Slava's Snowshow

The children out with Miss Chau have arrived safely at the Royal Festival Hall and travelled in style on a posh coach with electric seats! The children ate lunch and really enjoyed the show. The highlights were the giant spiderweb which covered the audience, the snow blizzard and the huge helium balloons that proved immensely enjoyable. Just leaving on the coach now. Estimated time of arrival to follow once we are on he A12.

Y5 Slavia Trip

Our Y5 children are stuck in traffic in East London. Their new ETA is now between 4pm and 4.15. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. 

Year 5's Christmas Party

This afternoon the children of Year 5 enjoyed a fantastic party full of festive fun. The children enjoyed dancing, singing, eating lots of scrumptious food and games including Wink Murder, Squeak Piggy Squeak and Musical Statues.

Year 5 enjoy a festive lunch!

Year 5 enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch along with the rest of the school today. The children were joined by teachers and teaching assistants and we all enjoyed the traditional food. 

Surviver's Story - Vera Schaufeld

Last week, Year 6 had an extremely valuable learning experience and opportunity to listen to the testimony of a Holocaust survivor, Vera Schaufeld. 

Vera was born in 1930 into a Jewish family in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She grew upon a small town named Klatovy which was just south of Prague. Her father was the head of the Jewish community in the town and her mother was of German origin. In 1934, her grandmother moved from Germany to live with the family in Klatovyvto avoid persecution by the Nazis.

Soon after the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939,Vera's parents decided to send her to England on the Kindertransport. Her parents hoped that they would soon be able to join, but they were not able to  obtain a visa. Vera was taken in by a foster family in Bury St Edmunds who had a daughter, Betty, who was a similar age to Vera. Vera was sent to boarding school with Betty; here Vera learnt English quickly and enjoyed life at school.

Throughout the war, Vera hoped that she would be reunited with her parents back home. However, after the war ended in 1945 she received a letter from the Red Cross telling her that none of her family had survived and she had no home to return to.

Vera went on to train as a teacher and after she spent some time in Israel, where she met her husband, Avram, on a Kibbutz (a communal farm). They returned to Engalnd and Vera spent many years teaching, working mainly with students who did not speak English as their first language.

Vera still lives in England and regularly shares her testimony in schools and colleges.  

Indoor Athletics Competition

On Thursday, a group of year 5 and 6 children attended the Havering indoor athletics competition. Amazingly, the team came 6th out of 14 schools and made Broadford proud. A special mention to Kynan Omandi, Chloe Trew, Success Hartford and Sandra Diaz-

who all put in fantastic effort and contributed immensely to our win. 

Surviver's Stories - Free the Children

Next week, the Year 6's will be lucky enough hear a story of evacuation, first hand, from a Jewish surviver of WW2.

In preperation for this visit Miss Coevorden from Free the Children came into year 6 and told them the story of another surviver called Dorothy. The children felt a real connection with Dorothy's story as they uncovered more information about her and her life. They were also trying to understand Dorothy's feelings through use of a mood graph.

A big thank you to Miss Coevorden for coming in and sharing Dorothy's story with us, and also to the children for being both respectful and inquisitive around this sensitive issue.