Water Safety…
Many thanks to Barnsley Premier Leisure for visiting us to share some key messages on Water Safety. Some excellent advice for everyone ahead of the warmer weather.
Community
In the Heart of Our Community
A finishing touch to our extension has been completed by artist Adam Briscoe. Please enjoy the fruits of his labour. Adam will be working with some of our children and his work has certainly captured the imagination and attention of everybody who has seen it! Some exciting artistic possibilities in store at Birkwood.
Special Opening Ceremony
We were privileged to host our opening ceremony for our magnificent extension. The facilities are wonderful and are set to serve the future (and present) children of Cudworth for a considerable period of time.
Many thanks to our special guests, Father David and Marie Kenealy. It was a pleasure to link their sterling service to our school and the children of Cudworth with this exciting event. Two genuine pillars of our local community who shall not be forgotten. To welcome a wide range of special visitors who all have personal links to our school was humbling. Many thanks to the staff team that enabled the special celebration to happen. It was a memorable experience for our school community, and we are lucky to have such beautiful facilities.
Road Safety Launch
Our School Council have featured in the Barnsley Chronicle. They have assisted Barnsley MBC in a new road safety campaign. They aim to remind pedestrians, cyclists, motorbike users and drivers that road safety is everyone’s responsibility. We were delighted to assist!
Feeding Families Barnsley
We were delighted to welcome Georgia & Jason who represented Feeding Families Barnsley following a request from one of our lovely families to connect with them. They do sterling work and will be an organisation that we are keen to support. A fabulous venture that meets our 100% Kindness Value perfectly!
Road Safety School Council Stars
We were delighted to help Barnsley Council in promoting successful Road Safety around the Borough. Our School Council were filmed for some awareness campaigns to attempt to keep everyone safe around schools. A brilliant activity that we are proud to endorse!
eSafety Workshop
We worked with Leeder Safeguarding and our parents to spread the need for effective safety online and when using devices and their apps! We certainly were made to think hard around something that affects so many people worldwide! Thank you to our families who were able to support and a special mention to the children for some excellent contributions.
Every Little Helps?
We have appeared at Tesco Stairfoot & Tesco Wilthorpe to attempt to raise money for our Breakfast Provision! Should you shop here then please help us out! Many thanks in advance, ‘Come on Birkwood!’
Wear Red Day
We are excited to be participating in Wear Red Day in honour of The Children’s Heart Surgery Fund again this year.
CHSF provide life-saving medical equipment for the Leeds Congenital Heart Unit, parent accommodation for families and vital ward resources. They are wholly funded by donations and provide help to over 17,000 babies, children, and adults each year who are affected by congenital heart disease.
This is a fantastic local charity who have supported several of our families in their time of need.
This day is Friday 2nd February 2024.
Children are invited to wear red, which may include their uniform.
All we ask is that you send a donation, which will be an amount of your choice.
It’s a simple yet powerful way to show unity and raise awareness about the incredible work they do.
We will also be selling buns throughout the day. Prices will range from 50p to £1. Donations of buns would also be greatly appreciated.
Christmas Super Soiree 2023
Birkwood hosted our Key Stage 2 Christmas Extravaganza – The Soiree. The performers were absolutely wonderful and provided fabulous entertainment for our audience. A huge thank you to our staff team for helping to provide such a special evening. Merry Christmas everyone!
Christmas Fayre 2023
Thank you to everyone who attended our Christmas Fayre. As always, we were terrifically supported. This is so gratefully received and shows just what an #IncredibleCommunity we truly are. The leadership of Miss Taylor & Mrs. Whitfield comes to the fore in days like this. I salute them and their loyal helpers. To work with such lovely, caring and talented people is an absolute pleasure. I am very proud of their efforts and the support that everyone gives them. Wonderful stuff! So thank you to everyone again. A special thank you too to FB’s Mum who has donated an enormous amount of goodies for the selection box raffle! Also, well done and thank you to the Year 6 photographers for their super work in helping with this video.
Festive Feast
Many thanks to our lovely Lunchtime Team – Christmas Dinner was superb! Our new Kitchen made its Christmas Lunch debut and fed a lot of grateful and hungry customers; we had a super time enjoying a delicious, traditional lunch.
Macmillan Magic
Many thanks to John from Macmillan who came to collect our donation from the sponsored read and walk. Thank you to every single person who has helped. This includes every single child at Birkwood as we all helped by participating in one of the events. A true team and community effort!
What a Day!
One of our Year 5 Superstars has a great friend in Jacob Brown (Luton Town FC.) Of course, we are all reds fans here at Birkwood but after leaving Barnsley, Jacob Brown hasn’t forgotten one of our superstars. He invited him to see Luton v Manchester City and ensured he had something special to mark the day – his own shirt! Sensational stuff.
Christmas Lights 2023
Many thanks to Cudworth Ward Alliance. We joined Churchfield and Cherry Dale to celebrate the Christmas Lights switch on! Forming a choir, we entertained a very healthy audience. Thank you also to the Brass Quartet from Barnsley Met Band for their accompaniment. The choir enjoyed meeting Santa who presented them with a delicious treat! A lovely, community occasion.
Delivery Update
Thanks to these amazing young ladies…….. Mr. Davis was delighted (thanks to him too) to deliver SOME of our donations to Barnsley Action for Homeless. We are thrilled with everyone and humbled by YOUR kindness. We have more to drop off along with £170 in cash! 100% Kindness being shown by our #IncredibleCommunity an amazing effort by everyone.
Concept Maps
Today is our final spreadsheets lesson. We are creating concept maps to show off everything that we have learnt during this strand.
Thank You
We have been blown away yet again by the kind, thoughtful community that we serve. A massive well done to everyone who has contributed to helping Action for Barnsley Homeless. We are currently working out how we can deliver this amazing response! Great work from the Year 3 girls who have been the creative, driving force behind this amazing event. Have a look at their sterling work here…..
https://www.facebook.com/p/Action-for-Barnsley-Homeless-100064809005480/?locale=en_GB
Reading at Birkwood
Mrs. Wilkie has been hosting family reading presentations to share what we do at Birkwood in the teaching and learning of reading. Our families have also visited our library and enjoyed several recommendations of howe we can help our children at home. A super initiative.
MP Visits Birkwood
Our School Council were visited by Stephanie Peacock MP. Stephanie shared her experiences as an MP, answered lots of questions and also received a tour of the ‘New Birkwood!’ A great privilege to welcome Stephanie to school.
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