As part of their History unit of work and tying in with Black History Month, Y2 have been finding out about the life of Bessie Coleman. Bessie was the first black female aviator. Here are a few facts that Y2 found out: She was not treated...
A HUGE THANK YOU for your incredible generosity this Harvest time. Your donations will be distributed between Homeless Action in Barnet and the Chipping Barnet Food Bank later this week. You can still bring in donations on Wed 7th or Thurs 8th October. ...
We hope you've all had a good Summer break. We are really looking forward to seeing all of the children again on Friday 4th September. Just a reminder that we have 2 INSET days (2nd and 3rd September)....
Year 4 have created a beautiful, motivational butterfly door display :) 'Your wings already exist...
It is with deep regret that we have closed our school today. Please take comfort in this reading entitled 'By the Hand' inspired by Isaiah 42:6. We will certainly be in touch with parents as soon as we have any more information. Sending all our...
We had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day last Thursday. The children had the opportunity to choose and listen to a story being read by a member of staff, somewhere in the school. This created great excitement and was enjoyed by all. It was...
We are delighted to announce that following our Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools (SIAMS) inspection on 13th February, we have been judged 'excellent' in all areas. The report can be found here: 2020 SIAMS St Marys VA Barnet FINAL.docx See the newsletters page for more details. ...
Y1 are learning about the incredible paintings by Georgia O'Keefe. They looked at the details in flowers and sketched their own enlarged, detailed flowers, using shading to create shadow and applied both hard and soft pressure with a pencil to create effects. This links to science...
Last week, Year 5 went to see the result of Storm Dennis. A tree that has stood in Brookside for approximately 50 years recently met its end. The children found it quite moving and wrote poems on their return to the classroom using personification. ...
To mark Shrove Tuesday earlier this week, Y5 made pancakes and discovered that 'to shrive' means 'to seek forgiveness', 'shrove' being past tense. The children used maths and science skills to prepare and cook the ingredients. ...