Year 1 - St George Church Trip

Dear Parents/Carers,

As part of our learning we are planning to take the children to visit our local church (Saint George's Parish Church and Centre Harold Hill). During our visit the children will experience visiting a religious building, learn about the Nativity story and also about how Christmas is celebrated. This will prove a valuable first-hand experience allowing your child to visit their local area whilst developing their knowledge. The children will also be able to apply the mapping skills they have acquired recently in Geography.

The trip will take place on Wednesday 4th December we have been given three time slots

Beech class - 9:15 - 10:15am 

Apricot class - 10:30 - 11:30 

Walnut class - 1pm - 2pm 

Please fill in the form below: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdtzG0k3rKoBHln0SymX8k0nSEZjmdVM51ElhDOVWRkILWpOA/viewform?usp=pp_url

Yours Sincerely,

Miss Hamilton     

Year 1 Lead

Year 1- Carols Round the Fire

Monday 9th December 2004

9am - 10am and 2.15 - 3.15pm

Kick off the holiday season with us! Join in as we sing beloved carols around the Christmas tree, play festive games, and spread plenty of cheer. It’s the perfect way to celebrate with year 1 children and get into the holiday spirit—bring your joy, your holiday magic, and your best singing voice!

Below are the songs we're practising at school if you would like your child to practise them at home-

1. Jingle bells

2. Let it Snow

3. Santa Claus coming to town

4. Little Donkey 

5, Merry Christmas 

We ask that all children wear Christmas jumpers. 

Any questions please email the Year 1 mailbox - 

year1@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Miss Hamilton 

Year 1 Learning Blog - 15.11.2024

 Year one have had another fantastic week back with lots of fun learning opportunities.

In Literacy this week the children were using adjectives to describe a character from our class story.

In Maths this week, the children were introduced to the part whole model.

The part whole model is a pictorial representation that shows the relationship between a whole and its parts.

In Geography this week, the children explored their place in the world. They enjoyed using Google Maps to navigate around London. The focus was on understanding the continent, country, and town they live in.

Beach class had a lot of fun at Forest School this week. They listened to the story ‘Stanley’s Stick’ which is about a little boy who uses his imagination to pretend his stick is lots of different things. All the children then found a stick. 

In groups we read the poem ‘This is not a stick’ and the children use their stick to act out all the different things. The stick was lots of different objects, such as a telescope and a fishing rod. 

They then thought of their own ideas. These included nail varnish, a boat and a microphone. 

Many of the children wanted to attach wool to their stick to make fishing rods and a few boys made a ‘zip line.’

The children had time to explore the natural world around them before having a biscuit and a drink.  We ended the session with a few games that help to develop their understanding and listening skills. 

Children in Need at Broadford Primary School 15.11.2024

 Children in Need at Broadford Primary School 

The Year 6 School Councillors gave an outstanding presentation to the KS2 children about Children in Need.

Door design competetion- 

Winners for  EYFS and Year 1  - Walnut Class 

Winners for Year 2, 3 and 4 - Elm Class 

Winners for Year 5 & 6 -  Lime 

A huge thank you to all the children who took part in a fun-filled day in support of Children in Need!

Reception E for Excellence: 15.11.2024

 Reception E for Excellence

We have had a fantastic week of learning and there has been so much to celebrate and be proud of in Reception! 

These children worked extremely hard and have been rewarded for all of their determination and efforts.

Apple 

E for Excellence - Evie for her hard work in all areas of her learning. She worked hard to recognise her sounds and fred talk in RWI. She also recognised 2D shapes in Maths during our shape hunt. Well done Evie - keep up the good work!

Star Writer- Daniel for writing what makes a good friend. Daniel used his sound mat to help him write the initial sounds he could hear in the words ‘help’ and ‘kind. He also tried to write other sounds that he could hear in those words. Well done Daniel - keep up the good work! 

Dojo points - Maximus for his excellent Maths work this week. Maximus worked hard to make a triangle using sticks in the outside area and recognised lots of 2D shapes on our shape hunt. Well done Maximus - keep up the hard work! 

Aspen 

E for Excellence - Chloe, for her excellent improvement in writing this week!

Star Writer- Dakshika

Dojo points - Harry

Bronze reading certificate - Chynna and Amirah

Alder

E for Excellence - Kameron, for doing such a fantastic job with your words this week in reading. You absolutely smashed it. All your practise in class and at home is showing! Well done superstar! 

Dojo points - Andrew, for doing fantastic work this week and making beautiful creations during choosing time. I loved the Poppy you drew! Well done!

Star writer - Sidrat, for writing on the line during RWI and presenting your work beautifully. Great job!

Bronze reading certificate- Kameron, Emem, Lennie, Rayan & Jahmai

Year Reception: What We Are Learning w/b 11th November 2024

 

Year Reception: What We Are Learning 

Reception have been working really hard this week. Our focus book was The Little Hen and the Great War.

Here is what we have been up to: the children painted poppies and added them to our Reception Outside Area to remember all of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives during war. They also painted their hands red and from their hand prints made their own poppy wreaths to display outside our classroom doors. The children also recorded a poem for Rememberance Day. 

The children have also been working hard in Read, Write, Inc this week. The children have all been assessed and are now working in groups based on this. The children discussed what makes a good friend and made their own friendship recipes. They put the key words in their friendship bowls that they thought makes a good friend. They worked hard to write the initial sounds they could hear in words such as ‘h’ for ‘helps’. They also tried to sound out the words such as ‘kind’ using their set 1 sound mat.  Please continue to read 5 times a week with your children and work on set 1 sounds as well as word time words (1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc). Well done Reception for your hard work in Read, Write, Inc and with your writing this week. 

In Maths this week the children have been learning all about 2D shapes. They worked hard to recognise triangles and circles in their classroom and during our outdoor shape hunt. The children also went outside and made triangles from sticks in our outside area. They also learnt about positions and could describe the positions different objects were in in our outside area. Well done Reception for your hard work in Maths this week! 

The children came into school in odd socks on Tuesday for Anti-Bullying Week. They learnt about the importance of kindness and made friendship recipes and added words such as ‘help’ and ‘kind’ into their friendship recipe bowls. 

The children had an amazing day celebrating Children In Need. They all dressed in spots and enjoyed taking part in lots of fun Pudsey themed activities. 

Well done Reception for an amazing week - keep up all your brilliant work!

Year 2 What We Are Learning

 

                                                

 

   Literacy

This week, the children learnt about the features
of instructional writing.  Next, they wrote a set of
instructions on how to make a delicious jam
sandwich. In their writing,  the children used

time adverbials to sequence their instructions in

a chronological order. Additionally, they used
imperative verbs to show what needed to be

done. Impressively, they included adverbs of

manners too. Super effort!

 

    Maths

This week the children worked on addition 

subtraction across 10 and from a ten as well

as subtracting from a ten and subtracting

a 1-digit number from a 2-digit number

(across a 10). Pupils were able to use their

prior knowledge of number bonds and part

whole model to solve addition and subtracting

problems that involved partitioning.

R.E

This term we are exploring the festivals that

are celebrated in different religions. This

week we explored Christmas and why Christmas is

celebrated by Christianss. We discovered what

Christmas means and how it may be celebrated. 

  Forest School

Mulberry class had a lovely autumnal morning
noticing the details around us. We put treasures
in our matchboxes, looked through tubes to notice
the details and used our sense of smell to identify
herbs and spices. Thanks to those who bought in
their waterproofs and wellies in today. Please keep
sending them in. Thanks.