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DECEMBER 2008

Thank you to all who supported our Bonfire Night celebrations, despite the rain. Many families took part in the treasure trail around the classrooms and we are pleased to announce that the ‘out of the hat’ winner of the book was Anandpal Randeva from Year 4. We are grateful to so many of our friends in the parishes who, along with our very supportive parents, attend evenings like this to help with the raising of extra funds for special projects. Special thanks should go to Aubrey Allen Butchers of Leamington Spa for their generous contribution to this evening.

Because of the supportive interest shown to our school by a huge variety of friends locally we would like to extend an invitation to all who are interested to come and see our school at work. You don’t have to have a child at school to come along to our Open Morning on Thursday 4th of December, all are very welcome. Refreshments will be served all morning – you could enjoy your first mince pie of the season in the school hall!

During the preparation for Christmas classrooms are hives of activity with children working earnestly on special art and craft projects alongside our normal curricular activities.Time is also spent revisiting the familiar biblical story of the first Christmas and our Nativity play by the younger children will no doubt be one of the high spots of the year again. Term ends with our Christmas Service on Friday 19th December at 2 pm at St Peter’s Church, please join us if you can.

 A big THANK YOU to all who collected and sent in their box tops for School tokens. We are collecting tokens from Shreddies, Cheerios, Shredded Wheat, Oats and More, Clusters, Cookie Crisp again this year and would be very grateful if you would cut out the tokens and send them into school. This scheme allows us to acquire books for the school library.

With our very best wishes for a Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year from the staff and pupils at Barford St. Peter’s C.E. Primary School.

Click here for pictures of the school building work.

Click here for pictures from the Summer School fete.

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SCHOOL and the COMMUNITY...

We are always looking for events that we can support as a school in the village and beyond, so if you have any ideas, contact me and they will be seriously considered.

Lindsey Oscroft
Head Teacher

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BARFORD PRE-SCHOOL

Fancy Dress, Fundraising & ‘Fones’…?

The second half of this term has seen the children learn and play within a ‘patterns and celebrations’ theme, with the autumn calendar providing them with an array of exciting events to link activities to, including Halloween, Bonfire Night and Diwali. During the past few weeks they have played with pumpkins, finger painted fireworks and decorated pictures or dressed up to celebrate the Hindu festival of lights. Lots of messy clothes and faces but fabulous fun.

 Events
As December approaches the staff and children are also actively preparing for our forthcoming Christmas Concert on Thursday 11th December at 2.15 pm, entitled ‘Hide and Seek’. Villagers are most welcome to join us, so please do come down to the Memorial Hall, enjoy the entertainment, relax with a cup of something warm, yummy pies and pastries and a chance to win some fabulous prizes in our Grand Raffle. We look forward to seeing you there!

On to fundraising news and we have been most fortunate to receive a welcome and extremely generous donation from a couple who live in the village. Although the benefactors have asked us not to mention them by name, we would like to publicly acknowledge their kindness and our appreciation. Continuing this thread, a big thank you to those who supported our stall at the St Peter’s Bonfire bash. We raised over £150 selling hot chocolates and our gratitude also goes to the parents and FABS organisers for their help making the evening such a success.

As we write this, our team are hard at work in anticipation of our Hollywood Night. We’ll report back soon, but thank you to everyone who has purchased tickets for this fancy dress event.

We have launched a mobile phone recycling campaign in partnership with Barford Shop. If you have any mobile phones of any kind and in any condition, also used printer cartridges we would be very grateful if you would drop them off in the collection boxes in the shop or at the Memorial Hall during pre-school. Thank you.

Would your child benefit from making friends and having fun with us? Whether for a half or full day session, with or without lunch club, we have spare places this term still available. We are one of the few local pre-schools to offer three, four and six hour sessions starting from just two and a half years. Why not drop in for a visit?

Or for more information call 01926 624692 or click here for our website. Check it out and tell any friends you have who might be looking for pre-school places for their child.

Barford Pre-School ,
Barford Memorial Hall
Church Street, Barford, WARWICK CV35 8EN
01926 624692

Mobile Phone No. 0771 8023322
Registered Charity No. 1022936

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HISTORY OF BARFORD ST PETER'S C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL

Barford School dates back to 1677, when the Rector and former Headmaster of Warwick School, Thomas Dugard, made a bequest of £5 a year, £4 of which paid the salary of “such person as shall teach 14 poor children and the other £1 to teach 2 poor girls.” To this small endowment were added various bequests notably from generations of the Mills family.

The school was open to all children who were parishioners and about 30 boys and as many girls usually attended. They were instructed in reading, writing and arithmetic; the girls were taught to sew by the master’s wife.

In 1851 the present school was erected by the National Society - a Church of England body. This consisted of two large rooms, boys and girls being segregated. When infants were admitted, a portion of the Malt Barn opposite was brought into use. Parents had to pay a weekly amount for every child.

In 1948, with the implementation of the Education Act, financial responsibility was taken over by Warwickshire County Council. However, the Church maintained its links with the school, as shown by its name and by electing two Foundation (i.e. Church) Governors to serve on the Board of Governors.

The school was extended in 1960. Until the mid-1970's, the school was a thriving junior and infant school, but with the introduction of the first and middle school system, the number on the roll decreased, as education could only be provided for children from 4 to 8 years.

In 1993, under the Schools' Reorganisation in Warwickshire, it was proposed that Barford Church of England First School should be closed. This was met with fierce opposition from the community.

In June 1994, it was announced that the decision to close the school had been overturned, and from September 1995, Barford St Peter's C of E (Aided) Primary School became official. The school now serves the parishes of Barford, Sherbourne and Wasperton and provides education for children from 4 to 11 years once more.

In 2004 the school was further improved and extended, and national performance “league tables” declared it to be in the top twenty five primary schools in England.

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