On Monday 27^th June Barnwood took 58 students from Years 7-10 to the district athletics competition at the Prince of Wales stadium in cheltenham. All students performed amazingly competing against 9 other schools in the district with up to 18 competitors in each event. Here are some individual achievements from the day:

Boys cricket fixtures have continued, with our boys playing the likes of Severn Vale, Gloucester Academy, Holmleigh Park and Churchdown. 

Players of the Season

Year 7 - Jack Haviland
Year 8 - Zakaria Falhani-Knight
Year 9 - Ethan Clarke

We look forward to starting up Rugby fixtures and training again in the new year.

Individual Sporting Performances

Ella-Grace Edwards
Ella achieved a new personal best for the 100m (12.07 seconds) which ranks her 2^nd in the country for her age category.  Congratulations Ella for all of your hard work and dedication and we are proud of you and your achievements.

McKenzie O'Reilly - Swimming
McKenzie competed in the Para-Swimming Junior Nationals and achieved an amazing 7 personal best times. For the 100m and 400m freestyle, he got a Welsh home nation qualifying time and only 5 seconds off the international qualifying time for 400m freestyle. He also achieved:
1X gold
5X silver
1X Bronze
For the Under 14s category, he is national champion for 100 fly.
Well done McKenzie, fantastic results!

Hillfest: 12th June

The KS3 boys have been rehearsing every Thursday lunchtime to choreograph a Hip Hop routine. On the 12^th of June, the boys performed their dance at Robinswood Hill. Well done boys!

Great Big Dance Off: 27^th June

After our success in April, Barnwood Park qualified to the Great Big Dance Off: National Schools Competition. On the 27^th June, the Barnwood Competition team performed their Aladdin piece.  Again, our Barnwood dancers performed exceptionally after all of their hard work in practice.  We are all so proud!

This term Mrs Workman has been training to become a School Food Champion as part of the Biteback2030 campaign to get students working to change the food culture in their schools. Barnwood is the only school in Gloucestershire chosen to take part and over the next academic year a team will be selected to develop new food ideas, hopefully make the eating spaces more appealing and engage the whole school community in eating better. Click here to watch a video and find out more.

Year 10 GCSE Food Nutrition & Planning spent a day of the farm near Fairford with two farmers learning about pasture fed beef, growing cereal crops, chicken production and most popular of all on a lovely Organic pig farm looking at piglets dashing around and their mums wallowing in the mud. It was a great day that re-enforced lots of the learning covered in their theory lessons. The trip was the part of an ongoing development project with the Ernst Cook Trust to develop outdoor learning opportunities that enhance the GCSE curriculum.

Year 10 have also had the opportunity to cook with wild Alaskan salmon as part of the Fish in School Hero programme with Mrs Workman.

They learnt about the provenance of the salmon, how to skin fillets and cooked a wide range of dishes that demonstrated excellent cooking skills. They worked in small teams to create sweet and sour salmon noodle stir fry, salmon goujons, salmon fishcakes and tarragon and salmon tart with a tomato concasse and homemade mayonnaise.

It was a great opportunity to collaborate, try new flavours and food like salmon and tarragon and try new skills including making mayonnaise and skinning salmon.

Huge Thanks to Food Teachers Centre and Alaska Salmon for this opportunity.

Miss Kings year 9’s carried out a ‘Swiss Roll bake off challenge’ this term. Congratulations to Nadia and Kulsoom for first place, Ginny and Erin for second place and Cheyenne and Adam, Katie and Reece for joint third. 

Year 7 Cooking Club have had a brilliant term cooking a variety of foods from mackerel filleting, Mexican churros, lasagne, butternut squash cake and they finished term with kebabs over a campfire. An excellent team of cooks helped by Mrs Griffin and Tabitha from Year 10.