Whole School Worship: Happy new year!
It was lovely to have everyone together for our first worship of 2023. Happy new year to everyone! We took a few moments as we lit our advent wreath to think about Jesus and how he came to bring hope, peace, joy and love to the world and how he wanted us live life in all its fullness. A few of our children shared their new year resolutions. Alice said she wants to eat more healthily, Tristen’s is to always have a smile on his face, Sadie is to not talk back to her parents and Kaylen’s is to go outside more. Mrs Ham shared hers which is to be happy. Mrs Ham reminded us all of the kindness coach, John Magee. She introduced us all to the happy tank. We watched a video from John who explained what the happy tank was. One of the elements is to take some time to rest. During this time, we need to focus on our breathing which can help us to find peace. We all focussed together on our breathing for 2 minutes. Beau said that it made her feel calm and Jacob said it made him feel happy. Mrs Ham shared with everybody a happy calendar that we will follow throughout January. We watched a clip from ‘The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse’. At the beginning the fox was very angry but by the end he was happy. He filled up his happy tank by the boy, the mole and the horse showing him kindness. This year we need to really focus on how we can be kind to others and to ourselves. Through that, we also need to think about how we can find happiness and spread it to others. We all said a new year prayer together and ended our worship with the song ‘Shine from the inside out’.
Reception: RE
This week we have begun our unit of stories that Jesus heard. We began with listening to the story about Moses’ mummy. She had to hide him in the river to keep him safe. We discussed the story and looked at how our parents show us that they love us.
Reception: What is safe to go onto our body?
This week we have been looking at things that are safe to go onto our body. We discussed what we should wear, how different objects can help us, what can keep us healthy and clean and what to do if we have hurt ourselves.
Year 3 Christmas Artwork in the Rose Garden, Whitehall Park
Year 3 have produced some fantastic pieces of artwork, representing the shepherds visiting the stable and being in the presence of God. They have been displayed in the Rose Garden in Whitehall Park along with the Remembrance artwork. If you’re on a family walk in the area this Christmas holiday, please go along and appreciate the lovely artwork.
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!
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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!