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November 13, 2008
MORE GOOD NEWS ABOUT OUR REDEVELOPMENT!
We have today been informed that Gateshead Council have received approval from the Department for Children, Schools & Families (DCFS) for their plans to rebuild and redevelop schools in Gateshead. As we have already been identified as a priority site (see June 13, 2008 below), we now look forward to this process beginning in earnest, with a target date for opening the new school in 2001 / 2012. Consultations are planned for later this year, involving, school staff & pupils, Governors and Parents, as well as the wider local community. We have already expressed the opinion that this is a wonderful opportunity to create a further community facility that should last through this century, for our present pupils and for generations to come.
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October 24, 2008
Playground Main Pedestrian Entrance
The installation of the new ramp at the lower playground entrance is due to start during our half term break. The Borough Engineer's Department have informed us that the work is scheduled to last 2-3 weeks, so during that time, that entrance will not be useable. All children and adults will need to use the main school pedestrian entrance, on the hill next to the bus stop and and go onto the playground via the gate next to the car park. Children have been instructed not to cut across the car park, because of the danger from vehicles, but to use the footpath which runs around the outside of the car park. We apologise for this temporary disruption while access to our site is significantly improved.
Update - November 2008
Parents will have gathered that this work did not take place! At present, we are awaiting an explanation and a new date for the work to begin - WATCH THIS SPACE!
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October 2008 Newsletter
Why not have a read of our latest Parents Newsletter? It contains information on the following topics:
- School Holiday Dates
- Key Stage 2 SATs 2009
- Main Playground Entrance / Additional site works
- Key Stage 2 Mini-Laptops Project
- Birtley Children's Centre @ Barley Mow
- Pupil Safety / Vehicle Access
- School Council Conference Report
- Harvest Celebration
- Morrisons / Flora / Ragbag / British Gas - School schemes
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October 3, 2008
School Car Park - Entry Restriction
Please note that the school car park gates will be closed to all traffic between 8.30am and 10am each morning. If you need to come to visit school by car during these times, you will need to park on the main road outside school and enter through the pedestrian gates. Unfortunately, this has been made necessary because of a small number of people who have persisted in using the car park to drop off passengers, putting other pedestrian users at risk at a busy time of day. This restriction will continue for the foreseeable future.
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August 27, 2008
Return to school & KS2 SATs results - Update 5th September
School re-opened for pupils on Tuesday 2nd September 2008. A limited selection of some sizes of some items of uniform are available from the school office. Items needing to be ordered are expected to take approximately 2 weeks for delivery.
Our English SATs results arrived in the middle of August, and the SATs papers finally returned on September 3rd! The results have been verified and posted out to our former Y6 pupils' parents. We can now confirm that our English, Maths and Science results are officially the best in our school's history! We are really proud of our pupils and are extremely happy that they all got the results their efforts deserved.
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July 11, 2008
Key Stage 2 SATs Results
We are still waiting for the return of our Year 6 children's SATs papers and the confirmation of their results and levels. However, Year 6 parents will need to make an appointment to come in, collect their child's report, discuss its contents and receive a Teacher Assessment level for their child. Again, our apologies for this delay - it is very definitely out of our control and we are as frustrated about it as you and your children are!
Update - Tuesday 15th July
We have now received the results for the Maths and Science SATs, which the children have been told about - written confirmations will be sent out on Friday 18th July. English results are also expected on this date. Without going into detail, we are very happy with the results received so far - they are the best in our school's history!
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June 30, 2008
New Birtley Children's Centre @ Barley Mow Photographs
Have a look in the Gallery section to see what all the fuss surrounding the Children's Centre has been about (and why we're so pleased with it) - before anyone else sees it or even moves in!
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June 13, 2008
New School Proposed for Barley Mow!
At the Gateshead Council Cabinet meeting on Tuesday 3rd June, approval was given for proposals to be submitted to the Department for Children, Schools & Families (DCSF) in London which identified our school as being a priority for a replacement building under the national Primary Capital Programme! This could mean that a new school building could open on our site as early as 3-4 years time. We take the view that this should be the next step in the regeneration of our site as full service community facility. Needless to say, we are rather pleased about this news!
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June 6, 2008
School Staff Car Park
Please note that on safety grounds the staff car park should not be used to drop off or pick children up before and after school. Pedestrian gates are sited OUTSIDE the car park and BELOW the main playground. Vehicles authorised by the school are the only vehicles allowed to use the car park.
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June 3, 2008
Tyne Tees Television News
If you were watching the early evening local news on ITV1 on Saturday May 24th 2008, you would have seen a short feature about our project involving Year 6 and our W.I. Ladies!
A copy of the item is now available to view or download from this website, by following the path Community>Vigo Women's Institute. Also available are copies of the BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour broadcast, the national W.I. Life magazine article and a link to the Evening Chronicle website for the full page article published about us there.
This is just the latest in a series of very positive news articles that have been published about us this year!
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Barley Mow Primary School
Pembroke Avenue
Birtley
County Durham
DH3 2DJ
Tel: 0191 410 2758
Fax: 0191 410 9752
