Thank you for requesting your slots for the Parent Meetings in January. Your children have all now been given reply slips confirming your appointment times. Please see your child's class teacher if this time is inconvenient.

Many thanks.

Dear Parents/Carers

 

I am writing to inform you that, should you wish to pick your children up earlier on Friday 21^st December, we will allow them to be collected from 1.15pm onwards. If you are unable to do this don’t worry as the children will still be supervised in school and will be doing fun activities in their classrooms.

The intention is to ease the traffic congestion outside school on what is always a manic time on any normal Friday, but especially on the last weekend before Christmas.

May I take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all the staff at Barnby Road Academy.

 

The new term begins on Monday 7^th January 2019.

 

Yours sincerely

Steven Chamberlain

Just a reminder that it is non uniform day on Thursday 6th December. We ask that each child brings in a tombola prize on that day.

If your child is in Year 2 or Year 6 they are able to come in non uniform on Friday 7th December as Year 2 have their pirate day on Thursday and year 6 are on a trip to the Holocaust Centre.

Many Thanks

A big well done to reception and year 6 for working together to make baubles for the Barnby Road Christmas tree that is on display in St Mary Magdalene Parish Church in Newark. Some of the staff and a selection of year 6 children have just been decorating the tree and it looks amazing. Please visit the Tree festival and admire the super teamwork from the children.

As most of you are aware we have now launched our new School App.

You can use the App to receive messages from school and it also contains updates and quick links to our website, calendar and Facebook page.

The App is free and really easy to download, with so many benefits we'd like to encourage you all to download it!!

 

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the office.

It was great to see one of our governors Mr Damon Fox come into school yesterday to listen to some children read and share some of his favourite children's books. We are continually trying to promote a love of reading at the school and value the support from our governors.

A big well done to all of the children who represented the school at either chess or handball last night. We had approximately 50 children at the two events with a number of them representing Barnby Road for the first time at a tournament. The chess players all performed very well and each team is well positioned in the league table after the first of 3 tournaments that will take place during the year. The handball teams were also great and I am pleased to announce that we secured 1st and 2nd position with two of our teams and they will now both go on to represent the school in the county finals.

We have had a fantastic spotty day for Children in Need today. The Pupil Council organised biscuit decorating and a colouring competition to help us raise money. We also had a special visit from Pudsey. In total, we raised a whopping £735 for Children in Need today! Well done to all of the Pupil Council for organising such a fantastic day and thank you to everybody who donated.

We are sad to say that our governor, Pam White, passed away earlier this week. Pam had been a governor for a number of years and worked tirelessly for the school. We will miss her.