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Today Year 6 presented an assembly about different women and girls who have made a great impact in the world of science. We discussed how primatologist Dr Jane Goodall has worked tirelessy to rehome chimpanzees who have lost their habitats for various reasons. We explored how Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie discovered new elements called radium and radioactivity.
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This week in Science, the children have been exploring ‘Why exercise is important and what the effects of exercise are on our health / lives?’ The children were asked to explore different ways to stay healthy. The children decided that you can be healthy by: eating a balanced diet, getting lots of sleep, drinking lots of water, doing activities that you enjoy (e.g. swimming etc) and exercising. The children discussed how/why exercise is important for our bodies.
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Our pupil leaders have chosen 6 brilliant winners of our E-Safety Competition. They looked at how social media affects mental health and what we can do to improve this. We had many entries from across school and it was very difficult to decide. Well done everyone.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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!
On Thursday 2nd March, Broadbent Fold will celebrate World Book Day. Please see the attached newsletter with all of the information and events that will be taking place.
COMPETITION
Please design and/or make a top hat for your favourite book character. What colours does your character like to wear? What could you attach to your top hat that reflects your character's personality or hobbies? Is your top hat inspired by a goody or a baddy?
