The Big Pedal Starts on Monday 3rd March

Get set … the Big Pedal starts on Monday!

If you are taking part this is what you have to do.

Ride your bike or scooter to school wearing your helmet. When you arrive at school walk your wheels to the storage facilities and lock them up. If the storage is full you will be able to walk your wheels and store them outside your classroom.

You can earn house points for your team as well as points towards the school’s big pedal results!

Enjoy the ride!

Stubbers Update: Limited Places Left

Please read the letter below about the upcoming Year 6 residential trip. Since we initially booked the camp at Stubbers the Year Group has expanded. If pupils want to go they must have spoken to Mrs Griffin-Stenning as soon as possible. We need your non refundable deposits if we are to try and book for more places. This is a fantastic experience which really helps to develop the children's teamwork skills and build their self confidence - perfect for those about to move to Secondary School.

26 February 2014

Dear Parents and Carers,

As you are aware Year 6 are going to Stubbers in the summer. It was booked for 35 children, but we currently have 46 children in year 6 and so will not have spaces for all children to go. This is such a great opportunity for the children to learn new skills and challenges that will set them in good stead for moving onto secondary school in September. Therefore, whilst there are 8 available spaces at present left, I thought it best to write to you individually to find out if your child is interested in going.

If your child is worried about staying overnight, this is not a problem as they can just attend during the day, and some children at present have opted for this at a discounted price, please contact me at the school if this is the case and we can deal with each child’s circumstances individually.

It may also be that your child qualifies for free school meals and if this is the case, they too will be subsidised by the school, but obviously I need to know if they wish to go.

It would also be helpful to know if your child does not wish to go to Stubbers with their class, so that we can make arrangements for them to be placed into other classes for the three days.

Therefore, please could you ring the school and ask to speak to me over the next week.

Yours sincerely,

Gaynor Griffin-Stenning
Finance Officer

The Big Pedal 2014 - 3-14 March

The Big Pedal is a giant inter-school cycling and scooting competition that encourages children, teachers and parents to choose two wheels for their school journeys.

This year’s competition will span 10 school days, from 3 to 14 March, and the more children who scoot and cycle each day, the more points your school will earn. Schools right across the UK will be competing against each other, and the competition is weighted according to the size of the school, so everyone has a fair chance to win.

There are more than 20 fantastic prizes up for grabs, including bike and scooter stunt displays, children’s bikes, scooter parking and more!

This year’s event features new and souped-up versions of the popular wheelie characters – there are 10 to collect, one for each day of the event. Each day we will log the school’s daily result on the Big Pedal website and will be rewarded with a wheelie to add to your own Big Pedal wallchart. The characters’ design will depend on the number of people who cycled and scooted that day, and the aim is to fill the wallchart with as many super-strength, super-powered, superhero wheelies as possible!

Spelling homework

A new half term to ensure that spellings are completed every week and handed in on a Friday! Your name will then be given to Mr Drakes for a homework reward! 

Here are this weeks.

Willow's Star Writer

This week our Star Writer in Willow is Hakeem Bakreen. Hakeem used adjectival strings and included synonyms to transform unexciting words to vocabulary that creates visual images in the reader's mind. Well done Hakeem! A certificate and pencil are coming your way! 

First Paragraph Tension

Take a look at these exciting first paragraphs from Maple children. On the last day of half term the children were challenged to write a story about three random elements (that were quite literally picked from a hat!). Identical twins, a secret diary and a scream all had to be included somewhere in their writing. Excitedly, children planned tales of kidnappers, escapees and long lost secrets. 

How have they successfully built suspense in these opening paragraphs? 

Willow's Star Writer

This week's star writer in Willow is Daniel Oluokun. In his Father Weston diary entry, Daniel used captivating and sophisticated vocabulary and also started sentences with intriguing  openers that make you want to read on! Well done Daniel! 

John's Perfect Project

This morning, while teachers were greeting children as they happily entered their classrooms, John Marshall was busy heaving an exciting project into school. 

Inspired by Year 5 and 6's history topic, Crime and Punishment, John created a brilliant model. He recreated the destination of the children's trip earlier on in the term... The Clink Prison! 

The model is complete with torture devices like The Chair, The Gallows and even it's very own Beheading block! 

Excellent work, John! 

BBC Radio 2 Writing Competition 500 Words

Do you get bored during the school holidays?

Are you eager to learn more?

Are you hungry for a challenge?

 

 

See if you can write a story in 500 words. It can be a story about anything you like, love, comedy, horror or mystery, it’s completely up to you, the only rule is that you use 500 words. Not 499 or 501 just 500 words. This competition has been launched by Chris Evans at BBC Radio 2. There are lots of reasons to enter 500 words. You could win Chris Evans height in books (1.9 metres) or hear your story read by a superstar narrator live on the radio to millions of people. But the most important reason is to write a brilliant story in 500 words. The judges want to read what you come up with, and they absolutely promise to read EVERY SINGLE ONE.

If you would like to enter this competition then return your entry to Mrs Nicholls on 24^th February.

Good Luck!

 

Maple Make Music With The Grand Union Orchestra

Today Maple class were very lucky to have another special visitor. Claude, Claire and Catherine from the Grand Union Orchestra were accompanied by fellow musician Selima. They are busy preparing Maple's children for a special performance at MyPlace after half term with students from Mead and Redden Court completing the Harold Hill Orchestra. All of Maple's children worked very hard today and should be very proud of their achievements. 

Spelling Bee Lists - Term 2

Are you ready for round 2?

If you would like to be part of Broadford’s Spelling Bee team and win yourself a kindle then here are the next set of words to learn.

Remember, you have to know all the words from the term 1 list as well as the words from the term 2 list!

The next round will take place in classrooms, before the Easter holidays.

Good Luck and keep spelling!

 

 

 

Bikeability

Our Year 5 and 6 children have battled wind and rain in their quest to achieve their Bikeability certificates. This morning they have been trained by cycling experts in readiness for going out onto the streets this afternoon with their new knowledge about staying safe while cycling. They will be accompanied by the experts later and their high visibility jackets are drying off as we speak from the morning session. We look forward to seeing lots of Bikeability certificates in E for Excellence assembly!

MyMaths

This week all children in years 5 and 6 will be receiving their MyMaths logins and passwords to take home. This is a really valuable resource for use both in school and at home. Please encourage your child to rehearse their level 4 booster packs, which provide a range of engaging, exciting activities and games for children to rehearse and apply their mathematical skills. If children are not sure about an activity then with a small click they can also have an interactive lesson to explain how to tackle each problem. 

If you have any queries or questions about this resource, how we use it in school or how you can help your child to use it at home then please contact or come and speak to Miss Reynolds. 

Kirsty's 100 word challenge

Well done to Kirsty White who brought her brilliant attempt at the 100 word challenge to Miss Reynolds this week. The challenge had to include the phrase "and the noise stopped" in their writing as well as a simile sentence opener, personification and an exclamation mark. Kirsty fantastically added all of these elements to her writing and kept to the tight 100 words.  

This week's 100 word challenge was to include the phrase "and then the sky grew darker". Who has attempted the challenge? 

Elm's Star Writer

Well done Ebony! This week you wrote a fantastic diary entry from the point of Father William Weston. Your first 2 sentences really poke the reader in the eye!

Elm DT prison project

Just a little reminder to bring in any materials you may need for Fridays building project. We have card, pipe cleaners, tape and glue in school. Items you may decide you need: shoe boxes to create the main structure; kitchen roll tubes for the look out towers; any other items to create your prison.

January WOW badges

Do you walk to school at least once a week?

Would you like to earn badges for your walking efforts?

Take home your WoW travel diary today.

 

When you have completed your diary bring it back to school and one of the JTA’s will exchange it for a WoW badge.

This month’s badges are Princess themed and next month it’s all about the Great Fire of London.

 

Get Walking!

Stubbers Meeting: Reminder

A reminder that there will be a meeting for parents of Year 6 children today at 2.45pm regarding the residential trip to Stubbers. We hope to see lots of you there. 

Willow's Star Writer!

This week,

Willow's Star Writer is Sharna Dodge. Sharna used a variety of similes and adjectival strings in her Clink Museum trip recount. Well done for using time connectives to sequence events correctly and interesting vocabulary. Sharna was awarded with a certificate and a special pencil for her fantastic efforts! 

Year 5/6 spellings w/c 3.2.14

Yashvi's Diary Entry

A big well done to Maple's Yashvi Shah for her Big Write this week. Yashvi has only been at Broadford for a mere three weeks, but is already proving that she can get to grips with Year 5 and 6's Crime and Punishment topic. 

Their task was to write a diary entry from the point of view of Father William Weston- a Jesuit priest in the Elizabethan era, thrown into the Clink for being a Catholic in a Protestant England and accused of being part of the Babington plot to assassinate the Queen. 

Yashvi not only used a range of sentence openers and different sentence structures, she also attempted the punctuation challenge to use a hyphen...more than once! 

Great work, Yashvi. A Star writer certificate is certainly coming your way!