Barnburgh Primary School

House Leaders

At Barnburgh Primary School we have four Houses and everyone who comes to our school becomes a member of one of them. Our four Houses are;

EINSTEIN HOUSE: 'You never fail until you stop trying'

HAWKING HOUSE: 'However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.'

TERESA HOUSE: 'Kind words are short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.'

MANDELA HOUSE: 'The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.'

We have Captains and Vice Captains for each team who are elected into their role at the start of each year. Our current house captains are:

EINSTEIN HOUSE:  Dominic (Captain) Kayra (Vice Captain)

HAWKING HOUSE:  Ella W (Captain) Harriet (Vice Captain)

TERESA HOUSE:  Joshua T (Captain) Ruby (Vice Captain)

MANDELA HOUSE:  Maddison (Captain) Eva (Vice Captain)

 SCHOOL LEADER: Thomas

Every day children at our school work hard to be rewarded with House Points. At the end of every week the House Captains work out how many House Points each team has achieved and the winning House is announced in our Achiever's assembly. We keep a cumulative tally of the House Points and at the end of the year the House with the most House Points will win the trophy.

Any children who fill their House Point log receive a certificate in assembly and have the opportunity to exchange their log for a new book for their class library.

Finally, every week the class teachers do a House Point draw. All our house point tokens get placed together and the teacher draws one token from the pile. The child whose name is on the token enjoys a VIP experience by having dinner at the Top Table with the Headteacher and sitting on a chair next to their teacher during assembly.

Every half term the House Captains and Vice Captains organise a House Event to raise money for a chosen charity.

The Great Barnburgh Bake Off 2019

On Tuesday 12th November 2019 our House Captains ran their first event -  The Great Barnburgh Bake Off . We were overwhelmed with the quality of the entries and our Junior Leaders very quickly realised how difficult judging is! The children raised £280.80 of which they donated half to cancer research (the children’s chosen charity) and half remained in the children’s bank.

Barnburgh's Got Talent 2019

Our last House Event for this year was the famous Barnburgh's Got Talent. It was just as popular as ever this year with 30 acts auditioning from across school. The House Captains and Vice Captains invited these children to audition for them. The auditions were so good that we invited all the entrants to the Barnburgh's Got Talent Finals. We held a Mini Barnburgh's Got Talent on Tuesday 25th June at 10am for our Early Years entrants and then KS1 and KS2 Barnburgh's Got Talent on the same day after school. 

There were comedians, dancers, singers and musicians. It was a fabulous day with some great talent on show. 

Please watch the video below for all the auditions. Please see the images below of all the winners and 2nd places in each of the categories:

Foundation Stage

Key Stage 1

Lower Key Stage 2

Upper Key Stage 2

From all the auditions, each act received 5 house points, 30 house points for all the 2nd place acts and 50 house points for all the 1st place acts. This meant overall in this event Einstein won 85 points, Teresa won 100 house points, Mandela won 115 points and Hawking won a massive 155 points. Well done to everyone who auditioned!

Wear Purple for JIA day

On Friday 14th June, we held a fundraising event in school to raise money for JIA - at - NRAS. This is the Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) branch of the charity National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society. 

This was so special to us at Barnburgh Primary School as one of our youngest pupils in school is an advocate for this charity. Heidi Willis, in Reception, has raised over £800 already for this charity and received a special award at the Houses of Parliament. JIA is the most common type of arthritis in children. It causes inflammation in a child’s joints and can be very painful.

Every year, the charity runs this as a national event. We wore anything purple for the day…this could have been purple socks, a purple headband, a purple t-shirt or a full purple outfit. Purple hair and accessories were also allowed on this day.

We asked everyone who wore purple to kindly donate £1 to this worthy cause. Thank you to everyone who took part and donated. We raised £185. Thank you.

Pictures of the classes in purple can be found below. 

Red Nose Day/Comic Relief 2019

For Comic Relief 2019, the House Captains and Vice Captains decided to run two competitions. One was a 'Design a Red Nose' competition and the other was a 'Best Joke' competition.

Children from every class and every house entered. A winner  and second place was chosen from each class for each competition. The winner received 30 house points and second place received 15 house points. Every one who entered received 5 house points. A massive 66 children took part in the 'Design a Red Nose' competition and 37 children entered the 'Best Joke' competition. 

We raised a massive £228 for Comic Relief - thank you to everyone!

The winners were... 'Design a Red Nose' competition...

Foundation Stage 1 -       1st - Ava           2nd - Eloise 

Foundation Stage 2 -       1st - Austin      2nd - Llewyn

Year 1 -                                 1st - Perri         2nd - Liam

Year 2 -                                 1st - Harry       2nd - Ateesha

Year 3 -                                 1st - Lillia          2nd - Amelia

Year 4 -                                 1st - Evie           2nd - Maisie

Year 5 -                                 1st - Harry        2nd - Ella W

Year 6 -                                 1st - Ava           2nd - Saffron

The winners were... 'Best Joke' competition...

Foundation Stage 1 -       1st - Henley     2nd - Ethan

Foundation Stage 2 -       1st - Austin      2nd - Ollie

Year 1 -                                 1st - Zac           2nd - Frankie

Year 2 -                                 1st - Ateesha   2nd - Ellie

Year 3 -                                 1st - Oliver       2nd - Ethan

Year 4 -                                 1st - Mayah      2nd - Evie

Year 5 -                                 1st - Harriet     2nd - Harry

Year 6 -                                 1st - Saffron     

Thank you to everyone who entered and well done to everyone for taking part!

Children in Need 2018

For Children in Need 2018, the House Captains and Vice Captains decided to run a dance competition aptly named 'Strictly Barnburgh'. Please see the 'Children in Need' page for the 'Strictly Barnburgh' auditions all the way from Foundation Stage 2 to our Year 6 children. Thank you to all 20 acts who auditioned.

On Friday 16th November, all children in the whole school were asked to dress in their best dance clothes, non-uniform or Children in Need themed clothes and donate a £1 to the worthy cause. We raised just over £200 - a fantastic amount! 

We then held our 'Strictly Barnburgh' finals where all the acts performed for their key stages and the judges and winners were chosen. They were...

Foundation Stage -      1st - Ollie                            2nd - Brogan

Key Stage 1 -                  1st - Millie C                       2nd - Ellie

Lower Key Stage 2 -     1st - Lewis and Rosa       2nd - Olivia and Holly

Upper Key Stage 2 -     1st - Ethan                          2nd - Ella and Poppy

Well done to everyone who took part! A great time was had by all - 'Doing our thing'! 

The Great Barnburgh Bake Off 2018!

On Friday 19th October 2018 we held 'The Great Barnburgh Bake Off' in school! Children and adults had to bake their best biscuits, cakes, scones or buns and bring them to school to be judged by our House Captains and Vice Captains. There were a massive 51 entries from across school! Thank you to everybody who entered.

All the entries can be seen in the photos below. The top three winners in each category are also announced below. Congratulations to everyone who entered and will receive their certificates and house points in as assembly next week. 

Thank you!

Please see below to view some of the House events that have taken place in previous years.

SPRING 2 HOUSE EVENT

GREAT BARNBURGH BAKE OFF!

Please see images of the winning cakes below

The images below show some of the other amazing entries.

SPRING 1 HOUSE EVENT

BARNBURGH'S GOT TALENT!

Please see images of the winners below.