Headteacher: Mrs L Nicholls
Dear Parents and Carers,
Part 1 Broadford News
Reception Applications - Deadline 15th January 2025
3 and 4 year old children will be starting school in September 2025. Children born between 01 September 2020 and 31 August 2021 will be starting at an infant or primary school Apply online between 01 September 2024 and 15 January 2025 For school admissions information and to apply, go to www.havering.gov.uk/admissions/primary
Christmas Dinner
Week beginning 16th December pupils have the opportunity to enjoy Christmas dinner in school. This will be served to different year groups on different days. This is so that pupils can eat their Christmas dinner in the hall and enjoy a festive experience. Due to the fact that the kitchen will be cooking over 300 Christmas dinners daily there will be a different menu for the rest of the school on their non Christmas dinner day please see below.
Christmas dinner will be roast turkey with the trimmings and there is also a vegetarian option which is festive and vegetarian sausage puff.
Wednesday 18th - Early years (Nursery & Reception), years 5&6
Thursday 19th - Years 1,2,3,4
Children can wear Christmas jumpers and headwear on their Christmas dinner day if they would like to.
On your child's non Christmas dinner day the kitchen will be preparing a cold service consisting of tuna, cheese or ham baguettes. These will be ordered via Parentpay as normal. Christmas dinner is free due to the universal free school meals offer excluding Nursery pupils.
Christmas Concerts
We are looking forward to welcoming you all into school for our annual Christmas concerts. We hope that you are able to join us to celebrate and we are doing things a little bit differently this year.
Nursery, Reception and Year 1 Christmas Concerts
Parents are invited to come and join the fun as we belt out your favourite carols, play games, and spread Christmas cheer! It’s the perfect way to celebrate with friends and get into the holiday spirit - bring your singing voice and your holiday magic.
Years 2,3,4,5 & 6
These concerts will be performed in the SorrelHall which is located in the old building. Please wait at the double grey doors to the left of the main school office. Someone will welcome you in once all of the pupils are in place. Due to numbers there are only 2 tickets per child so please have these ready when you arrive. Unfortunately, if you do not have a ticket you will not be admitted into the event. Letters will be emailed today regarding tickets so please respond as soon as possible.
After each performance, each class will come forward to have their photographs taken. We ask that you do not surround the children but stay where you are to take a photograph of your child. The children will go back to their classes to get changed. Once all children have left the hall then the adults will be able to leave.
After the final performance of the day, pupils will be allowed to leave early. Please make your way to where you normally collect your child so that they can be dismissed. If you have other children in school who you wish to collect at the same time please tell them on this day to make their way to their siblings' classroom to be collected together. Please do not go to the office. As I am sure you can appreciate we have a lot of pupils to dismiss and we cannot do this from the office. We very much appreciate your support and co-operation in this.
Festive Jumper: Friday 13th December
Please wear normal school uniform, but swap the school sweater for a festive jumper. We will be collecting donations for Save the Children. We suggest £1 per family please. Thank you.
Please see the blogs about our other Christmas events.
A visit from Mrs and Father Christmas
Christmas Discos
Orienteering
I am thrilled to announce that pupils from Broadford have won the Havering Orienteering League. All classes in KS2, the after school orienteering club and Mulberry class took place in the league and we are absolutely thrilled with their results. Well done to Miss Float and all of the children who participated. Please look out for a blog post which will give further statistics for each class.
Part 2 Broadford Information
Autumn Term Dates
INSET Dates for 2024-2025
Havering school term dates 2024-2025
Autumn term:
Monday 2 September to Friday 20 December 2024
Spring term:
Monday 6 January to Friday 4 April 2025
Summer term:
Tuesday 22 April to Tuesday 22 July 2025
Havering Catering Services
Week beginning 2nd December is week 2 on the Havering catering services menu.
You can see the Havering catering Menu here
School dinners continue to be free to ALL primary aged pupils.
Part 3 Pupil and Parent Responsibilities
At Broadford Primary pupils, parents and carers are expected to meet three key responsibilities
Pupil Job 1 - Come to school every day on time
Parent responsibility - Ensure that your child arrives for school on time, every day and ready to learn.
Weekly Attendance Target 96%
KS1: 94% KS2: 95% Overall: 95%
Congratulations to Ash and Rowan who top the attendance table this week.
Job 2 - Do your best in every lesson
Parent responsibility - Support your child’s learning at home.
E for Excellence Winners
These wonderful children have demonstrated excellence this week.
Certificate of Presentation
The following children have been recognised for the beautifully presented work in their books. They clearly take pride in all that they do and are doing their best in every lesson. A’isha, Tyler, Isabella
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. Zacky H, Afreenish, Lawrence, Harry, Jessica, Juliah,Leo, Finley, Ruta, Elliot, Lavinia , Layla, Shaylee, Vienna, Osman, Zachary, Max, Toby, Milan, Osazemen
I Made My Teacher Happy
These pupils have all made sure their teachers have a smile on their face this week, Rowan class, Aryaan, Matei, Zenaya, Abrish, Jaydah
AJ, Hayden, Jacob, Alesha, Eason, Ryan, Emma, Flynn, Isaiah
105 Books to Read Before You Leave Broadford
These pupils have read five books and earned their Bronze certificate.
Patrick, Andrew, Matei, Liza, Ariana, Leon, Prisha, Chloe, Mfon, Aarish, Sarabhi, Aadhav, Aadhvik, Sriyan, Lama, Eliza, Moyo, Tommy, Wais, Bernice
These pupils have read 10 books and earned their Silver certificate.
Jaxon, Mfon, Inaya, Sriyan, David, Thomas, AbdulMateen
These pupils have read all 15 books, earning their Gold certificate and completing their trackers.
Mfon
Tracker Awards
Job 3 - Be kind and polite to everyone you meet
Parent responsibility - Model politeness and kindness to everyone you meet.
Housepoints
Pupils are awarded housepoint for using kind words and actions and demonstrating good manners. These go towards their house teams weekly total but they are in competition with their teachers (Dudley - orange house). If pupils do not demonstrate these behaviours then the teachers' house teams are awarded the house points instead.
I hope you all have a fantastic weekend.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs L Nicholls
Headteacher
