News
New Building Progress
The latest School Council site visit took place this afternoon, accompanied by a mixture of school Governors and staff from Birtley Children's Centre @ Barley Mow. Don't be fooled by the sunshine - it was actually much colder than it looks!
M.B.E. for Barley Mow Governor
Everyone at Barley Mow Primary School is pleased to send our warmest congratulations to one of our Community governors, Ian Caddy, who was awarded an M.B.E. in the New Year Honours list, for services to the Birtley community. It is a richly deserved award...
Latest Site Activity
Today (Thursday 17th December), the School Council made their latest visit to the building site and witnessed the installation of the beam which has their inscribed initials on it. This beam will be situated above the main adult entrance to the building for everyone...
Christmas Fayre
Thanks to the efforts of the Parents' Group and your usual fantastic support, the wonderful sum of £555.55 was raised last Friday for the School Fund. This money will go towards the 'extras and luxuries' we provide for our children, including subsidising travel...
Film Club
Please note that Film Club will start again in the 2nd week of next term - Tuesday 12th January 2010.
New building starts to appear . . .
Today the framework of our new school has started to appear on site! Following the visit by the School Council to the steel fabrication works in Newton Aycliffe last week, the girders started to arrive here yesterday and the 40 tonne crane arrived this morning and...
Visit to Finley’s Steel Structures
On Friday 27th November, the School Council visited Finley's Steel Fabrication facility in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. This is the company that is preparing the steel skeleton for our new building. The School Council was accompanied by staff and governors...
Children In Need
Thanks to your generosity and the enthusiasm shown by our children in taking part in a mixture of Fancy Dress, Non-uniform and Boy/Girl Opposite dressing(!), the School Council have been able to donate the fantastic sum of £127 to this year's appeal.
3D Model
Our Y5 pupils have worked with a team of architects, planners and builders from Inspired Spaces, Gateshead Council and Robertsons, to create a fantastic 3 dimensional model of our new building (see photo below). The quality and detail of the model really do have to be...
School Council Site Visits
The pupils' School Council are visiting the building site regularly to take photographs and report on changes and developments for the rest of the school. They even have their own newsboards to keep our children up to date with the latest news. Photographs and reports...
Turf Cutting Ceremony – 22nd October 2009
This morning, a group of invited guests from our community (including children, parents, staff, governors and residents) joined with representatives from Gateshead Council and our development partners, to witness the official turf cutting marking the start of the...
Site update – 19 October 2009
This photograph was taken at 1.15pm today and shows that work has DEFINITELY begun!