Year 5&6 - Football Club
Today Years 5 & 6 took part in their very first football training club. The children practised key skills such as dribbling, passing and teamwork before finishing with some friendly matches.
Year 6 - Electrical Circuits
Today Year 6 explored how to solve broken circuits. They investigated why a circuit might not work — checking for loose connections, missing components or incorrect placements. Working in groups, they tested their ideas, fixed the problems and discovered how electricity flows around a complete circuit. Once they had solved the issues, they successfully made their own working circuits using bulbs, motors and switches. This helped them understand how electrical systems work in real life and built their problem-solving and teamwork skills.
Year 2 Art- Making Clay Pots
Today in their art lesson, Year 2 enjoyed making a clay pot and decorating it. In order to do this successfully, they learnt some new skills such as pinching, scoring, making and applying slip. The scoring and application of slip helped them with the process of decorating their pot. They turned out amazingly well especially for a first attempt- well done Year 2!
Year 1 Maths - Recognising numbers as words
In our maths session this morning, we focused on recognising numbers as words. We did lots of chin it and spin it then we moved onto learning the ‘Number Word Rap’. The children were super enthusiastic especially when completing the independent activities. We found it quite tricky to spell the words, especially the longer ones, but we really persevered.
Year 2 Maths- Flexibly Partitioning Numbers to 100
Today in their maths lesson, Year 2 flexibly partitioned numbers to 100. They successfully used base 10 and a part-whole model to support them with this mathematical concept- well done Year 2!
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Worship: Worship Behaviour & Living Out God's Big Story
This morning in Worship, Mrs Araujo, our Behaviour Lead shared our behaviour focus for this term- Behaviour in Worship. We recapped our manners and lunch time behaviour focuses from last year and how they were linked to our 4 B's of Be Safe and Be Kind. This term we are going to focus on our 4 B's of Be Respectful and Be Ready and Mrs Araujo showed us special widgit symbols and Makaton signs that our teachers will be using to remind us of good listening, track the speaker, stay silent until asked to participate and good sitting. We then watched the latest Worship across the Diocese video about Bringing the Kingdom to life. After Pentecost what did the disciples do next? How did they make sure that they were following Jesus' teaching? In this episode we explored the actions of Jesus' followers that meant that they brought God's Big Story to life at that time, and the ways in which we can do the same today. We reflected with Bishop Philip on how we can be storytellers of God's big story as we can learn about Jesus, pray, eat together and give to others.
Year 5 - RE -Bible Translation
In RE this week, Year 5 were looking at how the Bible has been translated into over 7000 different languages. We started by discussing what we thought the word ‘translate’ means, why does it need to be translated and if the children thought it would be easy to translate. Following this we watched two video clips. One was about how the Bible used to be banned in China but a man named Robert Morrison spent 25 years translating it so that as many people could access it as possible. The Bible Society now distribute all over China with members of the church walking for several hours just to access a Sunday Service .
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Year 5 - Move and Learn Physical Activities
Brad from the Blackburn Rovers Community Team visited Year 5 to talk to the children about the importance of physical activity and a healthy diet. The children went into the hall and learned about staying healthy through physical activity. They played games such as dodgeball and rock-paper-scissor relay. All the children had fun participating during the day. Thank you Brad.
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Year 5 - Move and Learn in the classroom
Brad from the Blackburn Rovers Community Team visited Year 5 to talk to the children about the importance of physical activity and a healthy diet. The children completed fun learning tasks in the classroom, engaged in discussions and completed a challenge booklet.
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Let’s go Sing Workshop
Today we took part in the Let’s Go Sing workshop with Gaynor where we learned several songs and sang together. We started by warming up our voices and building confidence as a group. Then we enjoyed singing a range of songs, from fun and simple ones that everyone could join in with, to more challenging pieces. Some of our favourites included: • “Let’s Sing a Simple Song” – a cheerful tune that helped us practise singing clearly and in unison. • “Brenda the Mender” – a playful character song that made us focus on rhythm and storytelling through music. • “The Moon” – a gentler song where we worked on expression and soft dynamics. • “The Scuttled Sloop Pirate Song” – a lively piece that let us sing with energy, actions, and a sense of adventure. The workshop showed us that singing is not just about hitting the right notes, but also about teamwork, listening to each other, and enjoying the journey of music together. We are hopeful that the workshop today has encouraged more children to join our KS2 school choir on Thursday lunchtimes and to take part in the Let's Go Sing concert at Blackburn Cathedral in March.
Sports Leaders 2025-2026
Our Sports Leaders have now been presented with their personalised hoodies and are super keen to start planning this academic years inter- house sporting events. At our first meeting, Seb, Luca, Theo, Summer, Neve and Ella discussed how they can work towards the 60 active minutes a day by planning in more structure to our beak and lunchtimes. The children are really looking forward to taking on their responsibilities and we look forward to seeing what great things they can achieve to enhance our PE and Sports at St Barnabas.
Soap Sculptures in Year 4
In art this week, we created soap sculptures with the theme of rainforest animals. We first drew a design for a three-dimensional piece and then we began to carve using a variety of tools to model and refine our sculptures. We discussed how to use the tools safely and that only carving small pieces at a time prevented the soap from cracking and breaking. Some of the children realised that to enhance their pieces they could dip their fingers into water and make the soap smoother. The finished articles were super impressive!
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