Last week, some of our Year 5 and 6 pupils took part in the dodgeball finals involving the top 10 teams in Tameside. We came 5th in our group playing games against Buckton Vale, Dowson, Aldwyn and Greenside. They won, drew and lost some games but showed great determination throughout and real improvement since the last competition. Well done everyone, you did Broadbent Fold proud!
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Today we have found out about the four chambers of the heart and we worked together to make a valve to stop the blood from going in the wrong direction, just like in a human heart.
We then learned the components of blood and make some blood soup. The jelly represented the red blood cells, the marshmallows were the white blood cells, the rice was the platelets and the orange juice was the plasma.
What a fun, interactive afternoon.
This week is National Storytelling Week and year 6 joined a webinar with a panel of gaming experts, players and designers to listen to how they use storytelling and world building in their roles. It was very interesting and has inspired some pupils to think about a career in game making.
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Well done to our Stars of the week!
Sophia for amazing confidence in the maths lessons and Mia for a fantastic newspaper report.
Well done also to Aoife and Kade for being Green all week!
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Today we had some great discussions with Safe Squad about online and personal safety. The children know about how to protect themselves by not sharing personal information online and using strong passwords. They discussed cyberbullying and how to use social media appropriately. We looked at the age recommentations for apps like Tik Tok and WhatsApp- did you know the recommended age for using WhatsApp is 16?
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The class are getting much better at using communication in the team building games to complete their challenges. In our yoga session we had to work with a partner to complete different poses. We then learned how to do feather meditation which was very relaxing.
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This week to consolidate our understanding of how the circulatory system works we had to make a live reinactment in groups. The children had to explain the process using scientific vocabulary- this will hopefully help us to identify parts of the heart when we do some dissection at Rayner Stephens soon.
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For Wellbeing Wednesday this week we let off some steam by attacking our opponents in a Blooket Game called 'Battle Royale'.
This was a lot of fun and our victor was Jake- well done.
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Lots of fun was had at the sportshall athletics competition tonight with Years 5 and 6. Excellent throwing, jumping and running from everyone and amazing team spirit throughout. Well done everyone, you did our school proud!
A big thank you to Geoff who came in to work with our Year 6 sports leaders today in developing their play leader duties with KS1 at lunchtimes. They worked together to create some activities that they can't wait to try. They trialled them with some Year 1 pupils today. Great job everybody and fantastic leadership skills!
