Lantern Parade in Whitehall Park
We had a lovely sing a long in The Rose Garden this afternoon! Due to the ice and weather, we were unable to walk around the park, however we still managed to spread some Christmas cheer! Thank you to those who could make it and wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Amazing Attendance Award Winners
A huge well done to our amazing attendance award winners! We are so proud of them as they have achieved over 96% this Autumn term. Well done everyone!
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Good afternoon parents and carers, thank you to everyone who joined us for our church service this morning. It was another great turn out. Thank you to our WOW group and Mrs Araujo for planning and leading the service, our choir for super singing and our KS2 classes for sharing what they have been learning about in RE this half term. If you weren’t able to attend, please see the videos posted on class dojo. We thanked our volunteers Carol, Fran, Glenda, John and Rev Ben who regularly support us in school. We also thanked Di Bryant, for her commitment to our school family over the last few years as a Governor. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our governors for their dedication to our school family this year. To learn more about our Governors, please click on the following page: www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/key-information/governance We have had a brilliantly busy few weeks in school with fantastic nativities, Christmas cracker concerts, a pantomime, parties, a Christmas fair and Christmas lunch. A huge thank you to our staff team for their hard work and dedication to our school family. Thank you so much for your support and commitment to our school family. I think it’s safe to say that everyone is shattered now after such a busy term, so I hope that you all have a chance to rest and recharge. Wishing you a wonderful Christmas filled with hope, peace, joy and love. God bless, Mrs Ham P.S. It wouldn’t be Christmas without a St Barnabas Christmas video, so here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl68yTFo55s
Christmas Service at St Barnabas Church, Lead by KS2
This morning, the whole school came together for our Christmas Service at St Barnabas Church, lead by KS2. Over this term, KS2 classes have been preparing short presentations for the service, about an element of Christmas that they have been focusing on in R.E. In Year 3, the class presented pieces of artwork, focusing on the shepherd's visiting Jesus in the stable and being in the presence of God. Year 4 looked at Christingle's and created a fantastic rap, about the meaning of the Christingle and Jesus being the light of the World. Year 5 spoke about how different countries celebrate Christmas around the World. Finally, Year 6 spoke about Advent and what it means to them. Some children also shared their hopes and dreams for the future. The WOW Group also helped to lead parts of the service and we sang a selection of Christmas Carols as a whole school. Overall, we really enjoyed learning about different elements of Christmas and KS2 presented their learning brilliantly!
Reception - Christmas Service at Church
Reception class attended the Christmas Church Service. We joined in with the carols and practised our actions. The children listened carefully to the prayers shared by KS2 children.
House Team Value Point Winners - Whitehall Park
Well done to Whitehall Park - our House Team Value Winners for this half term. The children had a fab time celebrating in the disco party this morning.
Santa’s been to St Barnabas!
This afternoon our KS2 children got to choose a special Christmas present from Santa for being so good in school all year!
Year 1- DT project
Year 1s DT project is now complete! ✔️ So proud of year 1 as lots of time and effort was put into these. Planning✔️ Painting ✔️ Sawing ✔️ Cutting ✔️ Glueing ✔️ You name it we did it! Great job you bunch of superstars!
Year 1- Christmas party
Year 1 had a great time at our christmas party!
Year 3/4 Christmas Party
We’ve had a fab time this afternoon at our Year 3/4 Christmas Party. We played so many games including musical bumps, corners and pass the parcel. A big thank you to Mrs Ham for letting us visit’ Santa’s Grotto’ to choose a little gift too. Merry Christmas everyone!
Year 1-A visit from Santa!
Wow what a day! Year 1 have had a visit from Santa and all received a special gift for being superstars all year.
Year 3 D.T: Making our Christmas Photo Frames
Year 3 used either wooden lollipop sticks or wooden dowels to create their photo frames. Some children painted their materials, before using a hot glue gun to create the frame. The children who chose to use the dowels, used a saw to cut the wood down to the correct size. We will be evaluating our finished products and thinking about what worked well and what we would change, if we were to design and make our photo frames again.