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.

Year 4 More David Attenborough videos, by Mrs Hover

Date: 7th Jul 2017 @ 12:12pm

Art work inspired by The Hunter, by Mrs Bailey

Date: 6th Jul 2017 @ 9:13am

Our year 5 children have been inspired by a book called The Hunter by Paul Geraghty. They used this to create some fabulous art work using a range of materials including inks, water colours, tissue paper, marker and sketching pencils. A huge thank you to Mrs Turnbull for her input and guidance.