Praise Page
We were privileged to be invited to St. Mary's Church in Barnsley this week to perform a poem at the Mayor's Inauguration Service. We were super proud of all the children, but especially two who stepped in at the last minute. You were fabulous and a great advert for our school.
Meet this week's Learners of the Week. With their wonderful attitudes to learning, fantastic PE skills, super reading and inquisitive nature and listening skills on an educational visit, it is clear their certificates are more than well deserved. Well done everyone!
When Big Bernard met Little Bernard! We were delighted to have Bernard, a therapy dog in school for a visit today. He and Lucy were delighted to meet Little Bernard who Miss Taylor has provided to live in school all the time. We are very much looking forward to working with Bernard and Lucy in the future :)
WOW, what fun we have had today celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee! This week we have been tempted by the delicious aromas from the art room as classes have prepared food for today and the building has been decorated beautifully by the children to add to the party feeling. Unfortunately, the British weather was typically awkward so we changed our picnic to an indoor 'street party'. This last minute change did not stop everyone having a fab time, devouring the prepared food and enjoying time together. Well done everyone for a fantastic event :)
KS1 children have been writing persuasive letters and they are particularly passionate about recycling. This week they presented Mrs Larkin and the members of school council with some letters explaining what more they think school can and should be doing to save our planet :) We will wait and see what school council's response is....
Mrs Walch's gardening group have been busy since January, clearing away old plants and rotten leaves and now planting lots of lovely things for us to look forward to in the coming months, including tomatoes and pumpkins. The children are working really well as a team, developing their gardening skills and also using the time to talk to their friends. We are very proud of how much they have achieved in the past few months. Their hard work has been rewarded by the RHS as they have already succeeded in meeting the criteria for Level One AND Level two in the RHS School Gardening Awards. Hopefully, with continued hard work these children can work all the way to Level Five.
We have seen some great learning in school this week and it has also been lovely today to hear about children being good friends to one another. Well done to all our super Learners of the Week this week, you are fantastic. Keep up the good work!
We were recently asked to participate in a poster competition in conjunction with Barnsley Council who wished to promote site safety on a building site close to our school where they are building new houses. Today, Sara from the council joined our assembly and announced that our school had not one, but THREE winners! Each received a goody bag and a big WELL DONE from all of us!
This young lady has written a superb persuasive letter to school council stating her case for school to become more proactive in recycling waste. I don't think they will be able to ignore what she has said as she has written a very strong case, including facts and evidence. I think Sir David Attenborough would be VERY impressed. Well done!
After more than two years we were delighted to welcome back Mr Kay for a face to face assembly this afternoon. Not only did he share another super story with us, we were also able to have a sing-a-long. We look forward to his return in a few weeks when he has also promised that he will include one of his infamous quizzes :)
Our wonderful children and staff thoroughly enjoyed their trip to Sheffield arena to take part in the Young Voices concert. A great deal of fun was had by all and the children all behaved in an exemplary manner and were positive role models for our school.
This young man has spent a long time working on a piece of writing for his portfolio and his efforts are clearly visible. It's a super piece. We spent some time looking through his writing book and his progress over time has been fabulous. Well done!
WOW, WOW, WOW! I have just been super impressed by this wonderful writing!
This week these two young ladies have been absolutely fabulous in working collaboratively and systematically as a pair in maths with
Mrs Sanderson. They are real marvellous mathematicians!
Mrs Sanderson. They are real marvellous mathematicians!
The Learners of the Week today all have one thing in common, a super atitude to learning! It has been lovely to hear, see and read about their wonderful writing, maths work and improvements in attitude. Well done everyone.
We were excited to welcome members of the Barnsley Music Service's Woodwind Team to school this morning to perform for us. They played a number of pieces and we also found out lots of facts about the instruments they were playing.
Wow, what an amazing group of children. All nominated this week for a Learner of the Week award for their efforts. This week there has ben lots of super maths work happening, improved attitudes to learning and super, kind and friendly children helping others. A real fantastic Friday!
This week's Learner of the Week have impressed with their positive attitudes, wonderful writing and marvellous maths! Well done everyone!
After two long years, we have finally all made it to the hall this afternoon for a whole school Learner of the Week Assembly. It was wonderful to have everyone present in person, with no-one joining virtually this week :)
These children have excelled this week, demonstrating excellence in Rugby, super friendships, fabulous reading, marvellous maths work and more! Well done everyone!
These children have excelled this week, demonstrating excellence in Rugby, super friendships, fabulous reading, marvellous maths work and more! Well done everyone!
This young lady has been very thoughtful and careful in her choice of language and with the presentation of her work. A real role model for others!
A fantastic writer in Y4 this week, well composed work and beautifully written.
This young lady's artwork earned her the Learner of the Week award in her class this week :)
It has been fabulous this week to see these children with their amazing writing! They have really worked hard, thought about their word choices and presentation too. Well done!
More fabulous fundraising! Thank you everyone :)
This young man from F2 was super proud of his tank today, and so he should be! He enthusiastically explained exactly how he had made it and how he had reinforced one part of it to make it strong! What a star!
These three boys in KS1 could not wait to show me their writing this morning.
No wonder they were so proud, it is absolutely super and they all worked independently and presented their work well too. Fantastic!
No wonder they were so proud, it is absolutely super and they all worked independently and presented their work well too. Fantastic!
Thank you from all at Young Minds for supporting our Hello Yellow Day!
Barnsley Covid Memorial
What a proud school we were this afternoon when 5 of our children participated in the unveiling of Barnsley's covid memorial sculpture. Their art work is included in the bronze plague at the bottom of the sculpture and is now a part of history. Wow, what an achievement! We are also super proud of all the children who entered the competition, drawing and celebrating all the key workers who worked throughout the pandemic.
What a proud school we were this afternoon when 5 of our children participated in the unveiling of Barnsley's covid memorial sculpture. Their art work is included in the bronze plague at the bottom of the sculpture and is now a part of history. Wow, what an achievement! We are also super proud of all the children who entered the competition, drawing and celebrating all the key workers who worked throughout the pandemic.
Odd Socks Day
Thank you all so very much for supporting odd socks day 2021.
Taking part in this day together reminds us all it is ok to be different; we should be proud of who we are are celebrate our special uniqueness every day.
This year the theme for the national Anti-Bullying work is - One Kind Word.
We have been talking about kind words we can use to spread happiness and joy and make people in our lives feel good.
Taking part in this day together reminds us all it is ok to be different; we should be proud of who we are are celebrate our special uniqueness every day.
This year the theme for the national Anti-Bullying work is - One Kind Word.
We have been talking about kind words we can use to spread happiness and joy and make people in our lives feel good.
Amazing Artists
Mrs Walton and these superstars from KS2 have had a great time in our new art club.
Two children have impressed me immensely today with their fantastic writing! Great ideas and super neat presentation too. Well done both of you :)
We were delighted to welcome Jim from the Living Streets Charity to whole school assembly today. He was excited to share with everyone details of our involvement in the 'WOW - Walk to School Challenge' that we have signed up for. This academic year, all children are challenged to increase the number of times they walk, scoot or cycle to school. We are looking forward to becoming healthier and improving the environment around us too. If you want to find out more about the charity, visit their website https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/walk-to-school
Well Hello Yellow day has been a HUGE success and a massive thank you to everyone for your efforts. Thank you to the grown ups too for your donations for non uniform day. The money raised will be donated to Young Minds, a very worthy cause. Throughout this week, Mrs Walch has been carrying out wellbeing activities in the quiet area at lunch time. This has included meditation, craft activities, lavendar scented stress balls and a whole host of other activities. Such has been its success Mrs Walch intends to repeat some of these activities from now onwards on a weekly basis.
Wow, wow wow! What a super effort from this young man today with his writing!
This young man is absolutely determined to achieve his pen licence as soon as he possibly can. Miss Stanley has checked today and the standard is definitely high, now she is looking for consistency and then she may be ready to issue a licence.
We are absolutely thrilled to have won not one, but TWO prizes in the Beat the Street competition. Thank you to everyone who walked, ran, cycled or scooted to help us to collect a phenomenal amount of points. This week Nat from Totally Runable presented us with our prizes - a trophy for first place, two certificates and over £200 in vouchers. Truly fantastic!
This young maths first impressed Mrs Roberts with his magical maths and I was equally amazed when I saw how well his maths brain had been working.
This young lady has really impressed us with some wonderful writing this afternoon. What a star!
This young man has been amazing this morning and has completed an extra maths task independently, showing us his super knowledge! Well done, what a start to Y5.
Eat Them to Defeat Them!
As part of our participation in the Eat Them to Defeat Them challenge we were joined by some life size vegetables at lunchtime today! We are super proud of all our children who have been trying various different vegetables over the last few weeks. Well done everyone!
As part of our participation in the Eat Them to Defeat Them challenge we were joined by some life size vegetables at lunchtime today! We are super proud of all our children who have been trying various different vegetables over the last few weeks. Well done everyone!
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All of our amazing children have worked separately to perform a wonderful festive song. A huge thank you goes out to Mrs Roberts for organising and compiling this for us. Christmas number one here we come!
A fantastic well done to everyone who joined in with festive, non-uniform day for Barnsley Hospice. In total we raised £163.18.
Well done to everyone who joined in with our pyjama day for Children in Need. In total we raised £101.36.
A huge thank you to everyone who came to school in odd socks today. We have shown we are united together against bullying in our school. By continuing to work together, show kindness and respect each other, we can make sure every person in our school feels safe, happy and proud to be themselves.
Thanks to the hard work of Mr Gorner the school has a new football kit, it is modelled here by our outstanding Year 5/6 football teams.
Some of our fantastic Foundations Stage children have been having a ball this week and are coping exceptionally well with the enforced changes. Learning is really coming on at a pace and they are embracing their new environment with some new and interesting areas to explore.
Our fabulous Key Worker children have done an amazing job of their gardening project. The fruits of their labours have started to show with our first radish harvest.
