Townfield Primary School3S - Mrs Simmons: Gallery
3S - Art: Aboriginal Art (dot painting)
Date: 22nd Nov 2023 @ 8:07pm
We looked closely at aboriginal art and discussed the similarities and differences between cave art and aboriginal art. We noticed that aboriginal art was much brighter and mostly completed in dots rather than harsh lines. Patterns are also very prominent in aboriginal art.
We then used earthy tones as per the cave paintings we have been looking at the last few weeks and created our own dot paintings of our hand.
Date: 21st Nov 2023 @ 9:07pm
In our lesson, we talked about sequences; what they are and when and where we see sequences in our everyday lives. We then discussed how we can can create our own sequences of connected commands using Scratch.
In pairs, we drew up our own mini projects by chosing a scratch sprite each, selecting our event blocks to begin our sequence then our motion blocks depending on what we wanted out sprite to do.
Scratch is a new programme for us to get used to (we have previously used the much more basic app, Scratch Jnr) but Mrs Simmons was very proud of how quickly we understood the different functions and even said we could teach her a few things!
Date: 16th Nov 2023 @ 9:28pm
This week in French, we revised being able to answer our name, how we feel, where we live and our age. We then learnt some teacher commands that would be heard in a French classroom. Finally, we revised the names of some popular classroom items. We love learning French!
Date: 16th Nov 2023 @ 9:14pm
In today's PE lesson, we were developing out straight, barrel and forward rolls.
Date: 16th Nov 2023 @ 9:07pm
As part of our anti-bullying week, we were tasked with designing an anti-bullying poster containing information about what we can do if we ever witness or are the victim of bullying behaviour. The children created some wonderful posters which may be displayed around school.
Date: 16th Nov 2023 @ 9:04pm
Every morning, we have Guided Reading. This week we have read the book 'The Tunnel' by Anthony Browne. Each day, we use a different reading skill (vocabulary, inference, prediction, retrieval or summarising) to analyse the text. In today's lesson, we were using our retrieval skills to answer question about the book.
Date: 13th Nov 2023 @ 9:47pm
In today's art lesson, we practised our observational drawing skills to create some cave art-style hunters and animals. We discussed tone and blending and used chalks in earth tones to add colour. We used our fingers to blend and smudge just like the people who would've created the original cave art in pre-historic times, around 32,000 years ago.
Date: 13th Nov 2023 @ 9:44pm
To kick start Anti-Bullying week, this morning, some of us came to school in odd socks. We also took part in a national online Anti-Bullying assembly run by the BBC. This year the theme is 'Making Noise'. We learnt that if we are being bullied or if we see someone who is a victim of bullying behaviour, then we should 'make noise' about it and ensure we tell trusted adults.
3S: Computing - Stop frame animations
Date: 9th Nov 2023 @ 5:35pm
After making our flip books last week, this week we discussed how we can use technology to animate our pictures. We observed short animations and talked about how we could capture each stage of movement in a frame. We then used the app 'i-Motion' to create our own short animation of a waving stick man.
Date: 8th Nov 2023 @ 3:49pm
Year 3 were delighted to have Policeman 'Stu' come in to give a talk on how we can keep ourselves safe and the role the police have in keeping us safe.
3S: Remembrance Poppies for St Luke’s (bombed out) Church,
Date: 8th Nov 2023 @ 3:43pm
The children thoroughly enjoyed making their remembrance poppies for the display at St Luke's Church in Liverpool. Thank you for sending in all the empty bottles to make this possible.
Date: 7th Nov 2023 @ 10:11am
Our computing topic this term is 'stop frame animations' so in our first lesson, we talked about whether pictures can actually move, what animation is and what animations we have seen. We then made our own animations by creating our own flip books of a waving stick man.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 8:45pm
This term, in PE, we are doing gymnastics. Today, in our first lesson, we learnt and practised some balances.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 8:42pm
Our PSHE topic this term is 'Keeping Safe'. In our first lesson, we brainstormed what we already know about how to keep ourselves safe. We then talked about Bonfire Night, why we celebrate it and how we can keep ourselves safe and then we all designed our own Bonfire Night safety posters.
Date: 12th Oct 2023 @ 8:17pm
As we are nearing the end of half term, in today's hockey lesson we brushed up on our control and dribbling skills ready for a mini tournament next week for our last hockey lesson.
3S - DT: making our healthy sandwiches
Date: 12th Oct 2023 @ 8:13pm
Well, today, the children were delighted as they got to make the healthy sandwiches that they had designed. We cleaned the surfaces, washed our hands, recapped our cutting techniques and then got to work making our sandwiches.
Food Bank Charles Thompson Mission Charity
Date: 11th Oct 2023 @ 4:10pm
We have been blown away by the amount of food that the families of Townfield have generously donated to Charles Thompson Mission charity! When the donations were collected on Tuesday, the volunteers from the charity said that our school had provided the biggest harvest that they had received this year! We thank you all very much for your ongoing support and generosity. You have helped so many people in need this harvest season.
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 8:37pm
In PE this week, we focused on control of the ball using the hockey stick. We dribbled the ball around cones, keeping it close to us at all times by holding the hockey stick in the correct way.
Date: 4th Oct 2023 @ 10:00pm
In English today, we worked in groups to sort positive and negative adjectives for our next piece of writing. Once we had sorted the adjectives into positive and negative, we placed the adjectives on a 'vocabulary cline' which allowed us to decide where, on a scale of positive to negative, each adjectives would sit.
3S - English Enrichment - visit from Wirral Fox Rescue
Date: 2nd Oct 2023 @ 8:13pm
In English this half term, we have been reading and writing about the book 'Fox' by Margaret Wild.
Today, we were lucky enough to have a visitor, Graham, from Wirral Fox Rescue, come in to talk to us all about foxes, their characteristics, appearance and how they are rescued. We looked at photographs of many of the different foxes they have rescued and rehabilitated recently, had a look through some night vision binoculars which help the people at the rescue to see the foxes when it is dark.
We also learned that a fox's favourite food is cake and that during autumn and as we approach winter, they need high sugar foods two so they can increase their glucose levels which helps them to survive.
3S - DT: peeling, grating and chopping
Date: 29th Sep 2023 @ 7:14pm
Today's DT lesson gave the children to showcase some of their food preparation skills from Year 2. We identified a range of kitchen utensils and their uses then, with a carrot eat, we used peelers to peel all the skin off the carrot, graters to grate some of the carrots into bits and then knives to cut the carrots into slices. We revisited the different grips we could use whilst chopping/cutting (bridge grip and claw grip) remembering to keep our fingers well out of the way of the knife we were using.
3S - Computing: Digital devices
Date: 19th Sep 2023 @ 12:30pm
In computing we worked with our partners and looked at inputs and possible outputs of digital devices and answered questions about this on Seesaw.
Date: 14th Sep 2023 @ 10:27pm
In our lesson today we focused on holding the hockey stick correctly, dribbling the ball and passing.
Date: 14th Sep 2023 @ 10:23pm
Today was our second French lesson. We recapped on how we ask and say our names, we began to learn how to ask how someone is feeling and give replies, we looked at colours and also recapped body parts we had learned last week plus some new ones.
Date: 13th Sep 2023 @ 8:19pm
In DT this half term, we will be designing, making and evaluating a sandwich taking in to account which ingredients are healthy and which ingredients are fresh or processed.
In today's lesson we focussed on the terms 'fresh' and 'processed'. We looked at the ingredients of a range of different sandwiches and evaluated whether each ingredient would be classed as fresh or processed.
