Festive fun in the Library - final week

   

The final week of festive fun in the Library! 

This week in the library, we enjoyed our final week of festive fun before the Christmas holidays begin.

Displays

We have a wide selection of Christmas, festive and winter-themed books and magazines for all ages in the library, which have been displayed all around for children to borrow. Children from all year groups have continued to enjoy the stories.

Reading Advent Calendar

Our Reading Advent Calendar continues to be incredibly popular! Examples of reading challenges for this final week have included 'Choose a book beginning with S', 'Choose a pink book' and 'Choose a non-fiction book'. 

The children have loved taking part, with lots continuing to come to the library every morning to check what that day's challenge is. Not only is this a fun activity for them to enjoy but it also encourages them to try out new authors, genres and books that they may not have chosen otherwise.

Libby the Library Elf

Libby the Library Elf has continued to have lots of fun and mischief around the library, to the delight of the children popping in to see her! We had a Christmas coded message that the children needed to crack and some fun with googly-eye Christmas books! 

We wonder if Libby will return to the library again next Christmas?

Lunchtime Library Club

On Monday, our lunchtime Library Club children continued to enjoy the Christmas-themed activities, including a fun elf activity booklet and Christmas wordsearches.

Winter Reading Challenge 

This week, we launched our Winter Reading Challenge, for children to take part in

over the Christmas holidays.

Once we return to school in January, children should hand their

completed tracker to Miss Flower or Mrs Jobber in the Library

by Monday 13th January 2025 and collect a Certificate!

What a fun-packed build up to Christmas we have had!

Broadford Library in numbers - Autumn 2 term 2024

    

It has been an extremely busy half term in the library! 

Miss Flower and Mrs Jobber have also completely reorganised and recategorised the picture books and non-fiction sections of the library, which have been huge tasks!

Thank you to everyone who has returned books to the library. We hope you all have a very happy Christmas break. See you all in January.

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

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

Reading Assemblies - Reading Achievements 17/12/24

     

105 Books to Read Before You Leave Broadford

Well done to Laila-Lily, Eliza and Aadya who have received their Bronze Certificates for reading five books.

Well done to Moyo, Bella and Aadya who has received her Silver Certificates for reading 10 books.

Well done to Aadya who has earned her Gold Certificate for reading all 15 books! 

Well done to all! 

Please email Miss Flower and Mrs Jobber if you are looking for one of the '105 Books to Read', with your child's full name and class.

library@broadford.havering.sch.uk 

  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.  

Winter Reading Challenge 2024

 

Our Library challenges are always bursting with fun ways of keeping you

reading during your break away from school. 

The Winter Reading Challenge is now available to collect

from the Library for KS2 children.
In EYFS/KS1, please ask your child's class teacher for a copy.

Once we return to school in January, please hand in your completed

tracker to Miss Flower or Mrs Jobber in the Library

by Monday 13th January 2025 and collect a Certificate!

library@broadford.havering.sch.uk  

Broadford Library Weekly Newsletter - 16/12/24

   

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

Lunchtime library club

Last week, our lunchtime Library Club children enjoyed some Christmas-themed activities, including a fun elf activity booklet and Christmas wordsearches.

 

 

 Christmas in the Library 

We continued having lots of festive fun in the library - see our separate blog here

Winter Returning Books Competition

Our returning books competition back in July proved so popular with children and staff competing to win, that we decided to arrange a Winter Returning Books Competition!

 Each class has had the chance to compete within their own year group to see who could return the most library books back to the library before a certain deadline. 

We have had a large number of books returned, enabling us to restock lots of sections in the library. 

Congratulations to the following classes who returned the most books this term:

Year 1: Beech

Year 2: Pine

Year 3: Cherry

Year 4: Maple

Year 5: Lime

Year 6: Birch

An additional huge congratulations to Maple class for returning the most books in the school!

Well done to all the classes that took part. 

Book reviews

Jessica in Year 5 really enjoyed reading the Roald Dahl classic, The Witches. She gave the book 4.5 out of 5 and said it was very funny!

105 Books reading achievements

Well done to Laila-Lily, Eva, Roza, Aadhvik, Rebecca, Nicole, Zara, Asher, Harry and Bella who have received their Bronze Certificates for reading five books.

 

Well done to Eva and Amelia who have received their Silver Certificates for reading 10 books.

Well done to Eva and Vrisha who have earned their Gold Certificate for reading all 15 books!

Well done to all! 

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!

Festive fun in the Library - week 2

  

The festive fun in the Library continues! 

This week in the library, our festive fun has continued as we get closer to the Christmas holidays.

Displays

We have a wide selection of Christmas, festive and winter-themed books and magazines for all ages in the library, which have been displayed all around for children to borrow. Children from all year groups have continued to enjoy the stories.

Reading Advent Calendar

Our Reading Advent Calendar continues to be incredibly popular! Examples of reading challenges for this week have included 'Choose a book beginning with T', 'Choose a yellow book' and 'Choose a book about animals'. 

The children are still loving taking part, with lots continuing to come to the library every morning to check what that day's challenge is. Not only is this a fun activity for them to enjoy but it also encourages them to try out new authors, genres and books that they may not have chosen otherwise.

Libby the Library Elf

Last week, Miss Flower and Mrs Jobber were very excited to find a new addition to the library - Libby the Library Elf! She has continued to have lots of fun and mischief around the library, to the delight of the children popping in to see her! We had a visit from the 'Can Choir' to coincide with the children's Christmas concerts and of course Libby had to get involved in Christmas Jumper Day!

Lunchtime Library Club

This week, our lunchtime Library Club children have enjoyed some Christmas-themed activities, including a fun elf activity booklet and Christmas wordsearches.

What a fun-packed second week!

The Story Scrapbook has been on the move again!

       

The Story Scrapbook has been on the move around the school again!

Every week, a different class around the school is delivered the scrapbook by two of our Spinebreakers. The class's task is to fill a double-page spread with work based on a book of their choice - this could be their end-of-day story or a class favourite. Classes can fill their pages with drawings, paintings, writing, collages - they just need to be creative and use their imaginations!

Last week, the Story Scrapbook was delivered to Almond class in Year 5. The class chose two Christmas-themed books - The Night Before Christmas and Snowball. The children produced some great book reviews and creative artwork about both books.

The Story Scrapbook was then returned for some photos with Almond class's two Spinebreakers, George and Jefflyn. 

After Christmas, the scrapbook will be delivered to Redwood class in Year 6. We look forward to seeing what they will choose to do!

Reading Assemblies - Reading Achievements 10/12/24

    

105 Books to Read Before You Leave Broadford

Well done to Roza, Aadhvik, Rebecca, Nicole, Zara, Asher, Harry and Bella who have received their Bronze Certificates for reading five books.

Well done to Amelia who has received her Silver Certificates for reading 10 books.

Well done to Vrisha who has earned her Gold Certificate for reading all 15 books! 

Well done to all! 

 

Please email Miss Flower and Mrs Jobber if you are looking for one of the '105 Books to Read', with your child's full name and class.

library@broadford.havering.sch.uk 

Story Suitcases

This week, our Story Suitcases were taken home by Mckenna, Tillie-Rose, Ayra and Najhat. We hope you all enjoy a snuggly evening with a yummy hot chocolate.  

Please return all suitcases back to school by THURSDAY morning.  

  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.  

Broadford Library Weekly Newsletter - 09/12/24

  

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

Lunchtime library club

The Library Club was very popular this week. Everyone enjoyed making a start on their Comic Books. We have seen some lovely ideas. Well done all!

 

 

 New in the Library 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..... 

We have been very busy getting the Library ready for Christmas. 

Read here for more information and photos!

Chatterbooks sessions

Last week, the KS1 Chatterbooks groups listened to the story There's No Such Thing As... ELVES.  Everyone enjoyed searching for the Elves in the story and taking a 'Selfie' with the Elf hats, as well as completing a fun activity before finishing the session.  

 

New KS2 Chatterbooks groups enjoyed a festive-themed story and activity with The Smelly Sprout. Everyone had great fun making their own sprout characters!

Book reviews

Aida in Year 6 really enjoyed reading one of the very popular Dork Diaries series books - Pop Star. She highly recommends it as she says reading it makes you feel like a pop star!

105 Books reading achievements

Well done to Daman, Aurika, Evie, Teodor and Chloe who have received their Bronze Certificates for reading five 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

More children have continued receiving their Blue Peter Reading Badges in the post! Congratulations to Jessica, Kindah and Tala! 

  

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!