Townfield Primary School: Gallery
Date: 11th Dec 2020 @ 12:21pm
We have had so much fun celebrating Christmas in RE! We have listened to the story of the very first Christmas and role played the story in our small world and role play areas. We have written Christmas cards and posted them in our Christmas post box. We have created our own wrapping paper by printing paint. We have also been very excited to see what our cheeky elf has been up to everyday!
Date: 10th Dec 2020 @ 7:39pm
This week we started our D.T. project. We are looking at the mechanisms that allow vehicles to move (namely wheels and axles) and how they work. We are going to be designing and making our own small vehicle for a child to play with. Today, we investigated wheels and axles using kinex. In groups we had to build a vehicle with at least 3 wheels that would go in a straight line when pushed.
Date: 8th Dec 2020 @ 8:14pm
December 2020 RE - Here Comes Christmas!
2nd December
We have been learning all about the 'Christmas story', we have role played and sequenced what happened in the correct order. We also talked about the 'bible' and how it is split into two parts.
We especiall enjoyed learning about how Christmas is celebrated around the world by Christians and made comparisons between the UK and Australia.
Date: 8th Dec 2020 @ 8:04pm
November 2020
This term 1C have been studying the work of a famous 'Pop' Artist called Andy Warhol. First we explored his work and found researched some facts about him. We then studied self portraits and used Ipads to take digital portraits of our partners. Using the digital images alongside mirrors, we sketched our own portraits; ensuring that we noted size, shape and proportions.
We then looked at complimentary and contrasting colours. We experimented with different types of media and chose some contrasting colours. This assisted us to when we came to choose our 4 favourite complimenary colours for our POP ART backgrounds. After this, we cut out our 4 self portraits and attached them to the backgrounds. We revisited the features of Andy Warhol's art and found that he used the colours from his backgrounds within his repeated images. We thoroughly enjoyed this topic!
Date: 8th Dec 2020 @ 4:49pm
Woodland Learning - making Christmas decorations
Date: 7th Dec 2020 @ 9:36pm
This week (7.12.2020) we continued making our Christmas decoations from a log. This meant, with the help of Mrs Hancox, that we had to use a saw to cut a piece of the wood for our decoration. It was quite hard work.
After we had cut out wood, we then went into the woodland classroom to paint our decorations. Mrs Simmons is so excited to see what we have created during our Woodland Learning time.
Date: 7th Dec 2020 @ 8:33pm
As part of our R.E. topic 'Christmas', we learnt all about Advent and Christingle. We wrote about Advent wreaths and why they're important for Christians. We also learnt all about Christingles, what each part of the Christingle orange symbollises and we even made our own Christingle oranges and got to eat the left over sweets afterwards :)
Date: 29th Nov 2020 @ 8:34pm
Today in yoga we began practising poses (child's, triangle, bird, moon). We had to concentrate hard and use our balance for most of them but it was a lot of fun. Some poses were much more difficult than others but we are sure we will get more confident the more lessons we have.
Date: 29th Nov 2020 @ 8:31pm
Today (Friday 27th November) we completed our Rita Greer inspired Great Fireof London artwork. We added tissue flames to our pieces which created a really effective fire.
Date: 29th Nov 2020 @ 12:26pm
4MB art gallery now open! We have created our final pieces using oil pastels as resistant and ink to create a colourful background. We have worked really hard to create our final pieces in the style of Gustav Klimpt - and what a great job we have done.
Date: 25th Nov 2020 @ 4:35pm
We used a variety of media to create a scene from the Great Fire of London.
Date: 24th Nov 2020 @ 10:59pm
We had our third cricket lesson today and we learnt how to bowl like a proper cricketer. Mr Rickman taught us how to stand and to try and keep our arms straight when bowling the ball. We did find this a little tricky but continued to persevere and both Mrs Simmons and Mr Rickman were very impressed with how focussed we were and how much better we got just in one lesson.
We had lots of practise and then played a group game where we had to bowl the ball into a box and try and hit the wicket too. It was a big challenge but lots of us managed to do it.
Date: 23rd Nov 2020 @ 11:58am
We have been plotting earthquakes on a map of New Zealand.
Art- Roman Mosaics- Designing our Tiles
Date: 23rd Nov 2020 @ 11:43am
We have been learning about Roman Mosaics. We are designing our own mosaic tile and creating a prototype.
Art: Great Fire of London Lessons 3 and 4
Date: 21st Nov 2020 @ 6:06pm
We have really been enjoying our art lessons this week. After sketching Tudor houses in charcoal and then recreating them with strips of black paper, we started experimenting with different media (tissue paper, chalk, oil pastels and pencils) to create a fire effect for the background of our finished piece of artwork. We discovered that chalk was very easy to blend and made an excellent fire effect, whilst tissue paper gave the fire a deeper, more intense effect.
We began our final pieces (inspired by Rita Greer's painting) by blending yellow, orange and red chalk over a pre-paint washed piece of A3 cartridge paper and blended those colours as if our lives depended on it. Next week, we will be adding our charcoal and paper Tudor houses and tissue paper fire. We're certain our finished pieces will turn out brilliantly,
Date: 20th Nov 2020 @ 1:08pm
We are so lucky to have a sketchbook to record all our findings and artwork. We have been studying the work of Hans Holbein who created portraits of Kings and Queens. We have been focusing on tone, colour and shading. Look at some of the examples of amazing artwork 4MB have created.
Date: 20th Nov 2020 @ 8:22am
The children really enjoyed making their own sandwiches after watching an instructional video from our school cook Mrs Evans!
Art: Great Fire of London Lessons 1 and 2
Date: 18th Nov 2020 @ 9:11pm
Today we began our block of art lessons. We started by looking at the paintings of English artist Rita Greer and in particular her 2008 painting of the Great Fire of London. Over the next two weeks, we are going to be creating our own pictures of the Great Fire of London using different media to create the background, the houses and the fire.
This afternoon, we did some observational drawings of Tudor houses using charcoal, we even managed not to create a huge mess and Mrs Simmons was very impressed. Have a look at our wonderful drawings (the first is Rita Greer's painting that we will be recreating in our own way).
The next day, we recreated our charcoal Tudor houses with strips of black paper. What do you think...?
Date: 18th Nov 2020 @ 9:01pm
Today we had a skipping lesson from a gentleman that came in to school. It was really good fun and most of us managed to skip successfully though it was quite tricky trying to remember to jump at the right time. Sadly, we missed the last 5 minutes of our lesson because it started to rain heavily. Mrs Simmons tried really hard to get some great action shots but unfortunately, the iPad didn't want to work properly.
Date: 17th Nov 2020 @ 9:22pm
Today (Tuesday 17th November 2020) we had our second cricket lesson with Mr Rickman.
Firstly, we were grouped into threes with one of us as the batter, one as the bowler and one as the fielder. We learnt that we must hold the cricket bat with our dominant hand (usually the hand we write with) at the bottom of the handle as that gives us a lot more control.
After we had practised for a while, we were split into two teams and had a mini game of cricket. What a lot of fun it was! We can't wait for next week...
