--- title: "News: Year 2" url: "https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/tag/year-2" school: "St Barnabas Primary School, A Church of England Academy" --- We are holding a number of open days for children due to start primary school in September 2027. Please see our admissions page for further details. Everyone welcome! # News: Year 2 ![Image of Friday Celebration Worship -Children in Need](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/imagecache/720x440c/news/IMG_5414.jpeg) 13 Nov [2026-11-13-friday-celebration-worship-children-in-need](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-13-friday-celebration-worship-children-in-need) #### [Friday Celebration Worship -Children in Need](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-13-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! ![Image of Rev Ben’s worship - Elijah](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/imagecache/720x440c/news/IMG_3885.png) 12 Nov [2026-11-12-rev-ben-s-worship-elijah](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-12-rev-ben-s-worship-elijah) #### [Rev Ben’s worship - Elijah](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-12-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. ![Image of Year 1 and 2 Road Safety](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/imagecache/720x440c/news/99145497-CFDF-4BB3-8C86-78DB506AD874.jpeg) 11 Nov [2026-11-11-year-1-and-2-road-safety](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-11-year-1-and-2-road-safety) #### [Year 1 and 2 Road Safety](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-11-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! ![Image of Year 2 English- Finding Language Features](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/imagecache/720x440c/news/IMG_2792.jpeg) 11 Nov [2026-11-11-year-2-english-finding-language-features](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-11-year-2-english-finding-language-features) #### [Year 2 English- Finding Language Features](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-11-year-2-english-finding-language-features) This week in English, Year 2 have been working extremely hard to analyse the language features of a WAGOLL (what a good one looks like) narrative in their English lessons. They were set the challenge of identifying words ending in the suffixes -ed, -ful and -less, expanded noun phrases, similes, adverbs ending in -ly, exclamation sentences and phrases marked with an apostrophe for possession. They are working towards writing their own narrative using all of the same features, Great work Year 2! ![Image of Little Chefs Club - Fruit Kebabs](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/imagecache/720x440c/news/IMG_3873.jpeg) 10 Nov [2026-11-10-little-chefs-club-fruit-kebabs](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-10-little-chefs-club-fruit-kebabs) #### [Little Chefs Club - Fruit Kebabs](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-10-little-chefs-club-fruit-kebabs) In our first Little Chefs Club, our book of the week was The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We watched and listened to the story and then made fruit kebabs to look like the caterpillar. After a few safety instructions, we learned some cutting skills and chopped up our fruit. We also had fun creating paper chain caterpillars. ![Image of Friday Celebration Worship](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/imagecache/720x440c/news/IMG_2747.jpeg) 6 Nov [2026-11-06-friday-celebration-worship](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-06-friday-celebration-worship) #### [Friday Celebration Worship](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-06-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! ![Image of Year 2- Bishop's Harvest Appeal Assault Course Challenge](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/imagecache/720x440c/news/IMG_2751.jpeg) 6 Nov [2026-11-06-year-2-bishop-s-harvest-appeal-assault-course-challenge](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-06-year-2-bishop-s-harvest-appeal-assault-course-challenge) #### [Year 2- Bishop's Harvest Appeal Assault Course Challenge](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-06-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 ![Image of Year 2 D&T- Stitching](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/imagecache/720x440c/news/IMG_2748(2).jpeg) 6 Nov [2026-11-06-year-2-d-t-stitching](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-06-year-2-d-t-stitching) #### [Year 2 D&T- Stitching](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-06-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. ![Image of Year 2-Fire Fighter Visit ](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/imagecache/720x440c/news/IMG_5254.jpeg) 5 Nov [2026-11-05-year-2-fire-fighter-visit](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-05-year-2-fire-fighter-visit) #### [Year 2-Fire Fighter Visit ](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-05-year-2-fire-fighter-visit) This week, Year 2 had a visit from the fire department. They learnt about the difference between good fires and bad fires, what to do if their clothes catch fire, a fire plan for keeping safe in the house and that they need to check their fire alarms. Thank you very much for visiting. Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed it! ![Image of Poppy Appeal](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/imagecache/720x440c/news/887421165_1495701342606849_2205801765989467262_n.jpg) 4 Nov [2026-11-04-poppy-appeal](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-04-poppy-appeal) #### [Poppy Appeal](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-11-04-poppy-appeal) 🌺 SUPPORT OUR POPPY APPEAL! 🌺 Our wonderful Head and Deputy Heads are proud to be supporting the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal this year! ❤️✨ They will be selling a fantastic range of poppy-themed items to help raise vital funds. Here’s what’s available to buy: ✏️ Pencils – 50p 🩹 Slap Bands – £1.50 💫 Bracelets – £1.00 🔑 Poppy Keyrings – 50p 📅 When: Sold daily at break times ⏰ 💰 How to buy: If your child would like to purchase any items, please send their money in a named envelope clearly marked with their name, class, and what they would like to buy. Slap bands are limited to one per child. Thank you so much for your generosity and support in helping our children make a difference! 🙏🔴 #PoppyAppeal #RoyalBritishLegion #LestWeForget #SchoolCommunity #SupportingGoodCauses #YoungLeaders ![Image of Whole School Harvest Celebration ](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/imagecache/720x440c/news/IMG_4878.jpeg) 22 Oct [2026-10-22-whole-school-harvest-celebration](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-10-22-whole-school-harvest-celebration) #### [Whole School Harvest Celebration ](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-10-22-whole-school-harvest-celebration) This morning, we celebrated Harvest with a very special worship service at St Barnabas Church, led by our wonderful WOW group and Mrs Araujo. It was a joyful celebration filled with singing, gratitude and reflection. A huge well done to Reception, Year 1 and Year 3, who did a tremendous job of sharing what they have been learning in their RE lessons. Reception bravely opened our worship by singing ‘Thank You for the Harvest’, followed by Year 1, who expressed their gratitude to our farmers for all their hard work with a lovely rendition of ‘Thank You to the Farmers’. We also heard from Year 3, who shared beautiful prayers expressing their gratitude for all that we have, as well as leading us in a shared prayer using Makaton. We are incredibly proud of all the children for their thoughtful contributions. This year, we are supporting DARE, RotaKids and The Bishop’s Appeal. A heartfelt thank you to our school community for your generosity in donating non-perishable food items and pre-loved winter coats. Your kindness and support make a real difference to others. Looking ahead, please remember that we will be taking part in the Big Barney’s Assault Course Challenge on Friday 6th November to raise money for the Jehovah Rapha Healthcare Centre in Liwolo. The funds raised will help ensure that people can access essential healthcare. We would be very grateful if you could ask family and friends to sponsor your child and support us in this important mission. Finally, thank you for your continued support throughout this half-term. We wish all our families a wonderful and restful half-term holiday! ![Image of Year 2 RE- The Torah ](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/imagecache/720x440c/news/IMG_4872.jpeg) 21 Oct [2026-10-21-year-2-re-the-torah](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-10-21-year-2-re-the-torah) #### [Year 2 RE- The Torah ](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2026-10-21-year-2-re-the-torah) This week in RE, Year 2 explored the Jewish Holy Book, the Torah scroll, discovering how it is read in the synagogue and treated with the utmost respect. The children also learned about Simchat Torah, the annual celebration that marks the completion of the yearly Torah reading cycle, and enjoyed participating in their own Simchat Torah-style festivity. 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