Meet The Spinebreakers

You may have seen over on our Library Instagram page that our new Spinebreakers for 23/24 have been announced. The Spinebreakers play an important role within our library; they makes links with our local library, purchase books from Waterstones, deliver and collect our Reading Scrapbook, recommend books to our staff and promote the school's reading challenges.

Here are the Spinebreakers for this year. You will notice that we choose two children per class from years one to six.

Year 1 Spinebreakers: Nathaniel, Sophia, Ashton, Aditi, Jaxon and Vanessa

Year 2 Spinebreakers: Hayden, Lola, Harry, Sophia, Iustin and Zyana

Year 3 Spinebreakers: Thomas, Chloe, Maalik, Kezia, Oliver and Aadya

Year 4 Spinebreakers: Chuka, Aiza, Stanley, Dina, Eason and Pragya

Year 5 Spinebreakers: Simon, Megan, Alex, Shivanshi, Eddie and Anushri

Year 6 Spinebreakers: Adu, Nevaeh, Noah, Ava, Aksanan and Demi

Thank You For Visiting Our Book Fair!

We are so grateful for the purchases you made at our Book Fair. Together, you helped raise:

£278.31!

This money has been used to add new and exciting books to our school library. As you can see below, Year 1 pupils were very pleased to hear some of the stories you helped buy.

 

 

 

New Spinebreaker Duty!

The Spinebreakers have taken on the task of recommending their favourite books to the Broadford staff. 

Each week Spinebreakers will be invited to the Library where they will each choose two of their most loved stories. They will attach a note to each book explaining why they chose that particular text, before heading off to our two staffrooms to deliver the books. The staff are then welcome to take the books back to their classes and share them with their pupils.

So far, Hayden, Lola, Kezia, Maalik, Vanessa, Jaxon, Megan and Simon have taken on the task. They have picked out a variety of books, from heroic worms to odd socks.

 

 

Reading Assemblies - Blue Peter Reading Badge Entries...

Miss Hamilton picked out some interesting facts from Moira Butterfield's book, Welcome to Our World. This magnificent book celebrates children from around the world - their cultures and languages. This book can be found on the Reception Reading Tracker and links their topics in class.

Mr Cardwell read the opening chapters to a classic - Heidi. Written over a century ago, Heidi is set in the Swiss Alps and follows the story of a young orphan who is sent to the Swiss mountains to live with her grandfather. This book can be found on the Year 5 Reading Tracker.

105 Books to Read Before you Leave Broadford

Well done Ryan and Harlie, who have read the first five books on their reading trackers - earning themselves Bronze Certificates!

Well done to Elyssa, who has read TEN books! Elyssa has been awarded her Bronze and Silver Certificates!

Blue Peter Reading Badges

The first batch of book badge application forms have been posted!

Well done to Roza, Emir, Tesha, Cruz, Victoria, Lottie, Autumn and Angie for completing the task at home. Fingers crossed your badges arrive soon!

Our super Spinebreakers, Jaxon, Alex, Shivanshi, Eason and Pragya spent time in the library yesterday afternoon to complete their sheets. Jaxon has been reading 'The Atlas of Monsters', he was keen to write about his favourite characters. Shivanshi wrote about her love for the Harry Potter series and how the first book made her want to read more and more. Alex shared his thoughts on David Walliams's book, Gangsta Granny. Billionaire Boy was the book Eason chose to write about and Pragya told the story of Moody Margret.

If you'd like to earn your own Blue Peter Reading Badge, pick up an entry form for the library or print one here.

 

 

 

Spinebreaker Library Trips - Autumn Term

 

The Spinebreaker trips to Harold Hill Library will begin next week.

On Thursday 5th October, the Spinebreakers from Apricot, Beech, Mulberry, Redwood and Larch will be the first group to visit the library to browse the vast selection of books they have to offer.

We hope they look forward to their afternoon of sharing stories!

Reading Assembly - Non-Fiction Books Added To The Trackers!

 

Miss Myers lead the KS1 assembly this week. From the Reception Tracker, Miss Myers read Julia Donaldson's every so popular, Room on the Broom! This kind and caring witch makes plenty of room on her broom for the animals she passes.

You may have noticed that we have made a few changes to our reading trackers this year. We have added a copy of non-fiction texts to each one - non-fiction texts that link to the topics covered in classes. Miss Greenwood shared facts from 'Project Ancient Egypt'. Copies of this book can be found in our school library.

Reading Achievements

Well done to Nyasa, who completed Broadford's Summer Reading Tracker. If you have a completed tracker at home, return it to the school library where you'll receive a certificate of achievement.

Maggie is off to a flying start! She has read five books from her '105 Books' tracker, earning herself a Bronze Certificate!

Earn your Blue Peter Reading Badge! See how you can take part here.

Reading Assembly - Summer Achievements!

Welcome back to our weekly Reading Assemblies! This week, we had a huge pile of certificates and prizes to hand out to the children who participated in the summer reading challenges.

Facebook Summer Questions

During the six-weeks holidays, you may have seen over on our Facebook page that we asked a story-related questions. We chose one children, who correctly answered the questions, at random. The winners were rewarded with goody bags. Thank you to everybody who participated.

Well done to our worthy winners; Jessica (Beech), Jessica (Cedar), Torsten, Rosie, Nyasa and Nikita.

Summer Reading Challenge Raffle Winner

We held a raffle to encourage pupils to head down to their local libraries over the summer and sign up to the National Summer Reading Challenge. At random, we chose one lucky winner to receive a National Book Token to spend on a book of their choice. Well done to Dhaksha!

We recieved so many photos of our super pupils at their local libraries with their certiicates. A huge thank you to Ashar, Anika, Rithik, Tesha, Dhaksha, Stanley, Chirag, Aditi, Lily-Mae, Alariah, Callissya, Nevaeh, Aadya, Ipsa, Nyasa, Vikhyat, Arnish, Adam, Eddie, Amerah, Joshua, George, Alice, Hashir, Veer, Aryaan, Parisa, Elisa, Abrish, Ahmad and Ayesha for sharing their photos. 

Get Caught Reading 2023

From Thorndon Park, globe-trotting, post-karate lessons, the shores of Loch Doon, Romanian countryside's to being struggled up in a cosy spot on the sofa, we have received more than 100 photos of our very own dedicated readers over the summer break.

Congratulations to our winners and runners-up...

KS1 Winner: Iustin & KS1 Runner-Up: Chirag

KS2 Winner: Aadya & KS2 Runner-Up: Tayla

 

Thank you to Tesha, Arnish, Isabelle, Oscar, Matty, Eddie, Rithik, Aadya, Nikita, Batool, Safiyyah, Jessica, Prgya, Chirag, Praharsh, Amerah, Daria, Aditi, Veer, Torsten, Tayla, Yehor, Nevaeh, Alariah, Callissya, Shivanshi, Himanshi, Joshua, Aryaan, Charlie, Adam, Isaac, Sophia, Luna, Abrish, Eesa, Charlie, Anna, Adra, Natalia, Vikhyat, Lily-Mae, Khushbakht, Rosie, Alice, Stanley, Andrees, Sadhana, Megan, Vanessa, Faizah, Fariha, Rohith, Rushika, Ipsa, Nyasa, Alice, George, Iustin, Syed, Aimen, Anika, Parisa, Elisa and Lottie for sending in your photos. All photos can be found over on our Library Instagram page.

Summer Reading Challenges

Well done to Qhaleed, Shivanshi, Natalia, Adam, Iustin, Batool, Joshua, Aryaan, Rithik, Awwal, Jessica, Nina, Nashwan, Khushbakht, Aditi and Aisha on completing their Broadford Summer Reading Trackers.

 

The Book Fair Is Coming To Broadford!

 

We are pleased to announce that the Autumn Book Fair will return to Broadford next week!

The Fair will be held under the canopy in the main playground from 3.15pm on Wednesday 20th, Thursday 21st, Friday 22nd and Monday 25th September.

If you are planning on making a purchase, we would be grateful for plenty of change. A percentage of the money raised will go towards the new books for the library.