Good afternoon parents and carers, we have had a wonderful week at St Barnabas with our official GOOD ofsted grading and being awarded GOLD for the school games award, for the fourth consecutive year for our commitment to sports. A huge thank you to our PE leader, Mrs Gardner, for her dedication to our school sports and to our wonderful staff and parents, who support our children with sports in school and at sports events.
We are super proud of our Year 2 children for the way they have tackled their 'SATS quizzes' this week. They have all tried their best and have been superstars!
I would like to welcome our new Reception children and their parents to our school family, as they have received their welcome letters and class dojo log ins this week. We can't wait for you to officially join our school family in September.
We are now in a position to let you know about classes for next year and there will be some changes to staffing from September. Miss Ashworth has recently bought her own house with her partner and is currently commuting for 1 hour and 20 minutes each day, which is something that can't be sustained. Therefore she has gained a teaching position at a school close to her new home. This means that sadly Miss Ashworth will not be with us in September. I would like to thank her for her hard work, dedication and support to our school family over the last four years and wish her lots of luck in her new role. Her new school are very lucky to have her.
We have had a successful recruitment process and we had some wonderful applicants. We have appointed Mr Ben Norris, who currently works at another local school and he is keen on sports and forest school activities. He is going to be a great addition to our staff team and he will join our school family in September in our Year 2 class. The Year 2 children will soon meet him at our transition session and other upcoming events.
The classes for next year are as follows:
Reception:
Class teachers: Mrs Wilkinson (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and Mrs Govan (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Thompson
One to One Support Assistant: Miss Craig
Year 1:
Teacher: Miss Flynn
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Hegarty
Year 2:
Teacher: Mr Norris
Teaching Assistant: Miss Baxendale
Year 3:
Teacher: Miss Kachwalla
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Lyons
Year 4:
Teachers: Mrs Araujo (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and Mrs Gardner (Thursday and Friday)
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Singleton
Year 5:
Teacher: Mr Bloomfield
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Pendlebury
Year 6:
Teacher: Mr Prescott
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Pendlebury
On Thursday 6th July we will be having a move up session where the children can get to know their new teaching team.
To see all the exciting things the children have been learning this week, please click here: https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news
Wishing you all a lovely weekend and I hope the sun shines for you all, Mrs Ham
