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September 1, 2010
New School opens on Wednesday 8th September
It's now only a week until our new school opens for pupils on Wednesday 8th September. Staff will be in school on the Monday and Tuesday of that week, getting rooms ready and unpacking over a thousand boxes of equipment transferred from our old school, as well as hundreds of boxes of brand new equipment ordered for the grand opening! Please note that the session times for school have NOT changed!
NB The only gate that will be open, until the demolition and re-setting of the old site is complete, is the ramped entrance on Pembroke Avenue. Pupils (and parents bringing them) should use that entrance and assemble on the Multi Use Games Area (old playground) on our first day back - where staff will collect them and escort them into their new classrooms. The main adult/visitor entrance, now on Athlone Place - as is the dedicated entrance to the Nursery,
At the end of the day, parents collecting children should wait by the canopied area, next to the Pupils Only door.
Please note that several areas of the grounds are newly landscaped and seeded - please keep to the paths around these areas and PLEASE don't allow your children to play on them yet!
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August 17, 2010
2 weeks to go . . .
With only 2 weeks left before the opening of the new school, 30 photos taken in & around the new building on Monday 16th & 23rd August, showing lots of completed areas and lots of unpacking to do! Click on the Image Gallery icon to the top right of this Home page, and then click on the Inside the new school #11 - 16/23 August 2010 link.
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July 22, 2010
End of an era, or the start of a new generation?
Well, that's it. The old Barley Mow School is now officially closed for business. One of the highlights of the last day was a thanksgiving ceremony in the 'Juniors' hall, attended by the vicar of St John's, Gareth Lloyd, quite a few ex-staff, parents and ex-pupils - all there to look back for a while before looking forward with some excitement. When school reopens in September, it will be in the new Mark 2 version, including a Royal Blue tower, complete with metre high letters shouting out our name (visible from the East Coast main rail line) and 6 wind turbines providing more than 10% of the renewable energy our site needs - and can sell back to the National Grid, making some extra money for us! Have a great summer - we certainly will!
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July 20, 2010
Summer Fayre
Our thanks go to our Parents' Group for organising the fayre and also to all those who supported us by attending and spending their money! The amount raised was a fantastic £554.07 which will be spent on extras for our children.
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July 16, 2010
Ofsted 2010
If you are a parent at our school, you may be aware that we were inspected by a team from Ofsted on Thursday 15th & Friday 16th July - only 3 days before we close our old buildings and move into our new school! The results of the inspection have to remain confidential until it is officially released, which will probably be very early in September. Suffice to say that we are VERY pleased with the feedback we have received and are REALLY looking forward to publishing the report as one of our first actions in our new school. The timing of the inspection may have been unfortunate, but the outcome has certainly given the staff and governors reason to smile all through the summer (apart from the usual reasons)!
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Barley Mow Primary School
Pembroke Avenue
Birtley
County Durham
DH3 2DJ
Tel: 0191 410 2758
Fax: 0191 410 9752
