Year 6 had a great time at Rayner Stephens today. The science teacher was really impressed with their knowledge of the circulatory system. They dissected a lamb's heart and tried to label the four chambers and blood vessels.

We are very proud of the 4 Broadbent Fold pupils that represented Tameside in the Greater Manchester Cross Country Championships at the weekend. It was a great achievement to be selected! Well done everyone!

Under 11 boys: George 73rd, Sam 89th, Jacob 94th

Under 11 girls: Matilda 90th

Today, Year 2 came to school dressed as PIRATES! The children enjoyed taking part in a variety of pirate-themed cross-curricular activities including; creating their pirate names, writing onomatopoeia pirate poems on the computers, reading / writing and plotting co-ordinates in a first quadrant, putting pirate words in alphabetical order to help us use dictionaries and thesauruses, played battleships, used a 3D net to make treasure chests, learn how to talk like a pirate and singing a sea shanty song.

Children watched a live Online Lesson about Artificial Intelligence. We learnt there are lots of interesting jobs involving artificial intelligence after all computers don't have emotions like humans so humans are often needed. 

Remember:

AI is where computers are able to copy intelligent things that humans can do, like being able to read, write, learn and be creative.

AI can't think for itsel, it learns from information on the computer.

How do you use AI in your daily life?

Congratulations to our Handwriting Champions who have been selected to win the award this half term for either their great handwriting and presentation or for their improvement.

Our winners are:

Nursery- Josef, Reception- Oli, Y1- Minnie, Y2- Aston, Y3- Marshall, Y4- George, Y5- Evie-Mae, Y6- Eva

As you can see their work is proudly on display at the front of school for all to see.

Children’s Mental Health Week will take place from 5-11 February 2024. The theme this year is ‘My Voice Matters’. My Voice Matters is about empowering children and young people by providing them with the tools they need to express themselves.

This year, we want to empower children of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to work together to create a positive change for their mental health and wellbeing. Our aim is for Children’s Mental Health Week, we want all children and young people to be able to say – and believe - “My Voice Matters.”

Well Year 4, you've surpassed all expectations with our mystery cake design. I was so very impressed by your cakes- they are so realistic. I am so pleased that you enjoyed making, creating and obviously eating them. A fabulous job- well done everyone, especially those family and friends who helped too. 

Our Year 3 and 4 pupils loved taking part in the Glow Dodgeball competition this week. It was most of the pupils first time representing school and they were all so excited! They showed great sportsmanship, encouraged each other and worked well as a team. Great job everyone!

Last weekend, Broadbent Fold had a fantastic cross country championships where we had 4 runners selected to represent Tameside in the Greater Manchester cross country championships. Everyone cheered each other on and showed great determination in their races - one pupil even lost their shoe and carried on the race! We are so proud of all the runners that took part!

Year 3/4 girls = Courtney 3rd, Chloe 6th, Amelia 10th, Ella 13th, Reeva 22nd, Lois 23rd

Year 3/4 boys = George 2nd, Jacob 3rd, Dominic 7th, Noah 24th, Harry 25th

As part of their Rainforest Topic, and to enhance their reading of our class text,"The Explorer", Year 5 enjoyed tasting a variety of fruit on Friday!  In the book, the characters have just discovered pineapples, after eating grubs to survive!  On offer were pineapples, blueberries, lychee, kiwi fruit and mango.  Most children tried them all and rated them, with a view to persuading others to eat them (or not!)   Even Mr Foley tried lychee for the very first time! He rated it 5/10!   Mrs Blomeley