Reading: Blog items
Date: 7th Jul 2023 @ 3:46pm
Today we were visited by children's author, James Harris. James entertained the whole school with a fantastic assembly and told us about himself and the books he has written. This afternoon, children in year 5 spend time with James and found out more about how he became a published author. We also used some of his methods to create interesting monsters, which we then made up stories about.
Year 1 Julia Donaldson Stories
Date: 19th Jun 2023 @ 11:42am
Today we continued our Reading into Writing journey - Julia Donaldson stories. We read an extract from 'The Gruffalo' and 'Room on the Broom' and found the key features of each, including capital letters, speech marks and adjectives. We used our criteria to enable us to find each feature and mark it in the correct colour.
Date: 18th Jun 2023 @ 12:36pm
Nursery have been diving under the sea this week as the read the story "Billy's Bucket". This is a fabulous story about a little boy who can see all sorts of sea creatures in his bucket. The children have been thinking about what they would see in their bucket if they had a magical bucket, developing their fine motor muscles by catching fish and threading jelly fsh tentacles and creating their own buckets and sea creatures. We've had a super time under the sea!
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 2:52pm
In Year Three, we have joined the ‘Little Big Book Club’ scheme in which children were given 5 amazing books from ‘Amazing facts every 7-year-old needs to know’ and ‘Einstein the Penguin’. We looked at how children and parents could read together and develop a shared love for reading!
Date: 13th Jun 2023 @ 8:04pm
Today we started our Dilemma story journey. At the start of our Reading into Writing journeys we immerse ourselves in the genre and pick out features to create a features list. The children we brilliant at remembering lots of different GPS we have learned over the year.
Ella-Rose wins the National Literacy Trust poetry prize!
Date: 19th May 2023 @ 12:02pm
During Thursday's assembly, Ella-Rose was presented with a bundle of books by Get Blackpool Reading as she won the National Literacy Trust poetry competition. Here is Ella-Rose’s poem:
"Litter, litter goes in the bin,
To throw it on the ground is a really big sin.
The earth is home to lots of creatures and bugs, they don't come in our home and throw litter on rugs.
Dont sin it, bin it! working together we can win it."
Ella's class were also given their own copy of "The Creature Choir" by David Walliams. Well done to everyone who took part!
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 11:51am
This week we have been enjoying a great story called Bumble Bear all about a bear who loves honey so much he decides to join bee school! We have been exploring the striped pattern of the bumble bee, learning how bees make honey and making our own bees out of playdough. The children have also been following a step by step guide to draw a bee - great for learning how to follow instructions! Its been a very buzzzzzy week!
Reception- Jack and the Beanstalk
Date: 24th Apr 2023 @ 4:58pm
Reception have been reading the story Jack and the Beanstalk. After listening to the story, they were able to retell it using puppets, small world figures and Lego at the storytelling table. Here, they listened to each other, took turns to speak and used words and phrases spoken in the story. They also painted a beanstalk as a challenge and made their own using various craft resources from the creative area.
"Fiee! Fi! Fo! Fum!" Kit.
"Jack's mum was angry because he sold the cow for magic beans" Lennox.
"The beanstalk grew very tall...it reached the clouds...Jack climbed all the way up to the Giant's castle" Ibrahim.
"The Giant chased Jack and he hid in the cupboard" Esmee.
"The Giant chased Jack and Jack ran down the beanstalk very quickly and mum chopped it down!" William.
Date: 20th Apr 2023 @ 8:44pm
Reading stories is an important part of the chidlren's learning in nursery and each week we will read an engaging story that the children become familair with over the week. Throughout the week they begin to join in with familiar parts of the story, then begin to retell parts and answer questions about the story. There are always story props avaliable so the children can retell the story. All of this is a great way to develop the chidlren's communication and langauge skills.
Date: 18th Apr 2023 @ 3:40pm
We have started this half term by reading lots of examples of folktales. We found the features of a folktale, which we made a list of and then today we reread the folktales we read yesterday and highlighted them. We can't wait to get our creative juices flowing when we write our own.
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 4:12pm
This week we were lucky to have a visit from Dan Worsley. We looked at the importance of drafting and how we should not give up on the first try. Then we were treated to a Dan Worsley original story, that the children found inspiring, hilarious and creative!
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 3:01pm
Today we were treated to an assembly from Dan Worsley. Once again, he discussed what it takes to be an author and why he enjoys writing books so much. He then read a story from one his 'Impossible Tales' books, all about a boy with magical snot! Let's just say we were all pretty grossed out by it!
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 2:52pm
Date: 14th Mar 2023 @ 6:38pm
Today Year 1 enjoyed a fantastic story telling experience with Dan Worsley. We all used fantastic listening skills whilst Dan told us a very exciting, funny and engaging story 'Junk in the Trunk.' We could all remember lots of details from the story from the brilliant pictures Dan protrayed whilst using lots of description!
Year 5 - RSC: Sandgrown Shakespeare
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 9:42am
We are very proud of the Year 5 children who performed in the Sandgrown Shakespeare show at The Grand Theatre on Tuesday night- Eviee's artwork even took pride of place on the front cover of the program!
Well done to all who took part - please see the Year 5 blog for more pictures!
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 9:26am
We have been readig the story "Dear Zoo" and have enjoyed exploring all the animals from the story. The children have investigated farm animals and zoo animals and sorted them in to two groups and they have made up stories about zoo animals using the zoo small world. The children have painted some wonderful pictures of zoo animals and made some swirly snakes. Outside they built cages for animals using magnetic shapes, made playdough zoo animals and created some food for the animals.
Reception celebrate World Book Day
Date: 3rd Mar 2023 @ 12:29pm
Today, alongside the whole School, Reception have celebrated World Book Day. The children have all dressed up as characters from some of their favourite books and all looked incredible- thank you for all the effort you have gone to! We had a special assembly where we were visited by an author Shane Hegarty. When we returned to class we enjoyed listening to some of our favourite stories, making book marks, role playing in our costumes and drawing and paint our favourite book characters. What a great day we had!
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 10:15pm
We had some visitors in Nursery today. Woody from Toy Story came for a snack, The Grufflo explored the maths area, we had a visit from Harry and his Bucketful of Dinosaurs, Little Red Riding Hood built a tower and Peter Rabbit hopped by! Then Dorethy came by with Toto the dog, Alice in Wonderland did some drawing and a Cheerleader shook her pom poms! Later they all sat together to make a bookmark. If only everyday could be like World Book Day!
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 8:49pm
Nursery have been undertaking their superhero training this week. They had to complete a superhero obstacle course being careful not to fall in the river of crocodiles and making their way carefully down the slide of snakes! They designed and made their own superhero cuff that gave them superpowers and made their own masks. There were lots of superhero activities including measuring superheroes, rescuing the superheroes who had been captured by the baddies and making up stories using the small world figures. We also read a fab story called "There's A Superhero In Your Book" by Tom Fletcher. It has been a super week!
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 6:36pm
We have all been looking forward to celebrating World Book Day!
Alongside our special assembly with Shane Hegarty, we also made reading crowns displaying our favourite books, completed traditional tale word searches, designed reading bookmarks and shared our favourite stories!
We all enjoyed coming to school as our favourite book character and celebrating our love of reading.
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 3:42pm
Today we celebrated World Book Day! The children dressed up as their favourite book character and celebrated their love of reading. We completed quizzes about books and designed our own book covers.
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 3:39pm
Today we celebrated World Book Day 2023. We were very impressed with the children's costumes.
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 11:48am
What great World Book Day outfits today! We had a brilliant assembly and then we did some activities which included a quiz and predicting then ending to our class book and creating our own ending.
Shane Hegarty author visits Boundary!
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 11:32am
Nursery Find a Pea on the Loose!
Date: 26th Feb 2023 @ 5:15pm
We had to be very careful in Nursery this week as there was an evil pea on the loose! We read the story "Supertato" and discovered that the peas had escaped from the nursery freezer! Luckily we managed to find them all with the help of the Wanted posters the children created. Then we discovered peas trapped in jelly and the children had to use their fine motor muscles to try and pull them out using tweezers. We explored lots of different vegetables and create some really delicious looking vegetable soup. The children even made their own evil pea and supertato using materials to create collages. Now we have to keep checking to make sure there are no more esca-peas!
