Broadford Primary: August 2016

Thursday, 25 August 2016

Get Caught Reading: Georgia & Jessica

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Jessica & Georgia were snapped while they enjoyed reading their books while on holiday.

What a great place to be immersed in a book - on a balcony, in the sunshine and with a view of the pool - great reading!

Get Caught Reading: Maddison

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Maddison was snapped while prepared to go to bed.

It certainly looks as if you were absorbed in your book Maddison... great reading!

Get Caught Reading: Tamilola

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Tamilola was snapped while she settled down in a comfy seat to enjoy her book.

Great reading Tamilola!

Get Caught Reading: Lilly

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Lilly was snapped while she enjoyed reading her book while on a day out at the Olympic Park.

What a great place to be immersed in a book - in the shadow of a certain team's new stadium!

Great reading Lilly!

Get Caught Reading: Peter, Malachi & Kezia

Check out our latest pupils to Get Caught Reading during the holiday: Kezia and Malachi Wright with Peter Joy.

They were caught doing a spot of reading before their road trip to Bedfords Park.

Great reading!

This year we had a very deserving group of pupils to collect the Sports Award. Each of these pupils have represented the school in more than one competition: athletics, cross country, netball, tag rugby, football, archery, cricket & basketball.

With their can do attitude, commitment to training and healthy competitive nature they have been excellent ambassadors for Broadford Primary.

Thank you to Teddy, Holly, Emily, Tianna, Chloe, Samson & Isaac.

KS1 Outstanding Contribution Awards 2016

The Outstanding Contribution Award recognises those pupils who have put the sparkle into everyday! Their humour, politeness, empathy, enthusiasm and thirst for learning means that they energise others and make each day of the school year that more enjoyable.

It is not an easy thing to do to maintain that level of energy for a whole year, but these pupils have managed it.

These pupils have given so much across the whole year, making great progress themselves but also empowering others. We are extremely proud of them all!
Mrs Stanley AHT Lower School.

Well done to Jessica, Sophie, Jersey, Tyler, Summer Rose & Vinnie!

KS2 Academic Awards 2016

In order to earn this award the pupils have to have shown a commitment to learning and high level of effort for the whole year: not just a day, nor a week... not even a month, but a whole year!

Their hard work and conscientious attitude has meant that they have made great strides in Maths, English and Science.

Well done for you efforts and thank you for the example you have set to others: Jacob, Jessica, Sam, Lewis, Katherine, Olamide, Ranita, Teni, Eriya & Denisz!

Get Caught Reading: Mr Drakes

Check out our latest member of Broadford to Get Caught Reading during the holiday.

This time Mr Drakes was snapped while he enjoyed reading his book while on a day out at Tatton Park. His family had travelled up to Cheshire to see one of the Dream Jars from the BFG Trail.

Great reading Mr Drakes!

Get Caught Reading: Daniel

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Daniel was snapped while he read to his friends on holiday.

It certainly looks as if you read a good story Daniel, the audience was very attentive!

Get Caught Reading: Charlie

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Charlie was snapped while he settled down in his plane seat to enjoy his book. He was on his way to Lanzarote.

We now expect a sequel with him reading on a lilo.

Great reading Charlie!

Get Caught Reading: Sophie

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Sophie was snapped while she read to her dog at Pugfest. There were activities for the whole family: Doggie Dash; The grand pug dog show; a huge Fun fair and lots of food and drink refreshments.

Great reading Sophie - thanks for sharing your day!

KS1 Academic Excellence Awards 2016

Get Caught Reading: Oliver

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Oliver was snapped while he read to his sister. He clearly has a soft, gentle tone as she is fast asleep!

The picture was taken at his Grandad's in Weymouth. Great reading Oliver - thanks for sharing your day!

We're In The Paper: Daniel

Congratulations to Daniel who has been named as the Star of the Week in the Romford Recorder. He is always thinking of others and very keen to help.

This year Daniel was an excellent JTA and helped out valiantly at the Book Fair. In the holidays he has also been helping out with his church group.

Well done Daniel!

Demolition Update

There really is nothing left of the old building now! We are down to the foundations. This week the diggers have been breaking up the concrete slab and removing the ducting. From Tuesday the crusher will be onsite as they begin to recycle and remove the rubble from site.

It certainly has change the view from the EYFS play area - will they notice when they return in September?

Thursday, 18 August 2016

Demolition of Old Building

We are delighted that the demolition work has started - and is now close to completion - on the old building. This is the next stage of the expansion of the school.

In September 2016 we will see the first 3FE intake for Reception - 90 pupils. This will then gradually extend throughout the school, meaning that we need additional classrooms and hall space.

The Borough have provided some draft plans that indicate a new Nursery - as this will also be expanding - and six new class spaces. There is also provision for a new hall.

It is hoped that the demolition process will be completed by the end of August and that the construction will start by Christmas. On that timetable part of the building will be ready for September 2017, which is the point at which we run out of space!

However it is sad to say goodbye to the old building. It has been in place since 1953 and seen countless children through their Primary education. The vast majority of the structure came from recycled hangars taken from the Hornchurch aerodrome... so it really was a piece of history. What was clear was that the building had served its time and wasn't suitable for refurbishment. The new facilities planned will ensure that our Harold Hill pupils have the very best facilities available!

Get Caught Reading: Amelia

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Amelia was snapped while she enjoyed reading her book while on a day out at the Tower of London.

What a great place to be immersed in a book - surrounded by history.

Great reading Ameila!

Get Caught Reading: Mr Drakes

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Mr Drakes was snapped while he enjoyed reading his book while on a day out at the Thames Chase country park. If the photo had been taken ten minutes earlier it would have shown him fast asleep, catching flies. It certainly looked very sunny and peaceful.

Great reading Mr Drakes!

Get Caught Reading: Jersey

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Jersey was snapped while she enjoyed reading her book while on a holiday cruising the Norfolk Broads. It looked very sunny and peaceful.

Great reading Jersey!

Get Caught Reading: Freddie & Megan

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Freddie & Megan were snapped while they enjoyed reading their books while on a holiday in St Ives. It looked very sunny and peaceful. We were wondering how many people they met on the way there!

Great reading Freddie & Megan.

Uniform Collection & Enquiries

We have had several requests from parents about when uniform can be collected.

There will be staff in school in tomorrow (19th August) and then Monday 22nd, Wednesday 24th, Thursday 25th (with the hours 10am - 2pm)

School will then be open each day the following week - apart from the Bank Holiday.

KS1 Reflectiveness Awards 2016

At Broadford we help the children to understand that the life long skill of Reflectiveness is about being ready, willing and able to become more strategic about learning - taking a longer-term view by planning, taking stock and drawing out your experiences as a learner to get the best out of yourself.

Your Reflectiveness is made up of..

Planning

Thinking about where you are going, the action you are going to take, the time and resources you will need and the obstacles you may encounter.

Revising
Being flexible, changing your plans in the light of different circumstances, monitoring and reviewing how things are going and seeing new opportunities.

Distilling
Looking at what is being learned - pulling out the essential features - carrying them forward to aid further learning; being your own learning coach.

Meta-learning
Knowing yourself as a learner - how you learn best;
how to talk about the learning process.

Well done to our KS1 pupils who have demonstrated these elements consistently across the whole year.

Police Cadets

We are delighted to announce that the Volunteer Police Cadet programme will be running again in September. Pupils in Year 6 will be issued with leaflets when they return next term.

If your child is unsure, they can enjoy a taster session which will help them to understand what opportunities there are.

The contact details are on the leaflet below.

KS1 Effort Awards 2016

Congratulations to our KS1 pupils who were chosen for the Excellent Effort award this year.

This reward is for pupils who have consistently shown that they are able to 'do their best in every lesson' throughout the entire year.

Gabriella, Lily, Alice, Jorja & Matthew: well done to all of you for having the resilience to maintain such a high level of effort all year.

KS1 Resourcefulness Awards 2016

At Broadford we help the children to understand that the life long skill of Resourcefulness is made up of many elements. It involves being ready, willing and able to learn in different ways - using both internal and external resources effectively, calling on different ways of learning as appropriate.

Questioning.
Asking questions of yourself and others. Being curious and playful with ideas - delving beneath the surface of things.

Making links
Seeing connections between disparate events and experiences - building patterns - weaving a web of understanding.

Imagining
Using your imagination and intuition to put yourself through new experiences or to explore possibilities. Wondering 'what if...?'

Reasoning
Calling up your logical and rational skills to work things out methodically and rigorously; constructing good arguements and spotting the flaws in others.

Capitalising
Drawing on the full range of resources from the wider world - other people, books, the Internet, past experience, future opportunities....

Well done to the following pupils who have demonstrated these skills consistently across the whole year: Violet, Leah, Tilly & Alex.

Get Caught Reading: Morgan

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Morgan was snapped while she enjoyed reading her book while on a camping trip. It looked very sunny and peaceful.

Great reading Morgan!

School Dinner Update

Dear Parents,

Havering Catering would like us to inform you that - from September 1st - the cost for Junior dinners has changed.

School dinners have gone up to:

£2.20 without a drink
£2.50 with a drink

However any tickets that you may have leftover can be used up next year.

As usual there school dinners for EYFS & KS1 pupils will continue to be free.

KS1 Sporting Excellence Awards 2016

Congratulations to the KS1 pupils who have earned the Sportsman of the Year Award: Andrew, Frankie, Charlie, Maisie, Dorrie & Fayo.

All of them have demonstrated an aptitude for sport: fearlessly competitive, willing to accept coaching advice and keen to support their team mates.

Thank you for the energy you have bought to every PE session this year!

KS1 Super Spellers

Every week we give out spellings and every week our teachers remind the pupils on the importance on practising every night! However we have a select group of pupils who do not need this reminder.

Relentlessly they rehearse their spelling to ensure that they are letter perfect every week. In fact they haven't made a single mistake for the entire term. In some cases they haven't made a single mistake across the entire year!

Very well done to John, Ruben, Andreea & Amandeep who have all excelled in their spelling this year and earned the Super Speller awards as well as a voucher!

Outstanding Contribution 2016

The Outstanding Contribution Award recognises those pupils who have put the sparkle into everyday! Their humour, politeness, empathy, enthusiasm and thirst for learning means that they energise others and make each day of the school year that more enjoyable.

It is not an easy thing to do to maintain that level of energy for a whole year, but these pupils have managed it.

These pupils have given so much across the whole year, making great progress themselves but also empowering others. We are extremely proud of them all!
Miss Barron AHT Upper School.

Well done to Brandon, Sienna, Samanyu, Finley, Isaac, Ella, Lillie & Melisa!

Tracker Awards

Well done to Sarah and Lacey Wall who have both earned their Platinum pencil and pen set.

Elina Joshi has picked up her Diamond prize.

Ayomide Otegbola has finished his Prestige Platinum tracker.

Caitlin Bowden, Ramone Holme Slater and Olivia Wheal have managed to earn their Star Prize.

Get Caught Reading: Tutu

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Tutu was snapped while she enjoyed reading her book to her doll.

Great reading Tutu!

Get Caught Reading: Aimee

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Aimee was snapped while she enjoyed reading her favourite Disney book.

Great reading Aimee!

Tuesday, 16 August 2016

KS2 Letter Finalists 2016

Well done to all the finalists who were recognised as part of the Jubilee Character Awards. They wrote some very touching pieces, which were highly praised by the judges.

Broadford entrants showed a real empathy and appreciation for others in their letters. They were all a pleasure to read!

Super Writers

Well done to Sofia Raif who has picked up her award for being shortlisted as part of the Jubilee Character Awards this year. She wrote a very thoughtful thank you letter about her mum.