We are finishing this half term with lots of certificate! There were Head Teacher's Awards, Good to be Green Pencils, Bronze and Silver Awards. We also had a Handwriting Award and Vocabulary Ninja Award. Congratulations to all the children who have received their awards today. A big well done to all Year 3 children for working really hard this half term. Enjoy your well deserved rest. 

What a fabulous way to end the half term with lots of prizes. Well done to James and Ruby for getting the class merits for being fabulous all the time. Congratulations to Polly and Kade for earning their Good to be Green pencil. Fabulous vocabulary work has been completed by Aoife and Maisie earned our Handwriting award. I do hope you all have a happy, safe and enjoyable half term holidays and I look forward to seeping you all on the 28th February. 

Broadbent Fold will be celebrating British Science Week this year. The theme this year is ‘growth’. We will welcome ‘The Science Boffins’ into school during the week. On Friday 18th March we will host an exciting Science Fair. Also we will have an optional DRESS UP DAY- on 18th March where children can come to school dressed up as a real-life scientist. This could be anyone from David Attenborough, Mae C Jemison, Brian Cox, Marie Curie, Jane Goodall, Ada Lovelace…. there are endless possibilities. We can’t wait to see who you will be.

World Book day will be celebrated on Thursday 3rd March and children may come to school dressed as their favourite character or author. In school we will celebrate the day with many events including virtual author workshops, a visit by Manchester-based author Matt Goodfellow and we have the return of Broadbent Fold's 'The Masked Reader' Please check out the World Book Day website for news and events during March- World Book Day | World Book Day is a

Today, we have taken part in Tameside's Ready, Steady, Read book festival and zoomed Author and Poet Jessica Wilson. Her first children’s book ‘Sofia the Dreamer and her Magical Afro’ was endorsed by Benjamin Zephaniah and Afua Hirsch and was a 2021 National Poetry Day Recommended Read. Jessica shared her book with us and talked about what inspired her when writing her story.

See the Year 4 perform the days of the week in Polish this week. Great work guys!

Listen to the Year 4 children performing the months of the year in Polish. Fantastic work! 

A fantastic time was had by all at the Key Stage 2 Valentine"s disco. 

What a roaring success the Key Stage 1 Valentine's disco was. The children had a fantastic time. 

What a fabulous experiment today in science. As you can see the children were able to find lots of electrical conductors in the classroom and were able to sort their results into a venn diagram. Some children were even able to predict whether an object would be an insulator or conductor before they tested them too.