Year 6 - Remembrance Service
Today, our Year 6 children proudly took part in the Remembrance Service at Darwen Cemetery, joining members of the local community and other schools to remember and honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice during times of war. The children performed a special remembrance song and sang beautifully, demonstrating confidence, maturity and great respect throughout. As a special tribute, the children laid a handcrafted wreath that they had carefully designed and created themselves with their words of thanks, offering a meaningful symbol of remembrance and gratitude to those who gave their lives for our freedom. It was a particularly poignant and meaningful experience for the children, giving them the opportunity to reflect on the importance of remembrance, understand the sacrifices made by previous generations and show their respect as a school community. The song that they sang today, that some of the children recorded earlier in the week, will be played at the special Remembrance Sunday service this Sunday at 10.30am. Everyone is welcome to go along and pay their respects.
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Year 6 - Whole School Remembrance
During today’s Celebration Worship, Year 6 led the whole school in a special Remembrance song as part of our preparations for their upcoming Remembrance Service at Darwen Cemetery. The children did a fantastic job, demonstrating confidence, respect and understanding as we come together to remember and honour those who have served and sacrificed for others.
Year 3 - Bishop’s Harvest Appeal Assault Course Challenge
On Friday, the Year 3 class was revved up and ready to tackle the assault course challenge in aid of the Bishop’s Harvest Appeal. In the morning, they watched a video showing them how to complete the course. When it was their turn, the children persevered to complete every part of the course, from jumping off vaults to swinging across monkey bars, from diving through tunnels, to balancing on tightropes. They even took on the tyre hop with speed and agility. What a fun way to raise money for charity! And a special thank you to all our families who raised sponsorship!
Year 1: The Great Big Barney’s Assault Course Challenge
Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed taking part in The Great Big Barney’s Assault Course Challenge for the Bishop of Blackburn's Harvest Appeal. They showed bravery, skill and determination to complete the course. Well done Year 1! Donations can be made through the QR code or here: https://www.parishgiving.org.uk/donors/find-your-parish/bburn-diocesan-harvest-appeal-blackburn?fbclid=IwY2xjawVEK0JleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMDgwVEJYN0EzQ2lGbWVYT2VzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEebvIKZ7uGENPZjIfVN8P5b-WLjoYcHdWChA0xXbNPY1YwSgVkEwXRXG-vFV0_aem_70SfP6U3cGv2vCM-UXD3YA
Friday Celebration Worship
This morning, we came together for our Friday Celebration Worship to reflect on a busy, fantastic first week of Autumn Term 2 and to celebrate those children who have been 'achieving great things' out of school. A special thank you to our Year 6 pupils, who opened our worship with a beautiful rendition of ‘We Will Remember’ ahead of singing at the Whitehall Cemetery Remembrance service. We also celebrated our Year 5/6 girls’ football team, who won the DPSSA Football League and qualified to represent our borough and play in Blackpool! A huge well done goes to all our individual out of school award winners across sports, performing arts, and community clubs. In swimming, congratulations to William, Brody, Amelia, Alissa, Matthew, Poppy, Elsie, Minnie S, Hollie, Renee and Oliver. A huge well done to Callie and Thomas for their water safety awards. In gymnastics, dance, and drama, brilliant effort from Fiia, Ella, Thea, Lyla, Vienna, and Eleanor. For fantastic teamwork and skill in football and netball, well done to Emilie, Alfie, Mikey, Cassius, Max, Finn, Samuel, Jack, Olivia, and Vienna. In our community groups, congratulations to Jonas for Squirrel of the Week, Hendrix for Beaver of the Week, Lana for her Brownies animal badge, and Elsie, Evie, Olivia, and Lyla for their wonderful achievements at Rainbows. Extra congratulations also go to Hendrix and Lyla for finishing the Summer Reading Challenge, Callie for her martial arts award, Harry for settling so well into Progressive After School Club and Harry for earning his pen licence. Mrs Ham reminded us that the Scholastic book fair is in school from Monday-Thursday after school and it is Children in Need next Friday. Thank you to the parents who joined us today, and to our whole school family for your continued support. We wish you all a lovely and restful weekend!
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Reception Bishop’s Appeal Assault Course
Reception thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the assault course for the Bishop’s Harvest Appeal. The children demonstrated great agility, strength and coordination, taking risks on new equipment and cheering each other on. Thank you to everyone who has supported with their generous donations. The children did incredibly well and should be very proud! Donations can be made here: https://www.parishgiving.org.uk/donors/find-your-parish/bburn-diocesan-harvest-appeal-blackburn?fbclid=IwY2xjawVEK0JleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMDgwVEJYN0EzQ2lGbWVYT2VzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEebvIKZ7uGENPZjIfVN8P5b-WLjoYcHdWChA0xXbNPY1YwSgVkEwXRXG-vFV0_aem_70SfP6U3cGv2vCM-UXD3YA
Year 2- Bishop's Harvest Appeal Assault Course Challenge
Today, Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed completing the assault course challenge for the Bishop's Harvest Appeal and participating in all the exercises along the way. A huge thank you to the WOW group, Mrs Araujo and Mrs Gardner for all their efforts in organising and setting this up. Donations can be made here: https://www.parishgiving.org.uk/donors/find-your-parish/bburn-diocesan-harvest-appeal-blackburn?fbclid=IwY2xjawVEK0JleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMDgwVEJYN0EzQ2lGbWVYT2VzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEebvIKZ7uGENPZjIfVN8P5b-WLjoYcHdWChA0xXbNPY1YwSgVkEwXRXG-vFV0_aem_70SfP6U3cGv2vCM-UXD3YA
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Year 2 D&T- Stitching
Today, Year 2 practised their running stitch in D&T in preparation for making their own Christmas-themed puppets to sell at the Christmas Fair.
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Year 4 Do The Big B Assault Course
What an afternoon Year 4 have had! Today we took part in the Great Big Barney’s Assault course that was organised by the WOW group and Mrs Araujo. The children had a fantastic time, hearts pumping and enthusiasm galore, Brilliant effort Year 4!
Year 5 - Computing
First, we explored how programming affects real world technology, such as traffic lights and vending machines. Then the children watched a video demonstrating a range of uses for programming before debugging a program for a Sphero robot.
Reception Remembrance Day
This week in Reception, we have been learning about Remembrance Day and the importance of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance. Through hands-on activities, the children explored this theme by designing artistic poppies with loose parts, practising their fine motor skills by creating detailed patterns on poppy petals, and by sharing their own thoughtful prayers and kind words of thanks for brave soldiers and service members.
DPSSA Girls Football League Winners 26/27
⚽️DPSSA Girls Football League Winners 26/27 ⚽️ 🏆 🎉 Tonight saw the final evening of games for the Darwen Primary School girls football league. It was extremely tense as two teams, led the top of the table and those two teams played each other tonight to decide on the overall winners! It was an incredibly close game which finished 0-0 but all of the girls played their hearts out, showed respect at every level and did so with huge smiles on their face. They now go on to represent the Borough at the Lancashire finals in January. Go Team B - we are so proud of you all and special thanks to the supporting parents and Mr Bloomfield for his exemplary coaching. Thanks to all of the schools who entered as it's been a great league and a special thanks to all the school staff who have given up their time to referee.
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