More Jubilee Party photos

We wanted to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, so many of the Primary children made Union Jack hats in their art lessons. They very kindly made one for me as well! We also decided to include teddy bears as a way of earning house points, and thanks to the generosity of a friend of mine who is gifted at crochet, my bear (originally bought for me by pupils at school) was able to be just as patriotic!

Someone's hiding behind a bear here!

This bear is also very patriotic!

More bears:

Even the food was patriotic!

We sang the National Anthem and listened to 'Rule Britannia' as we played 'Pass the Parcel', so all in all, a day to honour the Queen's long reign over us!

Jubilee Party photos

Today was the Jubilee Party in school, followed by cream teas for parents in the Community Café. Altogether, the event raised £145.82, with an additional £6 raised through the sale of BCS anniversary mugs. Many, many thanks to all who gave so generously, who baked for us, who gave their time and efforts to making this such a fun event!

Here we've got photos of setting up the event:

This is what the Sports Hall looked like when it was fully decorated with everyone there:

We started off with a game 'Pin the Crown on the Queen', with beautifully designed props (thanks, Sam!), colour-coded by house:

Then we played 'Pass the Parcel', with Union Jack wrapping paper!

Jubilee Party

As I'm sure you're all more than aware, this year is the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, celebrating 60 years as our monarch. To celebrate this event, FBCS will be holding a street party with a difference on Friday 25th May from 2.30 p.m. until 3.30 p.m.

The difference? Well, it's not on the street, obviously! We will be holding the party in the Sports Hall, but we hope to make it feel like a street party! We will be serving buns, jellies and drinks on a red, white and blue theme and hope pupils will bring along their teddy bears to make it a Teddy Bears' picnic as well as a street party! The whole school will be involved, and hopefully we will enjoy afternoon tea at the same time as raising funds for the school (the party will cost £2 to cover costs, with any profits going into school funds.)

After the pupils' party, we will be serving cream teas for parents in the Community Café, to ensure that no one misses out!

Make a note of the date in your diaries (it's the Friday before we break up for Spring Bank) and let's do our bit to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee in school!

Memories of BCS

One of the things that we like to do at FBCS is give something back directly for the pupils of the school. Fund-raising is a difficult thing to do and it's harder if pupils can't actually see the benefits of the things we do. We've spent a lot of money recently on refurbishing the building and purchasing equipment, but this tends to be functional and practical rather than of visible benefit to pupils. So we were very pleased recently to be able to purchase customised 'Memories of Barnsley Christian School' for Y11 pupils who will soon be leaving school.

This week we had a Senior assembly to present these books to the Y11s.

Mrs Wagstaff and Mrs Stead handed over the books to pupils:

Here they all are with their books!

It's a small gesture, but we hope to have started a new tradition at the school and that in this, our 25th anniversary year, pupils may leave here with some excellent memories of school and take with them far more than simply a leavers' book!

Easter Bake 'n' Take

The Easter Bake 'n' Take was held today, raising £69.30. Many thanks to all who baked (there were some amazing Easter buns on display today, truly magnificent, and some fantastic cakes!) Many thanks to all who bought!

Coming soon

The next Bake 'n' Take will be on Monday 26th March at 3 p.m. Do bring along your home baking that morning and we hope to raise some more funds (as well as eating well!) in the afternoon.

The next FBCS Planning meeting will be on Monday 16th April at 7.30 p.m. in school. That's the first day back after the Easter holidays, so do put the date in your diaries now!

We will be having a Bag2School day on Friday 27th April, so if you are having a spring clean and a clear-out, do save any old clothes, bedding, towels, shoes and belts for that. Bags will be sent out before the Easter break.

March updates

The Pancake Party was utterly exhausting but very well attended and raised £72.31. We will be holding a Bake 'n' Take on Monday 26th March at 3 p.m., so do please contribute your home baking for this event and we hope it will be a fantastic afternoon.

Many of you may wonder what the money is actually spent on that we raise. Well, just recently we have bought new radio-controlled clocks for each classroom (so that we are all starting and ending lessons on time, given that we have no automatic bell system in the building) and new memory for the laptops in school. These things may seem unglamorous or unexciting, but it's the little things that can make a real difference to the smooth running of the school.