Week 1 of BWD Boys Football League
We are super proud of our Year 5/6 boys football team for their amazing performances tonight during their first two games of the BWD school’s league. They won their first match against St James, Lower Darwen 6-0 and gained another win against St Cuthbert’s 5-2. A huge thank you to the parents and family members who came and gave their wonderful support. Well done boys!
Year 5 - Online Safety
After class worship, we spent some time discussing how to stay safe online. We discussed why children should not share personal information online and how to respond to seeing or hearing unpleasant words or images. I talked about the trusted adults in their lives that they can always talk to for help and advice, including family members and staff at school. The children shared their experiences of being online.
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Year 5 - PE
Our new topic in PE is badminton. The children learned how to grip the badminton racket before becoming familiar with how a shuttlecock moves through the air by individually attempting to keep it off the ground for as long as possible. Afterwards, they developed accuracy with underarm backhand shots by aiming for a triangle of cones and we finished by working in pairs to use forehand and backhand shots to return the shuttlecock.
Year 5 - Music
After listening to opera music, the children learned the importance of a vocal warm up before singing. They learned the meaning the the words unison and homophonic and practised these during a performance.
Whole School Worship with Rev Matt
Rev Matt led our Whole School Worship this morning which focused on the word ‘Compassion’ We started by discussing what we thought the word compassion means. It means that having compassion is feeling how someone else feels. Our challenge this week was to find the best ending to each of the scenarios as to which shows the most compassion. One of this being~ you had a friend round at your house and they want to play with your favourite toy. Do we A ~ share our toy or B ~ distract them and not let them play with it? Our Bible story today was Joseph the Dreamer. Jacob had 12 sons and Jesus was his favourite who he gave special gifts too. His siblings hated the fact that they were not all treated the same. One night Jesus had a special dream which he shared with his brothers but they didn’t like it all. They ripped off his colourful coat and threw him to the floor. At that moment some traders walked by and the brothers sold him to them and ripped up his colourful coat. The brothers told their father Jacob that Jess was dead and he wept and wept. Not one single person in the story shows compassion and everything seems to be going wrong, but in the following part of the story we will see another side as God always shows compassion. We will hear this from Rev Ben next week. Following the story Rev Matt asked ‘ How can you show compassion this week?’ The children came up with some wonderful examples which included; to siblings when they are upset, if someone hasn’t got something that you have, you could share yours, Finally, we finished with a prayer and the children reflected on how they may show compassion to others today.
Reception Remembrance Day Activities
For Remembrance Day, Reception have been taking part in lots of different provision challenges. We have been thinking about why poppies are special for this time of year and saying prayers for the soldiers that sadly lost their lives to help protect us.
Year 4 English - Escape From Pompeii
Our new class novel is Escape From Pompeii by Christina Balit. In today’s sessions we have continued to use sentence stacking to develop and construct better sentences. We started by adding a fronted adverbial by watching the main character Tranio and recording how he feels about living in Pompeii at the start of the story. We then moved into a modelled sentence and then an independent one with a different fronted adverbial. In our next sentence, we referred back to our experience day and described the size of Mount Vesuvius using words such as colossal and humongous. Finally we used the same modelling to construct a sentence thinking about how Tranio feels about living in such a beautiful part of the world. The children produced some very effective sentences, using the success criteria to ensure they added all of the key parts.
Year 4 Maths - Area
In our maths session today, the children were looking at how to compare different areas. They compared various shapes and added which was greater, larger or the same. They also discussed about what is the same and what is different between them. The children found how to work out the difference but must first use their times tables to help calculate the answer.
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Wellbeing Warriors Wow Challenge - October
In our Wellbeing Warriors meeting today, the children identified who had done enough walks or park and strides and to gain their October badges. We are thrilled to see that so many children are trying so hard to make their journey to school a healthier one. The girls went through each class highlighting names and then collecting the right amount of badges which they will give out in Worship tomorrow. Another great achievement is that St Barnabas have managed to come third place in the Blackburn with Darwen Top Ten Leader Board for Autumn 2025 which shows that our engagement rate is outstanding!
Year 3- D.T- Threading, Knotting, and the Running Stitch
This afternoon, Year 3 began their first Design and Technology (D.T.) unit by learning the essentials of sewing, building upon the skills they started learning in KS1. They started by discussing the equipment they need, like a needle, thread, and maybe even a needle threader tool. They successfully learned how to cut the thread, dampen one end, and squeeze the strands together to thread the needle through the eye. Once the needle was threaded, they practiced tying a knot to secure the thread, modelled how to sew a basic running stitch, and finished by tying the final knot to complete the seam.
Year 1 Maths: part-whole models
Year 1 were introduced to part-whole models today. We played a practical part-whole game to help us to understand. We used our underarm throwing skills, which we are developing in PE, to throw beanbags into the ‘whole’ hoop. Then we split the beanbags into the two ‘part’ hoops. Year 1 had lots of fun counting and throwing the beanbags.
Year 1 Science: labelling the human body
Year 1 worked wonderfully in pairs today to label each other’s body parts. They labelled the head, arm, elbow, knee, leg, mouth, eye, teeth, face and hair. Their partners had to stay very still whilst the children read the labels. It was lovely to see them working together so nicely.