Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Mangotsfield Festival

  Thu 04 Jun 2015 Claire Perry

  On Saturday 13^thJune, it is Mangotsfield festival, which is a fantastic event that the local schools and clubs take part in.

   

  Barley Close are taking part this year and have two dance performances in the arena (shortly before 12 noon).  We are also very excited to be providing the King and Queen of the festival, who will be leading the parade.

   

  The parade leaves the green outside the lamb at 10.30am, arriving at the festival for it opening at 11.00am and it would be great if lots of Barley Close children could join in.  There is no need to wear school uniform, but children could wear blue or yellow (our Barley Close colours). 

   

  We will meet on the green at 10.15am (all children must be accompanied by an adult) and walk to the festival together.

   

  Friends of Barley Close are also having a stall throughout the day and would welcome any offers of help.

   

  ****Prospective candidates for the King and Queen have been interviewed, (from Year  5 and 6), by the Vice-Chairman of the festival and the successful children will be ‘crowned’ in a special assembly on Tuesday.*****

   

   

   

   

   

• Vacancies

  Wed 27 May 2015
  Please visit the vacancy page to view vacancies we have here at Barley Close.  Details can also be found on Eteach. 

• Year 4 Chameleon Class

  Thu 21 May 2015
  Year 4 Chameleons parents are invited to their children's trombone lessons on Tuesday 16th June at 220pm.

   

  We hope you can make it.

   

  Mrs Capel

• PGL day 3

  Thu 21 May 2015
  
  
  We had a good night's sleep and an enormous, delicious breakfast! 
  
  After getting ready, we split into groups and each did different activities. 
  
  First we went quad biking. It was exciting and we were really impressed with how fast George was going! I had a practise, then went around three times. We had to earn points by avoiding hitting the cones. I earned ten points! 
  
  After that, my group went climbing. We were taught how to belay, which means holding the rope for the people who are climbing so they don't fall. This rhyme helped, "knuckles, pocket, reach around, lock it." Everyone had a go at climbing and Ellie, Maddie and Kalum got all the way to the top. 
  
  Lunch was great, we had yummy hotdogs. Mrs Currie arrived, which was epic, and Mrs Grandsen left, which was sad. Our group went abseiling and lots of people found it a bit scary, but most people had a go. We then went to do Survivor, which meant we learnt how to live outside civilisation. We found out how to build shelters and make fires! 
  
  After all that, it was finally time for dinner! We ate chicken curry and then all got ready for the disco!! Lots of people danced, and Miss Beak and Mrs Currie enjoyed "Cotton eye Joe!" 
  
  We had fun but we were feeling very tired so it was time to get into bed. Zzzzzz another day over! 
  
  Thanks for reading! 
  Sam L and Mrs C 
  
  Orienteering 
  Quad 
  Climbing 
  Abseiling 
  Survivor 
   

• PGL day 2

  Wed 20 May 2015
  On Tuesday we were very busy. We started the day with sausages and omelet for breakfast.After breakfast we did climbing and problem solving. We had to think about how to balance a giant see saw and how to get all of our group through a tyre inner tube without touching it. The climbing was fun because most of the people managed to get to the top of the climbing wall including Mrs King, Mrs Gransden and Charlie! Swimming was fun, we played team games in the water. Luckily we managed to avoid rain showers all day. Looking forward to quad biking and the disco on Wednesday. 

• PGL Day 1

  Tue 19 May 2015

  All of us arrived at PGL safe and sound. We were late because there was a traffic jam. Then we were put into our rooms and played some games. For dinner we had chicken chunks and chips with cheesecake for pudding. Then we had a camp fire with songs and stories.

  We then went to bed all ready for Tuesday.

   

  This mornings blog comes from room 197 (WIll, Ali, Kieran and Kyle)

   

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• Koala Class Assembly

  Thu 14 May 2015 Mrs Crocker

  An assembly not to be missed!

  Koala Class Assembly on Friday 15th May at 2:30 in the school hall.

  Parents, Family and friends welcome.

   

• Thank a Teacher

  Fri 08 May 2015 Mrs Capel

  It's Thank a Teacher week! So to say a thank you to all of the staff at Barley Close, we compiled a short thank you video featuring some of the children. Staff got to see this during Achievement Assembly today which touched us all. I have attached some of the highlights of the video for you to see - find it in the gallery section of the website.

   

  http://www.barleycloseschool.co.uk/gallery/

   

   

  Mrs Capel

• Parking at Barley Close

  Thu 07 May 2015

  At Barley Close we offer full extended services that include a breakfast club, a paid after school club and several additional after school clubs (e.g. football and arts and craft). Due to these commitments and safety of the children arriving and leaving the premises, anytime between 8am and 6.30pm, we keep the school gates closed in order to minimise traffic on the school grounds.

   

  This does have an impact on visitors and parents parking on public roads around Barley Close School. This concern was raised by the school 2012; in response the Local Authority extended the Laurels Carpark (I have attached a map for your reference at the bottom of this article). This is a public carpark with a direct path onto the school grounds. This carpark provides ample free parking for visitors to Barley Close; we have always promoted this facility and asked the swim schools and lettings to do the same. We encourage all parents/carers and visitors to either travel to school by foot, bike or scooter or to use this carpark rather than parking on the street.

   

  We have contacted the local PCSO and he will be making visits to the Barley Close area to ensure drivers are parking and driving legally and safely, any drivers breaking the law will be reported.  

   

  We will reiterate this expectation with all our school lettings.

  

• Megan does something special

  Tue 05 May 2015

  The school was set a holiday challenge during the Easter break (see last news article) and Megan did something really special.

   

  Megan decided she wanted to do something to support her community and help the homeless. She spent hours making sandwiches and a day giving homeless people in the community a healthy meal.

   

  Well done Megan for your kind and inspiring homework challenge!