Meet the Spinebreakers for 2025/26!

  

We are very pleased to introduce our new library Spinebreakers for 2025/26! 

The Spinebreakers play an important role within our school library.
Their duties include:

* making links with our local library *

* helping to purchase books from Waterstones *

 * keeping their class library tidy *

* helping to promote reading challenges and competitions *

* delivering our Story Scrapbook to classes across the school *

* recommending books *

* helping Miss Flower, the school librarian, in the library *

Here are the Spinebreakers for this year. 

Year 1 Spinebreakers: Dylan, Zayna, Cornelius, Ariana, Daman and Stefania

Year 2 Spinebreakers: George, Tiya, Henzo, Layla, Emir and Violet

Year 3 Spinebreakers: Dominic, Amedea, Ryan, Noura, Ashar and Alayna

Year 4 Spinebreakers: AJ, Isabelle, Finley, Alice, Jackson and Roza

Year 5 Spinebreakers: Adam, Scarlet, Aryaan, Jasmine, Denis and Robyn

Year 6 Spinebreakers: Eddy, Evie, Elliot, Paige, Gabby and Rojure

Congratulations to everyone!

Blue Peter Reading Badge

The Spinebreakers will also be working to earn their Blue Peter Reading Badges! 

Please return completed forms to the school Library. 

See how you can take part too here.

Summer 2025 Super Readers!

  Summer 2025 Super Readers!

This week, Miss Flower had a huge pile of certificates and some prizes to hand out to the children who participated in the summer reading challenges.

Get Caught Reading
Over the summer, so many of our Broadford Primary children enjoyed getting caught reading in all sorts of wonderful places - including forests, castles, museums, foreign countries, libraries, zoos, gardens, public transport, dens, bedrooms, and so many more! 

Congratulations to our winners and runners-up...

KS1 Winner: Violet & KS1 Runner-Up: Nathan 

KS2 Winner: Henry & KS2 Runner-Up: Torsten

Thank you to Sadhana, Prakhyati, Nathan, Azlan, Dhaksha, Billie, Luna, Violet, David, Oscar, Harry, Amelia, Rayan, Alice, Ashar, Aditi, Andreea, Rithik, Nikita, Tesha, Daisy, Subhan, Sophia, Torsten, Maya, Chloe, Alariah, Aiza, Henry, Callissya, George, Ryan, Alice, Ava, Lily-Mae, Rosie, Jessica, Tayla, Harry, Jessica and Iustin for sending in your photos. All photos can be found over on our Library Instagram page.

National Summer Reading Challenge

Over the summer, lots of super readers took part in the Havering Libraries National Summer Reading Challenge.

A huge thank you to Prakhyati, Sadhana, Dhaksha, Amelia, Harry, Oscar, David, Alice, Amirah, Rayan, Prisha, Vedasri, Azlan, Vikhyat, Nyasa, Aditi, Subhan, Abdulahad, Chirag, Rithik, Tesha, Torsten, Daisy, George, Ryan, Aiza, Jessica, Lily-Mae, Asha, Zarrar and Aryaan for sharing their photos and certificates. 

Broadford Library Summer Reading Challenge

Well done to Amelia, Alice, Sadhana, Oscar, Adam, George, Freya and Torsten on completing their Broadford Summer Reading Challenge Trackers.

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A huge well done to everyone that has taken part in all the exciting reading challenges this summer!

Miss Flower, Librarian and Reading Champion

Broadford Library Weekly Newsletter - 08/09/25

                

Welcome to the Broadford Library Weekly Newsletter! 

Each week, I 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, Librarian & Reading Champion ~

Contact - library@broadford.havering.sch.uk

 

Welcome to the new academic year!

It was lovely last week to see so many familiar faces (and new ones) around the school. The library is fully stocked, with so many wonderful books waiting to be borrowed! Miss Flower has lots of new books to put out in the next few weeks too!

 

Meet the NEW Return-the-Books MONSTER! 

Our beloved Book Monster has had a magical makeover! He's back, bigger, brighter and hungrier than ever... for BOOKS! 

Book of the Week

*The Funniest Boy In The World by Helen Rutter* Billy Plimpton is on the road to stand-up comedy stardom, and he won't let his stammer hold him back!

Chatterbooks
This academic year, library Chatterbooks sessions are being held for Years 2, 3 and 4. They will be starting next week, with lots of fun stories and activities planned for the year. 

105 Books To Read Before You Leave Broadford

If you have not already seen it, please read last week's Library blog post all about our 105 Books To Read Before You Leave Broadford here.

Summer Reading

Look out later this week for the announcement of the winners and runners-up of the summer's Get Caught Reading competition, as well as details of all the amazing summer reading that children did.

Spinebreakers

Miss Flower is very excited to be announcing this year's chosen library Spinebreakers later this week - look out for the blog post!

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 so many lovely books in our library but, unfortunately, many of them get borrowed by a child and then 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!

105 Books To Read Before You Leave Broadford

 

 

At Broadford, we aim to encourage a love of reading. By providing our pupils with quality texts and introducing them to strong characters and identifiable themes, we can broaden their perspectives of the world around them.

This is why we have our 105 Books to Read Before You Leave Broadford. This exciting reading tracker encourages pupils to explore a wide range of literature alongside their regular reading books.

There are 15 books per year group. Each year, pupils can earn their Bronze, Silver and Gold reading certificates along their reading journey.

By the time children leave us in Year 6, they would have made their way through a great list of books, from children’s classics to contemporary new reads. 

Books can be read independently or together at home. Many are available in our school library, at your local library, or as audio/ebooks online.

*NEW* Something a little different for KS2 this year:

Your Reading, Your Way: Read all 15 or 10 from us and 5 from you!

From this year, children in KS2 (yrs 3/4/5/6) can either read all 15 books from the list, or can choose 10 books from the list and 5 books of their own choosing.

Tracking your child’s progress

A tracker poster will be sent home with your child. You can use the tracker to keep your own record at home of what your child has read.

To let us know which books your child has completed, simply write “105 Books” and the title of the book in their white Reading Record or email us at: library@broadford-havering.sch.uk School staff will then log their progress and award certificates for reading 5, 10 and 15 books. Happy reading! 

Examples of how to log progress in your child's white Reading Record book:

Here are all of the year group books:

Reception

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Please email Miss Flower, school Librarian, 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