Oldfield Primary School: Our Gallery

Year 4 - Guitar lessons , by Mrs Hover

Date: 11th Feb 2018 @ 8:44pm

Golden Time with our King's students in Year 1, by Mrs Bailey

Date: 9th Feb 2018 @ 1:46pm

Thank you to our King's students for supporting us during Golden Time this afternoon.

Maths of the Day in Year 1, by Mrs Bailey

Date: 8th Feb 2018 @ 5:09pm

We had fun in the hall and classroom today developing our numeracy skills. Number Bingo was very popular as we secured our number recognition. It caused a great deal of excitment as everyone got closer to a full house! We used Numicon resources and bead strings to secure ten in our head and to help us see that we don't need to keep counting from one.

Mark making and writing in Reception, by Mrs Wheatcroft

Date: 8th Feb 2018 @ 5:04pm

We have been drawing maps and telling stories for our Pirate, Jack Sharp. He has been having some great adventures! We have also been mark making, spelling, writing,, typing and drawing across all areas of our classroom.

Exploring the planets in year 5, by Mrs Bailey

Date: 5th Feb 2018 @ 3:30pm

Today year 5 children enjoyed finding out about the different planets in the solar system.

Friday in Year 1, by Mrs Bailey

Date: 3rd Feb 2018 @ 2:35pm

Pebble Treat time in Year 3 , by Miss Jones

Date: 2nd Feb 2018 @ 8:39pm

The children have worked so hard since September and really deserved their pebble treat afternoon today. They all voted for a film, hot chococlate and own clothes/PJs day. And of course their cuddly friends joined us.

Well done Year 3!

How long will it take to fill the jar once more....

Year 3 - Number Chase (Maths of the Day), by Miss Jones

Date: 2nd Feb 2018 @ 1:50pm

Year 3 played Number Chase in the hall to help practise their multiplication and division. They also used fact families to link multiplication and division and to solve tricky problems.

Year 3 Science , by Miss Jones

Date: 2nd Feb 2018 @ 1:42pm

Year 3 have been working very hard on their rocks topic in science and they would like to show you some of their most recent investigations.

The 'Choc' Cycle

To help the children understand how each different type of rock is formed, we used chocolate to speed up the rock cycle. Melted chococlate represented igneous rock being formed underground from magma and lava. We then grated the chocolate to show the effects of weathering and how rocks break up into bits of sediment. Next, we layered the different sediment on top of each other to represent the formation of sedimentary rock. Finally, we used pressure and heat from our hands and squeezed the sedimentary rock to show how metamorphic rock is formed. The children recorded their observations as we went and they were able to use the correct scientific vocabularly.

Fossils

On Tuesday, the children looked at images of fossils and discovered four different types; trace fossils, body fossils, cast fossils and mold fossils. The children made excellent information posters about each fossil before making their very own mold fossil! These are currently drying out but once they are dry, the children will be able to take their fossils home.

Year 4 - Story Maps, by Mrs Hover

Date: 2nd Feb 2018 @ 12:36pm

After drawing their own story maps, Year 4 have started to use them to retell the first chapter of 'The Water Horse'.

Year 4 - Division Dual!, by Mrs Hover

Date: 2nd Feb 2018 @ 12:22pm

Year 3 are SPaG detectives , by Miss Jones

Date: 31st Jan 2018 @ 5:48pm

The children in year 3 used their best detective skills this morning in English. Over the past week, the children have worked incredibly hard on writing their very own Stone Age adventure story. Their challenge was to include various examples of the SPAG concerts we have learnt so far, in their writing including, prepositional phrases, conjunctions, expanded noun phrases, possessive apostrophes and adverbs. They enjoyed using magnifying glasses to spot the SPaG and recorded their findings using an evidence form.

I can’t wait to read everyone’s stories!

Year 2 - We're going on a habitat hunt..., by Mrs Harrison

Date: 29th Jan 2018 @ 5:04pm

Year 2 had a wonderful time with two ladies from RSPB searching the school grounds for habitats.

Bird nest homework - Year 2, by Mrs Harrison

Date: 29th Jan 2018 @ 4:56pm

As our English text focuses on Plop, an owl who is afraid of the dark, Mrs Hargreaves set the children a task of creating their own birds nest at home. Look at the outstanding effort which the children (and their families) have gone to by creating these amazing birds nests.

I'm sure there will be more to come so watch this space...

Year 2's furry friends, by Mrs Harrison

Date: 29th Jan 2018 @ 4:46pm

Year 2 were extremely lucky today as they had some furry visitors.

Jiggly Puff the rabbit

Acorn and Blossom the mice

and even a surprise guest Ava's Tilly the tortoise

The children really enjoyed petting the rabbit and mice and learnt lots about how to care for pets at home.

Thank you to Ava and Mrs Hargreaves for bringing in their fantastic friends.

Year 4 Watercolour chimpanzees, by Mrs Hover

Date: 23rd Jan 2018 @ 8:30pm

Year 4 - A three day weekend!, by Mrs Hover

Date: 23rd Jan 2018 @ 8:28pm

For today's morning challenge, the children were asked to persuade everyone that weekends should be three days long!

Year 4's mysterious object!, by Mrs Hover

Date: 23rd Jan 2018 @ 8:23pm

Isle of Ulva

The Ferryman has spotted something unusual on the shoreline after a big storm - he asks if we can help him to describe the object and predict what this object could be. A few other islanders have likened the object to the legend of the kelpie.

Year 3 No chairs spelling lesson, by Miss Jones

Date: 19th Jan 2018 @ 5:08pm

We have enjoyed Maths of the Day activities so much this term, that we had the idea to try the activities in other subjects. On Thursday, the children enjoyed a 'no chairs or tables' SPAG lesson. In pairs, we had to move around the classroom, looking for hints and clues for this week's spelling words. When we found a clue, we had try our best to spell the word correctly. The spelling pattern we worked on this week was the /u/ sound spelt 'ou'.

Miss Pinto, by Mrs Wheatcroft

Date: 19th Jan 2018 @ 4:41pm

Miss Pinto enjoyed her first week at Oldfield and is looking forward to spending time in Reception.

Buddy time, by Mrs Wheatcroft

Date: 19th Jan 2018 @ 4:36pm

The children all enjoyed making models, reading and playing games with some of their buddies from Y6.

RSPB and Reception, by Mrs Wheatcroft

Date: 19th Jan 2018 @ 4:20pm

We had a lovely time with the ladies from the RSPB and found all sorts of interesting things in our school grounds.

Maths of the Day in Year 3, by Miss Jones

Date: 19th Jan 2018 @ 1:56pm

I am so impressed with how well the children are doing with their times tables! They have enjoyed playing lots of games and doing Maths of the Day activities to learn the 3 and 4 times tables.

On Thursday, the children did Maths of the Day and played a game called Networking Numbers. The children worked together in pairs to solve timestable problems. For each question, they had to work with someone new. The chlidren loved doing their maths work standing up for a change!

On Friday, the children did circuit training with a twist. As they moved around the classroom, they had to complete a different 4 times table activity at each table.

For homework last week, the children created their own 3x table board game. I was so impressed with all of the different gamed the children has invented. Everyone enjoyed learning the rules and playing each other's game. What a busy week we have had!

Challenge: If you would like to practise at home. Hit the Button is a fantastic game for practising times tables. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

RSPB workshop in Year 1, by Mrs Bailey

Date: 18th Jan 2018 @ 12:44pm

Thank you to Karen and Alex for their interesting bioblitz workshop where we explored our school environment looking for birds and mini beasts and trying to spot tracks and signs. Karen and Alex were very impressed with the children's prior knowledge and engagement in the sessions. We were fortunate that the rain stayed away!