We worked on throwing different distances as we got more confident and adjusting which pass we used to ensure it had enough power to reach our partner. To the end the session, we played a game of Ghostbusters where people in bibs were trying to intercept the ball of the children who were 'ghosts' and throwing the balls to their partners. We really had to think hard about the passes used and the distance we were throwing to make sure the alien didn't intercept our ball.
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 8:22pm
This week nursery have continued to find out about growth and change. We have been keeping a close eye on our tiny caterpillars and they're not so tiny anymore! Infact, they're getting rather big! As well as watching the caterpillars grow, the children have also been planting seeds. We started with cress seeds and will be moving on to sunflower seeds later in the week! We have been talking about looking after the seeds and that we have to make sure we keep them watered to help them grow. We have also been using different types of bricks to build the tallest bean stalk and practising matching numeral and quantity using seeds.
Year 5 Gymnastics - Matching and Mirroring
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 4:55pm
One of Year 5's unit for PE this half-term is gymnastics where we are focusing on matching and mirroring. So far on our learning journey, we have investigated different ways to move our body and practise mirroring our partner whilst doing so. Further to this, we started to practise different types of roles across the floor. We have looked at pencil rolls, barrel roles and teddy bear rolls.
As a class, we really need to work on our balance and control of our bodies. To help improve this, we will be doing lots of short-burst activities throughout the week to prepare for the PE lessons.
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 4:48pm
This half term in Year 4 in our PE lessons we are focussing on Cricket. We started off with a really good warm up, working on our hand-eye coordination, teamwork and communication skills. We then moved on to a bit of throwing and catching practice in our pairs and finished off with some batting and bowling practice. A fantastic introduction to cricket and our Year 4s loved it!
