Barrow CE Primary School

It looks as though we now have a stay of execution. The cabinet of Shropshire County Council met at Shirehall on Wednesday 30th January whilst over a thousand governors, parents and children protested outside. The cabinet proposed that they should not proceed with the consultation process in respect of closure of schools.

Follow this link to see pictures taken at the protest outside Shirehall and back at school when the good news broke.

We can now get on with the job of continuing to provide a first-class education for the children of Barrow whilst still keeping an eye out for further threats.

We heard this week that Barrow is on the list of schools to be reviewed by the Local Authority, Shropshire County Council, for possible closure under their newly-approved “Primary Schools for the Future” policy. If selected for closure the school will cease to exist at the end of the summer term 2009. This would bring an end to 390 years of education in the Parish of Barrow. See British History Online

The staff are feeling ’shell-shocked’ especially as the effect of the official line from the authority was that we (along with our parents and pupils) should hear the news from the local media first.

The governors of the school together with the parent body are preparing to fight any possible closure threat.

The campaign to save our school and all of the others schools affected by this would welcome your comments of support.

hi all of barrow you will no longer be getting an up to date issue or blog not sure if anothere group will do up to date but this editorial tem have finished.

Our Chair of Governors is a keen motorcyclist and on a recent trip took these photographs.

You might like to see these two pictures that I took on Wednesday. I went for ride on my motorcycle to the Elan Valley - anyone know where that is? These reservoirs normally only overflow in the winter. At this time of year the water is well below the dam, in fact sometimes 4 or 5 metres below. Spectacular isn’t it.

ElanFloods1

ElanFloods2

During the Summer Term one of our parents, Mrs Carol Fourie, has been running a Spanish Club for children in years 2 to 6. Click on the play button below to see the results of their work.

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I have drawn a picture.

Can you guess what it is?
Leave your guess as a comment.

Steve was in ‘how to create a blog mode’ at one of the lunchtime seminars during the Shropshire IT Conference. Here he is, creating a blog at speed!

Class 3 have been composing pieces of music inspired by The Planets Suite by Gustav Holst.

We have provided links to four of the pieces:

• Pluto by Adam
• Nightmares by Alice
• Mercury the Bringer of Death by Lily
• Pluto the Bringer of Love by Millie

Composing was carried out using Finale NotePad, a free programme from http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/ which will print scores and playback music.

The Finale files were recorded into Audacity, yet another free programme http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ and converted into MP3 files (this requires the addition of a programme called LAME which can be downloaded from the Audacity link). These files were uploaded to digitalbrain and linked to this article on the Barrow Blog.