End of Year Awards Ceremony
This morning, we held a truly special Thursday Awards Ceremony, honouring students from EYFS to Year 5 with our Progress Award, Star of the Year Award, and Children’s Champion Award. We also proudly announced our new Head Boy and Girl, and Deputy Head Boy and Girl. In Reception, Minnie received the Progress Award, Finn was recognised as the Children’s Champion, and Reggie earned the Star of the Year award. For Year 1, the Progress Award went to Thomas, Lydia was named Children’s Champion, and Skye received the Star of the Year. Year 2 saw Roman earn the Progress Award, Renee the Children’s Champion Award, and Albie the Star of the Year Award. In Year 3, Joshua was presented with the Progress Award, Scarlett with the Children’s Champion Award, and Alfie with the Star of the Year Award. Year 4 celebrated Tristen with the Progress Award, Sonny with the Children’s Champion Award, Peyton with the Star of the Year, Sofia with the Sharon Kay Cup for Kindness (awarded since 1984 to a Year 4 student epitomising kindness), and April with the Planet Protector Award for her exceptional care for our world. In Year 5, Neve earned the Progress Award, Bella the Children’s Champion, and Ella the Star of the Year Award. Our current Head Boy revealed Charlie as our new Head Boy, and our current Head Girl announced Isabelle as our new Head Girl. The current Deputy Head Boy announced Edward as the new Deputy Head Boy, and our current Deputy Head Girl named Eden as the new Deputy Head Girl. Finally, our current Sports Leaders proudly announced our new Sports Leaders: Neve, Summer, Ella, Theo, Seb, and Luca.
Our Amazing Attendance Winners for 2024/25
This morning at our Special End of Year Award Ceremony, we also celebrated our students with amazing attendance awards, recognising those who achieved 100% attendance and above 96% attendance across all Year groups from EYFS to Year 5. Congratulations on your exceptional attendance—you're all superstars!
Farwell Mr Norris and Alfie
This morning, during our End of Year Award Ceremony, we bid a fond farewell to Mr. Norris and Alfie. Alfie will be relocating and moving to a new school. We have cherished having him as part of our school family for the past five years, and he will be greatly missed. We also extended a heartfelt thank you to Mr. Norris for his unwavering support and dedication to our school family over the last two years. We wish him all the very best at his new school, Lammack Primary School in Blackburn.
Rocksteady Rock Concert
On Wednesday we were treated to another amazing Rocksteady Concert. We can’t believe how much the little rockstars have improved since their Christmas concert. Thank you Jess for your amazing support! The video of the songs can be found here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hx2PTn14Vg4 If you would like your child to join Rocksteady next year, please click here: https://www.rocksteadymusicschool.com/parents/
Whole School Worship - St Barnabas & St Paul
In Rev Ben's worship this week, some of our Year 6 children had a race balancing beanbags on their heads to demonstrate the value of perseverance and the importance of completing a difficult task without giving up. Rev Ben then told us the story of Barnabas and Paul, who travelled to many countries, spreading the good news about Jesus' sacrifice for mankind. We were shocked to find out that they even risked being arrested or killed, but they never gave up. We ended our worship with a reflection, thinking about what happened in the story and how we can best use our own talents to serve others.
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Summer Reading Challenge
Summer Reading Challenge A big thank you to Jacqueline from BwD Libraries for visiting school this morning and promoting the Summer Reading Challenge. You can sign your children up to Story Garden, this year's Summer Reading Challenge from The Reading Agency at Darwen or Blackburn Library. Joining is quick, easy and FREE and it's lots of fun too. The challenge is for the children to read any six library books before the end of September, tell us about what they've read, and collect stickers and other prizes along the way. They can also listen to audio books, use the FREE BorrowBox app, or mix and match. If your child participates, please encourage them to bring in their certificate to celebration worship in September so that we can celebrate their reading success
Barney’s Got Talent
This morning, we had an extra special Friday celebration. Our amazing school family showcased their fabulous talents in the annual ‘Barney’s Got Talent Show.’ Our performers included ‘The Frozen Friends’ of Luna and Martha, ‘Rocket Reggie’ with his super speedy skipping, The APT, The Stars & The Sassy Girls, Percy, The Joker, The Baby Sharks featuring Lydia, Lenny and Olivia, The Gymnast Monkeys featuring Callie, Mollie and Hollie, Barney’s Song and Dance Group featuring Harry, Ella, Evie and Heidi singing ‘Beautiful Things, The JW Band featuring Carter, James, Elijah, Charlie and Seb singing ‘Green Green Grass,’ The Swifites featuring Naomi and Luna, Dramatic Darcy singing ‘Pink Pony Club,’ The Terrible Two featuring Sonny and Walter with their own version of ‘I’m a Teenage Dirt Bag Baby,’ Sassy Lilly with ‘Our Song’ by Taylor Swift, Star Sofia singing ‘Titanium,’ Graceful Grace showcasing her phenomenal tap skills, Omazing Oscar playing the Cello and last but not least our fabulous Year 6 children gave us a snippet of their performance to come next week and sang ‘It’s a Hard Knock Life.’ Well done to all of our performers for their amazing courage getting up on the stage in front of our huge audience of parents. Also, a huge well done to our heads and deputies (Hamza, Rosie, Daisy and Harry) for leading the whole show with great humour and confidence and finally, Mrs Ham for all of her enthusiasm and organisation. We have more of this to come with our Year 6 Performance of Annie on Tuesday, our Rocksteady Concert on Wednesday, our End of Year Award Ceremony on Thursday and our Year 6 Leavers next Friday. Thank you to the parents and carers who came along to support on such a hot day!
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Scrumptious Production to EYFS and KS1
EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2 had the pleasure of watching the production of Scrumptious today. They absolutely loved it and enjoyed the story book production.
Whole School Worship - St Paul: Amazing Grace
In Rev Ben's collective worship this week, he started by asking us all to think of the most important thing someone ever said to us. The children shared examples of words of wisdom and good news, such as being told about a new sibling. Rev Ben shared some of the most important words St Paul ever said about the grace of God and being justified by Jesus's death, resurrection and ascension. He used role play to explain the complicated concept of grace and that God's grace isn't something which can be earned. The children acted out scenarios in which someone received something by working for it, and someone received the same thing just because the person chose to give it to them. Rev Ben went on to say that God's love is given to us all; we don't have to earn it. He reminded us that friendship with God develops from faith in Jesus.
Friday Celebration Worship
This morning's worship reflected on a very busy, yet rewarding week. all of our children got the opportunity to transition into their new year groups, we welcomed our new Reception starters into school, our Year 2 and Year 4 students enjoyed their visit to St Barnabas Church and many children also participated in another engaging Cre8ability session. Mrs. Govan thanked all entrants for the recent Rota Kids Art Competition, congratulating Luna, Beau, Olivia, Skye, Alayna, Lyla in EYFS/KS1 and Naomi and Edward in KS2, whose artwork will be displayed at the Darwen Heritage Centre over the Summer holidays. Our athletes achieved great success: Our Year 3 ,4 5 & 6 Athletics squad were winners at Witton Athletics on Monday evening, and a group of Year 3 and 4 children excelled in the Quad Kids competition, qualifying for the Lancashire School Games at UCLAN next Tuesday! We also celebrated our individual value award winners: Annie, Hendrix, Oliver, Noah and Carter in EYFS/KS1 and Lana, Isabelle and Grace in KS2 for consistently following Barny’s 4Bs and showing growth. Additionally, Year 1 and Year 3 were attendance winners, India Mill was the overall Value Award Winner, and Olivia, Leo, Lilly earned their pen licenses. We then congratulated our out of school achievers. Well done to Beau, Thea, Annie and Olivia for achieving their Explorers badge at Rainbows and Annie for being awarded Olivia at Rainbows, Thea for being a super gymnast, Willow for achieving backwards flip on the bars at gymfinity and for showing extreme kindness by donating her beautiful long hair to the Princess Trust, Reggie for achieving 20m in his swimming, Marley for ‘Star of the Day’ at the Edstart Multi-Sports Club for super listening and demonstrating outstanding dodgeball skill, Harry for showing super skill and teamwork in a football tournament and Mason for working towards the purple stage at The Darts Academy. To finish our worship, we had some beautiful prayers from Harry, Lilly and Callie who prayed for those in the midst of conflict and war, homeless people and those in Heaven. Mrs Ham wished us all a lovely restful weekend and we had a singalong to ‘The School Rules Song’.
Marvellous move up day!
We have had a super ‘move up day’ today and all of the children have met their new teachers and took part in lots of different transition activities. It was wonderful to welcome our new Reception class and their parents into our school family too this morning.
Whole School Worship with Rev.Matt
Today’s worship began with an exciting race, where three pairs of children took part — each child carrying a partner on their back. This fun activity led us into our Bible story: “Was Paul worried?” In the story, we saw how Paul remained strong — not just for himself, but for others too. Even in difficult times, he encouraged and supported those around him. We reflected on the idea that sometimes, we are called to look after others, especially in important or challenging situations. The children then discussed the questions: How are others strong for you? How can you be strong for someone else this week? To conclude our worship, we were reminded that being strong doesn’t always mean being the loudest or the fastest — sometimes, true strength is shown through kindness, patience and standing by someone when they need us most. We left worship thinking about how we can be a source of strength and support for others in the week ahead.