Our Year 5 and 6 tag rugby A team made it into the Tameside finals last week! In the group stage, they played against Lyndhurst, St Christopher's and St James' Hattersley. Broadbent Fold showed great skill and came 2nd in their group. Everyone is very proud of them for making the final!

I do hope you've all had a fabulous October holiday, and the children are raring to get cracking for our second term in Year 6. This half term will continue immersing the children in the expectations of Year 6. I will be explicit in how we can raise standards to ensure the children know what they need to do this year to be secondary school ready. These standards will be interwoven into our work in our second topic of the year- Did we come from apes?

Our new topic for this half term is 'Would a Dragon be a good friend?' We will learn all about Kings, Queens, Castles and Dragons. In December, we then move on to look at Christmas. 

This half term we will be learning all about fabulous festivals and reading 'The Gingerbread Man'.  

Below is the link to our medium term plan and home learning grid (this is entirely optional).

Mrs Kleban

Today, Simon Hunt (A Teacher and an Author) visited Broadbent Fold to celebrate and share his stories with us! He read his book 'Billy the Bottom Burping Pirate.' The children found this story very amusing and even join in with the bottom burping sound effects. 

We have really enjoyed Simon Hunt reading his story 'Billy the bottom burping pirate' today. His book was very funny and quite disgusting. We enjoyed hearing Simon's stories too.

As a part of Black History Month celebrations we had a special visitor in Year 2. Agnes, our governor, shared her heritage with us and introduced us to Adinkra printing. Agnes explained that Adinkra in the Akan language means "saying goodbye". She told us all about different symbols used and how stamps are hand made using calabash/ gourd. The children had a go at printing different symbols first on paper and then on fabric. 

Today, Agnes (one of our school Governors) came to work with key stage one and to teach the children about Adinkra printing from Ghana in Africa to celebrate Black History Month. The children used different symbols (which have different names and have different meanings) to create their own prints by hand. Thank you to Agnes from all of us in Year 1 and 2, the children really enjoyed the activity and producing their own art work.