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Well done to the Barlow Hall children who not only took part in the Time Capsule Pavement Slab drawing competition but also submitted one of the winning entries. Congratulations also to Natalia Guttadauro for achieving second prize in the Ward MPJeff Smith’s Christmas Card Competition for all the schools in the area. We look forward now to a very busy Christmas schedule which can be found at the side of this article, please take a moment to look at what’s coming up so that you don’t miss anything, and we look forward to seeing many of you at our Christmas performances.Jayne KennedySPOTLIGHT
Year 5/6
Year 5/6 have been learning all about 'What makes the Earth angry' this half term. We have learned about different natural disasters, why they are caused and the devastating human and natural effects they can have. We have carried our topic into literacy where we have written news reports on the recent events in Haiti and poems about natural disasters!
Next term, we are learning all about the legacies left behind by the Ancient Greeks. To make a WOW start to our topic we will be holding our own Olympic games as a phase. We are currently working on the organisation of some special guests to our games with appearances from real-life Olympians in the pipeline.
In Year 5/6, we are now setting weekly writing challenges on our blog. There have been some very impressive entries so far. The children love to receive comments on their work so please feel free to visit our blogsite uks22016.barlowhallblogs.net and leave some feedback for the children.
Time Capsule Competition
Congratulations to Mirza and Zac who represented Barlow Hall at a celebration event in St Peter's Square to mark the burial of a time capsule. Only four schools across Manchester were selected to attend the event following a drawing competition in which Barlow Hall Children were one of the winning entries. Our artwork was used to inspire the design of an engraved paving slab which marks the location of the buried time capsule.
New School Nurse
Our new school nurse will be in school every Friday morning so if any parent would like to see her please see Sharon Drinkwater (our parent support adviser or Jen Holden, our Deputy Head who will be happy to arrange a referral for you.
The School nurse will also be running some parent workshops around health issues and we will advise you when these will be held.
Please see the Christmas events section on the first page for upcoming dates,
To see our regularly updated website calendar for more details of what is happening in school.
Well done to those children who have received Child of the Week Awards for demonstrating excellent behaviours that are supporting their learning and helping them to achieve well.
This week the following children were awarded Child of the Week Certificates:
Aris Spencer Lillie Laila Jai Boa Remaas Alfie S Aaliyah G Errin Adam Holly Mohamad Hassan
If your child is to receive a certificate in our Celebration Assembly on Monday at 9:10 am we will send out a text to let you know
Attendance and Punctuality
ATTENDANCE: NATIONAL EXPECTATION = 96%
Barlow Hall attendance from28/11/ to 2/12/16
Present 95.6% Lates: 31 Unauthorised Absence: 1.4%
Nur B77.5% Nur Y77.5% Nur R89.2%
Rec O 92.5% Rec P 100 %
1NA93.9% 1/2EH87.6%2SK93.6%
3LH 96.3% ¾ 94.5% 4AM98.6%
5AV 98.6% 5MJ 98.3%6AB99.7%
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