Year 1 Spinebreakers - Peter Rabbit Book Club

The Spinebreakers have been very busy the last few weeks learning all about Beatrix Potter's famous characters. Today, the children tested one another on their knowledge of the stories. Check out our Youtube clip to see what they asked one another...

At the end of today's session they began hearing about Mr Tod and Tommy Brock, they will continue the story when we return after the break.

Year 2 Spinebreakers - Book Reviews Of The Fortnight!

Victoria, Kyriq and Amelia are the latest Spinebreakers to have visited Harold Hill Library. They were set with the task of choosing some books to read back at school that we haven't heard before.
Take a look at their choices here...

On returning to school, the Spinebreakers got to work - sharing their stories and writing book reviews. They chose to review Richard Byrne's book, The Case of the Red-Bottomed Robber. This book is quite a new release. It tells the story of a group of crayon classmates who keep having their drawings rubbed out. With the help of Sergeant Blue, their discover who the culprit is.

Both Srinika's and Amelia's reviews have been displayed on our 'We Are Reading' wall. The display changes fortnightly to show the books the Spinebreakers have borrowed - so keep an eye out next time you visit!

Mischief Makers Summer Reading Challenge

This week we received certificates and medals for the Broadford pupils who participated in this year's Summer Reading Challenge at the local library.

A huge well done to...

Year 1: Anish, Aksannan, Ehan and Shivangi (who completed the challenge not once, but twice!)

Year 2: Emily, Iniya, Ifeoluwa, Kezia and Shajia

Year 3: Matilda, Kanishka, Peter, Ellie, Grace and Malachi

Year 4: Jessica, Florence and Ruben

Year 5: Fallon, Maisie, Deborah and James

Year 6: Gavin

Harry Potter Quiz 1 - Gryffindor Round

The pupils participating in this year's Harry Potter Course visited Mead yesterday to work with their team mates to compete in the first of six quizzes. This quiz focused on the first Harry Potter film/story - The Philosopher's Stone. Pupils were set five mini challenges across the afternoon. They were tested on their ability to identify and correctly name the characters; complete character puzzles in a set time; match vocabulary to the correct meaning; answer multiple choice questions; and organise images from the film into the order in which they appeared. The pupils were rewarded points for each round - these points were then collected in once all challenges had been completed.

The pupils were organised into house teams when they were selected for the course back in the Summer term...

Gryffindor: Arya, Joshua, Jessica, Jamie, Louis and Jacob

Ravenclaw: Bayleigh, Zac, Deborah, Amanda, Charlie and Lily

Hufflepuff: Amandeep, Paige, Gracee-May, Aminata, Ellie and Taruni

Slytherin: Emily, Alex, Sabeer, Maliha, Charlotte and Reinaldas

The scores for the first round are as follows...

Gryffindor: 73 points

Ravenclaw: 68 points

Hufflepuff: 61 points

Slytherin: 51 points

Well done to Gryffindor House! Each member was awarded with a Gryffindor badge. The next round will take place on Wednesday 12th December, pupils will be competing for the Ravenclaw badge!

Year 4 - Mary Poppins!

Since returning to school in September, our year 4 pupils have been working alongside Brookside and Mead to study the story of Mary Poppins. To kick off their project, they watched the original film.

This half-term they have been taking part in creative sessions - making carousels, kites and bookmarks with quotes!

Book Fair - Autumn Term Raffle Winner

Thank you to each and everyone of you who visited this term's Book Fair. By making a purchase, you have helped raise more than £350 to spend on new books for our school library!

If you visited the fair over the three nights it ran, you would have seen the hamper of book treats up for grabs. Each person who made a purchase at the fair was entered into our raffle.
We can announce that the lucky winner is...

Kyla from Birch Class!

Thank you to our year 6 Spinebreakers who helped run the fair, we are very grateful for the time and effort you put in!

Last Night To Visit The Book Fair!

Today is your last chance to visit the Book Fair. The Spinebreakers will be set-up and ready to serve you from 3pm in the hall. Don't forget, each pupil who makes a purchase at the fair will be entered into our raffle to win a hamper of prizes!

Hope to see you there!