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At Barnby Road Academy our parents value their child's education and "boy" does it pay off. Our intake is on the 49th percentile of national deprivation (Average) yet our children perform in the highest 20% and often 10% of schools in this nation. That's special and it's because teachers, children and parents value education so highly in our community and parents commit to supporting homework and reading in such a fantastic manner. Parents' evenings are vital in this partnership and our teachers are told to pursue all parents and achieve 100% attendance.

 

  DON'T DISAPPOINT YOUR CHILD, MAKE SURE YOU GET YOUR PARENTS' EVENING !

Last Friday saw our great indoor athletics team go to the finals with the last eight schools from over 2000 schools entering representing their areas. We had won the Magnus finals and gone on to win the Newark and Sherwood finals to qualify. We were entertained by dancers and inspired by our Olympic Gold Medal Paired Kayak Slalom team at Nottingham University. The competition was incredibly tough and at this standard you are against children who regularly run or jump in athletics clubs, but we managed a fantastic seventh. That's seventh best in Nottinghamshire and cause for immense pride.

 

Well done Phil, Steve and Holly, who go that extra mile to train up our teams to such a standard and of course, our brilliant squad who gave their all. Great job!

Mrs Dickinson and her team have just finished planning all their new topics on line. You can see their excellent half termly plans for all of 2014 under the "Parents" section of our site, go to "Curriculum" section  and choose "Foundation" from the document section. You can then browse through a whole year's worth of excellent teaching and Learning activities for your child.

 

All our staff are hard at work adapting the New National Curriculum for 2014 , our topics and cross curricular themes will all be formatted in lovely clear frames for you to see.

 

Yesterday we began working on the New Maths Curriculum, Mrs Linford our Maths leader took all the staff through the new curriculum in an excellent day of activities and awareness challenges. It was a brilliant piece of work to start this months work on year group maths planning. We will be very ready for 2014's changes!

Have a fantastic half term folks ...but don't forget ,we're off on Monday the 24th and our first day back is Tuesday 25th. The Teachers are being trained in the New Maths Curriculum for September 2014. Mrs Linford(Maths Co-ordinator), says we've all got to practice our tables over the half term holiday!

Once Upon a Time, a little while ago 75 children and their staff lived in a little school called Barnby Road and...

 

Fairy tale day was fantastic ,loads of exciting activities and those wonderful outfits. A massive thank you to all the MUMS, Dads, Carers and Grandparents who helped to find such fantastic outfits! Princesses, Red Riding Hoods, Snow Whites, Brave knights, Jacks and Bean Stalks, Rapunzels, Big bad Wolves, Beasts...you name it. Staff too: Mrs Barbuti (always a Princess), Mrs Cove and Mrs Gore the Snow White Twins, Mrs Brunning an Evil Old Witch, Miss Moor another Red Riding hood. We made three pig cakes, they need to be very afraid 'cos...we'll "wolf" those down !

 

Look up our photos on the Year One Classpages!

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.

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!

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

 

 

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