Year 1 Mystery Reader
To celebrate our Give Like Dolly Day and the National Year of Reading, every class has a special visit from a mystery reader. Year 1 had a very exciting mystery reader today, Alfie’s mum! She read two amazing books. The first was written by Dolly Parton, I Am A Rainbow. This book celebrated all the feelings that we have and how we can act when we feel tough feelings. The second book was Supertato: Night Of The Living Veg, which the children loved. Thank you Amy for visiting our class!
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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! 🌟
Year 1: Give Like Dolly Day
Year 1 had a blast today. They came in bright and sparkly clothing for Give Like Dolly Day. We learnt about Dolly Parton’s generosity for gifting millions of books to children and highlighting the importance of reading. We sang 9-5 in whole school worship, watched videos of Dolly Parton reading stories and had some colourings and word searches. The favourite was definitely designing their own cowboy boots.
Year 1 Art: Can I find shapes and lines?
Today, Year 1 had to try to find shapes and lines in their faces. They each had a picture of their face and had to trace over it as best as they could. This was a challenge for some as they had to make sure the paper didn’t move. After, they pulled the tracing paper off, they could spot the shapes in their faces. We noticed eyes are circles and ovals and our smile is like a semi-circle. However, most of our facial shapes are organic shapes, meaning they do not have a regular pattern to them, which is what makes us look unique. When we do our self-portraits in a few weeks, we need to include organic shapes to make the art more realistic.
Year 1&2- Lunchtime Games Club
Another week, another fun-filled Games Club! Children from Years 1 and 2 enjoyed getting stuck into a variety of games. There was plenty of friendly competition, laughter and lots of fun along the way.
Year 1 PE: Gymnastics
Year 1 had an amazing PE session this morning. We had lots of apparatus out to help us to practise our skills. The children had to practise frog jumps and bunny hops along a bench, caterpillar crawling around cones, practising bear crawl and crab crawl and a new roll called ‘Rock and Roll’. Their favourite station was climbing up high and jumping off onto a mat in a star position. It was great to see the children being brave to jump off from a high platform.
Year 1 Creative Area: Animal Prints
Year 1 have loved practising drawing different animal prints this week in the Creative Area. This links to our Science topic about animal groups and our Art unit looking at different line types.
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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.
Year 1 Geography: Searching for clues about seasons
In Geography, we searched for clues to decide what season we are in. We looked for information about the colours of leaves, the weather and the plants. We were able to find some red and orange leaves, leaves on the ground and we had some windy and rainy weather which helped us to decide that we were in Autumn.
Year 1&2 Lunchtime Games Club
Another great lunchtime games club. Some of us had a huge stroke of luck this week whilst others were a bit unlucky but we all had lots of fun all the same! We played ‘Pizza, Pizza’ again as it was a favourite last week and lots of us also played ‘Don’t Wake Mr McGregor,’ ‘Shopping List’ and ‘Dinosaur Number Eggs’. We hope to introduce a couple of new games again next week. Well done everyone!
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.
Year 1: English
Year 1 have been trying really hard with writing their sentence snakes. This is a grammar focus lesson. Today we focused on adding -s or -each to words to make them plural. They have to count and organise the words in my sentence. Then they practise their own sentence orally before going away to write it. They have been trying really hard to also remember capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
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