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www.broadwasschool.co.uk Friday 20th April 2018 #18
Our value this half term is PERSEVERANCE. Christians believe that their faith encourages them
and gives them strength to persevere in challenging times. ‘I can do all things through Him who
strengthens me’ Philippians 4:13 In school, we show our understanding of Perseverance by:
Learning from our mistakes and never giving up
Being resilient and resourceful
‘Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our
eyes on Jesus.’ Hebrews 12:1-2
Welcome back to a brand new term with us at Broadwas. I’m so pleased and excited to be joining the school
community, and I’m looking forward to meeting and getting to know everyone.
We have had a busy start to our term as you will see! The children have all settled really well back into school
routine and are working extremely hard. It has been lovely to spend time in classes, sharing their achievements
and celebrating learning. Congratulations to all the children who were chosen by their teachers to receive Head
Teacher award stickers for extra special work and effort this week.
Our weekly newsletters will continue this term, we are planning to begin a news group with representatives
from each class so that the children have the opportunity to be involved in reporting their own news from
school each week.
Have a lovely weekend, with hopefully some sunshine!
Kind regards
Paul Smith
Many thanks to Hannah (Y1) and her family who took
the remaining bags of rice and sold them at their
church to enable us to complete our 90kg rice
challenge project. Thank you to everyone in our school
community who bought rice and helped us raise £270.
The money will now be sent to Malawi to enable a child
to go to secondary school for a whole year. Well done
to Alexis (Y6), who had the initial idea in February after
reading a First News article in a Guided Reading
session at school and felt inspired to make a
difference.
Libby (Y1) came back to school on Monday
having had her long hair cut much shorter – all
for a good cause! Libby decided to donate her
hair to The Little Princess Trust, who provide
free wigs for children and young people who
have lost their hair through cancer treatment and
other illnesses. Libby’s JustGiving page has
raised valuable funds for the charity. You can
find out more, and donate online by visiting
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/tori-
tregear2 What a special gift to give, Libby – we
are all very proud of you!
This week we welcomed Miss Coutts
and Miss Davies, second year
teaching students at the University
of Worcester, to school. They will
be completing their seven-week
school block placement with Mrs
Smith and Reception.
The front of the school looks wonderful thanks
to the bright display of daffodils, which were
planted last year by Mr Parkes. The daffodils
have definitely, and quite literally, improved
our kerb appeal!
We have enjoyed some wonderfully
warm weather this week! Please
ensure that children bring sun hats
and water bottles to school to use
during the day. Please apply a long-
lasting sun-cream before school to
protect the children from the sun’s
rays. Thank you.
The children thoroughly enjoyed their first PE
session with Tom Leather, a PE specialist, on
Wednesday. Tom will be in school each Wednesday,
teaching PE to every class.
Please ensure all children have PE kits and
pumps/trainers in school on Wednesdays, along with
a tracksuit/warm top and jogging bottoms as lessons
will take place outside, weather permitting. Sports
Premium money is being used to fund this activity.
During Welly Wednesday this week, we
recalled Monday’s story in which Smudge (a
rabbit) had made a mud rabbit to be his
brother. We thought a mud rabbit might be
a bit tricky so William suggested a mud
crocodile! With a great team of wet- mud
makers, some shaping, stone eyes and
green sticky-weed teeth, the crocodile took
shape. Arnold decided to add some spines
(made of stones) all down his back… Next
week’s challenge: a mud T-Rex!
This week in Year 5 and 6 we have been introduced to two books by the same author, Shaun Tan, which are ‘The Arrival’ and ‘The Lost Thing’. The Arrival has no words so we are excited to find out how it will turn out! We have found out that our topic for this term is 'Entertainment in the 60s', which shall involve the end of year production of The Beatles. We are all very excited about it! We have also started PE with Mr Leather where we will be learning how to play cricket. By Tom and William
This week the children in Year 1 and 2 were
very excited to receive an unexpected letter
from Bob. He had just got a new job as the
cleaner on the moon. He did not know very
much about the moon and wanted us to
help him. Fortunately, the children knew
lots of facts and details that they were able
to share with Bob. They were also able to
offer advice about what he would need to
take with him.
This week Year 3 and 4 began their new topic ‘The Great War’. We learnt about the significance and symbolism of the poppy and read in ‘Flanders Fields’ by John McCrae. Following this, each child made their own poppy to place on our display. Afterwards, we researched and learned why World War One began and identified the countries that were involved on an atlas.
In English, we began our text, ‘I believe in Unicorns,’ by Michael Morpurgo. We listened to setting descriptions, discussed the images they conjured and created maps based on them. Finally, we collected interesting adjectives and emotive adverbs, and created our own descriptions of the forests in the story.
DIARY DATES for SUMMER 2018
(Please note additions in red)
16.4.18 Summer Term begins
20.4.18 Y3/4 Swimming
26.4.18 Y1/2 Forest School
26.4.18 Y5/6 Key Steps Gym at The Chantry
27.4.18 Y3/4 Swimming – final session
w/c 30.4.18 Clubs start (4 weeks)
30.4.18 Prayer Meeting (15:45 – 15:45)
7.5.18 May Day Bank Holiday (School Closed)
May 2018 – Y2 SATs assessments period
14.5.18 – 17.5.18 Y6 SATs assessment week (Monday – Thursday)
24.5.18 R/Y1/2 Forest School
25.5.18 – May celebration including Maypole dancing (14:30 –
15:15) – further details to follow…
28.5.18 – 1.6.18 HALF TERM
4.6.18 Staff Training Day (School Closed for Pupils)
w/c 11.6.18 Y1 Phonic Screening assessments
19.6.18 Bag2School collection
19.6.18 Y3/4 Forest School (postponed from 13.3.18)
20.6.18 Y5/6 Forest School (postponed from 14.3.18)
28.6.18 Y1/2 Forest School
3.7.18 Reception - Cluster Music Festival at The Chantry
20.7.18 End of Summer Term