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• Brilliant Concert 70 children ,Wow!

  Tue 11 Feb 2014
  A big thanks to the orchestra, recorders and our many tuition children for their great concert on Sunday afternoon at Barnby Gate church. A fantastic audience of parents and friends witnessed the growing success of our "Music School". The Orchestra is going from strength to strength and has a massive 45 members...I don't think I know of another primary school with one that large. The support Mrs Greeley has garnered from staff, t uition teachers and TA's is truly brilliant. Both choirs performed and it was a first outing for our year three recorder players- over 20 children performed under the direction of Mrs Linford. A number of children performed solos too...cello, flute, piano and percussion. At the Barnby Road Academy we have invested heavily in our music school and tuition and boy can you see it paying off! Special thanks to Mr Higgins for arranging this one.

• A massive 161 applications for the school

  Mon 10 Feb 2014
  Another  massively high number of preferences for places at Barnby Road Academy, it remains one of Nottinghamshire's most popular and most sought after schools. 161 preferences is quite stunning. The criteria will be applied as printed on our website and the first 75 will receive places!

• Indoor Atletics Team Go to County Final Again!

  Mon 10 Feb 2014

  In the second round of qualifiers we went on to take on the Sherwood teams as part of the Newark and Sherwood competition of 56 schools. This brings in Ravenshead , Southwell and the Newark Town champions.

  I a fiercely tight competition we put in some superb performances despite one or two slip ups in in running events to amass a fantastic 97 points to put ourselves into the County finals at Trent University. The second time in consecutive years we have won this prestigious indoor event. We now become the Newark and Sherwood representative side to face the other six county regions and the City of Nottingham.

   

  It was a brilliant afternoon for us the top three were:

   

  1st     Barnby Road Academy

  2nd    Lowes Wong Southwell

  3rd    Chuter Ede

   

  Massive thanks to our coaches, Mr Chamberlain, Mr Shephard and Miss Newman.

   

  The team were:

   

  Harry Chessor                  Lylah Hall

  Oliver Clarke                    Ebony Smith

  Henry Beedham              Mollie Hill

  Addison Thurlby              Millie warren

  Owen West                     Cerys Brompton

  Ben Tranter                     Abbie Moffoot

  Gabriel Jenkins               Julia Higgins

  Vincent Fairchild             Libby Johnson

  Joshua Burkitt                 Georgina Mc Keown

  
   

   

• Our First swimming Gala Team

  Thu 06 Feb 2014

  Fourth Place for our first ever gala a great effort and some dominant performances from our younger girls fo the future:

  The team was:

  Michael O connor

  Harry Chessor

  Lucy Brown

  Henry Beedham

  Molly Prowse

  Rosie Pitchford

  Louis Darchieux

  Cara Barbuti

  Daniel Morris

  Sophie Lamont

  Zachary O'Brien

  Olivia Morris

  William Parsons Frankie Ward

  Sophie Ballard

  Joshua Mee

  Holly Hunt

  Daniel Pitchford

  Finlay Cantwell

• INSET CLOSURE Monday 24th February

  Thu 06 Feb 2014
  School is closed for the New Mathematics Curriculum Training.

• Your February Newsletter is out

  Tue 04 Feb 2014
  Please go to Newsletters under Parent section.

• Ebony,Oliver and Gabriel star in Notts X- Country Finals

  Mon 03 Feb 2014

  On Saturday 3 children from Barnby Road represented Newark and Sherwood District at the Nottinghamshire Schools X -Country Championships.

   

  They ran  superbly on a very demanding course and were a credit to Newark and our school. The course was twice as far as they are used to running in local competitions. The results were great:

   

  Girls: 70 entrants- Ebony Smith 6th and Newark and Sherwood's first girl home. Fantastic!

   

  Boys 75 entrants- Gabriel Jenkins 18th and Oliver Clarke 30th. Gabriel was the first Newark and Sherwood boy home and Oliver the third Newark and Sherwood boy home.

   

  We are massively proud of all three!

• Knitting club finish their first project

  Tue 28 Jan 2014
  The wonderful knitters and their excellent WI trainers have finished their first project, knitting the most lovely little clutch bags, a must have item this season. We hope to grab some photos soon before they go onto their next knit. Rumour has it that Egg Coseys  might be on the way just in time for Easter. What a great Barnby Club!

• Government Confirms Free School meals for Foundation Two and Key Stage One Pupils

  Tue 28 Jan 2014

  As head teacher I thoroughly approve of children having meals cooked on site and I know that this initiative will save families about £400 per child a year and should prove a big saving for many families. This policy comes into force on September 2014.

   

  Like many schools in the country we are busy working out the logistics of feeding a 75% increase in hot meals and will be bidding for extra ovens, freezers and kitchen equipment and negotiating new contracts with our caterer.

   

  Our meals have been steadily increasing in take up since Louise, then Debbie became our cooks and we are providing good ,balanced healthy meals at a great cost.

   

  The DFE found that the very large majority of primary parents took up the offer and there was a significant increase in older children then joining their younger siblings in having a dinner.

   

  We will continue to plan our way through this initiative and will update parents as we go along.

• SUNITA BRINGS INDIA ALIVE FOR YEAR THREE

  Tue 28 Jan 2014
  We had an India day visit from Sunita last week. She came in to give year three an authentic experience of India, it's dress, customs ,religions, food and of course some wonderful Rangoli patterns already on display in the corridor! Have a look at our India workshop on our Year three class page, lots of great photos!