Weekly Newsletter - Friday 6th October, 2025

Headteacher: Mrs L Nicholls 

Dear Parents and Carers,
Part 1 Broadford News
Parents Evening - Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd October
We are looking forward to welcoming all parents on Wednesday 22nd & Thursday 23rd October for parent consultation meetings. You will have the opportunity to meet your child’s new class teacher and find out how they have settled so far this year. The teachers will also explain the expectations for the end of the year for your child.

Our year 6 prefects will also be on hand to show you to the classrooms and will be asking parents to complete our annual parent survey.
Please complete the attached google form by the end of the school day on Friday 3rd October. You will receive your appointment on Friday 10th October.

Autumn Term Parents Appointment Request

IMPORTANT – REGISTER TO VIEW SCHOOL PHOTOS
Exciting news! Carmel Jane Photography will be visiting our School on the 10th of October 2025, to take Individual & Sibling Photos.
All parents are requested to pre-register for instant access to your child’s photographs once they are ready, pre-registration is required for every photo shoot.
Register in 3 easy steps in less than a minute:

1. Head to www.carmeljaneshop.co.uk

2. Enter your unique code : JRGZKSBFFJ

3. Include your child’s full school register name.
Don't miss out - pre-register today!

Book Fair
Thank you so much to everyone who supported us by purchasing books at last week’s Book Fair. Together, your purchases enabled us to buy a large selection of lovely new books for our school library! These new books will be added to our library collection for children to borrow. We have lots of very excited children who cannot wait to start reading them.

Parentpay
We would like to remind all parents to ensure that you have completed registration on Parentpay. You do not need to pay for school dinners but need to be registered for trips, visits, and to ensure that you receive school communication. If you do not have your login details please see a member of the office staff and they will be able to assist you with this.

Part 2 Broadford Information
Autumn Term Dates

Monday 6th October	Year 3&4 Racket Pack @ Harrow Lodge Leisure Centre Lime class - Consequences workshop
Tuesday 7th October	Year 5&6 Cross country @ Stubbers  Almond class - Consequences workshop
Wednesday 8th October	Nursery - Little City experience  Oak class - Consequences workshop
Thursday 9th October	Year 3 first aid workshop  Year 5 Spinebreakers Harold Hill Library trip
Thursday 10th October	Carmel Janes School Photographer - individual photographs
Monday 13th October	Prospective parents tour @ 10am
Thursday 16th October	Year 3&4 bee netball festival @ Noak Hill sports complex
Friday 17th October	Parent forum @ 9 am  Road safety with Hedgehog - Year 1&2 Green mans new job search - Year 3&4
Tuesday 21st October	Year 5 Science Museum trip
Wednesday 22nd October	Parents evening 3.30 - 7pm
Thursday 23rd October	Year 6 spinebreakers visiting Harold Hill library Parents evening 3.30 - 6 pm
Friday 24th October	Reception Marvelous Me day  End of Autumn 1

INSET Dates for 2025-2026

Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Polling Day	Day 4	Day 5
1st September	2nd September	13th February	7th May	1st June	20th July

Havering school term dates 2025-2026

Autumn term: 

Monday 1 September to Friday 19 December 2025 

Spring term: 

Monday 5 January to Friday 27 April 2026 

Summer term:
Tuesday 13 April to Tuesday 20 July 2026

Havering Catering Services
Week beginning 6th October is week 2 on the Havering catering services menu.

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	KS2	Overall
95%	96%	96%

Congratulations to Mulberry and Elm 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.

Nursery	Annie & Phoebe	Ash	Tillie-Rose
Alder	Imani	Cedar	Eridola
Apple	Ralphie	Cherry	Nicole
Aspen	Kasim	Elm	Ambica
Apricot	Sidrat	Maple	Ronnie
Beech	Chloe	Willow	Millen
Walnut	Zakariya H	Birch	Jorgie
Mulberry	Archie	Larch	Elsie
Pine	Alayah	Redwood	Veronika
Rowan	Freddy-Joe	Almond	Jacob
		Lime	Elsie
		Oak	Gabriel

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.
Reciprocity These children have shown interdependence, collaborated effectively, listened to others, displayed empathy and have imitated effective  ideas and methods from others.	Denis, Noah, Noah, Elyana, Amal, Tianna, Success
Reflectiveness  These pupils have planned carefully, revised ideas, identified key features and can talk about their learning.	Edward, Hunter, Kiara, Elizabeth, Merlyn, Liza, Osazemen
Resilience These children have demonstrated perseverance, managed distractions, noticed patterns and been absorbed in their tasks.	Serghei, Osman, Dawid, Zara, Oceann, Arya, Duke, Arthur, Lily-Mae, Stiven, Paige , Amerah, Ziyon
Resourcefulness    These pupils have been curious about learning, made links between ideas, shown imagination, reasoned methodically and capitalised on resources.	Amaira, Tiya, Aayan, Zara, Olivia, Amira, Siana, Ayaan

 

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. Oliver, Evangeline

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. Zachary, Ksenija, Prakhyati, Mujtaba, Azlan, Elsie,Ade, Mishti, Roman, Moiz, Nina, Eleha, Zayd, Daniel, Joshua, Alexandra, Alesha

I Made My Teacher Happy
These pupils have all made sure their teachers have a smile on their face this week
Shanvi, Alayna, Torsten, Adeyemi, Bernice, Grayson, Onyekachukwu, Andreea, Adelynn, Flynn, Dani-Ella

105 Books to Read Before You Leave Broadford
These pupils have read 10 books and earned their Bronze certificate.
Eva, Alice, Eason, Anu, George
These pupils have read 10 books and earned their Silver certificate.
Eva

Tracker Awards

Bronze certificate	Abshara
Silver certificate	Eridola
Gold Bookmark	Sultan, Henry
Platinum prize	Nina
Platinum certificate	Jessica
Diamond prize	Eesa

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. 

Farringdon  Red house	Chatteris Blue house	Dulverton Yellow house	Cricklade Green house	Dudley Orange house
496	416	511	511	587
Winners - Dudley Orange house

I hope you all have a brilliant weekend.
Yours sincerely,

Mrs L Nicholls
Headteacher