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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!

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!

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.

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!

Benjamin Winter was born last night, a whopping 9lbs 12 oz.

Congratulations to Becky and Rob, I know many of her parents and children have been asking. Becky has promised she'll bring him in when she's back home and settled. We are all delighted for her!

Have a look at the year four page...your Mummy's on it!

Our brilliant new year four teacher Mr Barnett doesn't let the grass grow under his feet. He's a talented musician and pianist helping to expand Mrs Greeley's talented Barnby Academy Music School team. He's going to take on the boys and get them singing in his own boys choir on Monday lunchtimes. He's got a fantastic range of good fun and modern stuff lined up for them. Thanks Mr Barnett...I've heard some of those boys in year six sing...so good luck with that !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday we became Newark Indoor Champions for the fourth year in a row. Chuter Ede were second for the fourth year in a row (Maz D'Bouk told us this!). A fantastic performance by all of the children with some great efforts in the field events.

 

Team Members 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

 

Well done Mr Chamberlain and Mr Shephard for coaching the squad!