Pray for Ukraine- Infants
Our infant classes have helped to create a community ‘Pray for Ukraine’ prayer space at the front of our school. Each child has tied a blue or yellow ribbon, a prayer they have written or a hand print to the railings. We are hopeful that members of our community and all of our school family will tie a ribbon and say a prayer for the people of Ukraine.
Investigating Friction - Year 5
Year 5 have been experimenting how strong of a force friction really is. They worked in pairs and weaved as many books pages as possible together, the two books had a lot of surface area of pages touching each other and so there was a lot of friction between the book pages which made it very difficult to pull them apart.
Year 3 Science Investigation-Do people with a longer middle finger throw further?
Year 3 Science Investigation - Do people with a longer middle finger throw further? Year 3 measured the length of each others’ middle finger in centimetres. We then chose five children with different lengths of finger to throw a bean bag. We measured how far they threw a bean bag in metres and centimetres. Our conclusion was that the length of finger did not make a difference to the length of throw.
Reception Muddy Monday
This week, Reception stayed around their school grounds. We climbed trees, made bug houses and used binoculars and magnifying glasses to find creatures and explore the ground.
Year 6 PE
Year 6 PE building balancing techniques and incorporating apparatus into their routines.
Monday Worship: Forgiveness
This morning we focussed on God’s forgiveness which is one of our Christian values. We need to ensure we forgive each other when we do something wrong and move on from it to continue to develop our relationships. We watched a video about Zaccheus and joined in with the rhyming Bible story. Zaccheus had been a thief but he made it right by showing God’s love and by paying back the money and four times the amount he had taken. He made things right and became a part of God’s story. This shows that everybody can change and God always forgives us when we do things wrong, if we show that we are sorry.
Road Safety
Dear Parents and Carers, Please see the letter attached regarding recent road safety training the children have received in school from the local authority. Kind regards, Mrs Haworth
Easter- R.E - Year 5
This afternoon in R.E, Year 5 started the lesson by having a discussion about the word ‘victory’. What comes to mind when they hear and read the word? Are winning and victory the same thing? We then looked at Greatest Sports Moments and talked about many athletes hope to win, but they also strive to beat their personal best and so, even if they come last, if it is their personal best, they have been victorious.
Year 3 Geography - locating Italy on a map
Year 3 Geography - Year 3 have been using atlases to locate Italy on a map of Europe. They have also identified the four countries that border Italy.
Art - Tint and Shade with paint
In our art lesson today, we have looked at the use of tint and shade. The children tried really hard to create stage samples by adding white for a tint and black for shade. We will moving on to applying these techniques to skull designs.
English - Persuasive Leaflets about Darwen
We have been working extremely hard over the past few weeks to develop our understanding of persuasive texts. Today we added the final touches to our Darwen leaflets, checking that we have used persuasive devices and created interesting content, which is appealing to the audience. Thank you to Mrs Ham and our Head and Deputy Girls for deciding on two overall winners. Well done to Oscar and Wilson. Every single child produced a quality piece of writing which they should be very proud of. They included many of the landmarks or places of interest in Darwen after researching them.
Year 3/4 Cross Country Club
Some superb performances from our Year 3/4 cross country club members today. Keep up the hard work - Go Team Barneys!