Year 1 Art Clarice Cliff Plates
Year 1 created their own version of Clarice Cliff’s famous pottery plate design using primary and secondary colours. They mixed their own colours and then used black watery paint and a straw to blow the paint into the shape of a tree as a silhouette against the other coloured concentric circles on their paper plates.
Year 1 Athletics
Year 1 have been working hard on their running technique ready for sports day next half term and also practised throwing the foam javelins using a straight aim during their PE lesson on Friday.
Whole School Worship: Pentecost
Today in our worship we learned about the events of Pentecost and how the church began. We had some fab actors acting out when the Holy Spirit descended and flames appeared on the disciples’ heads. We sang a special song to welcome the Holy Spirit into our Worship and reflected on how excited the disciples must have felt when they received the Holy Spirit. We thought about how we could show Jesus' love through our words and actions this week.
Mad Science Club
Today was the last session of Mad Science Club and the children all really enjoyed learning about the density of different liquids today. They carried out group experiments and watched our science expert carry out an experiment too, whilst learning about how different liquids in our seas and rivers can affect the environment. They experienced first-hand, how difficult it is to get oil out of water and got to take home a little souvenir from the lesson at the end of it too.
Mrs Ham's Weekly Message
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: Please click: 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
Reception - Police Car Visit
This morning, we had a surprise visit from the police officers. The officers visited us in Spring Term as part of our Superheroes topic but sadly couldn’t bring the car to their visit. They were excited to return and show reception class the police car. The children loved pressing the horn to hear the sirens and see the lights flash.
Celebration Worship
In Celebration Worship this morning, Mrs. Ham highlighted some of the wonderful key points from our GOOD Ofsted report and thanked everyone for their part in making our school a great place. We also celebrated our values winners across KS1 and KS2. India Mill came first place for the overall points of 562. Lucy and Mason received a pen licence for demonstrating an excellent standard of writing across all subjects. Mrs. Ham gave out awards to the children for taking part in extracurricular activities, this week, the children have taken part in swimming, rugby, darts, karate, brownies, gymnastic, netball, football, horse riding, and Olivia from Rainbow. Year 2 and Year 4 received the 'Amazing Attendance' alert this week. We finished our worship with prayers led by Mrs. Ham and we sang 'Shine from the Inside Out'.
Reception- Balancing
This week in PE, the children looked at the different ways we can use our body to balance. The children were assigned different stations, where they took on the different balancing obstacles.
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School Games Gold Award 2022-23
We are really pleased to announce that we have been awarded the school games gold 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 all of our staff who support our children with sports and to our wonderful staff and parents, who support our children at sports events.
Reception - Farms
On Thursday afternoon, Reception class went for a walk to Jacks Key to see if we could spot different animals in the farmer’s fields. We saw horses and cows and the children did some observational drawings. The children loved looking at the farmer's tractors too!
Reception- Repeating Patterns
This week in maths, the children have been learning all about repeating patterns. We talked about how a repeating pattern happens again and again. The children were able to use the maths cubes to follow the caterpillar patterns on the maths table.
Year 2 - Computing
During computing year 2 have been exploring programming and creating their very own art work about themselves. They used strip design to create a cover sheet all about themselves and used their creative designs to make their own unique piece.