Amazing Attendance Award- Top 10% Nationally
🌟 We’ve Struck Gold -Amazing Attendance Award 🌟 We have officially been honoured with another National School Attendance Award for the 2025/26 Spring Term to go with our 2025/26 Autumn Term Award. Thanks to the incredible dedication of our children and the unwavering support of you—our parents and carers—we have been ranked again in the Top 10% of all FFT primary schools in England. Excellent attendance isn't just about a certificate; it’s about ensuring our children have every opportunity to learn, grow, and succeed alongside their friends. Being in the top 10% nationally is a massive achievement and speaks volumes about the value our families place on education. 🙏 A Heartfelt Thank You 🙏 We know that getting the children up, ready, and through the gates every morning takes effort. This award belongs to you and your children just as much as it belongs to the school. Let’s keep this amazing momentum going into the Summer Term! 🚀 #StBarnabasProud #AttendanceMatters #TopTenPercent #SchoolSuccess
Year 1 Science: Examining Wild Plants
Year 1 looked closely at four wild plants today: daisies, dandelions, bluebells and buttercups. We used magnifying lenses to look closely at these plants and draw them. They understood that wild flowers are not planted by people, but grow on their own.
Help Neurodivergent Children Tackle the Online World
Neurodivergent children are often early adopters of technology, making supported online experiences especially important. Our latest #WakeUpWednesday guide helps parents and educators understand how to create safe, positive digital environments. It explores key considerations, including: • Modelling responsible online behaviour • Setting age-appropriate boundaries • Encouraging open and supportive conversations • Understanding emerging risks such as AI-generated content The guide also highlights the importance of balancing screen time with offline activities to support wellbeing and development. Download the guide here: https://vist.ly/536kq #Education #Safeguarding #OnlineSafety #Neurodiversity
DT - Food Technology in Year 4
In our fourth DT session, we worked over two afternoons to design and make our packaging for our biscuits, make the mixture, roll and cut out, bake and then finally decorate. The children have been so creative with their designs and they were very proud of the end result! It was fair to say that it was a struggle to not gobble them up instead of taking them home.
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Master Biscuit Bakers in Year 4 Group 1
Here is the evidence that Year 4 did a marvellous job in DT with creating their very own biscuits from packaging to toppings. As you can see from their faces, they were very proud of their end product.
Master Biscuit Bakers in Year 4 Group 2
Here is the evidence that Year 4 did a marvellous job in DT with creating their very own biscuits from packaging to toppings. As you can see from their faces, they were very proud of their end product.
Year 5 - Religious Education
We examined different views on the nature of death by comparing and contrasting the views of Christians, Muslims and Humanists. We found that Muslims, just like Christians, believe in an afterlife where the soul goes after death and the actions of each person during their life are judged by God. However Humanists have a more scientific viewpoint and consider this to be the only life we have and so we need to do as much good as possible.
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Whole School Worship
It was lovely to welcome everyone back to school in Worship this morning after the long bank holiday weekend! Mrs Ham introduced this week’s Kindness Kite, which focuses on God’s mercy. The children shared some thoughtful reflections—Naomi reminded us that we hear in the Bible how Jesus showed mercy to others, while Alfie (Year 5) explained that mercy means forgiveness. Together, we reflected on how showing mercy is the same as showing forgiveness in our everyday lives. We then watched the story of the Prodigal Son and explored how the different characters might have felt. The children suggested that the older son may have felt jealous, confused and even angry when his brother returned after spending his father’s money and was welcomed back with a celebration. Through this, we discussed the message that no matter what we do, God still loves us. We linked this to our own lives, recognising that even when we make mistakes at school or at home and face consequences, we are still loved by our families. We ended our worship by singing Stronger and Sing a New Song, helping us feel positive and ready for the week ahead. 💛
Year 3- Art- Observing Patterns and Tone
Today, Miss Gregson delivered an art lesson focused on building the skills needed for the children's final projects. Year 3 spent time looking really closely at flowers and seeds, learning that to be a good artist, you have to spend more time looking at the object than the paper. They practised noticing tiny patterns and textures that they might usually miss. A big part of the lesson was learning how to use observational skills to make the flowers and seeds look 3D. By observing where the light and dark tones were, the students added lots of detail to their work. These sketching and shading skills will help them feel much more confident when they start their final pieces.
Year 1 RE: Jesus’ Baptism
Today we focused on Jesus’ baptism. This is when John baptised Jesus in the River Jordan and the Holy Spirit came down in the form of a dove. God said “this is my Son whom I love”. As Christians, we follow Jesus’ example and way of life, therefore being baptised is a way that Christians will follow Jesus. The children retold the story through filling in the missing words and drew a picture to match.
Craft Club
Today, craft club was all about space! We drew our solar system onto a paper plate, making sure we got the colours and sizes of each planet correct. We also discussed why Pluto is no longer classed as a planet but decided to use it anyway! We then made rockets on sticks which could fly through our solar system pictures. Next week at craft club we will be talking about different emotions and creating cartoon art!
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Bee Stinger Netball Heat Winners
This evening we took part in the Bee Stinger Netball Heats down at Darwen Vale High School. Many of Team B had never played Bee Stingers before but they worked hard and managed to come out heat winners! We are so proud of how they conducted themselves showing respect and resilience the whole way through.