Townfield Primary School: Gallery
Date: 15th Nov 2020 @ 9:28am
This term, 5A have embarked upon a new unit of learning for their indoor PE lessons. They have been learning Yoga! The first lesson was a super introduction and the children learnt how to present the correcting sitting position, as well as master the Sun Salutation. Watch the video below to see our final Yoga flow.
Music - Autumn 2 - Jazz - Bossa Nova
Date: 15th Nov 2020 @ 9:22am
As part of our new unit of learning this term, we are learning about Jazz music. In this lesson, we learnt about the Bossa Nova, meaning 'new trend' and its origins from Brazil. We used the glockenspeil to play the 3-note Bosss Nova!
Maths - Autumn 2 - Square & Cube Numbers
Date: 15th Nov 2020 @ 9:17am
We are having fun exploring through concrete materials and discussion! Through the new scheme ;Maths, No Problem', Year 5 will learn about Multiplication and Division. In addition, lessons will focus on more Year 5 essentials maths skills: Square numbers, Cube numbers, Prime numbers, Factors/Common Factors and multiplying a number by 10, 100 and 1000. We have used multi-cubes to investigate square and cube numbers.
Science - Autumn 2 - Air Resistance Investigation
Date: 15th Nov 2020 @ 9:00am
As part of the Year 5 Forces unit of study in Science, children learnt about air-resistance and the effect of drag in different contexts. In particular, we investigated air-resistance in parachutes and designed 3 different parachutes, each with a different canopy size. We measured the time it took for the parachute to land for a given height.
Science - Autumn 2 - Water Resistance Investigation
Date: 15th Nov 2020 @ 8:26am
Year 5 children investigated water resistance this term and worked in groups to design 3 boats of different shapes. They timed the legnth of time their boats travelled over water propelled by a hand dryer. The children considered fair testing and what they will need to keep the same (length of water travelled, sail, material used etc) and what they are changing: shape of boat. The polystyrene was incredibly messy, but they all enjoyed creating boats and recording measurements too!
Date: 12th Nov 2020 @ 8:22am
The children learnt about why we wear poppies and made some poppies of their own using various materials.
Date: 11th Nov 2020 @ 9:25pm
Today (11.11.2020), we looked at adverts and the methods they use to try and persuade people to buy their products. We thought about emotive language and they ways advertisers draw us in to being interested in their products. We then worked with our away partners to come up with a short advert to try and sell the most obscure items we could find in our classroom.
The photos show us trying to sell the items to our classmates and Mrs Simmons.
Date: 10th Nov 2020 @ 9:12pm
We were lucky enough to be chosen with Year 3 to have one PE session a week (Tuesday) to learn cricket (this is up until Christmas). A gentleman called Mr Rickman came into school to teach us.
Today (10.11.2020), we started with throwing a catching tennis balls then we progressed onto games where we had to balance a ball on a cricket bat and walk with it and also throwing a ball to try and hit a wicket. It was such fun and we can't wait until PE next Tuesday.
Date: 10th Nov 2020 @ 8:53pm
We have started yoga every Friday in P.E. We had our first session on 6.11.2020 and we all loved it. It was very calming and relaxing. We concentrated on our sitting and meditating poses, balance and stretches.
Date: 8th Nov 2020 @ 4:46pm
Today (6.11.2020) we started to look at and investigate division (dividing 1 and 2 digit numbers by a 1 digit number) by sharing and grouping items. We learnt that division is the inverse of multiplication and that we can use our times tables knowledge to check our answers are correct. We found out that you can't divide some numbers equally and for division, it has to be equal. It was lots of fun to work with our away partner to decide which numbers can be divided easily. We also found out that all even numbers can always be divided by 2 and 24 can be divided 6 different ways!
Date: 7th Nov 2020 @ 2:42pm
We had a fantastic time toasting marshmallows and eating them in the forest.
We understand how to be safe around fire.
Minibeasts in their microhabitats
Date: 5th Nov 2020 @ 9:18pm
Our new Science topic 'Living things and their habitats took us outside the classroom today.
In our first lesson (yesterday) we learnt about things that are alive, dead and those that have never been alive. We looked at the 7 'Life Processes' that all living things do to show that they are alive. We used the mnemonic 'MRS GREN' to remember what the processes are.
Movement
Respiration (breathing)
Sensitivity (feeling)
Growth
Reproduction
Excretion (getting rid of waste)
Nutrition (need for food/water)
In today's lesson, we spent a little while in our woodland area hunting for minibeasts in their microhabitats.. We know that habitats are natural homes/places where animals, plants and other living things live. We learned today that tiny creatures like insects live in 'microhabitats' so we went on a hunt for some.
We lifted up logs, looked in the grass and soil, looked under fallen leaves, rocks and stones and found lots of different minibeasts like slugs, spiders, ants, woodlice and worms. We were very careful to put their habitat back to how we found it after we had seen them.
Date: 5th Nov 2020 @ 5:09pm
In PE we were taking part in a variety of different activities which improved our balance and co-ordination.
Date: 5th Nov 2020 @ 4:50pm
This term we studied Sikhism. Here are some photos of the children researching gurus.
Date: 3rd Nov 2020 @ 8:21pm
Geography
21st September 2020
Over the last two weeks the children have been learning all about the local area. Below there are a series of pictures that will showcase the learning that has taken place.
Lesson 1
The children started with locating the 4 countires in the United Kingdom.
Lesson 2
In lesson 2 the children found out that the 4 countries in the United Kingdom have capital cities and they also found out about the seas surrounding the UK.
Lesson 3
In lesson 3 we looked at our local area and used Google Maps to help us to locate points of interest in our area.
Lesson 4
In this lesson we looked at the land uses of areas. We found out some new vocabulary including public services, open spaces and economic. The children were able to organise piictures in a table under the correct headings.
Lesson 5
In lesson 5 the children looked at physical and human features of land. They learnt that physical features are those that are natural and human features are either influenced or created by humans.
Lesson 6
In lesson 6 we learnt about the seven continents of the world. We learnt that we live in Europe. We also found out that Asia is the largest continent and Australia is the smallest.
We listened to a song to help us to remember the names of the continents.
We have learnt so much information during the last two weeks and have enhoyed finding out about our country and our local area.
Date: 3rd Nov 2020 @ 8:14pm
PSHE
We had lots of dicussion during our first PSHE lesson. We are learning about relationships. In our first lesson we had lfun looking at and sorting a variety of images, we were then asked to use some new vocabulary during our discussions such as; 'likes', 'dislikes' and 'I prefer'. Throughout this lesson, we discovered that we do not all like or dislike the same things, but this is ok because these are the things that make us 'unique'
Exploring healthy and unhealthy foods: 3.11.20
The children were able to sort the images into healthy and unhealthy groups.
3rd December.
We have been learning about the importance of hand washing and keeping germs away.
We used glitter to represent germs and to see how quickly germs can spread around the classroom.
Date: 3rd Nov 2020 @ 8:12pm
MATHS
This week we have launched our brand new maths curriculum; Maths No Problem. The children have been learning different ways of counting, counting and ordering numbers in the ascending order, counting and ordering numbers in descending order and using objects to reflect this, they have recorded their learning in a JOURNAL! The journal is a book where the children can show how they have understood a concept by writing numbers and including their own versions of pictorial represtations for these. We have been learning through our numbers in a fun and active way and we have loved it!
Date: 3rd Nov 2020 @ 12:45pm
WK BEG 9th November 2020
We have had the most amazing week learning about materials and conducting two investigations. We completed an ice experiment - we wanted to find out where in our classroom ice would melt the quickest. The children loved predicting what would happen, completing the experiment and then finding out what happened and also discussing whether our predictions were correct. We found out that the ice melted the quickest nearest the radiator and the ice that took the longest to melt was the ice cube that was placed outside the classroom door.
Our second experiment was to find out which material out of a selection would protect an egg if dropped from a height. The children were so excited to plan their experment and wrap their egg in a chosen material. We made predictions on which material would protect the egg fully and then we completed the experiment. The children were so excited and had a smashing (ha ha) time. The children were so intrigued to unwrap their eggs and to find out which material were able to fully protect the egg. We found out that 'bubble wrap' was tthe only material that protected the egg. All the other materials (cling film, bin bags, blu tac, fabric, foil and newspaper) did not protect the egg!
WK BEG 7th September 2020
Well what a lovely first week we have had in 1JR. All children have been brought along with; big, happy smiles and a fantastic learning attitude. Every child has tried their absolute best. Well done 1JR!
This week we have launched our new science topic "Materials" and we went on a materials hunt around school. The children were excellent detectives and were able to find objects made from wood, plastic, metal, paper, fabric and brick. Please take a look at the photographs of the children on their material hunt.
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WK BEG 14th September 2020
We had a great start to our week! We completed a science investigation on which materials were waterproof and windproof. We had great fun using a 'hairdryer' for the wind! The children found out that wood and metal were the most suitable to build a house for the third pig. Ask your child to explain what waterproof and windproof means.
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16th September 2020
We had more fun today finding out whether materials were transparent or opaque. We now understand that transparent means you can see through a material and that opaque means that you cannot see through an object. We found out that 'glass' would make a great material for windows because it is transparent. We also found out that 'wood' would be a good material for a door. We really enjoyed investigating and we were really sensible with all of the different materials.
3.11.20 - Where will ice melt the quickest in our classroom?
The children have really enjoyed investigating where ice will melt the quickest in our classroom. They decided on 4 different locations. We used timers and timed how long it took for the ice cube to turn into just liquid. We found out that heat does help ice to melt the quickest as the ice cube nearest to the radiator melted the fastest.
Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 1:21pm
Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 12:38pm
On the last day of the first Autumn half term, we came to school dressed in our scariest and/or most creative Halloween costumes. Mrs Loftus had kindly said that we could as due to COVID, Halloween parties and trick or treating weren't taking place this year.
We had a spooktacular last day of term :)
Date: 26th Oct 2020 @ 12:47pm
We LOVE being out in our woodland area. We have been learning lots of skills such as; teamwork, safety, den building, climbing trees, making smores and brioche on the campfire, baking in a mud kitchen, digging, swinging, hopping, balancing, rolling down hills, splashing in puddles and much more!
Date: 26th Oct 2020 @ 12:27pm
Year 1 had such a fun afternoon playing halloween games! we had a spooky treasure hunt (and we we allowed to eat our treasure; chocolate ghouls, squishy eyeballs and chocolate pumpkins, we played ghost skittles, pumkin paintingmusic monster bumps and had a ghost challenge where we had to dance with a ghost (toilet roll) between 2 of us whithout using our hands and not drop it, this was fabulous!
Date: 25th Oct 2020 @ 2:15pm
English
Our new book for this term is called Rapunzel by Betan Woolvin
We have not even opened the book yet and the children have already been predicting what/who the story is about and what might happen. They have been writing short sentences, writing questions to which they will find out the answers once the is read, they have labelled all of the nouns that they can see on the front cover and they have been building towers for the witch using a variety of media.
Date: 25th Oct 2020 @ 2:14pm
PE
Today's PE lesson was gymnastics, we really wanted to do this outside on the field but the sun was just far too hot for us so we moved our classroom around and got on with it! And we got on with it fantastically, I have a class of talented gymnasts! We started off our warm up by using our bodies to form letters of the alphabet (t, v, o, I and w) some we could do solo but for others we needed to work with a partner.
we then moved on to making the PE shapes Pike, straddle, tuck, straight, star. Some we did sitting down and some we did standing up. We found the tuch shape too difficult to do standing up HAHA!
After that we had a go at finding a partner and taking turns to choose a shape for our partner to mirror us. This was a fantastic way to show understanding of the names of the gymnastic shapes. We have learned some new vocabulary in PE this week; Flexibility, Agility, Position, Strength and Balance!
We have been learning all about body tension and control. We have been using these skills whilst creating pencil rolls. We help organise equipment so that we can learn about health and safety and also have more time enjoying our lessons.
Science materials - waterproof and windproof
Date: 25th Oct 2020 @ 2:13pm
WK BEG 14th September 2020
Science
What a great start to our week! We have begun a science investigation to find out which materials are most suitable for building a house for the Three pigs to live safely from the big bad wolf! First, we recapped the names of the materials that we were investigating (wood, metal, fabric, plastic, paper) then made predicted whether we thought the material would/would not be waterproof/windproof by using our thumbs up/down. Next we tested materials to see if they were waterproof/not waterproof and windproof/not windproof. We had great fun using a 'hairdryer' for the wind! After testing a few materials, we found out that wood and metal were the most suitable as they were both waterproof AND windproof! Ask your child to explain the meaning of waterproof and windproof to you.
