Year 4 navigating London

 On Wednesday, year 4 visited London as part of their geography topic, landmarks. In  groups of ten they planned the five landmarks they would visit and then in twos or threes, planned the route using trains, the underground and walking. The choices were The Shard, Golden Hinde, HMS Belfast, Tower of London, Tower bridge and London bridge. They all were excellent at their planning the route needed and were able to take the adults to the planned landmarks. After lunch in the Jubilee gardens, we made our way to the cable cars in North Greenwich where we crossed over the Thames with spectacular views. The children were well-behaved and a credit to our school. All the staff would like to thank the adults who supported us, as without them the trip would not be possible. I hope you enjoy a few of the photos.

The teachers in year 4 would like to say a huge congratulations to all the children for the results in the MTC. This year was phenomanal as 70% scored 25/25 and 92% scored over 20/25. They have worked so hard to achieve this and they deserve a round of applause! Well done! Individual results will be in their reports.

    

Year 4 Navigation Trip

Year 4 Navigation Trip 

 

Dear Parents, 

Year 4 will be going their Nativgate London trip on June 26th 2024. Please find the details and permission form here. If you are interested in supporting us on this trip, please express this on the permission form. 

If you have any questions, please come and see a member of the Year 4 team. 

Year 3 - Colchester Zoo!

 

Today, year 3 visited Colchester Zoo and we had a brilliant day visiting all of the animals. We were lucky enough to see sea lions being fed, giraffes, elephants, lions, monkeys and more! Some of us were able to hold stick insects, walk amongst the goats and take a walk down to the flamingos. After stopping for lunch, we continued on our journey to ensure we explored the whole zoo including the llamas and alpacas, tortoises and chimpanzees. We represented the school amazingly; we were kind and polite to everyone we saw and tried out best to learn as many new facts as we could. We showed reciprocity by working together to see if we were stronger than an elephant! Thank you to all of our helpers for ensuring we made it around the zoo safely and we can't wait to share everything we did with you all at home.

''The penguin jumped out of the water and was acting like a lifeguard'' - Noah

'I enjoyed seeing the lions because they are a type of cat and I love cats!' - Lily

'The red panda can jump 10 foot in the air!' - Darcie

Science Trip Reminder - Ash Class 3.3.23

 

Science Trip Reminder

On Friday 3rd March Ash Class will be going on their trip to Hyde Park. Please ensure children arrive to school as early as possible as we will be leaving the school at 8:45am. Your child can wear a costume for World Book Day, however, please make sure it is suitable as there is a lot of walking!

Cracking Computing in Year 3

Today Year 3 were treated to a Computing workshop with Hyett Education.

They learnt about algorithms and how to make and program their own robot! 

The children had to work together in pairs to create their robot and then program it.

"I have used the play button to tell the robot to go" - Tiana 

"I am enjoying making the robot from scratch following the instructions" - Awwaltrip

 

Year 3 Trip

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are delighted to inform you about an upcoming trip to The Natural History Museum in London on Tuesday 28th January. We will be leaving school promptly at 9 am and aim to return to school by 3 pm. We will be travelling by public transport. Therefore there will be no cost for the trip.

The children will be required to wear school uniform for the trip along with suitable footwear comfortable for walking. Furthermore, please ensure your child has a suitable coat.

Please ensure all permission forms are completed by Friday 17th January so that packed lunches can be ordered.


Yours sincerely,

Miss Taylor
Year 3 Lead


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Year 4 Panto Trip!

We are delighted to inform you that a trip has been booked for our Year 4 children. The trip will allow the children to experience a pantomime at the Queen’s theatre. The Robin Hood production has sparkling sets, colourful costumes, tunes that everyone knows, lots of laughter and most importantly plenty of audience participation.

The Year 4 children will be visiting the Queen’s theatre on Thursday 5th December 2019, the performance will begin at 10:00am. All children should be in school by 8:45am as we will be leaving at 9:15am. We expect to arrive back at school at approximately 1.00pm so the children will need to either bring in a packed lunch or order a School packed lunch to eat as soon as we get back to school. The children will be given popcorn and drink during the show and will have the opportunity to have a piece of fruit.

The children will be travelling via bus to and from Queen’s theatre. The children will be accompanied by teachers and support staff from the school. Please ensure children have warm coats and are wearing appropriate footwear.

The trip costs £700 in total for the Year 4 classes so we are asking for a contribution of £10 per child to cover part of the pantomime ticket price. Please make your contributions on sQuid. If you have any questions or queries about payment, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher.

This is an exciting opportunity for the children to experience a pantomime. We thank you for your continuing support.

Miss Estall, Miss Young & Miss Islam

Please click here to complete the permission form

Elm Class - MOD Pizza

Wow, Elm Class had a great time at MOD Pizza Restaurant today. The children were intrigued to find out what MOD actually stands for...ask them while its fresh in their minds. The team at MOD made us feel really welcome.  Linking into out science topic and healthy eating the children had a tour of the kitchens behind the scenes and they got to explore the enormous walk in fridges and freezers (which they found very exciting!). We also had a close look at the stone bake oven and finally and most importantly after some hygiene guidance we all got the opportunity to make our own pizzas, which were amazing.  I'm sure the children would love to make homemade pizzas with you at home, please click this link for a recipe to do so. LINK

MOD Pizza chain encourage diversity and have a strong ethos regarding looking after there staff, they believe if their staff are happy then the customers will be happy. There is an amazing mural of photos on a large wall celebrating the diversity of their staff, they encourage people to be different! 

Furthermore the children should have all came home with an empty pizza box and if you take it back there they can get another free pizza. Win, win situation! 

Kezia said "That's the best trip I've ever been on!"

Cedar will be attending on Thursday 10th October and Cherry will be attending on Thursday 17th October, please make sure you have completed the trip form on line, if you have't already done so.

Also a big thank you to our parent helpers, we couldn't do it with out you. 

Year 3 - MOD Pizza Trip

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Dear Parents and Carers, We are delighted to inform you that the first educational visit for year 3 has been booked for the next few weeks where the children will be visiting the new MOD Pizza restaurant in Romford to take part in their pizza school initiative programme. The children will be in for a morning full of fun and education around all of the ingredients used to make the pizzas and salads. At the end of the session, each child will get to create their very own pizza and have a free lunch in the restaurant! If your child does not like pizza, please provide them with a packed lunch. Each class will be attending on a different day; Elm Class: Thursday 3rd October Cedar Class: Thursday 10th October Cherry Class: Thursday 17th October For this trip we will be travelling by bus to the restaurant in Romford. Children need to arrive in the morning promptly for 8.30am as we will be leaving at 8.55am. We will have returned by 1pm. Please fill in the attached form and return to your child’s class teacher as soon as possible. If your child has any specific dietary requirements, please could you advise the class teacher. Yours sincerely, Miss Taylor Year 3 Lead

           

Ash Trip!

Ash class had a fantastic time on their navigation trip last week. The children had spent many weeks prior planning their routes using google maps and the London underground tube map to work out exactly which landmarks they wanted to see and the most sensible journey to take. 

They even researched where they would be able to go to the toilet and calculated the times spent at different locations to ensure they could fit it all in. 

Between them, they managed to see:

Buckingham palace (including changing of the guard)

Hyde park (including the Princess Diana memorial fountain)

St. James' park

The Gherkin

The Shard

Tower bridge

The Tower of London

The millennium bridge

The London eye 

Marble arch

Westminster bridge

City hall

A successful (and very tiring) day all round! 

Well done children - your map work and reciprocity skills really shone throughout the day which you should be very proud of! 

Birch Let's Navigate Trip

Birch had an absolutely fabulous day exploring London last week! The children's planning really paid off and their itineraries were simple to follow. They used their navigating skills to follow the tube maps and were counting down the stations until they had to exit, and used the larger maps around the city to identify which direction they needed to walk in. The teachers were blown away with the children's exemplary behaviour and positive attitudes throughout the day; they were responsible on public transport and represented the school well. Each group were extremely excited by all the buildings they saw and even kept count of all the extra things they were able to cover on top of their 5 locations!

Birch is ready for our trip!

Birch is super excited for our Trip in to London on Thursday! We have planned out our routes, identified nearby toilets and are ready to go! Today we worked in our groups to draw an outline of our trip including the locations we are visiting and the underground lines we are taking to get there. The children are looking forward to visiting a range of attractions tomorrow.

 

 

*Please remember to ensure you bring your lunch and a drink in a plastic bag, wear sunscreen and bring a jumper just in case!

Urgent Year 3 Parents - Please complete the trip form if you haven't already done so

Year 3 Trip - Orbit

Dear Parents and Carers,

At Broadford, we recognise the importance of an enriching curriculum inside and outside of the classroom and have therefore planned an ‘experience entitlement’ that will serve to enrich the learning of the children. In Year 3, the children are offered the exciting opportunity to visit the famous 21st century landmark, The ArcelorMittal Orbit in Stratford, on Thursday 4th July.

As well as going up The ArcelorMittal Orbit, the children will have a chance to walk around and explore the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford. A voluntary charge of £5 is needed to cover the cost of entry which needs to be paid via sQuid from tomorrow (25.06.19). Please ask the office should you require any assistance. If not enough contributions are made, the trip will have to be cancelled.

Children need to arrive in the morning at normal school time. We will be leaving Stratford at 1:30pm and will be back in school before the end of the day. We will endeavour to keep you updated via our Facebook page and blog. We would appreciate any parent helpers so please let your child’s teacher know if you are available to help.

We will be travelling by public transport. Children are required to wear school uniform and bring a packed lunch and water bottle with them. Please complete the form as soon as possible, especially if your child requires a school packed lunch so that the order can be placed in time to the kitchen.

Please follow this link to complete the form

Year 4 Trip Form - July 2019

The children in Year 4 are very excited for our navigation trip to London! 

They have been busily planning their routes and working out the time it will take to travel to a variety of landmarks.

Please follow the link below to complete the trip form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeK8TE6fTpvHMAFcvO8W27Joh-g4ARHUEA0w41FWyqbiVEVQQ/viewform

Year 4 begin to plan their London Trip!

District, Metropolitan, Central, Circle or Jubilee?

Eastbound, westbound, platform one or platform 6? 

Victoria Park, Hyde Park or St James's Park?

Decisions, decisions! Year 4 sure have been in a pickle this week! Our topic lessons have been all about the London Underground and train routes. Students have been using their resourcefulness and reciprocity to read the tube map, then begin to plan the quickest journey between stations. They have paid close attention to the key to use the correct name for the lines, to figure out where to interchange and whether there is wheelchair access. 

These are extremely important skills as year 4 will be planning their own trip around London! We are in our groups and have decided on which locations to visit; now the exciting (yet challenging) part begins of creating an itinerary for the day. Stay tuned for updates!

Year 3 Trip - V & A Museum in London

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Dear Parents and Carers,

We are delighted to inform you about an upcoming trip to V & A Museum in London on Wednesday 19th June. We will be leaving school promptly at 9am and aim to return to school by 4pm. This is linked to our Childhood topic and we are lucky enough to be taking part in a workshop which there is a small charge for.  Therefore we would appreciate it if you could make the voluntary contribution of £3, which should be available for you to make from this evening via Squid.

The children will be required to wear school uniform for the trip along with suitable footwear comfortable for walking. Furthermore, please ensure your child is suitably dressed for the weather.

Children will be accompanied on the day by teachers and support staff, but we will also need additional help from parents/carers. If you are interested and are likely to be available on the day, please indicate this when completing the permission form.  If interest from parents/carers is high, then we will pull names out of a hat.

Please ensure all forms are completed by Friday 14th June so that packed lunches can be ordered.



Yours sincerely,


Miss Taylor
Year 3 Lead

Year 3 Curriculum letter Summer Term

Year 3 - Curriculum Newsletter

Welcome back and we trust you all had a restful Easter break. We hope you find this letter informative, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher if you have any questions relating to the curriculum.

Homework:

Our expectation at Broadford is that every child should do the following every night:

                            15 minutes reading to themselves or an adult and note in the reading record

                                                             15 minutes practising spellings

                             15 minutes rehearsing times tables facts (including multiplication and division)

If children would like to attempt an additional challenge, we have a new Learning Challenge for children to attempt this half of the Autumn Term. All of the activities are based around a significant person, poem or painting relating to our topics. Children do not have to attempt every activity but instead select the activities that they are most interested in and compile a project that reflects the extra time and effort that they have put into their challenge. We hope that children will take their time with the challenge and be proud of the work they produce they should hand this into their teacher at the end of the half term.

Spellings:

Spellings will be given out on Mondays. The children should practise their words every evening. We encourage the children to write their words in sentences on the back of their homework sheet. Their spelling test will take place on Fridays. Children in Read, Write, Inc groups could have their spellings given out and tested on different days.

Rockstar Times tables:

Children will be completing their timestables daily in school at the start of each maths lesson. Please practise timestables with your children at home, they will be able to tell you which tables they are currently working on.

Curriculum Information

We have included a summary of the topics which the children will be covering this half term. If you have any questions about the topics being covered, please do not hesitate to contact your class teacher.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Taylor        Mr Nicol

Sequoia Class Teacher   Hazel Class Teacher

Summer Term
	1st Half Term	2nd Half Term
Literacy	Guided Reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation Explanation texts Biographies	Guided reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation Folktales Persuasive Writing
	Please fill in the reading journal after hearing your child read. For a good selection of children books visit the local library. Also Mybookblog can be accessed from home with your children's individual usernames and passwords.
Numeracy	Rockstars timetables Fractions Time	Rockstars times tables Properties of shape Mass and capacity
	Rockstars and Mymaths can be accessed from home with the children’s individual usernames/passwords.
ICT	Coding ‘if statement’, selecting pieces of code to execute depending on outcomes	Coding ‘if statement’, selecting pieces of code to execute depending on outcomes
Science	Particle Theory	N/A
History/ Geography	Childhood - Mayans Local Study Second World War	Childhood - Continued Local Study Second World War
P.E	Athletics/Volleyball	Athletics/Volleyball/ Sports day preparation
	PE will usually be on Thursdays. Please ensure your child brings in their kit and leaves it at school.
Art	Related to topic	Related to topic
P.H.S.E	Living in the wider world Rights and Responsibilities	Taking care of the environment Money
Financial Curriculum	To help pupils understand the reasons for the development of money using a role-play activity based on bartering. To improve coin recognition skills by introducing the reasons for having different coin denominations.	Using a planning exercise based around a trip, develop pupils’ budgeting and mental maths skills. Using a shop role play, demonstrate the importance of being able to check whether you’ve received the right change, and let pupils practise this skill.
Trips	Hornchurch Country Park - Date to be confirmed Reading Stay & Learn - Thursday 9th May -  9-9.30 am	The Orbit - Date to be confirmed Topic Stay & Learn - Thursday 13th June - 9-9.30 am