Broadbent Fold's Valentine disco was a massive success. The turn out was phenomenal and the children thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Thank you to everyone who turned up. Happy Valentine's Day!

Well done to our Spring 1 handwriting winners! You have been awarded with your handwritng pencil and certificate for your amazing, neat presentation or for great effort and improvement in your handwriting.

Our winners are: Nursery- Nevaeh, Reception- Mykyta, Y1- George S, Y2- Luke, Y3- Matilda, Y4- Suzie, Y5- Theo, Y6- Sam G

All of their wonderful handwriting has been proudly displayed outside Mrs Parker's room. 

This afternoon, the children used the Bee-bots to create simple programmes on a treasure island mat. The children have been learning the importance of sequences of accurate instructions and today they used the Bee-bots to test their sequences out by programming the Bee-bot to navigate it to a specific co-ordinate. The children have been learning the terminology forwards, backwards, left, right, up down, north, south, east west, landscape, horizontal, portrait and vertical in Geography, Math and Computing. OO ARGH!

We have planned fair and comparative tests in year 6 today. The children have planned a scientific enquiry on which exercises raise our heart rates the most. The children chose their equipment and discussed the variables and constants in the investigation. We had a lot of fun doing our experiments outside. Next week we will display our results in an appropriate way and draw conclusions to answer our investigations. 

This afternoon, the children took part in a treasure hunt around the school grounds. The children have been using google maps in their Geography lessons this half term to explore the question ‘where do we live?’ They have been zooming in and out from a bird’s eye view, zooming in to see street views and identify places they have visited. The child had a bird’s eye view map of the school with different letters plotted around. The children had to use their maps to locate the different letters which were identifiable on flags and write down the number that was attached to the letter.

As part of our creative home learning (can you make a 3Dmodel of a ship. Can you make it float?), some children chose to create their model and bring them in to test them. The children had to think recap back to our ‘materials’ topic and decided which properties of materials are suitable to ensure their boat would float. Today, the children got to test their ships in class and the rest of the children voted red for sink and blue for float. Great effort everybody! Some super designs and materials used!

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.