Palm Spinebreakers Create A Judith Kerr Inspired Reading area For AppleClass!

Over the last six weeks our Spinebreakers from year six have been working on a project to improve the reading areas in the reception classrooms, and today Sophie and Mervyn finally got the chance to put their 'Tiger That Came To Tea' themed book corner together. The reading corner now features a new tea set, character masks, a selection of Judith Kerr books, a tiger seat and a very cute tiger soft toy. The children of Apple class will be making full use of their reading area as soon as they return after the holiday!

Thank you to Mervyn and Sophie for your hard work, and also to Smilte and Samson who both helped in coming up with ideas for the area. They will begin to develop the reading corner in Aspen when we return - the theme being 'Kipper the Dog'.

Chris Powling Visits Broadford!

Last week, children's author, Chris Powling visited Broadford to share some of his stories and tell us about his work as an author. Our year 3 Spinebreakers had the important job of interviewing him! Watch the clip below to find out more about Chris and hear what questions the children had to ask him.

Thank you Spinebreakers, Chris described you as an excellent group of children and was very impressed with all the reading you do at school and at home!

Hetty Feather Book Club - Tomorrow's Trip

To all the members of the Hetty Feather Book Club, don't forget to meet us at the main gates tomorrow at 9.30am. We hope you are all very excited about the show! The show lasts a little over 2 hours, so we are aiming to be back at school by 3pm - hopefully the journey home will be traffic-free! If there are any delays parents will be contacted via the numbers that have been provided. See you tomorrow!

Visit The Book Fair Today - Raffle Winners Announced!

The Book Fair will be open at 11.30am for Nursery children and from 3pm for the rest of the school. Don't forget we will be giving away stationary and posters to the first 20 customers!

RAFFLE WINNERS!

The Book Fair was extremely busy yesterday, which resulted in more than 40 names being entered into the prize draw. Our helpful Spinebreakers who gave up their time after school to help were eager to pull names from the hat! So, we can announce that BLAKE MADDOX was our first raffle winner, he will receive £15 worth of book tokens to spend tonight at the book fair. In second place, winning £10 to spend, was SYDNEY GRIFFITHS! Congratulations to you both!

KS1 Spinebreakers Visit Waterstones!

On Monday, our KS1 Spinebreakers had the exciting task of visiting Waterstones in Romford to choose some new books for our library. Waterstones had so many fantastic books on offer, to choose just two each was quite the challenge!

Laicey went for Topsy and Tim Visit London, this was her first choice, she really enjoys watching the show at home and thought having a copy of one of the book in the library would be a great idea. Laicey's second choice was Stickman; we previously borrowed this from Hilldene library and loved it so much that we wanted our own copy! If you haven't read this one before, then you must! Julia Donaldson's tale of the Stickman would be the ideal Christmas story to share at home.

Ruben spent his time carefully searching through the all the great titles Waterstones had on display as he wanted to find the perfect additions to our library. He decided on David Walliams' The First Hippo on the Moon, and The Baby that Roared! We cannot wait to read these stories!

Stories about animals really appeal to Amandeep, so when she found James Bowen and Garry Jenkins' story of Bob to the Rescue she had to have it! Amandeep's second choice was, Lucy and Tom by Shirley Hughes, this is another story about Christmas, full of beautiful illustrations! 

As you can tell by the picture, Harry is extremely excited by the books he chose! Adding to our collection of Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter books, he picked out The Dinosaur That Pooped The Bed! And Dr Seuss' One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

Sticking to the Christmas theme (there was a large display in Waterstones!) Leah chose Father Christmas Needs a Wee! By Nicholas Allan and Max and the won't go to Bed Show - excellent choices Leah, we are looking forward to reading these ones!

Tyler went for two classics - Funnybones by Janet and Allan Ahlberg and Hairy McClary's Hat Tricks, Hairy McClary is very popular with our Nursery and Reception children so I am sure they will be excited to hear this latest tale!

Naleli chose Superhero Dad, because it reminded her of her own Dad, who she says is her hero! She also picked out Julia Donaldson's, The Singing Mermaid, we have read this before, and is loved by both girls and boys.  

Lastly, Ethan thought Spider Sandwiches sounded like the book he would love to read - the little monster in this story eats and drinks some horrid things, like, slug milkshake, fried hairy bat's ears and lice! Yuck! Ethan's second book was The Pirate-Crunchers.

For all their hard work they were treated to hot chocolates, marshmallows and mini muffins in Costa!

Visit The Book Fair Today And Tomorrow - With Prizes To Be Won!

There are 100's of brilliant books available after school today and tomorrow at the book fair! Morning nursery can come along tomorrow at 11.30am to see what we have on offer, but for now here is a sneak-peak of inside the cases...

For Early Years and Key Stage 1 we have titles such as, The Scarecrow's Wedding, Spider Sandwiches, Thelma the Unicorn, Stickman, The Day the Crayons Quit and What the Ladybird Heard Next.

For Years 3 and 4 we have, Pippi Longstocking, Fluttershy, The Adventures of the Super Diaper Baby, The owls of Blossom Wood, Super Loud Sam and Where's Wally?

Finally, for our older readers we have Pippa Morgan's Diary, World Football Records, Alfie Bloom, An Island of Our Own, 11 Birthdays and Fortune Cookies.

DON'T FORGET!

We will be holding a prize draw - anyone who buys a book from the book fair tonight will be entered into a prize draw, the winner will be announced on the blog and will be invited back to spend £15 at the book fair tomorrow. A second name will be pulled from the hat and will receive £10 to spend at the fair. Also, on Friday the first 20 people to buy a book will receive a free piece of stationary or poster!

The Scholastics Competition - Photobomb Greg at the Book Fair!

When you visit don't forget to have your photo taken with Greg, from Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', and upload your snaps to www.bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/photobombgreg for your chance to win some amazing prizes:

The Star Prize!

A Sony Playstation 4 500GB Console - worth £300!

TEN retrol-cool runner-up prizes!

A copy of Diary of a Wimpy Kid book 10 - Old Skool

A Classic Gumball Vending Machine

A Retro Space Hopper

An LED Tetris Desk Lamp

A Metal Original Slinky

A Classic Lava Lamp

An Original Rubik's Cube

A Magic Plasma Ball

A Pin Art Gadget

A Classic Twister Game

Closing date for entries is midnight on Thursday 31st December 2015. Good Luck!

We Have Been Busy Looking For Quotes From Stories - Take A Look A The Ones We Have Found So Far...

The pictures below will act as our desktop backgrounds on the computers around the school, and the quotes themselves will be displayed in the library - with a new quote being added each week!

The Editor's Challenge Starts Today!

The National Literacy Trust have teamed up with Mega Magazine and Girl Talk to launch a new challenge for Key Stage two children! Following research they discovered that 'nearly half of children and young people aged 8 to 18 in the UK read magazines outside class at least once a month. Those that read magazines were more likely to report they enjoyed reading and read more frequently and more read above the expected level for their age compared to their peers who did not read magazines.' With that in mind, they created the Editor's Challenge to promote reading for pleasure.

to take part you will need to create an issue of Girl Talk or Mega magazine - copies of both magazines are available to look at in the library. Templates and instructions for five separate activities are available from Miss Sparkes; all five activities completed will form the magazine. the activities include, a celebrity feature, a review, a quiz, a storyboard and a front cover.

You will need to complete at least three of the activities to be entered into a prize draw. A winner will be selected at random, receiving an eReader, £50 in book vouchers and a one-year subscription to either Girl Talk or Mega magazine, with the winner's school receiving a visit from a storyteller and a one-year subscription to five Media Magazines!

Additionally, 10 runners-up will receive a one-year subscription to the magazine of their choice.

BONUS CATEGORY!! I will be looking for the three most creative magazines to send off to be judged. A national winner will invited to the Immediate Media head office to learn more about how magazines are put together! Visit the library today to pick up you challenge chart and your first activity!

Pupils Take Part In The Summer Reading Challenge

This year we had a total of 18 pupils from Broadford take part in the Reading Agency's 'Record Breakers' summer reading challenge. The children were set the task of reading six library books over the summer holidays, collecting stickers and other rewards along the way. We would like to congratulate the following children who successfully completed the challenge, each earning certificates and medals;

Kezia Wright

Shajia Shaik

Ellie Wise

Malachi Wright

Isabelle Curtis-Rich

Ruben Roberts

Deborah Oluokun

Maiseie Moss

Laiba Shah

Charlie Ilott

James Wise

Abbie Sullivan

William Ilott

Ranita Ariyibi

Ellis Curtis-Rich

Samanyu Handoo

Isaac Wright

Samson Wright

Mr Drakes will be putting £50 into the playground fund for each child who completed the challenge. The summer reading challenge takes place every year, each time with a different theme.