Reading into Writing: Blog items
Date: 7th May 2024 @ 4:44pm
Today, the pupils in year 5 were given some excellent guidence about writing poems, and becoming a writer after their school days have ended. Blackpool poet, Nathan Parker visited us and shared his knowledge and experience. He guided the children to write a collaborative poem, which we also performed as a class. All of the pupils were engaged with the activity and contributed their ideas to the final poem.
Year 5 - Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Date: 29th Apr 2024 @ 4:03pm
We are please to share with you some of the official performance photos from the RSC Playmaking Festival. Year 5 pupils from Boundary worked with a director from the RSC to perform part of Hamlet, which was combined with performaces from other schools to tell the whole story. The performances were fantastic and we were pleased to be able to offer this amazing experience to our pupils.
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: 25th Apr 2024 @ 11:50am
Today we completed the 'Improve a WABOLL' part of our journey. We worked collaboratively to find errors and improve muddled up poems about rivers.
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 2:50pm
For our No Pen Morning, we thought about how we could use our oracy skills to complete our Reading into Writing and Maths lessons. In Reading into Writing we were completing our GPS lesson focusing on subheadings. The children ordered a text based on subheadings, created their own headings and matched topics to the headings. In Maths, we looked at adding fractions. The children created a tarsia using our knowledge of adding numerators.
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 1:56pm
Year 4 have had a great time during no pen morning. In Reading into Writing, we started our next journey which to write a poem based on rivers. We looked at a range of different poems and discussed common features such as alliteration, personification and rhyming.
In Maths, we learnt how to represent hundredths as fractions. Firstly, we use base ten blocks to understand how to represent hundredths as fractions. Then, we used our digital literacy skills to use rekenrek on our chromebooks. We discussed how many beads were on each side of the rekenrek and talked about how to represent each of the sides as a fraction.
Date: 17th Apr 2024 @ 7:24am
Yesterday, Year Two completed no pen morning alongside the rest of the School. In Reading into Writing, we developed our digital literacy skills using the Chromebooks to read a teacher model and find all the different features on SeeSaw. In Maths, we completed a cutting and sticking activity to help us with recognising equal or unequal parts in a range of pictorial representations to begin our new fractions unit.
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 5:55pm
This half term our writing is based around the story 'Zog.' Today we wrote sentences about the main character, using adjectives to describe his main features and linking our Boundary characteristics to Zogs actions at different parts of the story.
Year 5 - Shakespeare Aspiring Actors
Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 4:41pm
This term several of the year 5 pupils have been rehearsing for their performance of William Shakespeare's, Hamlet. Pupils had to learn their parts so they would be 'off script' for the performance, and develop their own take on the characters and dialogue. The attached photos are from our final dress rehearsal, where they were directed and encouraged by Emma Manton from the Royal Shakespeare Company. The pupils delivered an amazing performance on the night, and we are all excited to share the professional photos from the performance when they arrive.
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 3:39pm
Today we held out second Speling Bee of the year and it was another fantastic occasion. 4 children from each year group represented their house and were given three spellings each to spell out loud from a bank of words they have been learning since September. The competition was extremely close, with Rodwell and Elston finishing joint first as the children from these houses spelled all of their words correctly.
Well done to all of the children who took part today.
Date: 19th Mar 2024 @ 2:03pm
Every week, we do an activity around our new spelling rule. This week, after learning the spelling rule we had to look in a dictionary at definitions because there were a few words we hadn't heard of. After we completed the task, we practised spelling them on Spelling Shed.
Year 3- Finding features in poems!
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:56pm
In Reading into Writing we have begun our new journey of poems. We have created a shared Success Criteria of the features and have identified features in a range of poems.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:52pm
In Reading into Writing we have begun writing narratives. We have begun with a short story based on the silent video 'Rock, Paper, Scissors.' Our task was to write the conversations that we thought would occur between the three main characters. We also added description throughout our stories to bring both characters and settings to life.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:50pm
As part of our reading into writing journey, we have worked collaboratively to edit and improve our writing. Working with a partner encourages children to find errors and also to discuss ideas to improve their writing.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 12:22pm
In todays lesson we explored adverbs to tell us how something is done. We learnt that an adverb gives extra information about the verb. As a class, we looked at how adverbs are formed and that most are made by adding the suffix ‘ly’ onto the end of the word, e.g. kind + ly = kindly. We explored adverbs that describe how an action is happening and chose adverbs to orally use in a sentence. As our independent task, we then matched a range of verbs to the correct picture, before choosing an adverb to describe the action. We then put some of these into our own sentences on whiteboards. Finally, we completed a quiz to identify and recognise adverbs in written sentences.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 12:56pm
Take a look at our amazong World Book Day costumes! We all dressed as our favourite characters today and shred our reasons for picking our characters. We joined a football quiz, joined in a great book Kahoot, read our reading books and finally we created our own story boards.
We were also lucky enough to have our very own book swap! We brought in a book that we had read and swapped it for one we were yet to explore!
What a brilliant day of books!
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 11:45am
What a World Book Day this has been! Year 6 have really gone above and beyond this year with their character costumes. From Harry Potter to Dr. Frankenstein, the variety has been really impressive. We have also taken part in a book and football quiz with schools around the country as well as a Book Banter session, where we discussed fun facts we have learned from non-fiction books.
Take a look at some of our costumes!
Date: 5th Mar 2024 @ 7:17pm
This half term our Reading into Writing journey is all about instructions. Today, alongside reading and identifying imperative verbs to turn sentences into a command or instruction, we played an imperative verb game to follow imperative verbs. We worked collaboratively to practise being bossy and giving bossy commands and instructions to our partner. We were all able to identify the imperative verbs and create bossy sentences both orally and written down.
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 2:32pm
Our new librararians have been appointed!📚
They recently visited The Attic for the first time and they were blown away!😮 Not only did they get to explore the magical world of books, but they also had the chance to chat about their new role and how they can make our school library even better!🙌🏼 What's even more exciting is that the National Literacy Trust in Blackpool, in partnership with World of Stories, has generously donated some new books to our library!📖
#NewLibrarians #WorldOfStories #BookLovers #SchoolLibraryGoals
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 10:59am
This week the children in Reception have been making pancakes. We talked about the tradition of pancake day how some people decide to give something up, during the Christain period of Lent. The children then enjoyed following a recipe to make and then eat their own pancakes. When we returned to the classroom sequenced the pictures correctly and wrote our own insgtructions.
"You have to mix the eggs, milk and flour with a whisk" Alaiya
"Cook it in a frying pan" Isla
"The pancakes were yummy. I liked the syrup best" Isabelle.
Date: 22nd Feb 2024 @ 2:47pm
In this lesson we began to explore the features of a fable. The children used the success criteria made in previous lessons to identify a range of features.
Year 4 - Planning for LGBTQ+ news report
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 8:33pm
As a class, we did a carousel to make a group plan for a news report about Blackpool Pride.
Date: 22nd Jan 2024 @ 9:05pm
We started our LGBTQ+ research today. In Reading into Writing, our genre is News Reports. We used our digital literacy skills to research Blackpool Pride. We will use this information to write News Reports about Pride in Blackpool.
Date: 17th Jan 2024 @ 8:06am
Yesterday, we took part in no pen morning. In Reading into Writing, we were starting to look at present and past tense verbs; we did a loop card game to start before we sorted verbs and sentences into past and present tense. In Maths, we started our new unit of money, we counted pence to find different amounts and matched it to the correct price label.
Year 5 - Digital Literacy No Pen Morning
Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 8:24pm
To develop our digital literacy skills, pupils at Boundary spent the morning completing maths and writing lessons using only digital devices. For reading into writing, pupils used their chromebooks to publish their creation stories from Aboriginal culture. For maths, pupils used the BBC Micro:bits to create a rock, paper, scissors game. This was the first time pupils have used these tiny computers, and they even improved the code to reset after each turn, display a welcome message when the device was turned on, and make sound effects!
