Category: Newsletter 10 January 2020
BHCC Donation to Forest School
A huge thank you to the BHCC, who have donated some fantastic new items to our Forest School. These include, amongst other things: bowsaws, a softwood conker hand drill set, a group wood carving kit, a forest school fire safety set, various secateurs and gardening pruners and a terrific tipi tent. The children (and Mrs…
Welcome to our new gappy!
A warm welcome to Tom O’Kelly, our new GAP student. Tom is a graduate of Exeter University and is looking forward to his two terms with us.
Hockey Captains
Congratulations to our Hockey Captains for this season: 1st Team Co-Captains: James D (8G) and Alexander (8G) 2nd Team Captain: Nicholas (8G) 3rd Team Captain: Max (8G) We wish you a successful season.
Music Awards
Congratulations to Benjamin (3G) who passed his violin Pre-Test and also to N-J (7G) who passed his Grade 2 classical guitar. Well done to you both.
Girls Team of the Week
Each week one or two players will be selected from each Senior and Colts team to make up ‘Team of the Week’. The criteria for making the team is; improvement made during the match, leadership, teamwork and work rate. Here is the girls Team of the Week.
Girls Junior Colts Victory
The girls Junior Colts had a fantastic start to the term with six matches leading to six wins for Barrow Hills. Excellent!
Youth Mental Health First Aid
As part of Barrow Hills’ wellbeing programme, fifteen members of staff from both Barrow Hills School and King Edward’s Witley completed their Youth Mental Health First Aid qualification during the January staff INSET. This was an internationally recognised two day course delivered by trainer Jane Cattermole, which, similar to physical First Aid, provides the non-expert…
Matilda Yvonne Arnaud
Matilda (6G) starred in ‘Arthur, From a Boy to to a King’ at the Yvonne Arnaud just before Christmas. This involved a lot of rehearsals and a week long run. We are very proud of you Matilda. Well done!
