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.

📷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

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.

📷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.

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

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

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!

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!

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! 💙

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 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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

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!

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

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

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

This week our Article of the Week has been Article 24, with a focus on Mental Health Awareness Week. Some of our pupils attended the Pupil Parliament last year and worked to create materials for this amazing mental health toolkit: youtube.com/watch?v=ZATFdq… #article24 #mentalhealth

Chorlton Arts Festival begins today! Go and see the installation created by our Year 2s in the window at Barlow Moor Community Centre #article31 #chorltonartsfestival