We celebrated Chinese New Year by making dragon puppets, listening to Chinese music, creating our own dragon dance and by having a tasty Chinese banquet. It was fantastic!

This year is the Year of the Rabbit. 

We spotted lots of signs of Winter on our walk. Bare trees, frost, snow, chilly weather etc. We took our thermometer with us and read it was 3 degrees. ❄️❄️❄️

We had a fantastic time learning all about the Muslim faith with Imran. We made our own Prayer Mats afterwards using a weaving technique.

In 2023 Chinese New Year begins on 22 January and 2023 is the year of the rabbit. In Chinese culture, the rabbit is the symbol of hope. People born in the year of the rabbit are said to be very sociable and have lots of friends!

Please watch the information on this newsround clip- Lunar New Year: Happy Year of the Rabbit - what you need to know - CBBC Newsround

The Pupil Leaders met for the first time this year to analyse the results of the recent Pupil Questionnaire!  The results were impressive and all of the Pupil Leaders agreed that Broadbent Fold really is a safe, welcoming and inclusive school.  The group are continuing to improve the results by speaking to their own classes.  Mrs Blomeley

Well done to everyone who received a hard earned award in Year 5 this week.  A high standard of work, being friendly and helpful to others and being Ready, Respectful and Safe are the reasons for these awards, as well as achieving 50 and 100 star points for Bronze and Silver awards!  Fantastic work!  Mrs Blomeley

Year 1 played lots of new games in forest school this week.  We used our senses to play the owl and mice game and used our dodging skills to play farmer, farmer and wood, wood, fire.

Year 3 enjoyed making bows and arrows using tools safely to cut branches from the willow and practice their knot tying skills.  They also made bird feeders and used their senses to play the owl and mice game.  The children enjoyed investigating the ice and warmed themselves up with some delicious hot chocolate.

The Eco Leaders carried out the RSPB Big Schools Bird Watch this morning.  They were all excellent at spotting the birds that are living in and near the school grounds.  We saw Magpies, Carrion crows, Sparrows and Robins.  We even spotted some beautiful Goldfinches eating the seeds from the Alder trees.  Well done everyone you did a fabulous job!

Our creative project in Year 3 this half term is a volcano model. The children worked really hard to creative some amazing models. We had smoking volcano, erupiting volcano and even a chocolate panettoni cake volcano. The cake looked and smelled delicious and we all wanted to eat it! The children practised their oracy skills when they shared their models and described the process of making them and materials they used.