Year 5: Gallery
Year 5 Forest Schools, by Mrs Percival
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 4:44pm
This week was hedgehog awareness week so we made homes for the hedgehogs in our grounds.
Y5 Coronation Garden stones, by Mrs Percival
Date: 3rd May 2023 @ 2:30pm
Today we have all decorated a stone for our garden. They look amazing!
Coronation Garden, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 30th Apr 2023 @ 8:30pm
A huge thank you to the incredible team at Spar, Vicars Cross who generously gave up their own time to work on our garden project. Their time, enthusiasm and commitment to the project is very much appreciated. Thank you to Spar and to the PTA for funding the materials to enhance this area which were supplied by Walkers Garden Centre and Howarth Timber and Building Supplies.
Y5 Conway 2023, by Mr Brown
Date: 18th Apr 2023 @ 8:45pm
We have had a great couple of days at the Conway Centre.
We have had a go at canoeing, the Via Ferrata, climbing and the ropes/zip course. Some of us have had a chance to orienteer and we have all had a go at the nightline. Here are just a few photos.
Hoops 4 Health, by Miss Young
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 3:01pm
Year 5 and 6 received a visit from some of the Cheshire Phoenix players for a 'Health Roadshow'.
The worked across stations learning basketball drills, ways to stay healthy through our food choices and the hazardous effects of smoking. We look forward to the coaching session coming up.
Y5 Beatbox day, by Mrs Percival
Date: 8th Mar 2023 @ 8:40am
We had an amazing Beatbox day today with James. We learnt how to beatbox, wrote our own raps and them performed them for the rest of the class.
PTA Bake Sale, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 18th Feb 2023 @ 2:29pm
A huge thank you to everyone who supported our recent Valentine themed bake sale in anyway. As always, this was well supported and there was an impressive array of cakes. A total of £322.62 was raised to go towards PTA funds.
Y5 Viking song and dance, by Mrs Percival
Date: 14th Feb 2023 @ 8:19am
Over the past few weeks, in our Amasing sessions, we have been composing and performing our Viking dance and song. It sounds fabulous. A link will be going onto our YouTube channel.
Happiness Club assembly, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 7th Jan 2023 @ 4:54pm
Thank you to Farah from The Happiness Club for her assemblies this week. We have all learnt some useful strategies to support our mental health.
DT in Y5, by Mrs Percival
Date: 21st Nov 2022 @ 7:31pm
In Y5 we have been building bridges as part of our Design Technology topic. The children have been looking at how to make strong joints and supports and how best to design a bridge which will be able to support heavy loads whilst bridging a gap.
Y5 Chefs for the day, by Mrs Percival
Date: 9th Nov 2022 @ 3:38pm
Today we have been working with Chef Emma. We talked about how important it is to eat a variety of foods and to try new food experiences. We made a pasta meal using loads of tasty vegetables and a pizza bread wheel. We have had a brilliant day!.
Y5 RE, by Mrs Percival
Date: 8th Nov 2022 @ 1:28pm
Today, Mrs Batchelor joined us for our RE lesson. She talked to us about Christian beliefs and talked to us about her job as a Deacon for the church.
Y5 Super Scientists, by Mrs Percival
Date: 4th Nov 2022 @ 11:03am
Today we have been studying the life cycle of a plant and how the seeds of plants grow, what they need and how they are dispersed.
PTA Bake Sale, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 16th Oct 2022 @ 9:00pm
PTA Bake Sale
A huge thank you to everyone who supported our recent PTA bake sale. An incredible £315.69 was raised, which will go towards the PTA contribution to the theatre. Every child at Oldfield will benefit from this.
A special thank you to Catherine Golightly and her team for organising the event and setting everything up. Thank you to everyone who supported the event by baking, sending in cakes and purchasing cakes. It was lovely to see our families together in the hall.
Football V Chester Blue Coat, by Mr Brown
Date: 16th Oct 2022 @ 3:39pm
We played our first league match of the season away at Chester Blur Coat winning 3-1 with goals from Ted, Chris and Reuben. The whole team played well and we look forward to our next match.
Thank you to our families who were able to help with transport and support.
Cherry Grove, Upton Mill View, Upton Heath and JH Godwin are also in our league. We will share the future results.
Y5 Forest Schools, by Mrs Percival
Date: 10th Oct 2022 @ 4:03pm
We had a fabulous day in the school forest on Friday. We made fires and produced some pieces of environmental art.
Y5 Computing, by Mrs Percival
Date: 10th Oct 2022 @ 3:58pm
Year 5 are designing our own websites using Google sites. We have made a great start, our website designs are coming along nicely.
Inter Schools Rounders Tournament, by Mrs Percival
Date: 7th Jul 2022 @ 7:00pm
On Monday a group of Y5 and Y6 children attended the Chester schools Rounders tournament in which over 20 teams took part. Our team won 3 out of their 4 matches and narrowly missed the semi-finals by one point. What we were most impressed with was their team spirit and sportsmanship, they were a real credit to Oldfield.
Bake sale, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 22nd May 2022 @ 10:05am
PTA Bake Sale
Thank you so much to everyone who supported our cake sale by contributing and / or buying cakes at the end of the school day. What an incredibly creative array of designs there were on the theme of Celebration! A total of £290.30 was raised, all of which will go towards PTA funded projects. A special thank you to Catherine Golightly and her team of volunteers for organising and running the event.
Y5 Golf, by Mrs Percival
Date: 3rd May 2022 @ 3:58pm
Have a look at our golf session with Mr Derbyshire today.....no wonder we won the golf tournament last week,
Y5 World Book Day, by Mrs Percival
Date: 15th Mar 2022 @ 12:58pm
Thank you to the PTA for our new reading books. We have been eager to start reading them
Parachute investigation, by Mrs Percival
Date: 10th Feb 2022 @ 11:48am
We have been investigating whether the surface area size of a parachute affects the time it takes a parachute to fall to the ground. We made sure that we only had one variable in our investigation and that we kept our test fair. We discovered that the larger the surface area, the longer it took for the parachute to fall to the ground.
Y5 Chefs for a day, by Mrs Percival
Date: 9th Nov 2021 @ 5:29pm
We were working with Chef James today. We studied the different types of taste we can experience, made our own dough and pizzas then made a vegetanle biriyani. The whole school smelt delicious as the spices travelled down the corridor.
