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Friday Celebration Worship
This morning, Mrs Ham opened our Celebration Worship by telling us that today is World Smile Day. We talked about how smiles are infectious and how we are going to work even harder than we normally do to put a big smile on people’s faces and spread happiness, love and kindness. This week, we have enjoyed a wonderful variety of extra-curricular clubs, some fantastic worships and an extra-special day yesterday, celebrating National Poetry Day and Give Like Dolly Day. We then presented our Barney’s Brilliant Beacons. A huge well done to Reggie, Minnie, Luna, Poppy, Everley and Matthew in EYFS and KS1, and Joey, Skye, Marley, Mila, Iris, Oliver and Tristen in KS2. Well done to these fantastic children for their exemplary behaviour, exceptional attitudes to learning and for consistently demonstrating our Barney’s 4Bs and our Christian Values. We are incredibly proud of you! Looking ahead to next week, we are excited to welcome families to our second Open Day for the 2027 Reception intake on Wednesday, as well as our Stay and Play session in EYFS on Thursday. We will also be celebrating Hello Yellow Day next Friday, 9th October, before coming together for a special Harvest Service at St Barnabas Church on Sunday, 11th October. We ended our worship by congratulating Year 4 on being our Walk to School Winners for September, followed by some beautiful prayers from Iris, Alfie and Mrs Ham. What a wonderful way to end another fantastic week at Barney’s! 🌟
Give Like Dolly Day Worship
Today, we celebrate the life of the American singer songwriter Dolly Parton. The whole school has come dressed in sparkles and colours and in worship, Mrs Wilkinson told us about Dolly’s remarkable life and achievements. Dolly Parton was dedicated to allowing as many children to read as possible and founded the Imagination Library charity in 1995. Mrs Wilkinson lead a discussion on the power of reading and how it can provoke our imagination and allow us to engage with the written word all throughout our lives. We then watched a video of Dolly Parton reading a very special bed time story called Stuck in the Mud before the whole school sang and danced to her 1980s classic hit ‘9 to 5’. Her amazing legacy of music and charity will live forever and be an inspiration to us all.
Whole School Worship
We started the week by singing the 80s classic hit ‘Nine to Five’ to celebrate the life of Dolly Parton, who dedicated her life to helping children read. We can't wait for our 'Give like Dolly Day' on Thursday where we will be wearing our brightest clothes whilst raising money. Your money will help to provide books to children in need, opening up their world and unlocking the curriculum. We can't wait for our mystery readers across the week either. Afterwards, Mrs Ham spoke to us about our most important Barney's Four Be's- Be safe and how her most important job was to keep us safe. We discussed and acted out what the children should do in case of an emergency at school and how we would safely evacuate or invacuate the premises. Reasons to evacuate may include a fire, so the children were introduced to the fire alarm and shown how they should calmly stop, line up and gather on the playground for a headcount. Should an air ambulance land on the playing fields or a dog come onto the school premises, any children outside would calmly move indoors to ensure their safety and we listened to our new lockdown message over the tannoy. We will be rehearsing drills over the next few weeks so that everyone knows how to be safe, especially our Reception class who have only just joined us. A huge thank you to our Year 6 volunteers for their amazing acting skills.
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Rev Ben’s Worship - Moses & the Burning Bush
On Thursday, Rev Ben led a worship all about following instructions. The children thoroughly enjoyed an active game of Captain’s Orders to begin with. They then listened to the story of Moses and the Burning Bush. Rev Ben posed questions about why Moses was afraid to follow God’s instructions at first and how people show trust in God.
Friday Celebration Worship
This morning, we started our celebration worship by reflecting on a fantastic week in school. It is great to see that our whole school are settling into their new classes and continuing to work hard to earn dojo points for achieving great things and showing a huge amount of respect. This week has also seen us launching our lunchtime and after school clubs. It’s been brilliant to see our children enjoying and making the most of these extra-curricular opportunities. There may still be a few places on a number of our clubs. Please see Arbor. We then presented our Barney’s Brilliant Beacons. A huge well done to Noah, Elsie, Elara, Noah, Hendrix and Luna in Reception and KS1 and Teddy, Alice, Renee, Harry, Lana, Alfie, Layla and Charlie in KS2. Well done to these amazing children for working extremely hard across the curriculum and for their exemplary behaviour. We ended our worship with a reminder from Mrs Ham about MacMillan Coffee Morning next Friday. We would really appreciate any donations of cake to help us to raise funds for an amazing charity. We also had a sing along to ‘Shine.’ We thank our St Barnabas families who could attend celebration worship this morning and extend a thank you to all of our other families who continue to support us in many ways. We wish you all a fantastic weekend.
Whole School Worship with Rev Ben
Our Whole School Worship was led by Rev Ben this morning. We started with a game of “ Guess Who?” where Rev Ben showed us a baby photo and we had to guess who they were. This included Prince William, Taylor Swift, Marcus Rashford and Rev Ben. The reason for this game is because our Bible story this week was The Birth of Moses. The story of the birth of Moses is a famous Bible adventure about a brave mother, a floating basket, and how God kept a special baby safe. Following our Bible story, we discussed how hard it can be to trust others including God. Our questions were: In the Bible story what happened to Jesus? and What do you think it must have felt like for Moses’ family to trust God? The children shared some lovely ideas about how mean the King was trying to get rid of people but the family had to trust God when they placed him in the reeds to keep him safe.
Year 3 - Class Worship: Rainbow Promises
Our class worship this week was all about Noah’s Ark. Liz read the story and told us about how Noah kept his promise to God and waited until it was safe and the floods had gone before releasing all the animals from the ark. Reverend Craig then told us about how important it is to follow God's instructions. He also asked us to reflect on how well we follow instructions from the trusted adults in our lives. After the video, the children created rainbows and wrote promises about things they would like to change, for example, promising to tidy their rooms or practise their handwriting.
Whole School Worship - Recycling Week
Today's Worship focused on Recycle Week which runs from 14th ~20th September. Mrs Ham asked the children what they knew about recycling and then shared images for them to talk about. We started with an image of the beach and the children spotted that it was a mess and full of rubbish. Milk bottles, plastic bag, plastic plates, bottles, fishing nets, a broken plastic chair and a pizza box. Why would all of these things end up in the ocean? Next we watched a video that told us that 300 million tons of rubbish is produced every year and only 40% of this can be recycled. In recent studies scientists found that out of 500 fish collected, a third of them had plastic inside their stomachs. Top tips from the video were: *Make sure you always throw rubbish in the bin *Don’t use plastic if you don’t need it *Always try to recycle So why recycle? 25 bottles can make a fleece By recycling 1 glass bottle we could produce 5 hours of energy to run a Nintendo Wii What can we do? Reuse your recyclables Finally, Mrs Ham set us all a challenge to see if we can be recycling rescuers at home and create new things out of the waste that we would normally pop in our grey bin. We then reflected on how we can care for our planet that God created.
Worship with Bishop Philip: What can you offer this year?
In Worship we were welcomed back to the new school year by Bishop Philip, who visited our school in the Summer term. He told us the Bible story of the little boy who shared his lunch and Jesus turned it into enough to feed about 500 people. We then reflected on how God has given us gifts that we can offer to others. Some of the children told us about their gifts that they can share with others including kindness, friendship, generosity, making people laugh and peace. We then sang some of our favourite worship songs including Shine from the inside out, My Lighthouse and Welcome Everybody.
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Friday Celebration Worship
This morning, we began our Celebration Worship by reflecting on another amazing week at school. This week, we have thoroughly enjoyed our whole-school performance of Pinocchio, and across the school, our children have been working extremely hard to demonstrate Barney’s 4Bs and our Christian Values as they strive to earn ClassDojo points. We have been incredibly impressed by the children’s positive attitudes to learning and the high standards of behaviour we have seen throughout the school. Well done, everyone! We then celebrated our Barney’s Brilliant Beacons. A huge well done to Hunter, Lily, Albie and Hadi in KS1, and Elsie, Phoebe, Annabel, Alice, Harry, Emily, Alfie and Eliza in KS2. Well done to these amazing children, who have made such a fantastic start to the academic year! You have all been wonderful role models and truly shining examples of Barney’s Beacons. We are incredibly proud of you! Mrs Ham then shared a few important reminders with us. The Big Summer Weekend at our church this weekend, School Photograph Day will take place on Wednesday 16th September, followed by our Macmillan Coffee Morning on Friday 25th September. Our lunchtime and after-school clubs have also now gone live on Arbor and are available to book. To bring our worship to a close, we were treated to some beautiful prayers from Annabel and Seb. Thank you to everyone who joined us for Celebration Worship this morning, and an extended thank you to all of our families for your continued support, both this week and every week. We wish you all a wonderful and restful weekend! 🌟
Year 4 - National Day of Prayer for Schools
In our Class Worship, we focused on The National Day of Prayer for Schools when Christians across the UK set aside time to pray for their local schools. As a class, we decided to write our own special lunchtime prayers thinking about everyone that is involved in making our lunches from the farmers who grew the crops to the kitchen staff who serve it or our mums and dads that may have made our packed lunches.
Collective Worship with Rev Ben
Today, Rev Ben began worship by talking to the children about what they had done over the summer holidays. He asked them to think about the different experiences they had enjoyed, such as going on holiday, horse riding, swimming, enjoying the hot weather, watching football and going on a boat trip. Rev Ben then introduced the Bible story about the journey of Abraham. The children joined in by explaining that Abraham trusted God and that this was one of the most important things Abraham did. Rev Ben talked about how Abraham trusted God to give him a child, even when this seemed difficult to believe. God promised Abraham that his descendants would be as many as the stars in the sky. The children were then encouraged to think about how they could make the most of the new school year. They discussed the importance of having fun, living life in all its fullness, being themselves and following the 4B's. Rev Ben reminded the children that, just as Abraham trusted God, they can trust God to help and guide them throughout the school year. The worship ended with a prayer asking God to help us trust in Him during the school year and to guide us through the year ahead. Rev Ben also reminded the children about the Summer Weekend taking place at St Barnabas Church this weekend and the Youth Group for Year 6 and above, where children can learn more about God and Jesus. The children finished worship by singing a new song called “Every Beat of My Heart.”
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