Parents- Year 1 school trip

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are delighted to inform you about an upcoming trip for the children in Year One.
As part of our RE curriculum, we will visit St Andrew’s Church, in Hornchurch. We will leave school at 9:00am and will be travelling by bus.

Each class will be be going on a different day (see below)

Pine- Tuesday 11th Pine Class

Mulberry- Wednesday 12th December

Rowan Class Monday 17th December

Children need to bring a packed lunch in a named carrier bag or you can fill in the attached lunch form.

They will be accompanied on the day by teachers and support staff, but we will also need additional help from parents/carers. If you are interested and are likely to be available on the day, please select this option on the form below.

Should the weather be wet, please provide your child with a waterproof jacket.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc21eev2xCIoYvZcOdFPkfgoqHu2ycGnsHYpWZ5TnqYZ5ucmw/viewform

Yours faithfully,

The Year One Team

Change of spelling in Year One

Dear Parents/Carers,

At Broadford Primary we teach every child the importance of good spelling. We want every child to be a good speller and to take a keen interest in the spelling and meaning of words. To support this we have made some changes to the type of words your child will take home in their spelling test.

During their daily phonics sessions the children learn to read and write new sounds and words. They regularly practise spelling words with the sound they have taught and previously taught sounds.

The national curriculum also states that children in Year 1 need to learn to spell common exception words and high frequency words, you may know these as ‘red words’ from the Read, Write, Inc programme. These words often have to be practised more frequently as the children will need to remember the spelling pattern.

To support the children to learn to spell these words and apply these correctly in their writing these are the words they will take home to practise with you. The children will practise their spellings from Monday to Thursday and take their test on Friday.

The children will receive new words once they have spelt all of their spellings correctly on a Friday. If they still need to practise the words and haven’t spelt them all correctly then they will take home the same words to practise. This is to ensure the children really learn these tricky words and are secure with their spelling before moving on to a new set of words.

Thank you for your continued support. Please make sure you continue to practise spellings at home and remember to bring in your spelling books.

Yours faithfully,

The Year One Team  

A super exciting upcoming event for Early Years and Key Stage One!

A super exciting upcoming event for Early Years and Key Stage One!

Bedtime Stories!

After two successful year of hosting bedtime for the children, it's back by popular demand. We would like to invite you and your child to join us for ‘Bedtime Stories’ on Friday 7^th December from 5:00pm-5:45pm.  

This will be an exciting evening event for the children in Nursery, Reception,Year One and Year 2 to experience. 

The children will arrive at school in their cosy pajamas and dressing gowns, along with their favourite teddy and head down to their classroom. 

They will meet their friends for hot chocolate and cookies before they settle down on the carpet for some Christmas themed bedtime stories. 

Any questions please see your child’s class teacher. 

We look forward to seeing you there!

Yours faithfully,

The Early Years and Key Stage One Team

Year One- Stay and Learn

Dear Parents/carers,

On Thursday morning you are invited to come and reading with your child in their classroom setting. Children will enter the class at their normal time between 8:30-8:55 and doors will open for parents at 9am. 

You will have 15/20 minutes to read some of our lovely storybooks with your child. At 9:20, the teachers will do a 'Speed Sound' lesson with the children for you to watch. This will show you an example of how we teach the children their sounds, how to segment, blend and spell. 

We hope to see as many of you there as possible. If you are unable to make it this time, look out for our next Stay and Learn session early next year. This will be on maths. 

Year 2 Maths Stay and Learn

Year 2 Maths Stay and Learn

What an enjoyable morning we had in Year 2 on Tuesday, when the parents came along to the classrooms to find out all about our Maths learning.

The children enjoyed showing off their newly taught skills and I hope the parents were as impressed with the children’s knowledge of problem solving as the staff are!

The staff in Year 2 would like to say thank you to all of the parents who attended our Maths Stay and Learn session this week.

We hope that you found the session to be informative and that it provided you with ideas to support your children in Maths.

Following on from the feedback, please find links to the practise Maths and Literacy SATs papers below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-stage-1-tests-2017-mathematics-test-materials

Broadford Raise Money for Children in Need

Broadford Raise Money for Children in Need 

Today the whole school took part in raising money for Children in Need. 

 The children dressed up in either yellow or spotty clothes. 

 Each year group took part in a coin race and competed to see who had the most coins on the playground.  Then each class took part in Dress the Teacher.  They used different materials and resources in the classroom to make a fun outfit for every teacher.  Throughout the week the children  have been busy baking cakes for our Teddy Bear Afternoon Tea.  The children brought their favourite teddy bears along to the tea party.  Parents and children attended the afternoon tea and bought cakes helping us to raise money for Pudsey.

 Everyone had a fun filled day raising money for Children in Need!

Awards in Year One

Awards in Year One

The children in Year one have already been busy earning rewards this half term. Well done to the children in Rowan Class who have earned their book marks for their fantastic reading at home!

Janiyah and Korey have earned certificates this week for demonstrating the 4R's. Janiyah has shown great resilience this week, persevering in different area's of her learning. Korey have shown fantastic resourcefulness in his ability to make links between his learning when working with 3D shapes in maths. Well done!

Kyle was awarded the Resilience award in Mulberry class. He persevered with his Maths work and he was able to name and describe the properties of  3D shapes. Well done Kyle! 

Year 2 Certificates

A huge congratulations to these certificate winners in Year 2! 

Well done to Gurrehmet and Amelia in Cherry for the Project Superstar certificates! 

And in Cedar, Aisling submitted a stunning Great Fire of London project complete with photos of her visiting the actual locations, such as Pudding Lane! 

Mia also submitted a beautiful autumnal inspired Great Fire of London picture, whilst Taylor received a  resilience certificate. 

Well done once again! We can't wait t see who this week's certificate winners are! 

Year 2 Potions

Year 2 had lots of fun experimenting with measuring to make their very own gruesome potions.

The children had to follow the instructions carefully in order to measure out the exact amount of ingredients, which included dragons blood and monster slime!

They extended their learning by writing their own set of ingredients before carefully measuring, mixing and making their potions.

I made a potion to turn you into a frog- Emily

Me and my friends made a slime potion - Adam

Fire fun in year 2!

Rounding off our last topic, we had a trip to our local fire station. The children had a tour around the quarters and learned about what happens when someone calls 999 for the fire brigade. They also learned about all the different aspects of training delivered in order to help at traffic accidents, different fire types and even cats up a tree!

The children were shocked to hear the firemen spend 10 hours at the fire station every day! They enjoyed hearing the sirens, sitting in the cab, looking at the new uniforms, trying the water hoses and the heat detector.

Back at school we ended our topic with our grand finale- recreating the scene of the Great Fire of London! The children have been making houses- we put them close together to recreate this time and show how quickly the fire spread from house to house. We sang the songs we have learned from 1666.

The children are looking forward to our next topic, where we shall be looking at the history of Bonfire Night!