Reading: Blog items
Date: 3rd Feb 2025 @ 7:42pm
This week pupils in year 5 visited The Attic to select a reading book from the school's library. After finding a book and discussing it with friends, pupils spent time reading in the relaxing, comfortable space.
Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 9:47pm
In Nursery we have a focus story that we base our learning around for 1 - 2 weeks.The children become familair with the story and are able to retell it using probs and pictures. To support this, we have started to create story maps where the children place pictures in the correct order to retell the story. The chidlren are becoming familair with the vocabulary of first, next, then and finally,
Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 12:39pm
This half term, the Book Club has been getting comfortable in The Attic and immersing themselves in the book, 'The Shop of Impossible Ice Creams - Big Berry Robbery' by our local, visiting author Shane Hegarty. In the story so far, we have met some very interesting characters including, Liam (aka Limpet, who is often dressed as a cucumber and smells of onions), the eccentric Mrs Cricket (who lives on a roundabout inhabited by fairies), the evil, rival ice cream shop owner Mr Fluffy and a chicken that walks around on a dogs lead called Curtis! Every Tuesday, we look forward to hearing the latest escapades of Limpet and his friends in their quest to discover who indeed has stolen the Miracle Berry- an essential ingredient for any ice cream parlour taking part in the Golden Sprinkle Awards!
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 8:15am
This week we went up to the library, we read a story as a class before we all chose a book to bring back to class and enjoy.
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 2:47pm
This week nursery were lucky enough to listen to a story told my the author Dan Worsley. The story had a pirate theme and the chidlren were hooked! When we got back to nursery, we decdied to carry on the Pirate theme and raided our Pirate box! The chidlren made up their own stories using small world figures and then made a pirate ship out of wooden blocks.We had such a wonderful time that we decided to carry on the pirate theme next week!
Dan Worsley- Storytelling workshop!
Date: 22nd Jan 2025 @ 9:58am
Today the children had a visit from Dan Worsley, who is a fantastic local author! Firstly KS2 had a special assembly from Dan. He told us all about his writing journey and how he has to work as a team to create his book. He then told us a fantastic story called ‘Pat on the head’.
Then, Year Three has a writing workshop. Dan told us a story describing a witch, we looked at how to add detail into writing by focusing on different features. This children then described their own witch using what they have learnt.
Dan Worsley's Storytelling Assembly
Date: 21st Jan 2025 @ 8:03pm
Today the children in EYFS and Key Stage one participated in a special storytelling assembly led by one of our school's favourite author's Dan Worsley. During the assembly, Dan put on the superpowered storytelling waistcoat and used a variety of props to perform one of his weird and wacky ‘Impossible Tales’. The children were engrossed while Dan took them on an adventure meeting the 'Boss Pirate' and enjoyed thoroughly enjoyed participating at different of the story . All the children listened carefully and were an absolute credit to Boundary.
Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 5:20pm
In Year 4, we have been reading a poem about the winter season.
We have been practising our fluency as a whole class. Many children wanted to stand up and read in front of others! The children read very well as they read at the correct pace and were reading with intonation.
Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 4:38pm
This week we introduced story mapping to the nursery children. Using our focus story, the children were given four pictures and together we placed then in the correct order using the vocabulary of "first, next, then and last". Once we had practised together, the children then had a go on their own and did amazingly well!
School Council-Books and Charities
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 5:32pm
The school council met today to discuss what type of books they would like Miss Moyes to order and what charities we will support as a school.
We then went on to discuss linking up with the Eco Warriors to do a fund raiser for the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) charity.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 8:23am
During the first part of this term, Year 5 read Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. We really enjoyed learning about the characters, their emotions and what it takes to write a book that we were all so engaged with - it rapidly became a year group favourite; so much so that in the final part of Autumn 2 we watched the film! We then spent some time analysing the film versus the book, discussing how much had been left out (due to time) and hwo much more vivid the details were when we didn't rely on our imagination but were instead presented with a fully animated, living, breathing world right on the screen!
Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 11:22am
This week Acorns have been reading the Gingerbread Man.
We have had lots of fun using the characters from the story to tell the story.
Omer - "Swim, swim"
We have enjoyed making our own collage gingerbread man and baked our own gingerbread cookies.
Year 1 Santa's Grotto Storytime
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 5:48pm
Today Year 1 visited Santas Grotto for our storytime. We were very excited to read our new story 'What the Ladybird Heard at Christmas' in the magical grotto! We loved looking at the different lights, talking about Christmas and sharing our experiences.
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 2:45pm
After visiting us at the school Christmas Fair, Santa asked if we would like use his Grotto for a magical story time. Well, of course we were staright there! We shared some wonderful Christmas stories in the Grotto and the children shared their own experiences of Christmas.
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 8:12am
Our writing journey over the past couple ofweeks has been crime stories. We read lots of different examples of crime stories and gathered lots of ideas and vocabulary to add into our own stories. Some of us wrote stories about a robbery in a mansion and others wrote about a dog-napping. Read through some of stories below.
Acorns - we’re going on a leaf hunt
Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 10:39am
This week Acorns have been reading "We're going on a leaf hunt" for our class story. Acorns went on their very own leaf hunt around our forest school area. We had lots of fun looking through our magnifying glasses, looking for different coloured leaves. We even found the Gruffalo hiding in the bushes!!
Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 4:33pm
Over the last two weeks, Year 4 have been completing whole class guided reading sessions. Year 4 have looked at a poem about a clan of badgers who are under attack in their sett by machinery and a non-chronological report about Bonfire Night which explains why we celebrate the event.
Date: 1st Nov 2024 @ 9:45am
In Acorns we have a multi-sensory approach to phonics. This week we have been exploring the 'P' sound.
We use activities such as 'what's in the box', mark making in sensory materials and funky fingers to strengthen our fine motor skills to support writing.
We have loved using pumpkins and pegs, building on our Halloween theme this week, to engage our focus, develop our concentration skills, along with our finger strength, while pushing and hammering the pegs into the pumpkin as well as learning the letter p.
Date: 1st Nov 2024 @ 9:20am
Acorns have been reading Room on the Broom, while exploring Halloween this week. We have enjoyed our sensory story, using props and puppets while listening to the story.
We have participated in lots of spooky activities to support or learning.
We loved using our sensory and messy trays to support and engage with maths activities, develop our fine motor skills and developing our social skills alongside each other.
During Arts and crafts we created pumpkins and ghosts.
Date: 18th Oct 2024 @ 8:13am
This week Acorns have been reading the Colour Monster. We have had lots of fun exploring colours, colour mixing and emotions linked to our story.
Pupils have explored colour sorting and matching in maths, learning new makaton signs for colours and looking at their faces in mirrors, making different emotions.
Date: 17th Oct 2024 @ 9:08am
Today we had a visit from the ladies who organised 'Buzzing about books'. We had to chance to feedback back how much we have enjoyed getting new books, deciding which book we want to read and then the time to read it. Thanks so much!
Nursery and the Colour Monster
Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 9:30pm
We have been reading the story "The Colour Monster" and learning about the different emotions we feel. The children have been thinking about what can make us feel happy and sad. What it feels like to be angry and how we can keep ourselves nice and calm.
Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 4:33pm
This half term we have linked our writing with our work on Black Hisgtory Month. We learned about Harriet Tubman, a slave who lived and worked on a plantation in Maryland in the early 1800s. She escaped from her master and went on to have a successful life helping other slaves who escaped. We wrote news articles linked to her escape and typed them out. Have a read at some of our work below...
Year 5 - Blue Peter badge winner!
Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 11:50am
Albie was very proud to share the news that he has recently recieved a Blue Peter badge for his passion for reading. He had to get in touch with the Blue Peter team and share a list of his favourite authors and books and then write about his passions and opinions when it comes to childrens books. The team were so impressed by his penmanship and passion that they awarded him a very special Blue Peter badge made from recycled yoghurt pots!
Well Done Albie, we are so proud of you!
Date: 15th Oct 2024 @ 8:03pm
Acorns have been enjoying the book 'You Choose' to explore and develop their understanding about choice and making a choice.
We have encouraged Acorns to make different choices throughout the week in all aspects of their learning and play.
Acorns have enjoyed a multi-sensory approach to making choices. We loved choosing different hats to wear, different outfits, especially super hero's, to dress up in and different tools to explore with in art and mark making.
We also used visuals to support our choice making during snack and lunch times.
