Image of Year 1 Inter-House Sportshall Athletics
28 Jun

Year 1 Inter-House Sportshall Athletics

This morning, Year 1 enjoyed their Sportshall Athletics session. Thank you to the sports leaders and Mrs Gardner for organising this.

Image of Inter- House Sportshall Athletics with Years 3 & 4
28 Jun

Inter- House Sportshall Athletics with Years 3 & 4

Year 3 and 4 absolutely loved their inter-House Sportshall Athletics this morning. They did various events which included sack race, egg and Spoon, obstacle relay and sprints with a baton exchange. Thanks to the sports leaders for organising.

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28 Jun

Inter- House Athletics Star Athletes

Huge congratulations to our ‘Star Athletes’. The children have all taken part in our Inter-House Athletics event this morning. It was great to see everyone involved and special thanks to our Sports Leaders for organising it at the last minute so we didn’t miss out with our sports day being postponed.

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28 Jun

Reception- Inter House Sports

Our Year 6 Sports Leaders did a fantastic job at leading our inter house sports competition this morning. The children participated in the relay, egg and spoon, sack and running races. They all tried exceptionally hard and were great supporters and encouragers for their team members. We would like to say a big well done to our overall race winners Lydia and Percy who were rewarded with a medal and certificate. The rain can't stop us at St Barnabas! We are looking forward to our outdoor sports day which will hopefully be on Friday 12th July.

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27 Jun

Cidari 10 Year Celebration

A huge thank you to the singing superstars who sang at the Cidari 10 Year Celebration last night at Blackburn Cathedral. Bishop Philip and Mr Ashworth, our CEO, praised the children for their fantastic enthusiastic singing. I’ve also been sent some lovely emails from members of our multi academy trust family saying how wonderful the children were and how they are a credit to our school. Thank you parents for your support and commitment to our school family.

Image of Year 1 D&T- Making Windmills
27 Jun

Year 1 D&T- Making Windmills

This week in Year 1, the children made their windmills. They had to attach the sails to the structure (that they created last week) and secure it with pipe cleaner.

Image of Year 1 History- What types of Shops are on Darwen’s High Street?
27 Jun

Year 1 History- What types of Shops are on Darwen’s High Street?

As part of their history unit, Year 1 are comparing Darwen’s high street in the 1950s to present day. This morning, they went down to Darwen Town Centre to explore the types of shops that there are on Market St and Duckworth St and tally the types of shops that they could see e.g. pharmacy, supermarket, takeaway/cafe and charity shop. They noticed that there are a lot of takeaways, hairdressers, barbers and beauticians in the present day compared to none that we could see on the photographs of the 1950s, they noticed that there were more banks in the 1950s and there were a lot of tailors and shoe shops in the 1950s compared to none that we could find today.

Image of Reception - Dice Frames and Number bonds
27 Jun

Reception - Dice Frames and Number bonds

Reception have been using the dice ten frame to look at number bonds to 10. They picked a handful of different objects and used the frame to see how many they had and how many more they needed to make 10.

Image of Year 4 - Linking Schools: Poem Dedications
27 Jun

Year 4 - Linking Schools: Poem Dedications

Whilst visiting St Matthew’s, we decorated poems about the power of working together. We then dedicated these to a friend from our link class and they did the same for us. We had a great time decorating the poems and loved exchanging them with our friends.

Image of Year 6 - The Jungle Book
27 Jun

Year 6 - The Jungle Book

The Year 6 class put their acting skills to the test this week as we began pulling our end of year performance together. The children have been working on learning their lines and they are now perfecting their reactions and movements on stage. Just three weeks to go!

Image of Year 4 - Linking Schools: Mosque Visit
27 Jun

Year 4 - Linking Schools: Mosque Visit

Whilst visiting our link class in Blackburn, we visited the Jamia Ghosia Mosque, where some of our friends go every day after school. We explored the main prayer hall and learned about some of the religious symbols inside the mosque. We also visited the wash room (wudhu) and learned about how Muslims carry out ablution prior to praying. We will be talking about this further in our RE lesson next week. Thank you to the leaders at the mosque for welcoming us and answering our questions.

Image of Year 4 - Linking Schools: Developing Friendships
27 Jun

Year 4 - Linking Schools: Developing Friendships

Year 4 class had a fantastic time at St Matthew’s on Tuesday. The children made some lovely friendships, taking part in collaborative activities and games, and having a picnic together. Our time at St Matthew’s came to a close by joining the Linking Network’s celebration Zoom meeting. We can’t wait to welcome our friends to St Barnabas next week.