Year 3 - Mystery Reader
The Year 3 class loved listening to Lydia’s mum reading them one of her favourite books on Friday afternoon. The Day the Crayons Quit by Oliver Jeffers is an engaging and colourful picture back that captivated our children. We would like to say a huge thank you to Sarah for her dramatic reading. We loved it!
Year 1&2- Lunchtime Games Club
Well done to our Year 1 and 2 children for having lots of fun, taking turns and cheering each other on. So lovely to see everyone enjoying the games together! 😊🎉
Year 2 Art- Clay Tiles
Today in Art, Year 2 continued developing their clay skills by creating and decorating their very own clay tiles. The children began by rolling out their clay using a rolling pin before carefully cutting around a rectangular template to create the shape of their tile. They then explored different techniques to decorate their work. Using the **score and slip technique**, they added clay decorations to their tiles, as well as experimenting with a variety of objects to create interesting patterns, textures and imprints. Next lesson will be their **final clay session**, where they will bring together all the skills they have developed to design and create their very own **clay tile inspired by a house**. We can’t wait to see their ideas take shape! 🏠✨
Year 1 Mystery Reader
To celebrate our Give Like Dolly Day and the National Year of Reading, every class has a special visit from a mystery reader. Year 1 had a very exciting mystery reader today, Alfie’s mum! She read two amazing books. The first was written by Dolly Parton, I Am A Rainbow. This book celebrated all the feelings that we have and how we can act when we feel tough feelings. The second book was Supertato: Night Of The Living Veg, which the children loved. Thank you Amy for visiting our class!
Little Gardeners Club: Nature Art
Little Gardeners Club had an amazing session today, creating their own nature art. We started the session by collecting natural resources such as leaves and twigs. Then, back in the classroom the children created nature masks and printed leaves using paint. They also used lots of imagination to create some fantastic art pieces such as mermaids, lions and deer using the leaves and twigs in their designs.
Year 5 - Money Skills
Miss Burnside from Debt Aware visited the class on Monday afternoon to introduce the children to managing money. They started off by discussing the difference between a want and a need by considering how essential to living different products and services are. Then the class considered borrowing and the difference between good and bad debt before identifying money saving tips such as turning lights off when not in use.
Year 2-Mystery Reader
To celebrate our Give Like Dolly Day and the National Year of Reading, Year 2 had a very special visit from Luna’s mummy, who is also one of our wonderful Governors. She read Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers — what a beautiful choice! The story shared some very important messages about being kind, caring for our planet, and remembering that we are never alone in this world. A huge thank you to Caterina for taking the time to come in and visit our class. 🌍✨📖
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Friday Celebration Worship
This morning, Mrs Ham opened our Celebration Worship by telling us that today is World Smile Day. We talked about how smiles are infectious and how we are going to work even harder than we normally do to put a big smile on people’s faces and spread happiness, love and kindness. This week, we have enjoyed a wonderful variety of extra-curricular clubs, some fantastic worships and an extra-special day yesterday, celebrating National Poetry Day and Give Like Dolly Day. We then presented our Barney’s Brilliant Beacons. A huge well done to Reggie, Minnie, Luna, Poppy, Everley and Matthew in EYFS and KS1, and Joey, Skye, Marley, Mila, Iris, Oliver and Tristen in KS2. Well done to these fantastic children for their exemplary behaviour, exceptional attitudes to learning and for consistently demonstrating our Barney’s 4Bs and our Christian Values. We are incredibly proud of you! Looking ahead to next week, we are excited to welcome families to our second Open Day for the 2027 Reception intake on Wednesday, as well as our Stay and Play session in EYFS on Thursday. We will also be celebrating Hello Yellow Day next Friday, 9th October, before coming together for a special Harvest Service at St Barnabas Church on Sunday, 11th October. We ended our worship by congratulating Year 4 on being our Walk to School Winners for September, followed by some beautiful prayers from Iris, Alfie and Mrs Ham. What a wonderful way to end another fantastic week at Barney’s! 🌟
Year 2 Maths- Times Table Rockstars
This morning, Year 2 enjoyed practising their 2 times tables on Times Table Rock Stars. They used a 100-square grid to support them when counting and jumping in 2s. Well done, Year 2! Keep up the fantastic work and keep practising! 🌟
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Reception Mystery Reader
In celebration of Give Like Dolly Day, Reception enjoyed a very special storytime session today when Theo's mummy came to visit. The children were so excited to hear the story 'I really really need a wee!' It was such a funny story and the children loved it. We would like to send a big thank you to Theo's mummy for taking the time to share this brilliant book with us!
Year 4 Visit to Thorncliffe Nursing Home
Today Year 4 took their ‘I Wonder’ poems to Thorncliffe Nursing home and shared them with the residents there. It was such a lovely experience and the children were truly humbled. The residents then asked if we could sing to them so we did and tears of joy were shed. It was a heart warming day which everyone will remember.
Key Stage 1 Multi- Skills Festival
Today some of our Year 2 children represented the school at the KS1 Multi- Skills Festival at St Bedes. They took part in various activities which showcased their fundamental skills and our Year 6 Sports Leaders were a true credit guiding and supporting them the whole way through. Go Team B!
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