This week in school was our annual reading theme week. Our theme this year was The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde – each year group focused on this story in their Whole Class Reading sessions. We welcomed the wonderful Image Musical Theatre Company into school and they put on a fantastic show! We had some budding young actors from our audiences who wowed us with their acting talents! We enjoyed the moral of the story, how sharing is a magical thing that can open us up to new friendships and happiness.

Here’s what we thought of it:

‘I liked when the Giant stopped being selfish and let the children play in his garden.’ (Kiera, Year 3)

‘It was great fun!’ (Filip, Year 3)

‘It was a happy and peaceful ending because the Giant had changed his ways’ (Scarlett, Year 3)

‘I liked how the Giant helped the children up the tree’ (Noah, Year 4)

‘I loved joining in! (Ashley, Year 4)

‘The actors were really good and like how they play multiple roles’ (Freddie, Year 6)

‘It was funny watching everyone laughing at my dance moves when we sang, I did the macarena!’ (William, Year 6)

‘It was really live packed, the story was meaningful’ (Elsie, Year 6)

Y3 had a fantastic trip to Brigg Heritage Centre, learning more about our Stone Age to Iron Age topic. We were able to see genuine artefacts from Prehistory,  including a bronze spear head, Beaker pots and a Bronze Age boat! We experienced being archaeologists digging for buried historical treasures, grinding grain to make flour,  using special tools to work stone and weaving our own cloth. We also made model roundhouses,  ceremonial masks and iron age jewellery.  What a busy and exciting day of time travelling!

On the final day of the half term we hosted our annual careers day. There always seems to be such a buzz at this particular event and this year was no different! It was great to see so many activities going on in classrooms, from mock job interviews, role plays and research into different career pathways.

Our school hall was full of visitors too! Ranging from Electricians, Renewable wind energy to the Police and Fire service. The children asked some very thought-provoking questions and seemed to really enjoy speaking to the different professions who came in to visit.

We would like to thank all of the attendees who volunteered to come into school and support us with the event.

Thank you to all parents who attended our Fish and Tips evening this week for our Year 6 cohort. We discussed our expectations for our year 6’s and offered SATS support for parents wanting to support at home. We hope it was informative and most of all, you enjoyed your food!

We’ve had a very exciting week as we welcomed one of our favourite authors into school – Luke Temple! Luke shared his amazingly spooky stories with Felix Dashwood as the main character: The Traitor’s Treasure;  The Mutating Mansion; Traitor’s Revenge! Our workshop’s with Luke are always fun and engaging: we role-played, created a three-headed story and enjoyed watching how the book covers come to life through a talented illustrator video. He shared his experiences of becoming an author and how woven ideas create a plot. Luke then returned to school the next day and signed books that the children had bought. The children loved this opportunity and Luke’s visit!

Year 5/6 Girls Football Tournament Results

1 – Lisle Marsden

2 – Wybers Wood Primary

3 – William Barcroft

4 – Scartho Primary

5 – Elliston Primary

6 – Stanford Primary

We ended up finishing 3rd in our group and this meant we were through to the next round to battle for 5th place against 3rd place of the other group. This turned out to be Coomb Briggs Primary.

5th Place Play off Game: William Barcroft 1 v 0 Coomb Briggs Primary

A fantastic afternoon and the girls deserve all the plaudits coming their way. They did themselves and the school proud by displaying that never say die attitude and the Barcroft spirit. Again, a massive thank you to the parents supporting the girls, your support is appreciated and we are glad you were treated to such a spectacle.

On Tuesday 18^th June and Wednesday 19^th June, we all participated in the school’s annual sports day. We enjoyed showcasing our talents in a wide variety of activities. There were some excellent baskets scored in basketball and some extremely long javelins thrown across both days. We also completed long jump, discus, shot put, sack race, hurdles and boccia. The races were spectacular and everyone did their best. A massive thank you to all parents that came to spectate and created special memories with their children, your support is much appreciated. A huge thank you to all staff and especially TRIN Centre, who helped Mr Dawes to run the events smoothly.

Congratulations to year 3/4 green house, who had won the lower school sports day with 1744 points. Congratulations, also, to year 5/6 blue house, who had won the upper school sports day with 2772 points (winning by over 200 points).

Children from Year 3 to 6 have had a fabulous day at The Trin today! All of the children have participated in four different activities across a fun-filled day.

We started with some gaming on the PlayStations where children picked their game to play! We had some great FIFA matches taking place and some very interesting Fortnite dances! After this, we went outside on the courts to learn some new skills and play some basketball and netball against each other in mixed teams.

We had our lunch sat out in the sunshine as it was such a lovely day and then was ready for our final two sessions.

In the afternoon, we completed a boxing session which everyone LOVED! Joe taught the children their stances and did lots of drills with them. Finally, we went on the astroturf for some multi skills games and football which was very high energy but great fun!