Year 4 Games Afternoon 2025!

 At Broadford, we are committed to enriching our pupils’ learning by offering a carefully planned programme of experiences that broaden their horizons and help bring the curriculum to life. We recognise that many children may not always have access to such opportunities outside of school, so we aim to provide them here.

This Wednesday afternoon, Year 4 classes enjoyed board games that some had brought in and some we provided as a school. 

We were so proud of the children's reciprocity skills, working together and having fun - the teachers even joined in too!

"This is so fun playing together with my friends!" - Sultan

"The game was hard at first but Elizabeth helped me!" - Veronika

"I haven't played these games before these were amazing!" - Dani, Willow

Year 4 to 5

   

Greetings

Transition news for year 4 moving to year 5

As you are aware, from September, the year 4 classes have been mixed. The children were put into their new classes on Thursday and met their new teachers. 

Redwood, Birch and Larch

  Mrs Whiten will be the class teacher in Redwood and is the current year 5 lead.

If you are in Birch  your new class teacher will be Miss Piper.

 

If you are in Larch class, your teacher will be 

Mrs Bamgboye on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Miss Betty on Thursday and Friday.

Other adults here to teach you in September will be :

Mrs Doughty and Mrs Kular in Palm class

Other adults to support you in year 5 are:

Mrs Pitts

Mrs Byrne

Mrs Mihai

Mrs Eve

Mrs Axford

Mrs Clements

Mrs Frith

It really will be an amazing year finishing with our exciting Mersea residential trip!

Keep practising your TTRS and reading regularly during the Summer holidays but above all, stay safe and have fun!

Year 4 Certificates 11.7.25

 

Congratulations to all of our certificate winners! 

Willow Class

E for Excellence: Aryaan

Star Writer: Edward

Reciprocity: Amira, Kezia

Resilience: Elsie

Resourcefulness: Maalik, Robyn,

Presentation: Scarlet

I have made my Teacher Happy: Osman

Elm Class

E for Excellence: Malik

Star Writer: Isabella

Resilience:  Teddy & Eliza

Presentation: Anna Teacher Happy: Rio & Lily

Maple Class

E for Excellence: Tyler

Star Writer:  Abrish

Reciprocity : Adam

Resilience: Issa

Resourcesfullness: Zimel

Reflectivesness: Ayaan

Presentation:Mohsin, Oscar & Eishan

Year 3 Visit Colchester Zoo!

 

On Tuesday, Year 3 had a wonderful day seeing all of the different animals at Colchester Zoo. 

First, the children had to decide within their groups which animals they would like to see and come up with the best route to take around the zoo. Then, we set off in our groups to find all of our favourite animals whilst learning lots of new and exciting facts along the way!

The children all got to have an up close and personal experience with the goats, and had the opportunity to feed and stroke them as they walked through the enclosure, this took resilience for some children, who had never experienced a large animal so close before. There was so much to do whilst at the zoo, including taking the zoo train into the lemur enclosure and feeding the parrots in the giant bird house! 

We finished the day with a lot of tired, but very happy children!

 My favourite part was being inside the tunnel and watching the sea lions - Loui, Ash Class

Seeing the elephants was amazing - Tommy, Cherry Class

Seeing the turtle was amazing - Success, Cedar Class

Year 3 Read Under a Tree

 

To enrich the children's learning experiences whilst at Broadford, Year 3 went outside this morning to complete our final enrichment task, which was to read under a tree. 

The children began their experience by listening to our class novel - You're a Bad Man Mr Gum, which was read to them by their class teacher, before taking time out to get comfortable, relax and read a book of their choice. Many of the children used their reciprocity skills to read along with their peers but others chose to take the time to read quietly alone.

I liked listening to the story outside, it was fun - Maya

My teacher used his story voice! - Noah

Listening to the story outside was nice, it was so quiet - Moyo

Year 4 Meet the Team

 

Time to meet the team!

If your child was in Ash Class they will now be in Willow Class with Ms Jennings.

 Ms Jennings is also the Year 4 Year Group leader.

If your child was in Cedar Class they will now be in Maple Class with Miss Bell.

If your child was in Cherry Class they will now be in Elm Class with Miss Brimmer.

Other adults that will be in Year 4 to help us are: 

Mrs Mayer, 

Miss Frost, 

Miss O' Connor

Mrs Aziz

We wish you all a wonderful summer and we look forward to welcoming the children in September.

Welcome to Year 3

 

As the children transition from Year 2 to Year 3, it's time for them to meet their new teachers and prepare themselves to move on to their new classrooms. 

Here is the Year 3 team for 2025/26

Year Group Leader and Cedar Class Teacher - Mrs Fayefunmi 

Ash Class Teacher - Mr Cardwell 

Cherry Class Teacher - Miss McClenaghan  

Meet the Year 3 Support Staff 

Mrs Suhail

Miss Kazakova

Miss Chowdhury

Mrs Gobindram

We look forward to welcoming your child to Year 3 in September!

Year 3 Certificates

 

It's been a fantastic week of learning in Year 3 and the children have been working hard all week!

In Literacy, the children were introduced to their final topic of Year 3 which focuses on the key features of advertisements. The children began by identifying these features for themselves and discussing the effectiveness of persuasive language. The children then began to plan their own advertisement posters for their 'marvellous medicines', which they will present during Wednesday's lesson next week. Well done Year 3, you have produced some excellent work this year!

In Maths, the children continued to explore durations of time before completing their end of unit tests for this topic. Across the year. the children have worked exceptionally hard to grasp some challenging mathematical concepts and their hard work and determination should be congratulated. Well done Year 3!

Here are the final certificate winners of 2024/25!

E for Excellent - Spencer, Alexandra and Danni-Ella

Star Writer - Noah, Mateo and Ronnie

Happy Teacher - Victor, Jacy and Lola and Lochlan

4 R's - Millen, Alexandra and Harry

Well done for all your hard work this year! 

Year 3 Spellings W.B 07.07.25

 Please find below Year 3's spellings for this week. Please encourage your child to practise their spellings every evening, so they are prepared for their spelling test on Friday.

	A	B	C
1	Continue	History	Come
2	Decide	Beautiful	By
3	History	Special	So
4	Increase	Exercise	Your
5	Important	Naughty	Love
6	Interest	Strange
7	Guard	Enough
8	Heard	Guard
9	Exercise	Heard
10	Naughty	Busy
11	Sentence
12	Separate
13	Strange
14	Strength
15	Suppose
16	Beautiful
17	Knowledge
18	Enough
19	Special
20	Calendar

Year 4 Help the Environment!

 At Broadford Primary School, we believe in teaching our pupils the importance of caring for their environment and community. That’s why our classes took part in a series of litter-picking sessions, both around the school grounds and in the local area.

Litter picking helps protect wildlife, keeps our community spaces clean and safe, and encourages everyone to take pride in where they live and learn. More importantly, it teaches our children responsibility, teamwork, and the value of small actions making a big difference.

We’re proud of our pupils for stepping up and showing such care for the world around them. Together, we’re helping to build a cleaner, greener future.

"I can't believe we did 6 bags of rubbish!" Kayden, Willow Class

“I am proud of the way in which we look after our school.”Chloe, Maple 

“I love litter picking, it’s helping the environment” Sultan, Elm