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Year 6 - Children in Need
Year 6 had a fantastic time coming to school in their pyjamas or spots to show their support for Children in Need! The children embraced the opportunity to dress down, have some fun and, most importantly, help raise awareness and money for an incredibly worthwhile cause. It was lovely to see everyone getting involved and showing their kindness, generosity and community spirit. Well done, Year 6!
Computing in Year 4
Year 4 are learning about computational thinking and how to solve problems in the fastest and shortest ways possible. They played Danger Quest and Lightbot Hour to learn about problem solving skills and further their programming knowledge.
Friday Celebration Worship -Children in Need
This morning, we came together for our Friday Celebration Worship, taking time to reflect on another busy and successful week filled with many wonderful highlights. This week, we celebrated Remembrance Day, launched our exciting new lunchtime and after-school clubs and announced our new Science Ambassadors, School Councillors and Rotakid Leaders. We also enjoyed some valuable road safety awareness workshops. A huge well done goes to our Year 5/6 boys’ football team, who have made a fantastic start to the DPSSA Football League by winning their first two matches and they got through to the semi final of the EFL cup in the morning! They represented our school brilliantly and we are incredibly proud of them. We then presented our Barney’s Brilliant Beacons awards. Congratulations to Abigail, Ohana, George, Max and Evie in Reception and KS1 and Vienna, Callie, Seb, Aura, Chloe, Finley, Arlo and Miley in KS2. These children consistently demonstrate maturity, impeccable manners and a determination to strive for excellence. Keep shining brightly! We also celebrated Albie in Year 4 who has achieved a completely green heat map on Times Table Rock Stars – a fantastic achievement! Mrs Govan then introduced an exciting ADVENTure Trail Art Competition, with a deadline of 2nd December. Please check Class Dojo for further details on how to take part. We brought our worship to a thoughtful close with some beautiful prayers from Olivia and Harry. They led us in remembering the soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice as well as thinking of children in need who are less fortunate than ourselves. Thank you to all the parents who were able to join us for Celebration Worship this morning and to everyone who has donated to Children in Need. We would also like to extend our heartfelt thanks to our wider school family for your continued encouragement and support. It really does mean so much. We wish everyone a lovely and enjoyable weekend! Finally, a little reminder that today is Odd Socks Day, marking the launch of Anti-Bullying Week. We look forward to seeing everyone celebrating what makes us all unique!
BRFC Kids Cup
A huge well done to our football team who competed in the BRFC Kids Cup! The boys did fantastically well, progressing through the group stages and securing their place in the knockout rounds. Unfortunately, they narrowly missed out in the semi-finals, but they should be incredibly proud of their performances, teamwork and determination throughout the tournament. They represented St Barnabas brilliantly and gave it their all. Well done, boys! We are very proud of you!
Rev Ben’s worship - Elijah
Rev Ben brought an intriguing bag with him to worship this morning containing 4 items which were clues to today’s story. Chester C, Chester Y, Marley and Eleanor revealed a cup, bread, a bird, and a royal crown. These were clues to the Bible story about Elijah and the Ravens and a series of stories we will hear about the truth tellers. King David was the best king but Ahab the worst. He worshipped a statue and made his people do the same. God whispered to Elijah to tell Ahab that it was wrong but Arab laughed and became angry and wanted to kill Elijah. Elijah had to hide in the wilderness. God said he would look after him by providing water in a ravine and the birds would feed him. In the morning the ravens visited Elijah with wheat and bread and the same happened in the evening. We then thought about what happened in the story and what we can learn from Elijah about telling the truth and trusting God. Beau said that god told Elijah to tell the truth while Zachary said Elijah was looked after because god sent the birds to feed him. James said God looked after Elijah because he trusted God. We then prayed that God would help us to tell the truth and trust in him. We sang All Through History as we left the hall.
KS2 Choir
We had our first choir session today and it was great to see so many new faces! Our session started by doing some vocal warm ups. Then we gathered some ideas for songs that we might want to learn to perform. Finally, we sang two songs ‘Roar’ by Katy Perry and ‘Stargazing’ by Myles Smith. They sounded absolutely fantastic and we cannot wait to see what the year will bring.
DPSSA Boys Football League
Tonight we had the first of our games for the DPSSA Boys Football League at Witton. Our first game was against St James, Lower Darwen. The boys played some quality football and came away with a 16-0 win which was a fantastic start. Our next game was against St Cuthbert’s and it was a close one which ended in a 4-2 win. Great first night results with a solid team!
Warhammer Painting Club
We started our painting club this week by choosing which Warhammer models we wanted to paint, with a choice of Necron, space marine or Stormcast Eternal and we decided which colour to base coat the model. As we painted, we explored the details of each model and thought about how we will continue next week.
Great Big Live Remembrance Assembly in Year 4
Today our Great Big Live Assembly which was a Remembrance Worship, was led by Dr Krish Kandiah. We focused on Remembrance Day and got to meet many people who have been impacted by war across the world. We also took part in quiz which was all about Flt Lt Colin Bell who was 105 years old! The assembly was a lovely way for us to honour the armed forces members, veterans, and civilians who have died or suffered in war and military service. Finally, we prayed for peace and to end war as 500 million children are involved in conflict across the world. Then we closed with a video that was made featuring children and filmed by children who have been impacted by war. Olivia Rodrigo recorded a cover of “The Book of Love” for the charity album released by War Child All proceeds from the album support War Child UK in protecting and educating children living through conflict
Year 1 and 2 Road Safety
Year 1 and 2 had a very important visit for Road Safety Week, which starts this Sunday. They practised actions for stop, look and listen. They also identified pelican crossings and zebra crossings. Some children were chosen to demonstrate crossing the road safely. Each child was also measured in height and found that they should be in a booster seat in the car. We were very proud of how well Year 1 and 2 listened!
Reception- Duckling visit from Nightingale’s Farm
Today we had a very exciting visit from Steph, Thomas and Katie from Nightingales farm who very kindly brought in their one week old ducklings to show us. This linked brilliantly with our focus on birthdays this week as part of our Celebrations topic. We had a lovely time holding the ducklings, watching them eat and play in the water.
Year 1: Visit from Ducklings
Year 1 had a very exciting visit from some ducklings today. This linked with our Science unit, looking at different animal groups. The children loved watching the ducklings run around, drink water and eat. They even had a little cuddle with them. However, we were very shocked to see how much they did poo! The children identified that ducklings belong to the Birds animal group because they have wings and feathers.
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