Barnby Road Academy were very fortunate to receive a visit from Olympic Gold Medallist Shona Mccallin on Wednesday 8^th January 2020. Shona has represented the GB women’s hockey team for a number of years and was part of the team that won gold at the Rio Olympics in 2016. She spoke to the children about her career and achievements to date and surprised them with the information that it all began at Newark Hockey club. The children were blown away by the visit and were amazed when she brought out her Gold medal to show them.

Some of the children were fortunate to have seen Shona play when the school took 26 Year six children to the Lee Valley hockey centre to watch the GB women & men qualify for the Tokyo Olympics in November 2019. The school hopes this inspires the children to be the best they can be and set aspirational goals in their own futures. We wish Shona and her team mates all the best in their quest for Olympic glory this year in Tokyo.

 

 

We have been lucky enough to secure the opportunity to screen the Nottingham Playhouse Panto: On Demand at Barnby Road Academy. All children in school will be watching a recorded live version of 'Sleeping Beauty' this week! (Oh yes they will....Oh no they won't!). Please talk to your children about the show which we thought was fantastic!

Please see our music pages to view where  the Chamber choir have been singing this week!

https://www.barnbyroadprimary.com/musical-events-and-achievements/

Please pop over to our class page to have a sneak peak at our motley crew and their adventures today!

We raised a whopping £2396.84 at the Christmas fair on Friday! 💰💰💰This is set to increase as we hope to access some match funding to take our total beyond £3000! A huge thank you to the Friends group and to everyone who supported the fair.

The SATs meeting tonight will be in Tree Frogs classroom at 5pm. We look forward to seeing you there.

Today a group of Year 4 children decorated our Christmas tree at The Parish Church. Our theme this year was ‘Who inspires you?’ and our decorations were created by our Year 3 and 4 children. Pop along and see the children’s efforts - it looks amazing! 

What talented chess players we have at Barnby!  We took 4 teams (16 players) to John Blow in Collingham to take part in the Autumn Chess Tournament against five other schools and they amazed us with their play.  Each child played three games and if they won each one, they gained a medal - we came home with many medals!  At the end of the competition, Barnby Road A & B finished in joint first place with Barnby C finishing third.  Well done children!

The choir's version of the mental health song 'Just be you' is now available to listen to on our music page https://www.barnbyroadprimary.com/musical-events-and-achievements/ This version is just our choir and I hope you agree, sounds amazing!

 

The full version, 7 choirs combined, is also available to download from the Shaw mind foundation website, with proceeds going to this local mental health charity.

 https://shawmindfoundation.org/

https://www.barnbyroadprimary.com/autumn-term-1/