Castle Competition year 7

Yesterday the Year 7 students displayed their castles they have made as part of their History project.  The competition was a great success, with lots of lovely pieces, and lots of votes being cast!

Results of the winners will be announced in January, well done to all who took part!
Mrs Bailey

Year 7 consultation evening this Thursday

Just a reminder that the Year 7 Consultation evening is this Thursday 7th December from 5pm to 8pm.  Students should have made appointments with teachers already so the evening runs smoothly.

YEAR 7 PARENT/CARER CONSULTATION EVENING

YEAR 7 PARENT/CARER CONSULTATION EVENING

This is taking place on Thursday December 7^th from 5pm-8pm. We look forward to seeing all our parents/carers at this event. Students can make appointments from next week once the arrangements and procedures have been explained to them.

Anti Bullying activities - Thursday

Today visitors from the Special Olympics organisation visit year 7 to speak about their own experiences and about being a part of this special community.  We also have an anti bullying poster designing competition and friendship bracelet making taking place in the Discovery Centre for all years at lunchtime.

Primary school teachers visiting this afternoon

Townsend look forward to welcoming our year 7 students' primary school teachers after school, so they can show you their new school and chat to you about their experiences so far!  See you from 3:30pm!

YEAR 7 PRIMARY TEACHERS VISIT TO TOWNSEND

Year 7 students have sent all their letters to their ‘old’ primary schools and we are eagerly waiting the replies to see who can come to visit students on Monday October 16^th. We will contact you through next week as soon as we get replies so that you have sufficient time to make alternative arrangements to collect your child on this day at 5.45pm. Students have invited one, two, or three adults of their choice from their primary schools and we are hoping that many will respond favourably telling us they can come. I know the students are excited and looking forward to it. Thank you for your support in anticipation. Miss Lingwood

DAFFODIL PLANTING

We are looking for free or ‘good deals’ for daffodil bulbs. We are hoping with our Year 7 students will help with planting 1500 daffodils around the school.  If anyone has any contacts that would be able to support us with this please contact the School Office. Thanks

Shakespeare Exhibition last week

Last Friday saw a Shakespeare Exhibition being held in the Discovery Centre.  Students from years 7 and 8 have been working on a project in which they have to create their own Shakespeare related artefact, along with a write up of what it is and how they made it.  The centre was open at lunchtime for all students to view the pieces, as well as for staff to judge the winning entries!  Well done to all students, such a lot of work had gone into the projects and they looked fantastic!

YEAR 7 Celebration picnic

YEAR 7

Celebration picnic

On Wednesday we are holding form picnics on the lower field (weather permitting, in form rooms if wet) to celebrate the first year at Townsend. Students should have signed up to bring in an item to food or drink to share with the form. Students may also wish to bring their own sandwich, a picnic rug, outdoor games and sun cream.

Year 7 Work Shadowing 6th July

Please make sure you return your forms by 19th June at the latest.  Mrs Maguire

Update for Enterprise

TENNER CHALLENGE – up date

Students collected their money last week and have now started on their quest to show their Entrepreneurial skills. Over the 4 weeks of the program there will be a mini competition each week. This week’s theme is “Logo”. The team that designs the best “Logo” for their business stand to win £50 in Amazon Vouchers. Our year 12 students will be meeting with individual business teams on Monday lunchtime to offer guidance. Please continue to encourage and support your child with this opportunity. “Good Luck” to all businesses. Mrs Maguire

STUDENT INVENTORS

The students Investors Challenge finished before half term. Well done to all the year 12 students who took part. Although we didn’t have a winning team, it gave our students the opportunity to experience some of the workings behind trading shares. This experience will prove beneficial in their studies. Well done.  Mrs Maguire

YEAR 7 CASTLE COMPETITION

Last term all year 7 students were asked to research, plan and make a medieval castle for their autumn term extended learning project. All of the students made an incredible effort and many of the castles produced were of an exceptional quality and very historically accurate. On Monday 16^th January all of the castles were displayed in the Humanities classrooms at lunchtime and both staff and students were given the opportunity to vote for what they considered to be the best three castles. The votes have now all been counted and the winning students were:
1^st place: Billy 7D
2^nd place: Kerri 7E
3^rd place: Baba 7C
A huge well done to those three students and all of the other year 7 students who worked so hard on their castles. The winners will be announced in the year 7 collective worship on Friday afternoon where they will each receive a certificate and a small prize. The students can now collect and take home their castles from the History classrooms.   Mrs Davey

Year 7 parents Evening tonight from 5pm

Anti bullying week day 3

Wednesday - Anti - Bullying Cinema - Years 7,8 and 9 - X Men: The Last Stand 3.30pm - 5.30pm in the Discovery Centre. Support Children in Need by playing bingo at lunch!

Year 7 Art

In Art Year 7 have started the year well studying tonal drawing. They started by producing a tonal bar and drawing four key shapes using a range of tone here is an example by Olivia. They  then moved on to looking at still life focusing on improving their sketching skills and tonal shading. Example by Pippa (still to complete) Great Effort so far ladies!

Year 7 trip to Hatfield House

Yesterday Year 7 were all treated to a visit to Hatfield house to learn more about the Tudor period and ruling.  Students walked round the oak tree where Queen Elizabeth I was told she would become queen, as well as hearing all about the Tudor times from none other than Catherine Parr and Henry VIII themselves, whilst sitting in the old palace at the grounds!

Year 7 Work Shadowing

Last Friday year 7 completed their work shadowing day, following parents round their places of work and learning lots of new skills and information!  We hope you all enjoyed your day and have lots of stories to tell about your time in the workplace!

Author Richard Mayers visits Townsend

Local author Richard Mayers visited Townsend on Wednesday to deliver a creative workshop to some students in years 7 and 8 who have been working particularly well in English this term.

Students were introduced to Richard's two books, Spikez and Making Trakz, written about cyborgs made from animals, and had a presentation/discussion about animal testing and rights of animals.  They were then asked to create their own cyborgs, with designs being presented at the end of the session.

Students thoroughly enjoyed creating their own concepts and designs throughout the afternoon and we thank Richard for his time visiting us!

BBC Microbit for year 7

ICT 
As you are aware all year 7 students were issued with a BBC Miocrobit devioce last Monday. We hope you have had the chance to look at this with your child. A reminder that the website you need to find out more is www.microbit.co.uk. 

Please share your work with us and let us know how you are doing with the microbit. 
Happy coding! 
Mrs King

Also shake up your wake up

Also during this week year 7 made pancakes during Food Technology classes!