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• Knitting Club

  Mon 29 Sep 2014 Mrs Linford

  We have finished knitting our squares to make blankets for babies and children in Gambia.  The WI ladies helped too and we have sent 6 blankets that are multi-coloured and eye catching.  Mrs McDavid is taking them with her when she visits Gambia in October.  We are looking forward to seeing photographs of them being used.

   

  Our next project is an array of Christmas knitted items.  Watch this space!

• Artsmark Recognition

  Mon 22 Sep 2014 S. Chamberlain
  We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded an Artsmark for the work that we do in the creative arts. We had a visit from an assessor on Friday and they were very complimentary of the school and have given us guidance as to how we could go on to achieve the Artsmark Gold status in the future. Well done to all of the staff & pupils involved in the application we are very proud of the achievement.

• Congratulations to Mrs Beckett

  Mon 15 Sep 2014 S Chamberlain
  Well done to Mrs Beckett who has been made a trainer for the National Association of School Business Managers. This will involve her advising and supporting other business managers around the country. A great recognition for the hard work she puts into this field.

• Football fixtures begin

  Mon 15 Sep 2014 S Chamberlain
  The Football season begins here at Barnby Road on Thursday evening with games for both the A & B teams in the Newark schools league. Please feel free to come along and give your support. Matches will take place after school at approximately 3.45pm. Good luck to both teams for the coming season.

• Thanks from Mr Eveleigh

  Thu 11 Sep 2014 S Chamberlain

  Dear Staff, Governors, Parents and Children,

  A great big thank you for the wonderful “Send offs” I was given last term and for all the fantastic presents and cards... particularly the words. I have re- read over 300 cards and several very beautiful and special letters, which I will treasure and intend to keep in my special box...I’ve just  this minute finished reading my subscription copy of Trout Magazine, checked the time on my lovely new watch, put down my beautifully inscribed glass  full of  wine ( I have enough wonderful wines to keep me less than sober for the next ten years and enough bottles of champagne to think of you every New Year during that ten years); glanced at my signed photo of Mr Martinez (“May he live Forever”) and my lovely  framed photos of school and sports teams, had a few more lovely chocolates from my extensive range, glanced at my  Beano annual, finished my chicken from the fantastic gas barbecue you bought me ,undone my chef’s apron from my even more rotund figure, and am about to pack up with my brand new fishing equipment, having filled up my fishing flask with “Irn Brew”. Leaving the house I will hang up one of my lovely “Gone Fishing signs”, then off to start a new life with the kind wishes and memories of such a fantastic school and community with me for ever.

  Thanks Barnby Road, you are such good people, keep up the work ethic and that fantastic community spirit that makes you and those incredibly deserving Barnby children so very special and so successful.

  I will think of you often,

  Kev Eveleigh

   

   

• Radio Club win national competition

  Wed 10 Sep 2014 S Chamberlain
  Congratulations to the radio club run by Helen Mitchell and John Grindley who at the end of last year entered a competition to create a piece called "Perfect Summer" and ran out the eventual winners. There prize was a £100 Amazon Voucher to buy something to be used at school. The children involved in the winning piece were Callum Mumby, Ned O'Malley, Naomi Burke & Kyle Scott. I will try to upload the piece onto the website sometime this week.