This week has been mental health awareness week. We have worked hard at making life better for us. The children have been given a positive attitude wheel to help improve their mental health and a daily challenge. This has really helped integrate our positive messages and well-being book into everyday tasks. Our worry wizard has been very busy championing well-being this week. We even had a lesson about friends and good friendships with Netchen.  Great resilience and thoughtfulness this week Year 4. 

Today, Year 4 had the fantastic opportunity to virtually meet John Dougherty. He started off his festival with a song about Stink Bomb and Ketchup. He got us all up dancing and went on to explain his stories. It was fabulous to be online with other schools in Tameside. John told us some ideas about how and why he wrote his stories and where he got his inspiration from. It was truly brilliant. 

TThis morning the Pirates in Year 2 have been using their mathematical / geographical co-ordinate skills to play battle ships, they have been making treasure chests out of nets to create 3D shapes, talking like a pirate (Avest ye, All hands hoy, Yo ho ho, Shiver me timbers, Ahoy matey, Booty and Battern down the hatches) and creating WANTED posters of themselves. Stay tuned to see what we get up too this afternoon! 

Congratulations to the Year 3 children who received their certificates today. The Head Teacher's certificates were awarded for great work in PE and for online safety poster. We had two Good to be Green winners and two children who achieved their Bronze Award. We also had a Handwring Champion! Well done. 

Congratulations to all of Year 6 who won a Headteacher's Award this week. We are very proud of your effort and determination during the mock SATS tests this week. 

Well done to Harriet who won an award for her brilliant coding on Scratch- she has made an excellent game. 

Well done to our Good to be Green winners: Maycie and Mia.

Well done to the children who won their Silver Awards today too.

On Thursday 2nd March, Broadbent Fold will celebrate World Book Day. Please see the attached newsletter with all of the information and events that will be taking place. 

COMPETITION

Please design and/or make a top hat for your favourite book character. What colours does your character like to wear? What could you attach to your top hat that reflects your character's personality or hobbies? Is your top hat inspired by a goody or a baddy? 

This morning with Coach Jess we have been using our bodies to be under the sea creatures. We then worked together to make sandcastles, great team work!

During half term please visit Tameside Libraries for these free fun events:

Tuesday 21 February 10-11am and 1-2pm Dukinfield Library: join comics artist Marc Jackson and learn to draw your own cartoon characters

Wednesday 22 February 1.30 - 3.30 pm Ashton Library: join Jim Medway for Creating Comics, all the basics to drawing your own comic strips and stories.

Thursday 23 February 2.30 - 3.30 pm Hattersley Library: meet author Sean Perkins who will read one of his stories and bring along some exciting activities to do based on his Oscar and Ben books!

A bumper pack of merits in Y4 this week. From swimming awards, handwriting, class merits, silver awards and good to be green pencils. What a fabulous class. 

This term Year 6 have been practising their coding skills on Scratch. We have explored how to set variables up in different ways to create score boards and timers. We have started to create our own games with falling sprites. The children have to code each sprite to fall in different ways so that the player can catch points or avoid sprites which deduct points. 

We are hoping to get other children to review our games for us.