First Day of 2018 - Tuesday January 2nd

We are looking forward to seeing all children back at school in January 2018.

School opens again on the Tuesday 2nd January – Breakfast Club at 7.45 am – with the doors opening at 8.30 am for all other pupils.

There are no clubs at the beginning of term, so all pupils should be picked up promptly by 3.00 pm.

LFPA

A massive thank you to members of the LFPA who once again organised a very successful event -our  Learning Federation Christmas Fayre on Saturday 9th December. The event was well attended and raised in excess of £500 for both of our schools.

Attendance News!

I am delighted to announce the winners of the attendance league for the Autumn term - Willow class! They will enjoy their reward at the beginning of next term, congratulations to all of the pupils in Willow who have remembered their number one job of coming to school every day. The overall attendance for this term is 93.4% We have the Spring term to make 2.6% improvement to reach our target of 96%.

KS1 - 93.6%         KS2 - 93.3% Overall: 93.42%

Congratulations to Cherry and Willow  who top the attendance table this week.  

Thank you!

Your generous donations in the Christmas Bucket – at the end of each performance last week – have raised £276 we have made a donation in aid of Save the Children for our Christmas jumper day. Thank you.

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

We would like to thank you all for the support you have shown the school over the last 12 months. Watching all the children come into school at the end of the term, speaking with parents and talking to the staff you would be hard pressed to know that we are at the end of the longest term of the year. Certainly, we have lots to smile about with the achievements of 2017 and it is a year we can look back on with a great deal of pride. This year our school was named as Primary School of the Year AND Overall School of the Year from a category of four other outstanding settings. An amazing achievement!

I strongly believe that 2018 will be an equally fruitful year for the school. The building work has begun and we will soon see the new school start to emerge. By the next academic year it is likely that the six new classrooms, new hall and a brand new purpose built nursery will be completed. We are committed to continuing to provide our staff with high quality training so they are able to  to further enhance their practice and the teachers have already been booking up enrichment activities to maintain the exciting nature of our curriculum.

All of this is possible because we have such a strong community spirit. We value your support and the way you have championed the success of your children. Everyday I continue to be inspired by the pupils and my colleagues and all that they do together to make Broadford special, unique and outstanding.

Thank you as well for all the cards and gifts that have been given to staff. On behalf of them I would like to thank you for your kindness and generosity.

Wishing you all a very peaceful and restful Christmas and a Happy New Year. Eat, drink be merry and make the most of the quality time with your families. We look forward to seeing you in 2018!

Broadford vs Mead Football Tournament

We enjoyed a fantastic festival of football with our Broadford & Mead football teams this month. Broadford hosted the event, that involved both girls and boys.

In the first game, the two sides were very evenly matched. Godswill scored a stunning goal for Broadford, while Wahab mesmerised the defenders with his dancing feet.

Thank you to our sports coaches for organising the event. 

Learning Challenge

Well done to Finley, Archy and Cruz who have been creating their very own football infographic. Based around the footballing achievements of their two heroes (Ronaldo & Messi) the boys collected a range of facts and figures.

Amazing Ronaldo Facts:
Did you know that Ronaldo...

• is Portugal's all-time top international goalscorer?
• is the winner of the Ballon d'Or, footballer of the year award, four times (2008, 2013, 2014, 2016) and the European Golden Shoe four times (2007-08, 2010-11, 2013-14 and 2014-15)?
• paid for the brain surgery of a 10-month-old boy?

Fabric Artwork

The Art Club have been mixing types of craft and art to create their very own fusion pictures. To begin with the pupils made their very own loom. They then used wool to weave the shape of the person who would be the focus of their painting.

Once the person was complete, the pupils had to use perspective to create their backdrops: mountain sides, football stadiums and lakes.

This project involved the pupils developing their skills in several different areas: watercolours, sketching, perspective and craft. When the pictures were completed they were then challenged to go back and add additional details - hats, boots googles.
Mrs Caccavale 

Resilience
The varied nature of the project - and the time it took to complete the pieces - meant that the children had to use their resilience muscle!

I enjoyed the project, but I had to really concentrate... weaving is complicated. At the start it didn't feel like we were making much progress. However the ideas all came together at the end. When we were in the sessions the time went so quickly - there was so much to do.
Georgia

Reciprocity
My weaving kept getting into knots. However Mrs Caccavale showed us what to do. By copying her I was able to complete my character.
Emily R

We are certainly delighted with the artwork and it has taken pride of place in our gallery!

New Building Construction

We are delighted to post the first videos that evidence the start of the building work. By October 2018, this muddy patch of ground will have been replaced with six shiny classrooms, a hall, Nursery and staff room. Before any foundations can go in, a huge amount of earth needs to be moved to achieve the right level.

The downside for the builders is that the site will quickly become a very boggy mess.

Keep your eyes peeled as we continue to update the website with images and video.

The building site before work started in December

Noah’s Karate Award

Well done to Noah, who has won a trophy at his Karate Club.

I have to go to my club every week. If you try your best then we might get the trophy.

It is clear that Noah has been really persevering with his Karate and embracing the idea that purposeful practice makes all the difference... well done Noah!

Weekly Newsletter - Wednesday 20th December, 2017

Headteacher: Mrs L Nicholls 

Dear Parents and Carers,

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

In this final newsletter of the year, I would like to thank you all for the support you have shown the school over the last 12 months. Watching all the children come into school this morning, speaking with parents and talking to the staff you would be hard pressed to know that we are at the end of the longest term of the year. Certainly, we have lots to smile about with the achievements of 2017 and it is a year we can look back on with a great deal of pride. This year our school was named as Primary School of the Year AND Overall School of the Year from a category of four other outstanding settings. An amazing achievement!

I strongly believe that 2018 will be an equally fruitful year for the school. The building work has begun and we will soon see the new school start to emerge. By the next academic year it is likely that the six new classrooms, new hall and a brand new purpose built nursery will be completed. We are committed to continuing to provide our staff with high quality training so they are able to  to further enhance their practice and the teachers have already been booking up enrichment activities to maintain the exciting nature of our curriculum.

All of this is possible because we have such a strong community spirit. We value your support and the way you have championed the success of your children. Everyday I continue to be inspired by the pupils and my colleagues and all that they do together to make Broadford special, unique and outstanding.

Thank you as well for all the cards and gifts that have been given to staff. On behalf of them I would like to thank you for your kindness and generosity. I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year… see you in 2018!

Thank you!

Your generous donations in the Christmas Bucket – at the end of each performance last week – have raised £276 we have made a donation in aid of Save the Children for our Christmas jumper day. Thank you.

Clubs

The letter and request form for Spring term clubs is available via the school blog and facebook page, applications close on January 1st at 12 pm. Mrs Chance and Mrs Charlesworth will be organising the club registers as soon as we return from the break. the only club which will run on the first week back is the choir. Mrs Claxton would like the choir to meet as normal as they re rehearsing hard for the Young Voices concert at the 02.

Attendance News!

I am delighted to announce the winners of the attendance league for the Autumn term - Willow class! They will enjoy their reward at the beginning of next term, congratulations to all of the pupils in Willow who have remembered their number one job of coming to school every day. The overall attendance for this term is 93.4% We have the Spring term to make 2.6% improvement to reach our  target of 96%.

LFPA

A massive thank you to members of the LFPA who once again organised a very successful event -our  Learning Federation Christmas Fayre on Saturday 9th December. The event was well attended and raised in excess of £500 for both of our schools..

First Day of 2017

We are looking forward to seeing all children back at school in January 2017. There are no clubs at the beginning of term, so all pupils should be picked up promptly by 3.00pm. School opens again on the Tuesday 2nd January – Breakfast Club at 7.45am – with the doors opening at 8.30am for all other pupils.

Weekly Attendance:  

KS1 - 93.6%         KS2 - 93.3% Overall: 93.42%

Congratulations to Cherry and Willow  who top the attendance table this week.  

E for Excellence Winners:

These wonderful children have demonstrated excellence this week.

Mulberry	Iniya boothiraj	Ash	Conner Holloway
Pine	Laura Olatunji	Birch	Sofia Raif
Rowan	Lilly Wells	Willow	Sonia Lewis
Cedar	Rajaab Imran	Elm	Lucian Bundy
Cherry	Nancy Rack	Maple	Emily Claydon
Hazel	Nina Joshi	Larch	Shane Kirk
Sequoia	Tyler Shephard	Redwood	Ellis Curtis-Rich

Certificate of Presentation:

The following children have presented their work beautifully and take pride in all that they do in their books.

Micayla Smith, Jack Eve, Isabelle Munford, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Peek, Joe Green, Brooke Romeril

Star Writers:

These children have been awarded a star writer certificate and golden pencil in recognition of their excellent writing, use of powerful vocabulary and sophisticated writing  techniques.

Ellie-Mae Wager, Rhianna Morton, Ellie Chalmers, Indie Sale, Ja’Shayla Cousins, Dora Lewis, Kayden Gunnell, Steven Davenport, Gabriela Zaikauskaite, Lucas Middleton, Olivia Bartnik, Courtney Janes, Finley Livingstone

Learning Power Awards:

These are the key skills that our children will need to learn effectively in class and to be successful later in life.

These children have demonstrated effective Reciprocity this week – able to listen carefully, work collaboratively and take turns. Levan Towe-Enu, Isla Saunder, Amy Cullum, Kaitlyn Smethurst, Ruby-May White, Riley Lamb, Amelia Barnett, Naiara Cruz-Botonog, Tyler Wager, Archie Baker, Hannah Wellings , Caydon Buckland

These children have shown that they can manage distraction, notice patterns and become absorbed in their tasks – well done for your Resilience certificate:

Sam Doidge, Thomas Gray, John Olatunji, Leo Whiten, Ayomade Adegbite, Chelsea Chu Goodman, Charlie Bott, Siena Cornish, Sophia Heron, Liam Bovell, Alex Ianache

These children have managed to show that they can plan and revise ideas to earn their Reflectiveness certificate.

Harley Boland, Alice Adedipe, Akunna Ezeogu, Daniel Kalusha

Being able to show that you can make links between ideas and showing imagination demonstrates Resourcefulness. These pupils have been awarded their resourcefulness certificate this week:

Yemi Adedipe, Rokas Zaikauskas, Hollie Gray, Aimee Doidge,  Arya Shah. Fayo Ayodola

Learning Challenge

These children have been working hard at home and extending their knowledge through their learning challenge work.

Eva Akinbusoye

Reading Awards

In recognition of the pupils’ ability to devour books, immerse themselves in stories and read relentlessly at home.

Bronze reader award:

Fitzroy Bamgbelu, Emily Johnson, Conor Borrell, Lelethu Nombeko, Arhaan Kaushal, Jack Eve, Amandeep Ubhi, James Olatunji, Jack Weaver, Noah Livingstone, Lidia Catlin, Livi Middleton, Sophia Heron, Miley Jeffery,

Silver reader award:

Alice Adedipe, Adrian Luca, Harry Cole, Nikola Urban, Ellie Chalmers, Ethan Carruth

Gold reader award - 75 Books

Simran Bashir

Free Reader

Abbie Day

Maths Challenge

These pupils have used their ability to think both mathematically and creatively to solve maths challenges.

James Olatunji

Happy Teacher

These pupils have put the biggest smiles on their teachers faces.

Abbie Day, William Ilott, Arhaan Kaushal, Ollie Dodge, Ash Class, Birch Class, Timothy Dempsey, Zac Borland

Fact Hunter

In recognition of their insatiable appetite for knowledge and your ability to sniff out amazing facts.

Frankie Woolnough, Sofia Raif, Kara Middleton

Rock Star Maths

These children have earned a reward in recognition of their tables thrashing, maths moshing and sum shrieking achievements.  

Chloe Kirk, Ranita Ariyibi, Isabelle Munford

Spelling Awards

In recognition of the effort you have put in every week to achieve a perfect score in your spelling test. Congratulations.  

Kanishka Chintala, Katlyn Mukandavire, Nela Urban, John Olatunji, Jessica Butler, Alex Kopiec, Arya Shah, Jaydon Holloway, Sofia Raif, Finley Livingstone, Isabelle Munford, Teni Adu, Ayomide Otegbola, Jack Eve, Rashida Sillah.  

Tracker Awards

These children have been working hard and achieving academic success and therefore have earned themselves the following rewards.  

Bronze certificate - Aleena Satti, Tomi Adelowo, Neo Chambers, Adrian Luca, Connor Robinson, Dhriti Patel

Bronze prestige certificate - Tony Marshall, Tyrell Bertin

Silver pencil - Sam Middleton, Alfie Donnelly, Megan Lewis

Silver prestige certificate - Alex Kopiec, Georgia Chilvers, Conner Holloway, Henry Cruz Kokonchev

Golden bookmark - Sajida Khanam

Golden certificate -  Max Holmyard, Ruby-May White, Jacob Wager, Bella Hyder

Golden prestige certificate - Emily Johnson, Emily Claydon

Platinum prize - Chiwendu Nwaokolo, Alfie Bloy, Simran Bashir, Molly Vincent

Platinum prestige  certificate - Kaitlin Smethurst, Melisa Uluer, Megan Lockhart

Platinum certificate - Lilly-Ann Podevin, Jolene Frimpong, Lillie Mersh

Diamond prize - Ronnie Mersh, Levan Towe-Enu, Letlethu Nombeko, Abbie Day

Diamond certificate - Lily O’Leary, Abbie Day, John Olatunji, Sydney Griffiths, Rhianna Morton

Star  prize - Alice Adedipe, Jess Chilvers, Naleli Sibanda, Ty Sutton, Weronika Harandi

Wishing you all a very peaceful and restful Christmas and a Happy New Year. Eat, drink be merry and make the most of the quality time with your families. We look forward to seeing you in 2018!

Yours sincerely,

Mrs L Nicholls

Headteacher

Sharing Assembly - Dancers

Our last Sharing Assembly of the year saw another energetic performance from the dance clubs. Both our KS1 and KS2 have been rehearsing very enthusiastically. To see the complex choreography and team work in play was a real delight.

Christmas Postman

We had a special delivery from Santa's little helper today. Theo wasn't available, but we had the next bst thing... a Christmas Postman, complete with Santa Ruffle. He made trips round to all of the class parties, wished the children a 'Happy Christmas' and delivered parcels to some of our families.

Thank you for all your help mysterious Christmas postman... see you next year!

KS1 Hey Ewe

Congratulations to the KS1 team who put on a fantastic rendition of 'Hey Ewe!' for this year's Christmas performance. On stage we had some very impressive Kings visiting the stable. Our cheeky and inquistive Ewe... Sophie.... stole the show as she tried to peek at baby Jesus.

With their tea towels firmly wrapped round their head the shepherds looked very professional. There had also been an fantastic effort with the angels - shimmering and a vision in white.

Thank you for the tremendous parental support shown for the performances - it is part of our values that we will come together to celebrate the achievements of the pupils and the high levels of attendance was a testament to that.

Judo Masters: David & Adam

This weekend two of our pupils took part in an Inter Club judo competition. Both Adam and David won their rounds to earn two very impressive trophies. 

I had to fight in three rounds. The competition was a lot of fun and the activity has really helped time build up my strength. 

David 

Well done to both of you... we are all very proud!

Lewis’s Swimming Award

Congratulations to Lewis who has now achieved his Level 2 Swimming award.

By completing this Award, with or without floatation equipment or support, Lewis has shown that he is able to:

• Jump in from poolside safely to a minimum depth of 1.0 metre.
• Blow bubbles a minimum of three times rhythmically, with nose and mouth submerged.
• Move from a flat floating position on the back and return to standing without support.
• Move from a flat floating position on the front and return to standing without support.
• Push from a wall and glide on the back – arms can be by the side or above the head.
• Push from a wall and glide on the front with arms extended.
• Travel using a recognised leg action with feet off the pool floor on the back for 5 metres.
• Travel using a recognised leg action with feet off the pool floor on the front for 5 metres.
• Perform a tuck to rotate from a flat floating position on the front, to a back floating position, then return to standing.
• Perform a tuck to rotate from a flat floating position on the back, to a front floating position, then return to standing.
• Perform a log roll from the back to the front.
• Perform a log roll from the front to the back.
• Exit the water without support.

Well done Lewis, we are very proud of you!