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?
During half term please visit Tameside Libraries for these free fun events:
Tuesday 21 February 10-11am and 1-2pm Dukinfield Library: join comics artist Marc Jackson and learn to draw your own cartoon characters
Wednesday 22 February 1.30 - 3.30 pm Ashton Library: join Jim Medway for Creating Comics, all the basics to drawing your own comic strips and stories.
Thursday 23 February 2.30 - 3.30 pm Hattersley Library: meet author Sean Perkins who will read one of his stories and bring along some exciting activities to do based on his Oscar and Ben books!
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This term Year 6 have been practising their coding skills on Scratch. We have explored how to set variables up in different ways to create score boards and timers. We have started to create our own games with falling sprites. The children have to code each sprite to fall in different ways so that the player can catch points or avoid sprites which deduct points.
We are hoping to get other children to review our games for us.
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As part of the Tameside Ready, Steady Read festival, year 6 joined a zoom meeting with children's author Penny Joelson today. This was really inspiring and informative as we not only found out about some of Penny's stories, but she also discussed how she became an author. Penny has written books including 'Tell no secrets' which is about a child with cerebral palsy who cannot tell anyone that she saw a murder! She also wrote 'Girl in the window' in which a child witnesses somebody dragging a woman into a car and notices a young girl's face in the window opposite who has seen it too.
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Alongside our work on Internet Safety this week, Year 6 have also looked at Children's Mental Health Week. We have looked at loneliness and how to make connections with people, especially when transitioning to high school later this year. We have talked about our mental health generally thinking of strategies to keep our minds healthy. We have looked at showing kindness to others- we created our own kindness poems using the senses.
Well done Year 6!
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This week we have celebrated Safer Internet Day 2023 in various ways in Year 6. We took part in a live assembly on Tuesday to start our thoughts about how to keep safe online. In our lessons we have discussed how we all use the internet for various reasons. We have discussed the positives of the internet whilst also looking at the potential dangers. The children were good at spotting red flag scenarios that they may come across online. The children enjoyed making fun chatterboxes with some questions to ask their friends about E-safety.
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Broadbent Fold watched a live online assembly today 7th February 2023- An Internet Legends Assembly. Children were encouraged to used their critical thinking skills when online.Remember 'Be kind online' and make time to have conversations about being online.
What type of password is a strong password to use? What should you do if you see something unkind online?
This week children are taking part in lessons about online safety.
The theme for 2023 is, 'Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online'.
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A big well done to the 2 boys who represented Tameside in the cross country championships on Saturday. You did Broadbent Fold proud!
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Lots of pupils at Broadbent Fold have taken part in the PaninI design a football kit competition. Our sports council selected these fabulous entries as our school winners. All entries have been submitted to Panini, fingers crossed we win! Well done to everyone that took part.
