Oldfield Primary School: Year 4: Gallery

Date: 21st Oct 2020 @ 8:36pm

On Tuesday morning, the Year 4 children did an amazing job creating Ancient Greek Theatre masks in clay and Greek mythology drawings.

Year 4 - Ancient Greek Art (vases & theatre masks) & Orienteering!, by Mrs Hover

Date: 7th Oct 2020 @ 7:51pm

Year 4 - Samba!, by Mrs Hover

Date: 2nd Oct 2020 @ 12:43pm

Year 4 are doing really well with their Samba lessons and instead of a mini concert in December, Helen and Vicky (Samba teachers) are going to create a video which we will email to parents.

Year 4 - Singing in the fire pit!, by Mrs Hover

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 7:50am

After exploring the fire pit during an orienteering lesson, Mr Sloan decided to take the class back there to lead a Bob Marley sing-a-long with his guitar. The children remembered all the words and kept in time with their egg shakers!

Year 4 - First full week back at school!, by Mrs Hover

Date: 11th Sep 2020 @ 7:16am

Year 4 have settled brilliantly back into school and they have been extremely busy! Here are some pictures from their first drawing lesson looking at tone in preparation for some art work linked to the Ancient Greeks!

Year's 4's Fantastic Home Learning - Final Week!, by Mrs Hover

Date: 15th Jul 2020 @ 1:10pm

David has researched the prey of the komodo dragon - the water buffalo. See his PowerPoint below.

Brooke has found lots of facts about rabbits and she found a burrow entrance at Delamere Forest. Read more in Brooke's PowerPoint.

Luke has also been finding out lots of information about bunny rabbits! Find out more in his PowerPoint!

Felix has learnt lots about zebras. Do you know what a group of zebras are called? Have a look at his slides below to find out.

Freya has made an impressive sculpture of a volcano out of clay!

Niamh has used a very effective way of presenting all her information on deer!

Year 4's Fantastic Home Learning - Summer 2 (Week 6), by Mrs Hover

Date: 5th Jul 2020 @ 7:43am

Here are some stills from Aidan's interactive Powerpoint on Japan! Do you know any of the answers? His Powerpoint is saved in 'Files to Download' with further questions!

Sophie has been busy building a volcano and making it erupt with vinegar, bicarb and some cherryade!

David has shared his PowerPoint on the nearby city of Liverpool! His Powerpoint is also saved in 'Files to Download'.

Felix has carefully constructed his volcano and the final photograph is a video still of his volcano erupting!

For this week's activity, Luke's predator is the anglerfish! There are two photographs from his PowerPoint and a still from his Lego mini movie!

Alfie has found out lots of facts about African Wild Dogs! Read more in his Powerpoint saved in 'Files to Download'.

Alice has researched and drawn a lovely picture of a jaguar!

Ollie C has been finding out about another big cat - the panther!

We have three birthdays this week in Year 4. Hapy Birthday to Lili (Thursday), Luke (Friday) and Connor on Sunday!! Luke sent us a picture of his birthday message!

David has researched the largest lizard - the Komodo dragon! Read David's Powerpoint to find out how they munch on big prey!!

Niamh has found out lots about an animal that used to roam in the wild in Britain. Find out more about wolves in Niamh's Powerpoint.

Brooke has also researched wolves but she has chosen a word wheel to effectively present her information.

Freya has found out lots of facts about killer whales! Read Freya's Powerpoint to find out information including how much they weigh!

Here are some pictures taken from Felix's project on hyenas - I wonder which animals they like to eat?

Sophie created her predator work using Book Creator (see 'Files to Download' and she painted a silhouette of a lion against a sunset using watercolour.

Year 4's Fantastic Home Learning - Summer 2 (Week 5), by Mrs Hover

Date: 29th Jun 2020 @ 7:04am

For Evie's English and Geography project, she researched the 'Mull of Kintyre' - Can anyone find this on a map?

Niamh has been doing some of the Brownies challenges and the first photo shows her blowing a bubble inside a bubble inside a bubble! She has shared her home learning in English/Geography and Science and Niamh has been for a very wet and muddy walk in the rain. Finally, she invited lots of wild animals into her house!! (Google Live)

Brooke has drawn a very neat and detailed cross-section of a volcano!

David has found out about the Sahara Desert this week whilst Luke chose Brazil! Luke has also included photos of his annotated volcano diagram and his exploding volcano!

Alfie reserached Mexico and used photographs and cue cards to present his information.

Alice has enjoyed looking at a globe and Google earth and the different continents, countries and cities. She chose to research the Amazon Rainforest in more detail.

Heather has been watching some episodes of Grand Designs and here are her exterior and interior designs for a house.

Year 4's Fantastic Home Learning - Summer 2 (Week 4), by Mrs Hover

Date: 26th Jun 2020 @ 2:25pm

Freya has cretead some very informative leaflets on Chester and an extra one on Italy - We wonder whether Italy was inspired by your history work Freya?

For Alice's research project, she has chosen Middlesbrough which is a place special to her.

Luke has chosen a place where a legendary monster lives! He has also found some interesting facts about ferrets' teeth!

Brooke chose to create an artistic poster full of facts about Cornwall.

Year 4's Fantastic Home Learning - Summer 2 (Week 3), by Mrs Hover

Date: 17th Jun 2020 @ 10:59am

Happy Birthday to Catherine today (Wednesday)! Have lots of fun playing on your bouncy castle!

Alice has been doing some writing to accompany her Blue Peter Badge and experimented with paint and squirty cream! She has created an illustration of the courtyard for 'The Ickabog' and built a den to write a 'scary' story!

Year 4's Fantastic Home Learning - Summer 2 (Week 2), by Mrs Hover

Date: 8th Jun 2020 @ 6:27am

Have a look at Brooke's Powerpoint in 'Files to Download' with lots of photos from her 'I Spy Vicar's Cross Adventure'!

Freya has been creating mindmaps for the characters in 'Taking Flight' and using them to create some super descriptive sentences.

Can you guess David's kenning? If you look closely, there is a clue in the picture! (Photo 4)

How about Brooke's kenning - her favourite animal? The answers are at the bottom of this page! (Photo 5)

Now have a look at Aidan's kenning (Photo 6) and Sophie has had a go at writing three different kennings (Photo 7). We are loving guessing what they are!

Niamh has sent in a photo of her kenning (Photo 8), her work on the digestive system, a delicious looking cake and a picture of her dog, Max, enjoying the sand when she went to the beach. Niamh also has a family of frogs living in her garden and she has to make sure they have enough water when it's scorching hot!

Luke has sent a photo of his kenning (Photo 13) and he has also loved doing the science red cabbage experiment!

Lili has worked very hard on her science experiment and has made you a PowerPoint to show and explain her results. (See files to download)

Brooke has managed to get a super range of colours and acidity with her science experiment!

Niamh had fun with the red cabbage science experiment too!

Felix created the robot 'Nature Nick', which he created as part of the ‘helpful inventions’. He has also sent in a final picture of his Acid-Base indicator test. What did you all think of the cabbage smell after it had been blended?

Can you guess Inca and Jacob's kennings? (Photos 20 and 21)

How about Michael's kenning - an animal with no limbs? He has also sent some photos of his science experiment from this week - Michael's got a really good range of colours too!

This week, Alice has designed a car for Blue Peter, and made a bird feeder towards her green badge. She also really enjoyed the cabbage science experiment and videos!

Evie has created mindmaps for the characters from 'Taking Flight', added synonyms and then written some lovely descriptive sentences. She has also sent in her kenning and drawn her chosen animal using an online tutorial!

David's kenning (photo 4) guinea pig! One of David's guinea pigs?

Brooke's kenning (photo 5) sloth!

Aidan's kenning (photo 6) monkey!

Sophie's kennings (photo 7) monkey, duck & fish!

Niamh's kenning (photo 8) dog! Do we think this is about Niamh's dog, Max?

Luke's kenning (photo 13) frog!

Inca's kenning (photo 20) guinea pig!

Jacob's kenning (photo 21) tortoise!

Michael's kenning (photo 22) snake!

Year 4's Fantastic Home Learning - Summer 2 (Week 1), by Mrs Hover

Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 10:59am

Look at Aidan's Mini Wildlife Project in 'Files to Download' - he has been busy making a habitat to encourage a certain animal into his garden!

Sophie made a digestive system from polymer clay, with mouth and tongue, oesophagus, stomach, small and large intestine with colon!

For her English home learning this week, Alice has invented a machine that can talk to animals!

Brooke has invented a dressing table that has a hidden secret - it is a make-up machine!
When you look in the mirror, the smart screen can tell what make up suits you and apply it for you!

Luke has enjoyed creating ‘Garage Mech’- a type of garage that can transform into a MECH that helps to do all of your gardening jobs!

Year 4's Fantastic Home Learning - Summer Week 5, by Mrs Hover

Date: 18th May 2020 @ 6:23am

Ollie C chose to research Roman technology last week and here is his labelled diagram.

On Sunday, Brooke found a caterpillar tree on the bypass - ties in nicely with our English this week!

Happy Birthday to Niamh today (Tuesday)! Have lots of fun playing with your new toys!

Freya has sent in some photos of a delicious looking unbaked cheesecake, a trip to the beach and her English and Maths work from this week.

See 'Files to Download' for David, Will and Luke's very informative PowerPoints. Will chose robins and hedgehogs for his wildlife project, David chose frogs, wood pigeons and blue tits and Luke chose hedgehogs, robins and bees.

Evie has been busy making notes on hedgehogs, bats and bees and she has watched the maths videos and completed the worksheets this week. She also made her own den and created some natural art in her garden!

Ava has had her first go at paddle boarding with her brother!

Alice has been finding out about hedgehogs, water voles and beavers!

Lili has been doing lots of riding, walking and cycling. Enjoy the photos of Lili's animal friends including James, Molly & Bobby the dogs, the 'piggies' and Barney and Freija the horses.

See 'Files to Download' for Lili and Niamh's well researched PowerPoints. Lili chose to find out more about foxes, hazel dormice and robins whilst Niamh chose starlings, butterflies and bees.

Evie has worked very hard on her wildlife project too. Look for Evie's PPoint below - she focused on hedgehogs and Pipistrelle bats!

Year 4 - Chester Zoo Wildlife Garden, by Mrs Hover

Date: 16th May 2020 @ 8:06am

Year 4's Fantastic Home Learning - Summer Week 4, by Mrs Hover

Date: 11th May 2020 @ 2:55pm

For VE Day, Ollie baked a carrot cake and he has been getting lots of exercise running around with a very cute Max the labrador pup!

Ava celebrated VE Day by baking scones and having afternoon tea in the garden!

Alice and her brother Sam are currently very interested in robots, so here is one of the slides from their PowerPoint.

One of our class has sent in a photo of her ice cube work. She has learnt about rapeseed, celebrated VE day and spotted a rainbow as she was clapping for the NHS last Thursday.

Ava has used accurate dialogue, different speech verbs and action using 'The Black Hat'!

Luke has been busy planting sunflowers and tomatoes, colouring in the picture of Chester to display in his window, decorating a pebble for the garden and making bunting and baking biscuits for VE Day!

Michael has been baking Domino Biscuits and carrying out some amazing Science experiments!

Aidan has enjoyed the Science experiments too, especially dissecting the flowers best and the ice cube experiment. Thank you for sending us the stop motion video you made using a Stikbots app!

For his week's 'The Black Hat' task, Alice has described her own made-up creature called 'The Hoggan'!

Sophie has created some descriptive sentences linked to 'The Black Hat' and presented her work beautifully,

Ellie has sent in her writing based on 'The Black Hat'. She wanted to challenge herself by attempting to use similes, personification and alliteration following the video.

Freya enjoyed creating her own Zentangle!

Year 4's Fantastic Home Learning - Summer Week 3, by Mrs Hover

Date: 5th May 2020 @ 6:14am

Thank you very much Year 4 for continuing to send us your photos and emails - it has been lovely seeing and hearing about what you've been up to!

Ellie has been very busy with lots of different activities and her home learning which is beautifully presented. She has been busy enjoying time with her family in the garden too, completing numerous DIY jobs & getting it all ready for summer.

Felix's favourite piece of work is his mini project on Liverpool football club. He has enjoyed lots of walks, bike rides, some cooking and instead of planning an Easter egg hunt, he used Lego mini figures!

Freya has been using her extra time at home to learn something new! She has been learning to do something Mrs Hover would love to learn too - how to crochet!

Niamh has been doing lots too including cooking a delicious family dinner all by herself! She has been practising her gymnastics and even passed her BAGA Gold for floor and vault from home which she is very happy about!

Evie has loved setting up her Science experiment - she decided to use water, orange juice, vinegar and salt in her ice cubes. Evie has also created some fantastic Harry Potter setenecs using fronted adverbials.

David has had lots of fun making the domino cookies, watching Horrible Histories videos, carrying out the cornflower experiment and practising guitar. We love the picture of your guinea pig!

Thank you to everyone who has sent in video clips of your latest Science experiment!

Catherine has loved being outside in the sunshine and here are some pictures including 'pink hair', Easter cupcakes and mouth-watering meringue.

Will has been working really hard with his home learning and here is a fantastic piece of work on Boudicca! He has also been practising his guitar, scooting, cycling, dog walking, playing games, gaming, enjoying BBQs and chatting to his friends.

Brooke has created a collage of a Roman Road using which is beautifully labeled!

Evie has created a dramatic piece of art work to celebrate VE day.

Junior Road Safety Activities, by Miss Young

Date: 1st May 2020 @ 10:56am

Hi LKS2,

we have a mini quiz for you to try out and the July bulletin to view. Sorry we can't accept entries for prizes at the moment but continue being safe, especially when out on the roads.

From,

Lexi and Grace- Oldfield's Junior Road Safety Officers :)

Y3 and 4 Activities Mini Road Safety Quiz July Bulletin

Year 4's Fantastic Home Learning - Summer Week 2, by Mrs Hover

Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 6:12pm

Our first Loo Roll Art Work - Well done Lili! We had a feeling you would enjoy this challenge!

One of our class has been going on some long bike rides with her family. Can anyone guess where the photos are taken?

Michael has been having lots of fun with the cornflour and water experiment!

Brooke has shared her poem with lots of description and clever rhyme and the last photograph is from her cornflour experiment.

The sketch of the eye reminds me of our 'I come from portraits'. Well done Freya.

Alice also enjoyed the Science experiment with cornflour and worked with her brother to competing a coding challenge.

Happy Birthday to Evie! Have lots of fun and eat lots of cake!

Alice has been busy looking for parallel and perpendicular lines around her house and baking delicious looking dominoes!

Thursday's Maths activities have also kept another one of our class busy. Can you spot the 'Time capsule booklet'?

I will need to find some more active Maths challenges! Can you guess which activities Inca and Jacob have had a go at?

Luke has been working hard on all the different activities this week, presenting his work to a high standard.

Year 4's Fantastic Home Learning - Summer Week 1, by Mrs Hover

Date: 21st Apr 2020 @ 6:58pm

Michael has been busy over the Easter holiday creating some superb Minecraft Ancient Temples!

Alice has shared her Science and Handwriting from this week's home learning. She has also set up a restaurant in the garden with her brother, creating a menu and serving her parents delicious treats!

Luke has sent in his handwritten version of 'The Garden Year' and some lovely drawings of different plants.

Ava has enjoyed dissecting a daffodil and creating window art to thank the NHS and cheer up people walking past.

Well done Alfie for your accurate sketches of flowers for Science and to Heather for her daffodil pictures.

Thank you to Heather, Alice and Connor for their beautiful first six verses of their poems.

Year 4 - Easter Holiday Pictures!, by Mrs Hover

Date: 11th Apr 2020 @ 6:35pm

Year 4 - Home Learning Spring Week 2 (updated), by Mrs Hover

Date: 3rd Apr 2020 @ 6:03pm

Enjoy looking at all of the activities Niamh has been up to over the last two weeks and well done to Sophie for her super personal project on Space and to Alice for her imaginative account of the Trojan War! Learn all about Lego from Luke's research and enjoy his funny cartoon drawing using the weblink. Check out David and Lili's brilliant personal projects in 'Files to Download'. Can you guess what they chose?

Year 4 - Chromatography experiments!, by Mrs Hover

Date: 1st Apr 2020 @ 8:20pm

We love the photos of the Science experiment going on in these two households and thankfully, it has been reported that it wasn't as messy as parents predicted!