Townfield Primary School: Gallery
Date: 21st May 2021 @ 7:59pm
This week we have been making props to help us get into role as pirates. We even made our own pirate ship to sail the Seven Seas! No pirate costume is complete without a pirate hat. We followed some instructions and made our own origami hats. Some of the folds were quite complicated but we persevered and were all very proud of our finished creations.
Date: 19th May 2021 @ 3:50pm
Ahoy Mateys!! We have had so much fun exploring pirates this week. We have made hooks, swords, hats, flags and telescopes for our pirate ship. We have made treasure maps and written messages to put in bottles. We have read clues that led us to a treasure chest!
Date: 17th May 2021 @ 8:22pm
Date: 12th May 2021 @ 9:48pm
One of our current PE units is called Striking and Fielding. We have been developing our basic understanding of striking and fielding games such as Rounders and Cricket. We are learning skills including throwing and catching, stopping a rolling ball, retrieving a ball and striking a ball. We've had opportunities to play one against one, one against two, and one against three, learning how to score points and how to to use simple tactics. We are beginning to understand the rules of the games and use these to play fairly.
Date: 12th May 2021 @ 9:15pm
We LOVE reading in 1C! We have a daily story time session with our teacher and we are currently reading James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dhal.
We have lots of opportunities for reading, both alone and with our friends. We can go into the reading area to read a genre of our choice, we have silent reading sessions where we can sit and read quietly to ourselves (indoors and outdoors), We have guided reading groups, shared partner reading and sometimes we can even read to our whole class!
Date: 12th May 2021 @ 7:48pm
This week Nursery have been reading the story Handa's surprise by Eileen Browne. We have talked about the animals in the story and other animals that live in Africa. We have used books, the internet and a world globe to find the answers to some of our questions.
We have danced to African music and the children were challenged to carry baskets containing fruit on their heads, just like Handa in the story.
The children have looked closely at the fruit in the story ,discussing their likes and dislikes.
In our creative area we have talked about the patterns, textures and colours of fruit and have been learning to shade using coloured pastels.
Date: 12th May 2021 @ 12:16pm
This week we really enjoyed art in the forest! We used paint to create our own stick animals!
Date: 11th May 2021 @ 1:41pm
The children have been given their own usernames and passwords to log into their own Numbots account.
Date: 6th May 2021 @ 7:48pm
We have been learning how to bounce and catch a ball. We tried to catch the ball at the
Date: 6th May 2021 @ 7:41pm
We can all create a repeated pattern in a straight line but today we challenged ourselves by creating patterns in a circle. We discovered this is much harder! We helped each other identifying mistakes and suggesting solutions.
Date: 6th May 2021 @ 2:18pm
We have been using our Geographical Skills to find out about and locate the seven continents on Earth. We have been working collaboratively by using maps and globes to find the different countries and which continents they are in.
We have also been studying Human and Physical Geography, focussing on the landscape and environment of the seaside – in particular – Wembury beach. Children have expressed why Wembury beach is such a popular place to visit and explored some of the habitats that can be found there. We have focused mainly on rock pools and the creatures that reside in them, this enabled us to explore adaptations, camouflage and nutrition. This knowledge enabled us to create a rockpool food cahin. We engaged in some simple fieldwork and observational skills to explore how seaside animals and plants might be harmed by pollution and how we could prevent this by abiding by the ‘Seashore Code’.
PSHE People who help keep us safe
Date: 6th May 2021 @ 1:49pm
YEAR 1 PSHE
As part of our ‘How to stay safe’ unit, we have been learning all about what we should do in an emergency. The children have been finding out about our emergency response services and how and when to call them. We were so excited for our planned visit from Birkenhead Fire Brigade, so in order for us to find out more about what they do, we generated lots of questions such as “How long does it take to put a fire out?” “What is the biggest fire that you have ever been to?” and “Do you only go to fires?”. We found out lots of interested facts about the different types of emergencies that they attendand the equipment that they use for each emergency. We even listened to the siren!!! “It was so, so loud” said Louis. Do you know that a firefighter can get his whole attire on within 38 seconds??? We counted!
Date: 6th May 2021 @ 1:41pm
The Children have been exploring the woodland area. They have been climbing on the wooden assault course and using the rope swing. During their visit they spotted a fox cub on the field and witnessed its mum coming to find it.
Date: 6th May 2021 @ 10:41am
Date: 6th May 2021 @ 10:31am
Geography Summer 1: Megacities
Date: 6th May 2021 @ 10:23am
Date: 5th May 2021 @ 5:57pm
This week in Nursery, we have been reading the story of
Date: 5th May 2021 @ 5:40pm
Our children have been very excited to have a wormery in the classroom and have enjoyed the responsibility of making sure that the worms are well cared for by ensuring the soil is moist and that they have suitable food.
We have provided factual books about minibeasts to allow them to find out information and magnifying glasses for them to look closely at the worms. Our
Date: 5th May 2021 @ 8:21am
We have been practicing our throwing and catching skills in PE!
Date: 27th Apr 2021 @ 5:53pm
We are exploring different environments from the one we live in. We have started to look at the features of a beach and the animals that live there. We have really enjoyed accessing our under the sea role play area. We have shells, sea creatures, seaweed and we even made our own boat with an anchor!
Date: 26th Apr 2021 @ 4:16pm
We used Numicon to investigate different ways of making 15p. We know that there are not coins for every value so we only used the 1 shape for 1p, the 2 shape for 2p, the 5 shape for 5p and the 10 shape for 10p. We found lots of different ways of making 15p and some children recorded their calculations in a number sentence.
Date: 26th Apr 2021 @ 4:07pm
Every morning we start the day with linked provision. Each day there is a different activity focusing on a skill we are developing. This week activities have included handwriting, reading and spelling tricky words, ordering numbers and writing.