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