E for Excellence Winners:

These wonderful children have demonstrated excellence this week.

Ameerah Bashir – Mulberry
Indie Sale –  Pine Bailey
James Nash – Cedar
Fallon Sharpe – Cherry
Adam Murray – Ash
Bradley Joy – Hazel
Trinity Hawkes – Birch
Daniel Kalusha – Willow
Elizabeth Ositelu – Elm
Kie Purse – Maple
Oliver Bangs – Acer
Yussuf Al Beity – Palm
Ayomide Otegbola – Sequoia

Harry Potter Spell Awards

Congratulations to our readers who have managed to complete elements of the Harry Potter & J K Rowling Challenge in the library. Zac Nickson, Finley livingstone, Libby Northwood, Mya Thakar, Lily Jones, Ruben Roberts, Emily Claydon, Hayden Northwood & Florence Ayres: all these pupils have managed to achieve their Spell Creation diplomas.

If you cast the spell 'Abraca-fairy' you will turn into a fairy and your hair will transform into your favourite colour.
Florence Ayres

If you cast the spell 'Magic Fire' magical rides will appear everywhere that you look. They will be cool, fast and have lots of loopy loops!
Hayden Northwood

4R Awards

Sara Lopes & Martina Rensch have shown that they can manage distractions, notice patterns and become absorbed in their tasks – well done for your Resilience certificate. Leo Whiten has been recognised for his Reflectiveness: planning carefully, revising ideas, identifying key features and being able to talk about his learning.

Martina has shown a continuous effort to ensure that her handwriting is as neat as possible... great work!

Sara has worked hard in maths and literacy to challenge herself at every opportunity!

Leo has done a great job of evaluating his Science Fiction story! 

Right of the stage!

When you take your seats at the O2 tonight look for us - up high - to the right of the stage. Forest Academy have their sign directly above the area where we are sitting.

Rehearsal is just about to start. We are all very excited and full from our Pizza Express lunch.

See you soon!

Young Voices have left the building!

Our trip to the O2 has departed! We will keep you updated throughout the day.

Fact Hunters: Chocolate & Lizards

Teni Adu
Did you know that Roald Dahl’s school influenced his books? The pupils at Repton had to do blind tastings for confectionery giant Cadbury’s. Each term the Priory boys were given a box full of new types of chocolate together with a checklist to give marks for the products!

Ranita Ariyibi
In Beijing, China there is a solid chocolate BMW car model at the World Chocolate Wonderland The Chocolate Wonderland is a 20,000-square-metre chocolate theme park which opens to the public today.

Freddie Lewis
Incredibly Horned lizards use a wide variety of means to avoid predation: camouflage, running, stopping, puffing up and even squirting blood!

Joshua Kaylor
Did you know that the Masaya volcano (25 km SE from Managua) is one of Nicaragua's most active volcanoes?

Cruz Carey
Did you know that Cherophobia is a fear of having fun? Chloe Kirk Incredibly there are often 20 Volcanoes at any one time erupting around the world!

Resourcefulness Awards

Caitlin Parmenter, Emily Russell, Brooke Borland, Ayomide Otegbola, Ijeoma Ezeogu, & Grace Gore have earned their Resourcefulness Award for the way they have shown curiosity about learning, reasoned methodically and capitalized on resources.

For using her laminated smiley face in maths to highlight the imporant information in the problems she was solving.
Grace Gore

Brooke has managed to use her prior learning maths to help her this week.

Great use of resources this week in maths Caitlin! Well done.

Reciprocity Awards

Isabelle Reynolds, Cydney Ridely, Michael St Matthew Daniel, Matthew Munjere, Molly May Harrop, Oliwia Bartnik & Nikola Urban have demonstrated effective reciprocity this week – able to listen carefully, work collaboratively and take turns.

For your great ability to share ideas during a discussion in Literacy... great work Nikola!

Matthew you have shown excellent partner work in PE. Well done.

Molly May you listened carefully in PE and helped your partner. 

Michael helped others in DT by sharing his ideas and suggesting how they might be able to improve their design.

Attendance:

KS1& EYFS: Cedar 97.3%
KS2: Birch 97.2%
Overall: 94.03%

Cedar really are proving that they have an incredibly high attendance rate, winning the weekly league once again! It means they are on course to be the first ever class to retain the Attendance League title!

Read Write Inc Stay & Play: Monday 1st 9.10am

Miss Tynan and the EYFS team are looking forward to welcoming Reception parents for the Read Write Inc (sorry for the incorrect information previously about it being Phonological Awareness) session on Monday morning. You will have the chance to watch a session led by staff and then play alongside your children and use the resources shown.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Diary Dates

On Monday 1st February we have our Reception Stay & Play session, which will focus on phonics. It will be great to see as many parents as possible at this event. In the afternoon we have the Spinebreakers from Mulberry going to the Hilldene Library. On Tuesday there is a Road Safety talk for KS1 and Year 6. Cedar have their Sharing Assembly on Wednesday. On Thursday 4th February Phil will be in with the Y5&6 pupils for their Cycle Club trips.

Sharing Assembly:  Wednesday 3rd February Cedar Class @ 9.05am
We are delighted to invite you to come to Cedar’s Sharing Assembly on Wednesday 4th. It starts at 9.10am.

Read Write Inc Stay & Play: Monday 1st 9.10am
Miss Tynan and the EYFS team are looking forward to welcoming Reception parents for the Read Write Inc (sorry for the incorrect information previously about it being Phonological Awareness) session on Monday morning. You will have the chance to watch a session led by staff and then play alongside your children and use the resources shown.

Half Term: Friday 12th – Friday 19th February
School is closed for INSET on Friday 12th of February, so the children’s last day this half term will be Thursday 11th and then they return to school on Monday 22nd

Parent Council Feedback:

Thank you to those parents who were able to make it to the meeting this week. We discussed three key items: the Federation proposal, plans for the expansion of the school and feedback from the new pupil survey. Full minutes of the meeting will be published shortly on the blog, but some points are worth mentioning now:

• Parents suggested calling the meeting a Parents’ Forum so that it doesn’t sound so formal. The term Council implies that you have to be a member or that it is a very serious meeting – which isn’t the case. It is a chance to share our plans with you and to hear your views and ideas.
• The Federation idea is exactly that… an idea. If, after discussion with Governors, it turns into a proposal then you will be given much more information about pros, cons and what a Federation actually is. However parents were interested to hear that:
o The two schools retain separate budgets
o The two schools retain separate DfE numbers and separate Ofsted inspection cycles
o The two schools retain their own staff – although they may be offered the opportunity to work or collaborate across the Federation
• The Education Funding Agency (EFA) have indicated that it will be possible for the demolition of the old building to go ahead this summer. However the LA have to complete a development plan to show how they are going to expand the school between now and 2020-21.

Learning Power Awards

Amelia Hynes & Megan Mae Burnett  have shown that they can manage distractions, notice patterns and become absorbed in their tasks – well done for your Resilience certificate. Danny Cohen has been recognised for his Reflectiveness: planning carefully, revising ideas, identifying key features and being able to talk about their learning.

Fact Hunters: Giraffes & numbers

Kimberley Stewart
Strangely - for an animal that lives on ice - polar bears often get hot and will roll in the snow to cool off.

Georgia Brooks
Reticulated giraffes are ruminants, and their stomachs have four parts, with food passing through the first and water going directly to the second.

Alisha March
Did you know that when David Beckham was 11, he won the coveted Bobby Charlton Soccer Schools National Skills competition? The win earned Beckham a trip to Barcelona, where he drew the attention of a Manchester United soccer scout.

Certificate of Presentation:

Ruby Burchell, Maisie Clark, Yeliz Kaya, Nathaniel Ramus, Lucy Stevens & Jackie Ramalingam: all of these pupils have shown that they are making a sustained effort to improve and develop their presentation. By carefully forming their numbers and ensuring their handwriting is neat and legible they are producing much higher quality pieces of work.

Star Readers

Well done to Charlie Tyrell, Maizie Parker, Ethan Borrell, Jack Peppitt, Morgan Palfreman, Charlie Ilott, Alex Kopiec, Sydney Griffiths, Aaliah-Shae Vidol, Gabriella Zaikauskaite & Jackie Ramalingam: who have all completed their Bronze reading awards for finishing 10 books!

Leah Sharpe Kanishka Chintala, Blake Maddox, Molly Vincent, Peter Joy, Tyler Kelly, Malachi Wright, Mia Warnock, Noah Vumuka Moyin Ayodola, Bella Hyder, Oliver Stay, Gracee May Coble, Morgan Palfreman, Adam Abubakr, Temilola Omisore, Kaley Watson & Kieran Dash have also managed to get their bookmark for 25 books completed.

Ellie Wise & Riley Taylor have managed to go further and get their 50 Book certificate and £5 voucher. Charlie Porter has managed to read 75 books and now gets to choose a book of his own.

Tracker Awards

Well done to Michael Rack who collected his Platinum Pencil & Pen set today. Amandeep and Summer Rose both received their Silver pencil. Ty Sutton and Melisa Krasniqi have both collected their Golden Bookmarks.

Attendance:

KS1& EYFS: Cedar 97.3%
KS2: Ash 98.6%
Overall: 94.8%

This week has seen a KS2 class finally manage to unseat Cedar from the top of the league! Well done to Ash for managing over 98%. Sadly we have just missed our overall target of 95%.

E for Excellence Winners:

These wonderful children have demonstrated excellence this week.

Roxy Smith – Mulberry
Violet Chilton –  Pine
Summer Rose Trew – Cedar
Khaira Hascar – Cherry
Matthew Murcia – Ash
Ethan Gibbs – Hazel
Grace Gore – Birch
Vakare Ivanovaite – Willow
Yeliz Kaya – Elm
Jude Gore – Maple
Kieran Dash – Acer
Sam Murcia – Palm
Freddie Lewis – Sequoia

Resourcefulness Awards

Sami Hatton, Kaine Painter, Emily Russell, Holly Chilvers, Grace Moody & Jack Eve have earned their Resourcefulness Award for the way they have shown curiosity about learning, reasoned methodically and capitalized on resources.

Sami Hatton
He has showed great imagination in Design & Technology making a figure head for his Viking ship. Great idea Sami.

Emily Russell
She has linked the work done on quarters and halves to her child initiated play

Year 1 Bear Superheroes

If you go down to the woods this week you're in for a big surprise! Year 1 pupils at Broadford Primary have been dressing up as bears and completing a range of activities to raise funds for the World Wildlife Fund. In their topic they have learnt that bears are facing a number of human threats: their habitat is being cut down, global warming is melting the ice and bears are being treated badly in captivity. The pupils wanted to do something to raise money to help the charities that support the bears. First they held a Bear Hunt.

'The pupils were really excited! They had to dress as bears and hunt round the school for clues. Our best bear detectives managed to find over 30 bears hidden around the grounds. We had a dress up activity. The total raised was well over £500! A fantastic effort.'
 Miss Trudie Chappel - Year 1 teacher

The money raised will help the WWF to protect the habitats of the bears, enabling them to remain in the wild. Did you know that for brown bears they now can only inhabit 2% of what used to be their habitat? Without this support the numbers of these beautiful animals left in the wild will never recover.

Circus Skills Day

Have you ever wondered if you could walk on stilts? Do you have the poise and balance to cross a tight rope? Would you be able to spin a plate on a stick? Well pupils at Broadford Primary had the chance to test their Big Top skills with a Circus Day.

The wide range of activities allowed them to test their reciprocity and team work skills:

I loved the tightrope! We had to help each other balance by holding their hands.'
Roberto Silva - Aspen

The Circus instructor showed the pupils how to balance the plates on the stick and then use a whipping motion to make them spin, before teaching them how to create swirling patterns with the ribbons.

Our children had a fantastic time. To see them accessing the different opportunities independently, challenging themselves and then showing the resilience to practise until they had succeeded was amazing. Afterwards they wanted to carry on in the classroom with chalk lines on the floor to balance on.
Miss Cat Tynan - Reception teacher

As a grand finale the children used a pair of ladders to form a human pyramid - with six of them balanced on the steps! 

Reciprocity Awards

Jake Reynolds, Elena Amato, Martin Wicher, Kimberley Stewart & Abbie Sullivan has demonstrated effective reciprocity this week – able to listen carefully, work collaboratively and take turns.

Jake Reynolds
After deepening his fraction knowledge Jake has helped other members of his class by explaining concepts and talking through the process of adding fractions. Well done!

Elena Amato
She has shown reciprocity skills in her DT lessons

Martin Wicher
For working well with others in his DT lessons

Kimberley Stewart
For supporting her partner by sharing resources and ideas. Kimberley always takes the three pupil jobs incredibly seriously - especially being kind and polite to everyone that she meets.

Swimming Awards

Congratulations to the latest batch of Broadford swimmers who have managed to earn their purple stripe - for successfully completing 100 metres! Temira Hascar, Ruby Burchell, Plamen Vasilev & Brooke Borland all managed the distance.

Harry Potter Challenge Awards

Congratulations to our readers who have managed to complete elements of the Harry Potter & J K Rowling Challenge in the library. Henry Cruz Kokonchev, Harry Vincent, Micayla Smith, Jude Gore, Ellie Mae Wager, Georgia Brooks, Jessica Sampson, Chloe Kirk & Kieran Dash: all these pupils have managed to achieve their Spell Creation diplomas.

Henry - Y3
I wanted to create a spell that would help to turn you into a Superhero:
Earth & Water
Fire & Air
Carry us, carry us, carry us there!

If you say this three times you will turn into a hero so strong you could spin the world on your finger!

Tracker Awards:

Ranita Ariyibi, Bayleigh Parsons, Hollie Gray, Grace Leadbitter, Leanne Royer, Samira Rahman, Billy Little & Polina Backane have managed to collect enough merits for their Bronze award.

Summer Rose Trew is progressing through her Silver tracker and now collects her Silver pencil. Oliwia Bartnik has now finished her Silver.

Ty Sutton has now reached his Golden Bookmark. Melisa Krasni has finished her Prestige 2 Bronze Tracker!

Star Writers

Kie Purse, Sarah Wall, Leo Whiten, Armani Peek, Jessica Diaz, Spencer Abrahams, Emily Morton, Keira Baker, Sienna Nickson, Ty Sutton, Charlie Simpson, Molly May Harrop & Melisa Krasniqi: these children have all produced pieces of outstanding writing this week.

Look out for examples of their work on the blog!

Super Readers

Lea Cerqueria, Weronika Harandi & Sergu Babainu have all managed to complete their Silver reading awards! Well done.

Fact Hunters: Numbers & books

Samanyu Handoo
Did you know that forty is the only number where the letters are used in alphabetical order?

Bradley Joy
Were you aware that - according to Amazon - the most highlighted Kindle books are the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.

Diary Dates

Year 3 start the week with a visit from a Stone Age man! In the afternoon our School Council are off to the Mayor’s Parlour to hear about democracy in Havering. Our Spinebreakers from Y3 are going to Waterstones on Tuesday and Year 5 have an authentic Viking guest. After school we have a Governor Committee meeting. Pine have their Sharing Assembly on Wednesday 27th and on Thursday Rev Rich is in for assembly. In the afternoon we have the Parent Council (Thursday 28th @ 2pm). We end the week with our trip to the O2 with the choir for the Young Voices concert!

Parent Council: Thursday 28th January @ 2pm
In this meeting we would like to update you on the next steps proposed by the Education Funding Agency for the development of the old building. We also have news of the expansion of the Nursery and feedback from the Governing Body meeting which is on Tuesday next week. Some of our parents kindly volunteered to come in and speak with pupils new to our school to hear how they have settled in and if there is anything we could be doing better – they will also be feeding back at the meeting.

All parents are welcome! It is not an elected committee and you don’t have to have attended previous meetings. We believe that this is a good chance to communicate with you and to hear you views and thoughts on the next developments for our school.

Sharing Assembly:  Wednesday 27th January Pine Class @ 9.05am
We are delighted to invite you to come to Pine’s Sharing Assembly on Wednesday 27th. It starts at 9.10am.

Half Term: Friday 12th – Friday 19th February
School is closed for INSET on Friday 12th of February, so the children’s last day this half term will be Thursday 11th and then they return to school on Monday 22nd

Fact Hunters: Explorers & tectonic plates

Daniel Kalusha
Devices that emit blue light include e-readers, tablets, laptops, smart phones and several types of flat screen televisions. This blue light has sleep-disturbing effects! So put them down before you hit the pillow.

Chloe Kirk
Tectonic plates move at the same speed – roughly – that your fingernails grow… 3.7cm per year.

Fayo Ayodola
Did you know that Columbus was probably not the first European to cross the Atlantic Ocean? Many believe that the Norse Viking Leif Eriksson landed in present-day Newfoundland around 1000 A.D. almost five centuries before Columbus set sail.

Abbie Sullivan
Incredibly the Germans were the first side to use flame throwers in WW1. Their machines could throw jets of flame as far as 130ft.

Year 1 Fundraising:

As part of their topic on bears, our Year 1 pupils are taking on some different challenges to raise funds for the World Wildlife Fund. Our pupils are learning about how bears are suffering from a loss of habitat, global warming and poor treatment in captivity. If you are able to support any of our Year 1 pupils in their fundraising efforts then all donations will be gratefully received.
• Thursday 14th January – Y1 Bear Hunt
• Friday 22nd January – Y1 Dress As A Bear

Donations can be made to the main office or to the Y1 staff – thank you!

Parent Council: Thursday 28th January @ 2pm

In this meeting we would like to update you on the next steps proposed by the Education Funding Agency for the development of the old building. We also have news of the expansion of the Nursery and feedback from the Governing Body meeting which is on Tuesday next week. Some of our parents kindly volunteered to come in and speak with pupils new to our school to hear how they have settled in and if there is anything we could be doing better – they will also be feeding back at the meeting.

All parents are welcome! It is not an elected committee and you don’t have to have attended previous meetings. We believe that this is a good chance to communicate with you and to hear you views and thoughts on the next developments for our school.

Bronze Reading Awards

Pupils who typically read for 15mins per night are far more likely to be in the top 10% for attainment. Those who typically don't read every night are far more likely to be in the bottom 10%! 

Confident readers by the age of 10, in average, go on to earn 20% more in salary than pupils who weren't confident readers by the end of Primary.

Well done to these pupils who are doing their bit to read regularly at home. For completing 10 books they have earned a Bronze reading certificate: Grace Leadbitter, Billy Little, Elina Joshi, Ranita Ariyibi, Polina Backane, Samira Rahman and Hollie Gray.

Dancing Queen

Well done Nancy, who has earned some very shiny medals for her dancing. Having taken part in a festival at the weekend, Nancy was awarded these for her great performance!

Lily's Superhero Story

Lily has been inspired by the Super Tato story that they have been looking at in class and has now written her own. In her amazing tale of bravery and heroics, a potato helps to rescue a carrot which has been trapped and tied down.

Lily also managed to find some pictures to help illustrate her text and bring the story to life!

Great job Lily!

Bottle Appeal

Year 6 are still set to construct a green house from plastic bottles. If you are able to donate any used 2 litre drinks bottles they would be very grateful to receive them.

 Please ust wash them out, send them in to the class and then the bottles will find their way to Y6.

Learning Power Awards:

These are the key skills that our children will need to learn effectively in class and be successful later in life. Asroosh Valliam has demonstrated effective reciprocity this week – able to listen carefully, work collaboratively and take turns. Jacob Houlston has been recognised for his Reflectiveness: planning carefully, revising ideas, identifying key features and being able to talk about their learning.

Safer Neighbourhood Open Meeting

Gooshays are holding an open meeting on Thursday 4th February 2016 7pm - 8pm

Everyone is invited

This is a chance to meet members of the Gooshay Ward Panel: - residents that represent your community. In addition there will be local councillors, youth workers, Council Wardens, Myplace management and Friends of Dagnam Park and representatives from your Local police team.

Why not come along and get involved in your community?

Public Meeting

343 Dagnam Park Drive RM3 9DJ

Gooshays Safer Neighbourhoods Team

Call 0208 721 2508
E-mail: Gooshays.snt.police.uk/saferneighbourhoods
www.met.police.uk/saferneighbourhoods
Non urgent reporting phone 101
In an emergency always phone 999

Learning Power Awards - Resourcefulness

Tahani Towe Enu, Mia Gallagher, Caitlin Bowden & Teni Adu have earned their Resourcefulness Award for the way they have shown curiosity about learning, reasoned methodically and capitalized on resources.

Tahani always takes her learning home and tries to find out more about the topic.
Miss Porter

Teni was very helpful to her classmates during ICT and helped them to solve a problem with an app
Miss Moran

Mia has been reviewing her work and setting herself the goals for her next piece.
Miss Connell

Tracker Awards:

Riley Newell, Nathan Ehihon, Kara Middleton, & Samuel Hatwell have managed to collect enough merits for their Bronze award. Ty Sutton & Callie Rose Barnett are progressing through their Silver tracker and now collect their Silver pencil.

Holly Turner, Sophie Kaylor & Kimberley Stewart have now finished their Golden tracker. Matthew Leadbitter has successfully completed his Platinum tracker.

Attim Nombeko has claimed his diamond prize! Jack Barnett has claimed his Star Trophy! Melisa Krasniqi has collected the Prestige Silver pencil.

Learning Challenge Awards - Resilience

Ella Nash, Brandon Cohen, Storm Hawkes, Emmanuel Athuahene, Vakare Ivanovaite & Lewis Davis have shown that they can manage distractions, notice patterns and become absorbed in their tasks – well done for your Resilience certificate

Ella got stuck, but persevered to calculate quantities of non-unit fractions and then went on to solve some worded problems!
Ella Nash

Brandon didn't let the problems get him down in maths. He stuck with it and solved them in the end.
Brandon Cohen

Vakare showed incredible resilience in History whilst trying to use artifacts to deduce facts about life in the Mesolithic period.
Vakare Ivanovaite