Digital Journalism

Have you ever questioned how the stories come to life? Have you ever asked what domain we use?  Well now you can! Here’s your chance to learn all of that in two sections,written by the best, Malcolm and George.

Section 1: Well, first our teachers hand out the stories next, some children team together or work alone to make a story. Sometimes we interview a teacher ( I, Malcolm currently interviewed the most teachers ). After we interview the teacher we use the system Q&A (Question and Answer) to type it . After this we either interview another teacher or add more detail to the answers. Once this is done we add tags to our stories and then our teacher publishes the story.

Section 2: Hey, George here. I’m writing section 2. Ok let’s get down to business. First, when our teacher (MB) created this website using WordPress,everything you see on this page was created, even this word, and this, and this…. So when us (the children) want to create a story, we log into wordpress using a secret username and password. Then section 1 starts. That’s the end of my section,hope you enjoyed. George Out.

The End

Yep,end hope you enjoyed!

Harry Potter

New movies are popping up in cinemas all over the country. So I decided to do a poll about movies. Here are the results.

• Skyfall – 1
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 – 1
• Sherlock Holmes, Game of Shadows- 1

So, these are the tied favourites for News Club.

Growing number of students in Richmond

Next year there will be three reception classes. Due to local authorities requests we are now accepting three reception classes instead of just two. Birth rates have increased 21% between 2000 to 2007 , from 2,384 to 2,884. This means that all the primary schools in the area are having to adjust class sizes to take on more students.

Mr. Hartley and Ms. Jepson are working with the Richmond authorities to figure how to accommodate this new class in our school without compromising the quality of care for all our current students.

Richmond Mayor at Richmond Borough Sports Day

Once again Barnes Primary School competed in the annual Richmond Borough Sports event, which took place at St Mary’s University on June 7th. Barnes were in the 2 class pool for the competition. The events were…

• 600 m race
• Vortex
• Long jump
• 75m race
• Relay race

We won the relay. Our sprint was really strong. We won our pool and were very close to winning the whole thing. St.  James won overall. There were 34 teams all together. It took place on Wednesday. Charlotte is undefeated: she hasn’t lost a race in the 3 years she has gone to Borough Sports Day. Zac Goldsmith and the Mayor of Richmond were there to cheer us on.

School Cinema

Yesterday afternoon, people gathered inside the KS1 hall at 3.30 and 5.30 to see the two amazing screenings at the Barnes Primary School Cinema.

Order of screening:

• Goldilocks = Reception,
• Super Sid the Recycling Kid = Nursery,
• (Trailer for The ECO Children) The ECO Chilldren = Year 1,
• A Mordern Guide the Pupil’s Health = Class 5CW,
• How to Make a Poo = Class 4P,
• The ECO Avengers = Class 3O,
• The Journey of Paper = Year 6,
• Rama and Sita Plan = Class 5GS,
• Made in Japan = Year 2,
• A Change is Gonna Come = Class 4M.

For those of you who missed it at the cinemas, you can buy the DVD from Jo in reception.

Julius Caesar at Orange Tree Theatre

Today, Year 4 and 6 are going to the Orange Tree Theatre. We are watching Julius Caesar. Yesterday one of the actors came in to help us act out Shakespeare’s famous play Julius Caesar.

They split us into two groups. Those who didn’t do level 6 maths went first and those who did went in the afternoon.

To get there, we’re taking the train Richmond then we are walking the rest of the way.

No Junk Food

In a recent newsletter, Mr. Hartley said no crisps, sweets, fizzy drinks and chewy foods are allowed in our packed lunches.

Mr. Hartley says that packed lunches should be more nutricious…

They should contain lots of protien and corbohydrates. Also , they should have some FRUIT AND VEGITABLES .

All of these sugary, salty and fatty processed foods are bad foods for your body. If you eat too many you will get fat and chubby. And if you don’t like your fat, then go to the gym or go swimming, play tennis or do another activity.

Rugby player cartoon

Last Tuesday, Barnes A and Barnes B entered the East Sheen Rugby tournament. The teams participating were:

• Barnes A
• Barnes B
• East Sheen A
• East Sheen B
• St. Osmond’s

• The first team to play was Barnes A v East Sheen A. After a great game the final result was 5 – 5.
• Barnes A   took  on EastSheen B. Disappointingly Barnes lost 5 -2.
• The next game was against St Osmond’s. It was a great game but St. Osmund’s won by 2 points.
• The last game was against Barnes B. After a disappointing day for a up and coming team Barnes A thrashed them 6-0.
• The winners were St.Osmond’s.

We came 3rd. Jacques got 8 tries Noah got 3 Jesse got 3 and Joe got 2 Charlotte got 1 Max got 1 and Wieger got 1.It was a great performance by the team!

walk to school

Today, I will be asking the members of the Press & News Review club how they get to school. Here are the results.

Car usually : 0

Walk usually: 7

Scooter Usually: 3

Bike usually: 1 (me)

Walking wins, followed by scooters.

Exam stress

During the last week, all of the year 6 have been sitting the S.A.Ts. We have sat the reading test, the grammar and puncuation test, mathmatics paper and the mental mathmatics test. Deadly right…

So far everyone thinks they’ve done pretty well and I agree.

Today is the worst day of all. Three tests! The last mathmatics test ( paper b) the short writing test and the long writing test. True torture.