Broadford Stain Glass Windows

This afternoon Maple class have been looking at how Christians express their faith through the art of stain glass windows. They decided to make stain glass windows to reflect what we believe at Broadford; that learners should demonstrate resilience, reflectiveness, reciprocity and resourcefulness. Each child had to show an image of how their "R" could be demonstrated in every day life.

Can you tell which of our 4 Rs the children are trying to show here? 

Awesome Algebra Puzzles

Some of our year 5 and 6 children have been exercising their resilience in order to conquer a tricky tarsia puzzle today. They used a mixture of multiplication knowledge and algebra calculations in order to match up the pieces of their puzzle. Great job everyone! 

Spelling Bee

Next week each class will be holding the termly Spelling Bee. Could you be your class champion? Ensure you practice this terms words to be in with a chance!

Make sure you are confident with each words meanings.

Spellings

Don't forget to learn your spellings for tomorrow's test. There are 2 weeks left of this term to bring in your homework so that you can reap the rewards!

Maple's Star Writer

This week, Maple's star writer is Russell. He used brilliant sentence openers and vocabulary to create an informative poster for how to keep your teeth clean. Good job Russell! Keep it up! 

Elm Star Writer

Well done to Raheem Miah- this weeks star writer! Reporting on Sports Relief, he could be up for taking over as Mr Drakes' secretary! 

Dr Jasmine Science visit

Years 5 and 6 are currently being treated to a great visit from Dr Jasmine today. Dr Jasmine is a scientist and artist and this morning is going to show us some creative experiments. We will upload some more photos shortly! 

Willow's Star Writer

This week our star writer in Willow is Lucy Lockhart. Lucy wrote a report about polar bears and made an incredible effort with her spelling. The report was very informative and featured some fantastic vocabulary. Well done Lucy! 

The Great Fraction Race

Today, as it is the day of Sport Relief, Years 5 and 6 took part in a great fraction race. The children were split into teams and assigned one adult. Once shown a fraction or decimal, it was a race against the other teams to frantically work out how many of the cubes in a tray at the other end of the playground they needed to bring safely back to the rest of their team. In the end it came down to a tie-break question- 7/10 of 70. The winners certainly were delighted at their Sport Relief victory! 

Outdoor Decimal Fun

Miss Reynolds' maths group had lots of fun converting fractions to decimals today. In the classroom they were carefully folding number lines to show how many pieces each fraction showed then relating this to a decimal number. The children then took their challenge outside and had to decide whether the fraction on their boards was greater than, smaller than or equal to the decimal fraction in the middle of three large circles. So successful were the children at this task that Miss Reynolds then challenged them to line up and decide which fraction was greatest out of their peers' line up and use the symbols < and > to show their findings! Such great work from everyone today! Well done! 

Science Week Challenge

This week is National Science Week. To tie in with this, our years 5 and 6 children were given a special science challenge today. They were given a question; "Which material is best for filtering a solution?" and several materials in order to try to come to an accurate result, but with no additional help. Quickly, lots of children exercised their reciprocity and resourcefulness skills and worked out an effective method. Several experiments later, children gave scientific and justified answers based on their findings. Look how brilliant they all were!

The Big Pedal Is Over!

Enormous congratulations and thank you to everyone who cycled or scooted to school over the past two weeks.

I am pleased to announce that within the Greater London area we placed 61^st out of 121. This includes schools that are within London and Essex, and as far afield as Surrey, Hertfordshire and Middlesex.

Nationally Broadford Primary School came 602^nd out of a massive 1056 schools.

Over the two weeks 23% of our pupils made 951 journeys on bicycles and scooters.

Well done to everyone for choosing a more sustainable mode of travel to school and reducing your carbon footprint.

You should all feel very proud of yourself.

  

 

 

 

It always seems impossible until it is done.

Nelson Mandela

Year 6's Fabulous Fractions

Miss Reynolds is extremely proud of her year 6 children today. They are successfully figuring out fractions of large numbers in their maths challenge. They are even challenging eachother with their calculations! Great job everyone! 

JTA's visit St. Ursula's Junior School

Last Thursday saw the first cluster meeting of JTA's. Nathan, Dylan, Georgina and Sophie travelled to St. Ursula's Junior using a sutainable form of travel, walking!

Broadford's JTA's jumped at the opportunity to meet with the outgoing and incoming JTA's at St. Ursula's for networking and an idea sharing session, as well as chocolate biscuits and drinks!

The retiring JTA's took us through the good work that they have completed during their term of office.

There was even an demonstration of glide bikes. A lunchtime activity that pupils all enjoy!

Dylan couldn't resist the temptation to have a glide himself.

Sophie had a chat with a fellow JTA about the big clean up, to ensure that our local streets and environment are clean enough for us to walk to school safely.

Everyone had a great morning and Dylan even won himself a prize for re-naming JTA's  (Junior Travel Ambassadors) to Junior Transport Agents!

Thank you St Ursula's for inviting us.