What did we find today in the #greatbritishpringclean ? Socks, hangers and a broken license plate among many other things. 5 bags filled with litter - well down to our enthusiastic volunteers. More children volunteering tomorrow! 🧹 #GBSpringClean #keepbritaintidy #article24

Our Comic Relief Comic Strip competition top 3 winning entries. Well done to all the children who entered for #rednoseday #comicrelief #article27 #dosomethingfunnyformoney

This week our #articleoftheweek is Article 2. Classes are talking about International Women’s Day, which was celebrated on the 8th March.

Yesterday after school our year 4, 5 and 6 netball team took part in a tournament with other schools. The scores were all based on sporting values like #determination , #respect and #selfbelief . Well done to our netballers for their 88 points achieved!

World Book Day last week at Barlow Hall gave us lots of chances to 'Read Your Way'. Thank you to all the families who came in to share books with the children.
#wbd #readyourway #article31

Our Wonderland? installation by Year 2 Barlow Hall Primary School for this years Chorlton Arts Festival will feature ‘tin’ sculptures, mono-printing, large scale ‘metallic’ drawings and chalk pastel work. We’ve been busy! We can’t wait to show it to everyone Mini Masters Art Club CHORLTON ARTS FESTIVAL

#RomanShields complete and ready for battle with appropriate weapons. Too much fun for our #Year4 Barlow Hall Primary School Delighted to discover than a flattened out A4 copier paper box 📦 shapes nicely into a 3D shield shape when the edges are brought together and taped Mini Masters Art Club

Thank you to all our families who joined us for our Christmas Makers’ Market event on Tuesday. The children had great fun making their products to sell and loved having their families in school! Thank you to our staff and community for your support ⭐️⭐️⭐️

We were delighted to be awarded the Sandwell Wellbeing Charter Mark today, working in partnership with Catalyst Psychology. We were also privileged to have 2 brilliant footballers from the Manchester City EDS squad to present our award, and answer lots of questions we had for them too! 💙

This morning we celebrated our Stars of the Week - so many children awarded certificates for their resilience and determined attitude to acting on feedback from adults to improve their work! We are very proud of you all!

This year, after listening to the views of our children... we acted. We have offered an increased variety of clubs for children to support their #article31 right to rest, relax, play and join in activities. Here is Mrs Rees's yoga club demonstrating this right perfectly!

World Children's Day - A group of our #RightsRespecting Councillors led assembly today, teaching us about the power of our voices and the difference that we can make. We learned about advocacy and are now busy thinking about how to use our voice to fight for change #RRarticle13

On Friday, we held a cake sale to raise money for Children in Need. Thanks to our wonderful community, we had so many cakes to sell and raised a fantastic £212 to go to this important charity. Thank you. #article24 #article27 #article39

📷Voice 21 School
This year Barlow Hall Primary is a Voice 21 school. This means that we will be doing lots of work in school on oracy.

Last week our Article of the Week was Article 29, which focusses on the Aims of Education. It states that a child's education should help them fully develop their personalities, talents and abilities.

📷Going for Gold – Rights Respecting School Award
📷We are pleased to announce that this year Barlow Hall are working towards their Gold Rights Respecting School Award. This means that we have adopted a child rights approach based on the United Nations Convention on the

As we start a new school year, we are delighted to have a new school X account. We will be adding photos and updates about everything that we are getting up to at school. Make sure you follow to see all the brilliant things that are happening here at Barlow Hall.