Year 5 - Black History Month
To celebrate Black History Month, we explored the life of Claudia Jones. She was a Trinidadian-born journalist who fought for racial equality in both the United States and the United Kingdom. As she is celebrated as the mother of the Notting Hill carnival in London, we decorated our own carnival masks with colours and symbols that reflect our personality and interests.
Year 6 - Black History Month
As part of our Black History Month celebrations, the children explored the inspirational life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and his powerful dream of a world filled with equality, kindness and fairness. Inspired by his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, the children created stunning pieces of artwork representing their own hopes and dreams for our world. Their work beautifully expressed their aspirations for a brighter future, where everyone is treated with respect, valued for who they are and given the opportunity to thrive. We are incredibly proud of the creativity, thoughtfulness and powerful messages behind their artwork!
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Reception: Phonics
In Reception, the children have been working extremely hard this half term learning their Phase 2 sounds. We have been focusing on our segmenting skills to help with spelling, carefully sounding out each word step-by-step. The children did a fantastic job of saying the individual phonemes aloud and matching them to the correct graphemes to build their words. We are so proud of their persistence and progress—well done, Reception!
Speak up for Black History in Year 4
This week in Year 4 we have been focusing on creating posters that encourage people to stand up for their rights and show kindness. We looked at a video about Rosa Parks and then thought of ways in which we could share her story through different messages.
Little Bakers Enrichment in Year 4
Today we had our third group of children taking part in their enrichment session with Miss Carol. These sessions are a wonderful way to develop practical kitchen skills through structured learning opportunities.
Celebration Worship
This morning, we started our Celebration Worship by singing a wonderful Harvest song in preparation for our Harvest Worship next Thursday at St Barnabas Church. We recapped on all the great things that we have been achieving over the last couple of weeks. We then presented our Barney’s Brilliant Beacons. A huge well done to Louie, Noah S, Indie, Chester C, Olivia and Archie in EYFS and KS1 and Millie, Alayna, Charlie, Eddie, Cassius, Scarlett, Lilly and Peyton in KS2. Well done to these fantastic children for always demonstrating the Barney’s 4Bs, demonstrating an amazing attitude to learning and being fantastic role models. Mrs Araujo and Mrs Gardner then awarded lots of children with their pen licenses. Well done to Archie and James in Year 3 and Harry, Eva, Albie, Molly, Alicie, Elijah and Eddie in Year 4 for working extremely hard to excel in their handwriting. Mrs Gardner also presented James and Archie with a certificate for excelling on TT Rockstars. We then congratulated our Year 5&6 Girls’ football team who have been playing well in the DPSSA League’s Girls Football Tournament over the last couple of weeks. We then ended our worship with some beautiful prayers from Mrs Ham, Jack and Renee and Mrs Ham reminded us that we are accepting food items for our Harvest to donation to DARE and winter coats to donate to Rota Kids.
Reception Interhouse Sports
Today the Reception class enjoyed taking part in the Interhouse Sports activities led by the Year 6 Sports Leaders. The children worked hard to complete a circuit of physical activities, such as throwing beanbags onto a target, jumping over hurdles and balancing on stepping stones. The children listened brilliantly and put in 100% effort to support their house team. Well done Reception!
DPSSA Girls Football
A huge well done to our girls’ football team last night! The girls secured another three fantastic wins, this week they were against Holy Trinity, Turton and Edgworth and St Peter’s! An incredible effort from everyone involved, showing great teamwork, determination and skill. Keep up the fantastic work, girls! A huge thank you to Mr Bloomfield for his coaching.
Year 6 - Football with Stephen Sama
A huge thank you to Stephen Sama for coming into school to deliver a fantastic football session for our Year 6 children! ⚽ It was brilliant to see everyone getting involved, having fun and developing their skills. The children were also inspired by hearing about Stephen’s journey through football, showing them where passion, hard work and determination can lead. Thank you, Stephen, for giving our children such a memorable experience! The Stephen Sama Football Academy launches at DACA for Year 7 in September 2027. Led by former professional footballer Stephen Sama, who developed at Liverpool FC and now coaches Baller League champions PRIME FC alongside KSI. ⚽ Up to 20 boys & 20 girls selected 🏋️ Specialist coaching & S&C 🏆 Competitive football 📚 Full DACA education We are hopeful that some of our football stars will make it into the Stephen Sama Football Academy in September.
English Report Writing in Year 4
Year 4 are now in their final phase of our English writing unit which involves writing a Persuasive Magic Show Report. This is based on our class novel - Leon and the Place Between by Angela McAllister. The children have worked exceptionally hard on their plans in order to prepare for this write and they have included a range of fronted adverbials, expanded noun phrases, questions, alliteration and use of present perfect tense. We can’t wait to share the end result next week!
Whole School Worship: Rev Ben
A big thank you to Rev Ben for leading a wonderful collective worship session with our children today! Building on our recent learning about Moses, we explored how God gave Moses the 10 Commandments on Mount Sinai as important rules for his people to follow. During our reflection, we discussed why rules alone aren't always enough for Christians. God recognised that people would struggle to keep all these rules perfectly on their own—which is why he later sent Jesus to us. The children reflected on how God gives the 10 Commandments to all who love and trust him, but Christians believe true change needs to happen on the inside. That inner transformation of the heart is at the very core of why Jesus came. Thank you, Rev Ben, for helping us unpack such a thoughtful message and inspiring our reflections today!
Reception Maths Bingo
This week in Maths, we have been revisiting our subitising skills to play a game of bingo with our friends. We rolled a 1-3 die and subitised the pictures on the bingo board to identify the matching amount. The children are doing so well at thinking fast and can identify amounts quickly.
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