: Gallery
Visit from Chester Zoo, by Mrs Wheatcroft
Date: 4th Oct 2017 @ 12:58pm
We looked at an owl and felt its feathers, felt a furry bat skin and the spiky quills from a porcupine. We talked about different nocturnal animals and played a game.
Y5 Life Cycles, by Mrs Percival
Date: 4th Oct 2017 @ 10:33am
Today we were visited by Anya from Chester zoo. We talked about life cycles and the different categories of animals. Anya showed us lots of different eggs and we even watched a tiger and an elephant being born at the zoo.
Let's Walk Year 5, by Mrs Percival
Date: 3rd Oct 2017 @ 3:00pm
Today, Year 5 started their Let's Walk programme which is teaching them how to cross the road safely. A fabulous life skill!
Hands-on learning in Year 1, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 29th Sep 2017 @ 10:42pm
Year 4 Gorillas!, by Mrs Hover
Date: 29th Sep 2017 @ 12:30pm
From lots of research, Year 4 wrote brilliant non-chronological reports on 'gorillas' and then edited their own and each other's.
Hands-on learning in FS2, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 27th Sep 2017 @ 7:30pm
Year 4 Mini Football Games, by Mrs Hover
Date: 26th Sep 2017 @ 8:32pm
Reception, by Mrs Wheatcroft
Date: 22nd Sep 2017 @ 4:06pm
Seth grew an enormous cucumber, which we all enjoyed at snack time.
Thank you Seth!
Year 2 Trip to Underwater Street Imagine That!, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 21st Sep 2017 @ 4:16pm
Year 2 had a fantastic time at 'Underwater Street Imagine That!' in Liverpool today.
They explored the imagination village where we were able to become and play different roles in restaurants, hair salons, vets, on and back stage, construction sites and many more!
The class continued to develop their scientific investigation skills by exploring and playing with light, magnets, sounds, water and sand. In the science workshops and shows the children created bath bombs, slime, gigantic bubbles, erupting volcanoes and exploding rockets!
The children used their creative skills to make character bags, fridge magnets and even helped decorate a real life car!
Year 2 had a fantastic day and are looking forward to sharing all their creations at home.
A BIG thank you to our parent helpers. We hope you had as much fun as we did!
There were over 150 photographs taken so if your child is not on one, please let me know.
Our fabulous new playground markings, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 7:32pm
Thank you to everyone who supported the PTA in raising money for our playground markings. Playground markings on our Key Stage 1 playground are now complete and our children are really enjoying them.
Year 4 creating soundscapes in English, by Mrs Hover
Date: 18th Sep 2017 @ 8:41pm
Using the kitchen scene from 'Gorilla' by Anthony Browne, we explored the characters and setting through drama.
King's students working in Year 1, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 15th Sep 2017 @ 5:20pm
Thank you to our five King's 6th Form students who have been supporting children's learning in year 1. The children loved learning new playground games - Duck Duck Goose and Farmer Farmer. We made use of our new playground markings, developing hopscotch games. We also used origarmi to create aeroplanes and had great fun seeing how successful they were at flying. They worked with children developing cutting skills and learnt how to play Ninjargos with a group of children!
We look forward to welcoming them back to Oldfield in a couple of weeks.
Active learning in year 1, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 15th Sep 2017 @ 5:09pm
Year 2 football fun!, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 12:50pm
First week in Year 3, by Miss Jones
Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 4:51pm
The children have settled wonderfully into their new classroom and I have enjoyed getting to know them. We have enjoyed making Monster Book Eaters and using ink blowing to make new sketchbook covers. We have also done a hunt around the classroom to get to know where everything is kept.
Our first week in Year 2 so far..., by Mrs Harrison
Date: 7th Sep 2017 @ 4:28pm
Here are some photographs of us exploring in our new classroom. What a fun week we have had!
First week back in school for Year 1, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 7th Sep 2017 @ 12:41pm
Musical assembly, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 20th Jul 2017 @ 2:59pm
Thank you to James Wyatt for leading our musical assembly this afternoon. Guitars and singers entertained us by performing a range of familiar pieces. What a talented group of musicians we have! They were inspirational.
We also really enjoyed listening to our Year 4 children celebrating their recent Roman topic with a fabulous Roman rap.
A special mention must go to Robert who mesmerised the whole school when he played a solo guitar piece.
James will continue to teach guitar tuition next year. He will also be running an after-school music club. More information will be given out in September.
Y2 Lighthouses, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 17th Jul 2017 @ 6:15pm
Year 5 learn about conservation at Chester Zoo, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 16th Jul 2017 @ 1:44pm
Year 5 had a fabulous visit to Chester Zoo on Friday, increasing our understanding of how the zoo supports conservation.
A special thank you to Jonny, Calum, Izzy, Charlie, Eva and Emma for planning our route and leading us around the zoo. They built in time for us to make notes on the differing levels of risk animals are under which will support our work back in class this week.
As always, our Year 5 pupils were a credit to Oldfield with their exemplary behaviour and positive enthusiasm and engagement in the day. We all had a thoroughly enjoyable day.
3D shape building in year 3, by Miss Jones
Date: 13th Jul 2017 @ 7:22pm
In maths we have been looking at 3D shape. We used cocktail sticks and clay to make various 3D shapes. We talked about how shapes with curved edges wouldn't be possible to build using straight cocktail sticks. Then we labelled them and explained their properties. After, we used our shapes to solve shape riddles.
Egyptian Death Masks , by Miss Jones
Date: 13th Jul 2017 @ 7:05pm
We have had a very busy week so far in year 3. We have started to make Egyptian death masks based on our own design. Here is how they look so far...
Thanks you to all the parents who have supported with finding materials for the children to use.
Year 4 Roman Bread!, by Mrs Hover
Date: 10th Jul 2017 @ 8:20pm
D&T Day
Year 4 had great fun today researching different types of bread, tasting bread, watching film clips about the different ingredients and the history of bread and most importantly, making bread!
Some of the children dipped their bread in olive oil like the Romans and some were brave enough to try 'Mixtura cum caseo', a dip with leek, lettuce, rocket, coriander, mint, white wine vinegar, parmesan and feta cheese and olive oil! A few children even liked it!!
We also had a 'Food Hygiene' quiz and we had three winning teams, 'The Quirky Croissants', 'Five Plaited Loaf' and 'The Baking Bros'! The other two teams were only one point behind.
Well done Year 4!
Butterflies, by Mrs Wheatcroft
Date: 7th Jul 2017 @ 4:17pm
We enjoyed watching the caterpillars and learned all about life cycles. We let our butterflies go so they can lay their eggs to make more caterpillars.
The symmetrical butterflies you did for homework are lovely and now they are all around our classroom. Well done everyone!
Volcanic Activity, by Mrs Leake
Date: 7th Jul 2017 @ 3:41pm
We had lots of fun making 3D volcaonoes. We hope you have fun erupting them! Just add red food colouring, lemon juice and bicarbonate of soda.
