Show Respect ~ Learn Together ~ Try Your Best
Here you can find useful information and guidance for our Braddan School life. You will also see what our pupils are doing as they grow their brains at school in our classroom pages and on the blog.
School times:
At Braddan our pupils, staff, families and visitors demonstrate and modelling these values:
Aspiring - Focused - Honest - Kind - Supportive - Respectful
Acting Headteacher: Mrs Bronwyn Ward
At Braddan, we aim to use pupil voice to help us to design clubs that we know will be popular. This Summer term has seen a few Year 5 and 6 pupils ask to organise and run their own clubs, with a staff member as support. We had a 'chill club' on Wednesday lunchtimes run by four Year 5 students, whic…
This week, Miss K and Mr Griffin organised some fun with a parachute in the classroom. Nobody could find the Butterfly class anywhere, but they were all in their quiet spot (they named it the 'rainbow cave'). They were watching a movie as part of their class reward and doing other fun activities. I…
How exciting that two of Braddan's staff are experts with fire! Mr Griffin and Mrs Fargher both shared their skills with the Year 6s to some pumping beats. Mrs Kelly and Mrs Ward definitely needed extra lessons to stop the tangles but our students learnt to spin without tangling really quickly. Tha…
We had a wonderful assembly yesterday with our Cello teacher who demonstrated the cello, even showing us how to set it up. Then our Year 5 students played happy birthday on the piano, accompanied by the Cello. To finish, we had two of our flute pupils play two songs: The Muppets and Harry Potter. W…
Value: Aspiring The School Council welcomed Sarah Maltby (MHK) to school and discussed what she aspired to when she was younger and why she now represents for her community. Sarah then presented to our assembly, so we could all learn how aspiring to look after our community is something that Sarah…
What would you do if you accidentally buy too many bananas? Funny story - one of our amazing staff members bought 10 bananas in their shopping order. When it arrived, they realised they had accidentally bought 10 bunches of bananas! They challenged the other staff to use them and this is what Mr Gr…
Our Butterflies class have raised their own butterflies and released them as part of their science learning. It has been wonderful watching the children have this up close and personal experience of metamorphous!
The Free School Meal applications and Travel Card applications are now live for the next academic year. Here’s the link: https://desc.gov.im/education/education/free-school-meals-and-travel-card/ Please be aware that the deadline for applications is the 31st July 2025.
Have you checked your tickets? You might be very happy if you do. We still have a couple of hampers not yet claimed.
We will be holding a 'Dress Down Day' on Friday 29th November in exchange for Hamper Donations! The Hampers will be raffled off at our 'Mince Pies at Night' event on Tuesday 17th December. Please send in anything that you think would be perfect in a Christmas hamper.