I am pleased to let you know that Broadbent Fold have come 3rd in Tameside this year’s Summer Reading Challenge! Congratulations! Find our certificate of achievement attached.
We are very grateful for your help in making this year’s Challenge such a success. Especially Miss Harvey our English Leader for promoting. Well done everyone.
We celebrate National Poetry Day on Thursday 1st October in school. Our Librarians have launched a new competition. Children in years 1-6 can illustrate a picture of their favourite poem or send in a photograph/video of themselves reading their favourite poem. Send this into your class teacher who will forward to Miss Harvey and the Librarians to choose a winner on Friday 9th October. Please see attached flyer with information.
The horse chestnut trees have arrived for planting around the school grounds. Year 2 are going to have some fun planting these 25 saplings during Forest School.
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Max from Front Row Music came and performed in our assembly this morning getting the children really enthused about playing the guitar. Hopefully, more children will sign up for lessons on the guitar or ukulele with Drew.
The Green Tree Schools Award is a Woodland Trust programme that rewards schools for completing environmental activities. At Broadbent Fold we provided the evidence for “Celebrate Extraordinary Trees”, “Connect Pupils with Nature”, “Improve Wellbeing in School” and, “Platinum Projects – A Woodland Perspective”. We are now working on our Platinum with Inside Out Forest School and our amazing staff and pupils. If any families want to help with our projects, please reach out to school.
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Tameside Music Service came to our school to play some wonderful musical pieces in assembly today! They also discussed the different instruments they used and tested the pupils musical knowledge.
We have selected some fabulous librarians in KS2 who will support Miss Harvey with lunchtime clubs and competitions throughout the year. They will be in charge of keeping our library tidy so let them know if you find anything that looks messy. They have started today by making book boxes to take outside at breaks for extra reading for pleasure.
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Today was the first wellbeing meeting of the year. They Y6 leaders loved meeting the new class leaders and discussed making a school newspaper and enjoyed the team building activity as well.
Our teachers have had training with the British Orienteering association today. Orienteering is an exciting outdoor adventure sport that exercises mind and body. The aim is to navigate between checkpoints or controls marked on a special orienteering map. There is no set route so the skill and fun come from trying to find the best way to go! In competitive orienteering, the challenge is to complete the course in the quickest time.
