Whole School Celebration Worship
During celebration worship, we celebrated all of our achievements in school this week! We announced the values awards winners in every class and the attendance winners for KS1 and KS2! At the end of our worship, the youngest child in school had the special job of putting the star on the top of our tree! We also welcomed Miss Horsfall to our school family. She will be teaching in the Reception class whilst Mrs Govan is on maternity leave. Congratulations to all of our children and staff members, for another fantastic week in school!
Celebration Worship- Children in Need
Today is Children in Need day so we have all dressed in spots to raise money and make a difference to children in need. Our Well-being Warriors thanked everyone for their support for our anti-bullying week by wearing odd socks on Monday. They also told us all about bullying and about their next project that they will be tackling in school, idling in cars outside school. A huge congratulations to all of our Values winners this week. We are so proud of you all for demonstrating our British and Christian Values. Congratulations to Years 2 and 3 for winning the amazing attendance award this week for the best attendance in each key stage.
Celebration Worship
This morning we had our whole school celebration worship. We celebrated all of the fantastic work that the children at St Barnabas had completed and announced our KS1 and KS2 attendance winners! Well done Year 2 and Year 5! Each class teacher presented the values award to a pupil in the class who had achieved the most values points this week. We also had some super sports achievements! Finally, Mrs Ham thanked all of the children who had entered the remembrance art competition and the heads and deputy’s spoke to the school about the remembrance shop and how we can support the poppy appeal this year.
Autumn 1 Newsletter
Dear Parents and Carers, Here is the newsletter for this half term. I have tried to upload it as a PDF but it is too large due to the photos on the last two pages. However, I have sent the PDF of the first three pages and it can also be found here: https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/parents/newsletters All of our latest news can be found here: https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news All of our upcoming events can be found here: https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/events Wishing you all a lovely half term holiday with your loved ones, Mrs Ham.
Celebration Worship
Wow what a jam-packed celebration worship we had this morning - our children have certainly be living life in all its fullness this week! We started by sharing smiles with each other in aid of World Smile Day - Mother Theresa taught us that ‘peace starts with a smile’, so let’s smile at one another and continue spread joy and kindness around our school. There have been so many achievements across school this week! We say a big well done to this weeks value point winners Albie, Bluebelle, Alice, Lola, Bobby, Lucy And Eliza who continue to demonstrate our Christian values throughout school. River Darwen are our Value point champions this week. Keep it up! And what fantastic Sports stars we have in our school - well done to Charlie, Miles, Annabel, Penelope, Leonora, Isabella & Charlie, Eliza, James and Lyla. Congratulations to our DPSSA football team for their 10-2 victory against St James, what a result! Well done Rosie for your super reading too. Year 2 and Year 5 are our attendance winners this week - let’s keep up that fantastic attendance to school. We also shared our Remembrance Day art competition with the school and look forward to seeing some fantastic entries for the chance to win a prize hamper. It was lovely to have Lillian back in school with us to finish with a blessing and a prayer. Thank you. What another tremendous week!
Message from Mrs Ham
Good afternoon parents and carers, I hope you're all well. We have had another brilliant week at St Barnabas this week. To see what has been happening, please see our news page on our website. https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news We had our Macmillan Coffee morning on Thursday which wasn't as well attended as in previous years, however we appreciate that many of our parents are busy working and less parents are now working from home. If you would like to donate to such a wonderful cause, you can do via parent pay. A huge well done to Years 2 and 5 for the best attendance across school this week. They will receive an extra fun session on the MUGA with Miss Baxendale. All parents have a legal obligation to ensure their child attends school regularly and on time. Unfortunately we still have children and parents arriving onto the school grounds at 8.55am or after, despite several reminders. We want all of our children to have the best start to their day and to be ready to start their morning learning tasks at 8.55am, which is our official start time. All children are expected to be in their classroom with their coat and bag away for 8.55am, not walking through the school gates at this time. Any child who isn't ready in their classroom at 8.55am will be marked as late in our register. Every second counts so when children are late or off school they are missing valuable learning time. We have several events coming up in the lead up to half term including Hello Yellow day for World Mental Health Day and our Harvest Festival. Please see our events page for further information. https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/events Thank you for your continued support and if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to speak to me on the yard or send me a dojo message. I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I hope this rain eases off and the sun comes out, Mrs Ham
Celebration Worship
In Celebration worship this morning, we prayed for the Royal family during their time of mourning. We also celebrated our Value winners in each of our classes and the winning team this week, Whitehall Park. We congratulated years 2 & 6 who were the attendance winners this week. Well done to all of our children who also celebrated awards that they brought in from taking part in various clubs and activities.
Message from Mrs Ham- Week 2
We have had another super week in school! The children have all settled brilliantly into their new classes and we have seen great behaviour in school with lots of kindness being shown to each other. A huge well done to Year 1 and Year 4 for winning the amazing attendance award this week! They gained an extra fun session on the MUGA. It is really important that children come to school everyday unless they are really unwell. I have added some information to our attendance page that details minor illnesses and when to send your child to school or not. https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/academy-life/attendance We are really having a push on attendance this year due to the interruptions to schooling we have faced over the past few years. Every day does count. A quick reminder that holidays will not be approved in term time and you are likely to face a penalty fine if you take your child out of school during term time. Several years ago we put in an extra week in the May/June holidays to make holidays more affordable for families. I wish you all a lovely extended weekend and our thoughts and prayers are with the royal family this weekend as they laid to rest our long serving and dedicated Queen. Mrs Gardner is taking a special wreath made by our Reception children and several of the prayers that children in other classes have written to London to send our love and respects to the Queen from our whole St Barnabas school family. God bless the Queen.
Week 2 -Celebration worship
We had a wonderful celebration worship this morning, recognising those children who achieved the most individual value points along with the team winners, Whitehall Park! It was lovely to see mums, dads, grandparents and carers, joining us. If you are able, please do come along it would be lovely to see you. A brew and a biscuit will also be available.
Year 2 are the Amazing Attendance winners in EYFS & KS1 this week!
Well done Year 2 for achieving the Amazing Attendance Award this week in KS1 with 99.63%! We are so proud of you! They are looking forward to their fun session on the MUGA with Miss Baxendale as their reward.
KS2 Amazing Attendance Winners = Year 3
A huge congratulations to Year 3 for achieving the 'Amazing Attendance' award in KS2 this week with 100% attendance! They are very excited to have an extra fun session on the MUGA with Miss Baxendale on Monday. Well done Year 3!