World Book Day 2026!

                             World Book Day 2026

We had a wonderful day in school yesterday, celebrating World Book Day. Thank you for your commitment in supporting your children to look so good!

Classroom activities 

Everyone had great fun taking part in lots of reading-related activities throughout the day.

D.E.A.R 

Drop Everything and Read 

Some classes put aside all distractions and enjoyed books or a shared read together.

Bookmark Competition Winners

All classes took part in our exciting Bookmark Competition, with everyone designing their own bookmark and a winner being chosen from each class. Here are the winning designs:

Congratulations to the following children:

Rayyan, Isabela, Austin, Ivy, Zayna, Chynna, Ava-Mai, Chalva, Luca, Zaviyar, Dolamayo, Amerah, Kevin, Lucas, Mishti, Alesha, Issa, Scarlet, Eason, Clara and Ibukun!

Each of these children received a special certificate and their winning design made into an actual bookmark for them to use.

Broadford's Big Book Giveaway

We ended the day with our first Broadford's Big Book Giveaway, which was a great success! You can read more about it here

Costume Donations 

A massive thank you to all of our wonderful parents and carers who donated costumes. We now have a great supply available for children to borrow.

Broadford's Big Book Giveaway!

 

Yesterday, as part of our World Book Day celebrations, we held our first Broadford's Big Book Giveaway! 

This event was an opportunity to come along after school in the new hall to choose some books for free to enjoy at home. 

The extremely generous donations by our Broadford community meant that there was a vast range of books available for everyone to choose from. 

From popular chapter books, like Roald Dahl and Horrid Henry, fun graphic novels like Dogman, seasonal classics like The Night Before Christmas, to wonderful picture and board books for our younger readers, there really was something for everyone!

Everyone enjoyed browsing the books to find their favourites - or perhaps to discover a new book or author they had not read before. 

There were lots of great choices made and very happy children!

Thank you so much to everyone who came along to support the event, which was a great success!

*LOOK OUT FOR THE NEXT 'BROADFORD'S BIG BOOK GIVEAWAY' COMING SOON*

Please continue to make any donations of children's books - you can give them to your child's class teacher or to the school library. Thank you.

World Book Day is TOMORROW!

  

World Book Day is TOMORROW!

To celebrate World Book Day and the National Year of Reading 2026, we will be going all in by enjoying lots of fun, reading-themed activities.

Character Costume Or Snuggly Pyjamas

We are inviting children to come into school on World Book Day in either their Favourite Character Costume or their Snuggly Pyjamas. 

Please remember, as this time of year is particularly cold and wet, it is really important that the children are dressed appropriately and have suitable footwear (such as long sleeves, trousers and outdoor shoes) to be able to enjoy any outdoor activities on the day.

We know that shop-bought costumes can be a little expensive, so why not try making something to wear instead... a character mask maybe? 

You can find some helpful tips and ideas here.

Broadford's Big Book Giveaway!

We are excited to announce that Broadford's Big Book Giveaway will be held in the new hall after school TOMORROW on World Book Day!

Thank you so much to everyone who has already donated children's books for the event. If you haven't yet, there is still time! Please either give them to Miss Flower in the school library or your child's class teacher.

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Save the date - Broadford's Big Book Giveaway on Thursday 5th March!

Broadford's Big Book Giveaway!

We are excited to announce that Broadford's Big Book Giveaway will be held in the new hall after school next week on World Book Day, Thursday 5th March!

Thank you so much to everyone who has already donated children's books for the event. If you haven't yet, there is still time! Please either give them to Miss Flower in the school library or your child's class teacher.

We look forward to seeing you next Thursday!

Reminder - World Book Day is NEXT WEEK on Thursday 5th March

   

World Book Day is next week on THURSDAY 5TH MARCH 2026!

To celebrate World Book Day and the National Year of Reading 2026, we will be going all in by enjoying lots of fun, reading-themed activities.

Character Costume Or Snuggly Pyjamas

We are inviting children to come into school on World Book Day in either their Favourite Character Costume or their Snuggly Pyjamas. 

Please remember, as this time of year is particularly cold and wet, it is really important that the children are dressed appropriately and have suitable footwear (such as long sleeves, trousers and outdoor shoes) to be able to enjoy any outdoor activities on the day.

We know that shop-bought costumes can be a little expensive, so why not try making something to wear instead... a character mask maybe? 

You can find some helpful tips and ideas here.

Date for your diary - World Book Day on Thursday 5th March

  

World Book Day is on THURSDAY 5TH MARCH 2026!

To celebrate World Book Day and the National Year of Reading 2026, we will be going all in by enjoying lots of fun, reading-themed activities - details to follow soon...

Character Costume Or Snuggly Pyjamas

We are inviting children to come into school on World Book Day in either their Favourite Character Costume or their Snuggly Pyjamas. 

Please remember, as this time of year is particularly cold and wet, it is really important that the children are dressed appropriately and have suitable footwear (such as long sleeves, trousers and outdoor shoes) to be able to enjoy any outdoor activities on the day.

We know that shop-bought costumes can be a little expensive, so why not try making something to wear instead... a character mask maybe? 

You can find some helpful tips and ideas here.

Broadford Library Weekly Newsletter - 10/03/25

       

Welcome to the Broadford Library Weekly Newsletter! 

Each week, we will be bringing you a look back on the previous week in the library, including the fun that our lunchtime library clubs have had, new books, children's book reviews, library displays and much more! 

~ Miss Flower and Mrs Jobber, Librarians & Reading Champions ~

Contact us - library@broadford.havering.sch.uk

World Book Day

Last Thursday, the whole school celebrated World Book Day in style, with lots of fun throughout the day! You can read all about it here.

Lunchtime library club

Last Monday, our lunchtime library club had great fun with some freestyle creativity on a big strip of paper - their task was to draw their favourite book character. 

Chatterbooks sessions

Last week, the KS1 Chatterbooks groups enjoyed listening to The Gruffalo! Everyone is excited to start their activity. 

New KS2 Chatterbooks groups started enjoying Julia Donaldson's classic, What the Ladybird Heard. Everyone had great fun acting out the animal sounds throughout the book while wearing the matching masks! 

Library Displays

Spring into Reading in the library! We recently asked lots of children and adults in school to write onto a handprint something they love about reading - like their favourite children’s book or author, or why they enjoy our library. We have now used these to create a wonderful new wall display to celebrate the arrival of Spring - a beautiful, blossoming tree and flowers made out of the handprints!

New books in the Library

We have a lovely new selection of books available for children to borrow from the library, including firm favourites like Diary of A Wimpy Kid, David Walliams and Percy Jackson, as well as a wonderful new boxset of Shakespeare classics, which lots of children in Year 4 particularly are very keen to start reading!

105 Books reading achievements

Well done to Ahmad, Torsten, Olivia, Elsie, Ambica and Chirag who have received their Bronze Certificates for reading five books.

Well done to Ahmad, Natalia, Bernice, Gabia and Adela who have received their Silver Certificates for reading 10 books.

Well done to Ashar and Natalia who have earned their Gold Certificates for reading all 15 books! 

Well done to all! 

You can find the books from the 105 Books list for your child's year group here

Blue Peter Reading Badge

  

Earn your Blue Peter Reading Badge! See how you can take part here or pick up an entry form from the library.  

Urgent request - Returning borrowed library books

We have had lots of lovely new books added to the library collection over the past couple of months but, unfortunately, many of them have been borrowed by children and never returned to the library. Please can you check at home to see if you have any Broadford library books (stamped inside/Broadford logo attached). If you do, please pass them to your child to return to the library asap, where our Book Monster is waiting to eat them! Thank you. 

Did you know that we have a Broadford Library Instagram page? Click here to follow us!

World Book Day 2025!

 World Book Day 2025

We had a wonderful day in school yesterday, celebrating World Book Day. Thank you for your commitment in supporting your children to look so good! The children did some great, reading-related, activities throughout the day.

Activities 

105 Book Hunt 

This year, we put together our first ever exciting book hunt for each class to participate in. Classes had the opportunity during the day to head outside to search for front covers from our 105 Books to Read Before you leave Broadford. All participating classes received a certificate.

 If you are not familiar with our '105 Books To Read Before You Leave Broadford' please see them all here.

D.E.A.R 

Drop Everything and Read 

Some classes put aside all distractions and enjoyed books or a shared read together.

Bookmark Competition Winners

All classes took part in our exciting Bookmark Competition. Children in each class had the opportunity to design their own bookmark and take part in voting for their favourite.

Congratulations to the following children:

Mekael, Natalia, Jessica, Adam, Nina, Elise, Aisha, Sadhana, Aarav, Tiya, Zara, Stefania, Noura, Mishti, Raffy, Zayna, Gabia and Tesha.

Classroom Activities 

All classes had the opportunity to take part in a variety of activities throughout the day.  

Costume Donations 

A massive thank you to all of our wonderful parents and carers for dropping off Costume Donations. Overall we had over 40 costumes donated for World Book Day.