Reanna's Out of This World Project

In Science this half term, Years 5 and 6 are learning about the Earth and Beyond. The children's first lesson involved them looking at the order of the planets in our solar system and watching the extraordinary free fall by Felix Baumgartner from Space to Earth.

Inspired by her lesson, Reanna-Rae Wealand went home and started her own Space project. She has looked further into the meanings behind the names, the atmospheres and appearances of the planets in our solar system.  

"Next, I want to find out why Saturn has all of those rings," said Reanna.
With curiosity like that, Miss Reynolds is sure that Reanna is a future NASA employee in the making.

Great work, Reanna. Keep it up!

Year 5 Fitness Fun

This afternoon, while Year 6 were on their travels to the theatre, Year 5 braved the cold in the name of fitness.

Over the next few weeks, they will be taking part in the Sainsbury's Active Kids Challenge. The challenge sees them complete a series of events, from running, to balancing, and even taking an active role in the healthy food choices that they make.

"I could definitely feel my heart beating faster after today's challenges!" - Dara

Find out more about the challenges here (it's headed by a rather well known celebrity!):
Sainsbury's Fitness Challenge

Place Value Tunes

 In Maple class today, Miss Howson created a song about place value and challenged us to create something better.

Here is what we came up with:
                                                             
To the left, to the left
Thousands, hundreds tens and units
To the the right, to the right
Tenths, hundredths, thousandths
And dont forget the decimal spot!

Fawaz, Yinka, Adam, Louise

This is the place value rhyme
We use place value all the time
Units tens and hundreds is what we do
Come on you lot join in to!

Daniella, Kingsley, James, Fletcher.

 Place value, place value is the best thing that you can do
First millions then comes thousands, hundreds, tens and units too
Place value, place value is the best thing that you can do. YEAH!

Tobi, Tyler, Summer, Abbi

Millions, thousands, hundreds, tens and units
that starts off the place value song
Tenths, hundreths, thousandths even ten-thousands
seperated in the middle by a decimal place.

Lowena, Kieran, Jordan, Ruby


by Kieran Dansey

Jack's Amazing Projects!

Sorry for the delay in posting this, however we think Jack Illot deserves some recognition for showing resourcefulness.

Jack spent an entire weekend creating a hand-made plastic swimming pool aswell as a man doing freestyle in the pool. He used blue plastic and paint to create the water and created the man using paper materials, glue and paints.

Jack then came to school a few weeks later with a large slice of cake for Miss Howson.  He explained that not only had he made a delicious cake, he had designed a recipe to make the cake again and decorated it nicely with a border.  We cannot wait to hear what you have been getting up to over the half term break.

 

We are super proud of you Jack. Well done!!

Year 5/6 - CAM you believe it!

On the 29th January, Year 5 and 6 were excited to welcome Jeremy King, a specialist engineer, to work with them in relation to their Victorians topic. Mr.King showed the children how to make and use a CAM, an old-fashioned mechanism, that was found in many Victorian toys.
The children were very busy gluing, drilling and sawing materials that they had accurately measured, in order to create either a rotational or linear motion for their design of toy.
The children later finished off their designs in class, and are very excited to show everyone the finished results.
Well done, Years 5 and 6!

Dr. Barnardo's Star Writers

This week, Year 5 and 6 have been studying the life and extraordinary ventures of famous Victorian, Dr.Barnardo. The children were captivated by the heroic gestures that the doctor displayed in his mission to save Victorian children from a life of poverty and hard working conditions.

The children were so inspired by Dr. Barnardo's story, that they wrote letters to the doctor himself, imagining they were Victorian working children begging to be allowed to stay at Hope Place for boys or Village House for girls. In fact, three children wrote such fantastic letters, that they have been awarded Star Writer awards. Well done Louise, Liam and Kingsley! They can expect to be writing many more letters with their brand new, shiny, golden Star Writer Award pencils.

Fractions Fanatics!

Miss Reynolds' maths class have been dealing with some very stick-y fractions this week.
The children overcame their challenge to use everyday twigs to display wholes, halves, quarters, and some even attempted tenths!

Wiktoria said "At first I thought it was going to be quite difficult but I carried on trying and I made a fraction wall with my twigs."

The children have used their superb knowledge of fractions in this challenge, and are eagerly awaiting their next challenge so that they can display more feats of super-human maths knowledge.

Mr Gregorys Final day at Broadford

Today is Mr Gregorys final day at Broadford and we would like to celebrate all the hard efforts he has put into our class.

He has been awesome! - Harry

Thank you for taking us to Drapers and Coopers -Jack

Mr Gregory has helped Thomas and I alot in extra maths activities - Callum

You are very funny and made us smile when we were upset - Lowena


Maple will miss you terribly. Thank you for all your hard work within all aspects of leaning. We hope that you have a fantastic time in Chicago and come back to visit us one day!

Best Wishes
Miss Howson and the Maple Crew :)

Chicken! Y5/6 Road Safety Performance

Yesterday, the Year 5s and 6s in Willow, Maple and Elm enjoyed watching and taking part in 'Chicken!' - a thrilling play performed by the Stopwatch Theatre Company.

The play was about a 13 year old girl called Tammy who was encouraged by her mean friend to cross a busy carriageway. We learned that it is important to not give in to peer pressure and to always look twice before crossing a busy street.

The performance was ranked a whopping 10 out of 10 by Maple class, as it was thoroughly enjoyed by both teachers and pupils.
"I liked it when Ray went to the shop and purchased the bikes for his children." - Toby

"I liked the part when Tammy was playing chicken on the street as it was entertaining to watch!"- Holly

"I enjoyed the part where Christopher and Ray were arguing about the bike helmet because Christopher thought it was silly to wear a helmet."  - Harry

"I liked the workshop activity following the play" - Callum

Hockey Certificates

Year 5&6 Hockey competition pupils collected their certificates in assembly on Friday. Well done again for your efforts in finishing 3rd in the tournament.

Table Tennis at Drapers' Academy

For the past few weeks, a group of pupils from Year 3,4,5 and 6 have been visiting Drapers' Academy in order to become table tennis mentors. We have been learning a wide range of skills and games with Mr Stallard, one of the PE teachers at Drapers', and will be bringing this expertise back to Broadford in order to help pupils at our school enjoy table tennis.

We have learnt the rules of table tennis so that all the pupils at Broadford can all play correctly. Some of the rules are:
- the serve has to bounce on both sides of the table;
- players must not lean against the table;
- players should not put their hands on the table. If they do then they lose the point;
- if you hit the ball in to the net or off of the table then you lose the point.


Mr Stallard taught us how to play lots of different shots and how to work as a team when we are playing doubles. We had a lot of fun at Drapers' and we are excited to bring our new table tennis skills back to Broadford and help children out our school to learn about this fantastic sport.

Jordan and Bailey get in to the action

Holly gets ready to play a backhand shot

Outdoor Maths Lesson

Yesterday, Miss Howson's maths class went outside to piece together our knowledge of decimals, fractions and percentages.

We were each divided into groups and told to look for a particular colour card. We then raced out of the doors eager to find our cards- which were scattered all over the field. Each card had a fraction, decimal or percentage on it. Our task was to work out which fraction,decimal and percentage belonged together. Miss Howson tricked us and included some extra 0's in our decimal or created a fraction such as 30/200 to confuse us. But we soon realized what she had done!

As it was a little windy outside, we came inside to make sure our fractions, decimals and percentages were all equivalent to each other. Well done to the blue group who won a merit for working as a group fantastically and organising their cards into the correct order first!

Special thanks to Callum and Jessica for hiding all the cards at break time.

Written by
Daniella
Maple

Maple Descriptive Writing task

We have recently been studying the Victorian era across all aspects of the curriculum. Fridays lesson involved writing a descriptive passage about Pip stepping off the coach and arriving in London. This is what Ife created:

 

 

Slowly, I walked out of the rusty carriage to an atmosphere filled with busy crowded roads. I couldn’t  see anything through the swarms of people. Huge carriages were everywhere . I could feel the dust of the carriages in my throat as I strolled down the street.

 

 

I could feel the calm, wintery breeze flowing through my hair as the elegant birds were swimming in the blue sky. “Ah, what a wonderful day!" I thought to myself. Nothing could ruin this day for me!

 

 

People were dashing rapidly trying to get to work. Unluckily they could not move because it was too crowded. I was so starving I felt that I could eat a hippopotamus! There was fruit on sale for 5p- wow that is cheap!!

 

I was coughing because of the smell of cigarettes that lingered in the air- YUCK!