Hello Yellow Day Collective Worship
This morning, Mrs Gardner, our PSHE leader, The Wellbeing Warriors, some of our Year 4 children and our Head and Deputy Head’s led a special Collective Worship in celebration of Hello Yellow Day. They raised awareness of mental health and the importance of discussing our feelings, doing the things that we love and spreading kindness. Last week, Year 4 wrote some beautiful wonder poems in celebration of National Poetry Day and they shared these with us this morning and Thorncliffe Nursing Home last week. This was a wonderful act of kindness that brought huge smiles to the resident’s faces. They set us the challenge of spreading kindness and positivity today. We all then joined with a Hello Yellow Parade with each class showing off their amazingly yellow outfits. Thank you to our wonderful school community for all of their efforts… we were a sea of yellow. We then finished our worship with a very special prayer and sing along. What a joyous worship that helped to make us all feel brighter on a wet and miserable morning! 💛✨😁
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DPSSA Girls Football League
A huge well done to our girls’ football team, who kicked off the league in fantastic style with three wins from 3 games. Some impressive performances and brilliant scores to go alongside them. The girls showed great teamwork, determination and a real desire to work for each other throughout. An excellent start — well done, girls!
Whole School Worship with Rev Matt
During our whole-school worship, Rev Matt explored the theme of ‘Life as a Journey’, sharing the story of Moses and how he led the Hebrew people through challenges and uncertainty towards freedom. The children reflected on how journeys can be filled with obstacles, difficult decisions and moments that test our faith, but also how perseverance, courage and trust can help us overcome these challenges. This encouraged the children to think about their own journeys through life and the importance of supporting one another along the way.
Year 5 - Science
In science, we explored how the rotation of the Earth on its axis creates day and night, with different sides of the planet facing towards and away from the Sun. This creates the impression that the Sun is travelling across the sky, rising in the east in the morning before setting in the west in the evening. To investigate this phenomenon, the children made their own sundials, using a torch to mimic the Sun’s transition from east to west. The placement of the shadows allowed us to mark different times of day on the dial.
KS2 Football Training
Today during football training, the children focused on improving their skills when playing in tight areas. They worked on close control, quick changes of direction, passing and movement to create space, while developing their ability to make quick decisions under pressure. It was a great session focused on keeping possession, staying composed and finding solutions when space is limited.
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Whole School Worship
Today in worship, the children were treated to an exciting online worship from Picture News exploring the importance of inclusive sport and how we can break down barriers that may prevent people from taking part. We learnt about the struggles that Stef Reid, a Paralympic athlete, faced when she lost her foot in an accident. She was determined to run again though after being a keen sportswoman before her accident and she went on to win many medals in a number of Paralympic Games events including running and long jump. She then retired from athletics but then took up figure skating and competed in Dancing on Ice. What an inspiration! The children discussed how everyone has different strengths, abilities and experiences, and explored the idea that there is always more than one way to achieve something and to never give up, just like Stef. It was a fantastic opportunity for the children to think about inclusion, resilience and the importance of supporting and encouraging others.
Year 5 - Money Skills
Miss Burnside from Debt Aware visited the class on Monday afternoon to introduce the children to managing money. They started off by discussing the difference between a want and a need by considering how essential to living different products and services are. Then the class considered borrowing and the difference between good and bad debt before identifying money saving tips such as turning lights off when not in use.
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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! 🌟
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Year 5 - Art
Today the children worked in groups to build mixed media 3D art installations inspired by Mrs Ham’s recent worship on plastic pollution and the urgent need to recycle. They used a variety of materials including cardboard, paper, Playdoh, bubble wrap, plastic bottles, plastic cups, clingfilm and rope. The art needed to communicate the damage plastic can do to our environment using visual and interactive elements. The children did a wonderful job of working together to create powerful and unique pieces of art.
KS2 Football Training
Today, KS2 enjoyed their after-school football training, focusing on attacking overloads. The children worked on creating and exploiting 2v1 and 3v2 situations, looking at how to use width, movement and quick passing to create space and get into goal-scoring positions.
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Year 5 - RotaKids Elections
In preparation for the visit of Darwen Rotary Club, Year 5 carried out elections for the key roles of president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. The children showed confidence, insight and passion as they tried to convince the class they were the best person for the role. The whole class will be responsible for 3 charity projects this year but it will be the role of the 4 elected representatives to take the best ideas, convince Mrs Ham of their viability and then promote them across the whole school. The results will be announced soon!
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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.
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