Fact Hunters: Millipedes & Zebras

William Ilott 
The name "millipede" is a compound word formed from the Latin roots mille ("thousand") and pes ("foot"). Despite their name, no known millipede has 1,000 legs, although the rare species Illacme plenipes has up to 750. The giant African millipede is the largest species of millipede.

Adam Trower
Did you know that there are 150 types of blackcurrants used to make Ribena. They were cultivated by a firm called SCRI who named them all after Scottish mountains: Ben Alder, Ben Tirran etc

Berivan Onur 
Incredibly you can tell the age of toads by growth rings in their bones!

Daniel Olukun 
Were you aware that B&Q was founded in March 1969 in Southampton, by Richard Block and David Quayle?

Ellis Curtis Rich
Have you ever wondered how a zebra is feeling? Well a zebra's ears signify its mood. When a zebra is in a calm, tense or friendly mood, its ears stand erect. When it is frightened, its ears are pushed forward. When angry, the ears are pulled backward.

Kieran Dansey
Incredibly Queen Victoria survived 7 assassination attempts. In addition to this she lived on to have 40 grandchildren and 37 great grandchildren. 

Super Star Readers

Star Readers: 

The following pupils have managed to earn their Bronze award by completing 10 books: Sergiu Babaianu, Liam Bovell, Godswill Hartford, Lilly Jones & Sonia Lewis.

Ellis Curtis Rich, Olivia Wheal, Conor Borrell, William Ilott have all managed to gain their bookmark for reading 25 books.

Endurance Obazee and Lilly Reynolds have completed their Silver award and have collected their £5 voucher.

Kaybe Stevens has managed to read a mammoth 75 titles and will soon be receiving a book of his choice! Well done to all our super readers.

Broadford Big Read Challenge: 

If you fancy a real reading challenge, don’t just read the book try and complete Miss Sparkes’s challenges as well. The following children have read 6 books and drawn pictures, done character descriptions, written reviews and recorded feedback on the stories. Well done to our first Bronze Big Readers…

George White, Uthman Falade, Samson Wright, Michael Kinata and Ben Green

Bronze & Silver Tracker Awards:

Congratulations to Danielle Arnold and Abbie Maxwell who have completed their Bronze trackers this week. Success Hartford and Sandra Diaz have earned their Silver Pencil. Meanwhile, Holly Clark and George Lotter have stuck the final merits onto their Silver trackers to earn their second certificate.

New Infill Classroom Underway

This week the builders have begun preparations for the new KS1 classroom. It means that from September we will no longer have split form classes in Year 1 & 2. We will also benefit from being able to offer smaller class sizes. Our limit for each year group has not been increased from 45 pupils, so we will be able to offer KS1 classes of no more than 25 pupils.

Fact Hunters: Planets, heart disease and the Sun!

Louise Paius
Mercury is one of the smallest major planets with a diameter of about 4,880km. It has a mass 18 times less than that of Earth.

Emma Groom
Sadly heart disease accounts for over a quarter of all deaths in the UK each year: over 159,000!

Thelma Amankwah
Incredibly the sun’s core has a temperature of around 15.7million Kelvin… that is extremely hot! Light from the sun takes approximately 8mins and 19secs to reach the Earth.

Green Win The House Cup

After a busy term of tucking in shirts, opening doors, being kind to others, helping staff, being on time, saying thank you and using their cutlery the Green team emerged triumphant. By the slimmest of margins, they managed to hold the Reds at bay and scooped the cakes and drink prize for the second time this year!

Harold Hill Festival Update

Are you able to support your local festival this year? If you think you may be able to run a stall, volunteer on the day or help with organisation prior to the event please contact the team using the details given below.