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  • 13/07/23

    Year 10 DT and Textiles V&A Trip

    On 26th June the Year 10 DT and Textiles groups visited the V&A museum in London for their GCSE coursework. We started with a journey on the coach to the Museum and as we arrived the students were astonished by the number of people there. The groups were split into 2 halves. Some went...
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  • 12/07/23

    Spanish and French plays

    This term KS3 and KS4 were able to explore and develop their language skills outside of the classroom.  Onatti Company visited us on two occasions to deliver a Spanish and French play to our language students.  It was a brilliant experience and students were patient and resilient in follow...
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  • 11/07/23

    A Night at the Movies - Summer Showcase

    Congratulations to all the students that took part in the ‘Night at the Movies.’ The students thoroughly enjoyed themselves and the quality of their performances reflected this - a real understanding of the demands of performance Dance and Drama. Most of the dances were choreo...
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  • 29/06/23

    Royal Navy Careers Catering Careers Event

    Two groups of Year 10 students attended a workshop delivered by Kathryn Ross and Leading Hand Bojand from the Royal Navy Catering Specialist Team.  The session comprised of a careers information session where the team promoted their roles within the Logistics Branch of the Royal Navy...
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  • 27/06/23

    Charity Day

    Friday was a Charity Day in school in aid of Winston’s Wish.  Winston’s Wish is one of our House charities this year and as part of the day, students attended school in non-school uniform raising £445 that will be split between Winston’s wish and the two other House char...
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  • 27/06/23

    Art Display

    Last Term a group of year 10 photography enthusiasts attended Digital Art workshops over a number of weeks. Adam K, Jonas K, Ellena M, Genevieve B, Jasmine J & Emma L created art work based on Sports and Movement. The work produced was exceptional and is now displayed, as a permanent collection...
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  • 22/06/23

    National Robotics Competition

    The Barnwood Bandits robotics team recently competed in the National Robotics competition at the NEC. The team took part in 4 activities during the day including a speed challenge and an unseen programming challenge. They worked really hard as a team and only 34 out of 340 schools nationwide...
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  • 15/06/23

    Charity Day

    As you will be aware, we are very proud to support local and national charities throughout the year through various fundraising events and activities in school. Every year, each House nominates a charity to support and this year the students selected the following charities: The RSPCA Teenage Ca...
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  • 12/06/23

    Textiles Artist Workshop

    We were delighted to welcome Jo Teague, a Textiles Artist to Barnwood Park. She met with a group of our Year 9s and shared with them some of her experience.  Previously an Art teacher, Jo Teague has expanded her practice into teaching sewing machine and craft classes to groups- becoming in...
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  • 12/05/23

    The Devils Kitchen Visit

    The Devils Kitchen, the plant based food manufacturer from Nailsworth, came to visit Business & Enterprise and Food Preparation & Nutrition Year 10 students. Barry the founder, talked about setting up, getting funding from Dale Vince of Ecotricity & Forest Green Rovers, the way a busi...
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  • 11/05/23

    Author Visit: Julian Sedgwick

    On 10th May, we hosted an author visit, with Julian Sedgwick coming to our school. Julian was one of the 2022 shortlisted Carnegie authors for his book, ‘Tsunami Girl’ and our Carnegie shadowing group voted for this book as our favourite! Julian has written several books and is pa...
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  • 01/05/23

    Careers Workshop

    Some year 9 students took part in a careers workshop with Andy Lloyd, Barnwood’s independent careers advisor. The students who completed the session were introduced to Career Pilot and took part in a quiz to give them some ideas about the world of work and information about specific job roles...
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