Welcome to our school website.
At St Barnabas we strive to help every child to, ‘achieve great things’ and live ‘life in all its fullness’ by inspiring them with rich, fun experiences and equipping them with a love of learning. Our school has a strong Christian ethos built on our core Gospel values which the children chose themselves: Trust, Forgiveness,Friendship, Generosity, Respect, Service and Courage. St Barnabas was known in the Bible as an encourager so we try to follow his example and encourage others. With close links with our parish church, other schools in our multi-academy Trust and our dedicated team of staff, governors and parents, we take pride in, “Learning and growing together in a love-filled Christian family”.
We would welcome you to come along and visit our school as ‘Every day is an open day at St Barnabas’. If you would like to arrange a visit then please contact our school office on 01254 702996 or email [email protected]. Please check out our school twitter/ X page , our facebook page, our gallery or latest news to see all of the fun things we get up to at St Barnabas.
If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to welcoming you to our St Barnabas school family,
Mrs Becky Ham
Headteacher
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Upcoming Events
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Thank you for coming to our Stay and Play Open Morning
A huge thank you to everyone who came to our Stay and Play open morning this morning. We were overwhelmed with the turnout and it was wonderful to meet so many new families along with the siblings of children already in our school family. We hope you enjoyed getting a feel for our school and all the amazing things we can offer your children throughout their time at St Barnabas. For further information about our school, please have a look on our news page: https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news and our photo galleries: https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/photo-gallery-category/our-gallery If you weren't able to attend the Stay and Play session but would like to book a tour of our school with our Headteacher, Mrs Ham, at a time convenient for you, please contact our school office on 01254 702996 or email [email protected] We also have our Stay and Play drop in sessions starting on Wednesday 12th November which pre-school children and our current Reception class children and parents can attend. Please see our Events page for further information: https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/events For information about how to apply for a place, please click here: https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/key-information/admissions
Year 5 - PE
Year 5 continued to develop their gymnastic routines by adding starting and finishing positions. They continued to develop their understanding and application of counter tension and counter balance actions and even had an opportunity to show their routines to the children in Year 1.
Whole School Worship with Rev Matt
Today our whole school worship was led by Rev. Matt. We started Worship with a challenge. The challenge involved trust. Elsie and Grace took part in the challenge. Elsie was blindfolded and Grace had to guide Elsie around cups that Rev Matt had placed on the floor by giving verbal instructions only. They were super quick but the reason the activity took place was to link it to today’s story which was all about trust and how Abraham trusted God. Abraham was a rich man who had servants and lots of money but he trusted God. One day god asked Abraham leave his home and trust that it would be the right decision. God led Abraham to Canaan. Abraham didn’t have children but God asked him to look at the sky and count the stars. God told him that one day he would have more children than stars in the sky. Abraham had three visitors sent by God who he fed and looked after. Sarah, Abraham's wife then became pregnant with Isaac and this was because they trusted God's word and this led to good things. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Never rely on what you think you know. remember the Lord in everything you do, and he will show you the right way” We then went on to discuss who do we trust and what is something generous that we could do for them? We shared that we trust our families, God, friends and teachers. Something generous could be that we give them a gift, trust them with all of our heart and treat them with respect. We finished today's worship with a prayer to reflect on how we may show kindness and generosity to everyone around us.