Barlows Primary School

Pupils Return to School
2025-11-03

Social Media and Anti-Bullying Sessions for Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 with our PCSOs
2025-11-03
On Monday 03/11/25, our Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and 6 students with be taking part in special sessions with our PCSOs focused on social media awareness and anti-bullying.
In today’s digital age, understanding the impacts of social media on young people has become increasingly essential.
These sessions will be conducted by the local Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), who will share their expertise on safe online practices, the potential risks associated with social media, and how to promote kindness and respect in both virtual and real-life interactions.
The sessions aim to empower our students with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate the complexities of modern communication responsibly.
Additionally, these workshops provide an excellent opportunity for students to discuss bullying, its various forms, and the importance of standing together against it. Our intention is to foster an inclusive and supportive environment, where every child feels valued.
We believe that parental involvement is crucial in reinforcing these themes at home. It is advisable to have open conversations with your child about their online activities and to encourage them to share their experiences and feelings regarding their interactions with peers. By working together, we can create a strong support network for our children.
Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to reach out to the school office.

Year 2 National Archives Online Workshop - The Great Fire of London
2025-11-03
Year 2 will be participating in an online session from The National Archives to enhance their knowledge of The Great Fire of London.This interactive session, led by historians and researchers, aims to enhance historical enquiry skills by guiding pupils in asking and answering questions that focus on primary sources and artefacts from this pivotal event in 1666.

Help Your Child Thrive Parent and Carer Programme
2025-11-03 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-10 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-17 09:30 - 11:30 (Europe/London)
The ‘Help Your Child Thrive’ programme is coming to Barlows Primary School from Monday 3rd November to help you to support your child with their learning and development at home. This course runs every Monday morning in school for 5 sessions just after you drop your child off at the start of the school day.
The course gives you an insight into what your child will be learning in Reception and KS1. Each week you’ll receive lots of practical tips and ideas as to how to help your child develop skills in communication and language, personal, social and emotional wellbeing, physical development, literacy and maths. You will be given a booklet full of resources and ideas for fun games to play with your child at home which will help them to thrive in school. The course is also a good chance to meet other parents and get to know a bit more about school.
Sessions will run from 9:30am – 11:30am on the following dates:
Monday 03/11/25
Monday 10/11/25
Monday 17/11/25
Monday 24/11/25
Monday 02/12/25
Places are limited so please keep an eye out on Arbor for sign up details.

Years 1 and 2 Phonics and Early Reading Session for Parents and Carers
2025-11-03 15:45 - 16:30, 2025-11-03 17:15 - 18:00
As we continue to prioritise the development of strong foundational skills in literacy for our pupils, I am pleased to announce an upcoming Phonics and Early Reading session specifically designed for parents and carers.
The sessions are as follows:
Year 1 and Year 2 Phonics and Early Reading Sessions
Monday 03/11/25 at 3:45pm-4:30pm
Monday 03/11/25 at 5:15-6:00pm
The aim of this event is to provide you with valuable insights into our phonics programme, including the methods and strategies we employ to encourage early reading skills among our pupils.

Year 5 and Year 6 Liverpool Anti-Bullying Project Event
2025-11-04
We are proud to have a group of our Year 5 and 6 pupils representing Barlows and Liverpool Primary Schools to work together to promote anti-bullying messages and unity during Anti-Bullying week in November.
The children will be performing a selection of songs together with other schools using sign language.
This promises to be an exciting day to celebrate and raise awareness of these important issues.

LSSP Balanceability Session - Reception Donaldson (Miss Evans' Class)
2025-11-05, 2025-11-12, 2025-11-19
Reception Classes will be engaging in a series of Balanceability Sessions as part of their PE lessons. These sessions, expertly delivered by coaches from LSSP, aim to enhance children’s essential balance skills.

Balanceability is a foundational programme designed to prepare young learners for riding a bicycle. During these dynamic lessons, children will develop not only their physical coordination but also their confidence as they encounter various balancing activities. By mastering these skills early on, our students will significantly improve their readiness for cycling.

Year 4 Old Dock Tour Educational Visit
2025-11-06
We are delighted that our Year 4 pupils will visiting the Old Dock Tour in Liverpool on

Thursday 06/11/25 – 4 Curie (Miss Johnes)
Thursday 06/11/25 – 4 Newton (Mrs Clemson)

As part of their enrichment activities linked to their Geography unit on rivers.
During the visit, the children will take a trip below Liverpool One to visit and learn about the historic dock of Liverpool, shipping trade and conditions at the original dock site in Liverpool.
This is an exciting opportunity that we are sure the children will enjoy!

Anti-Bullying Week - Odd Sock Day
2025-11-10
Odd Sock Day is part of Anti-Bullying Week, which aims to engage students in meaningful discussions surrounding the importance of respect, understanding, and kindness towards one another.
By wearing odd socks, we hope to visually represent the message that differences are not only acceptable but should be embraced within our school community.
We encourage all students to participate in this initiative by wearing their most colourful and mismatched socks with their usual school uniform on the day. This simple act serves as a powerful reminder to recognise and appreciate the unique qualities that each child possesses.
It is also an excellent opportunity for parents and guardians to discuss the significance of this day and explore themes of friendship, acceptance, and the detrimental effects of bullying.
As part of our efforts to foster a safe and supportive environment, we will be conducting assemblies and classroom activities to further educate our students

Parents' Evening
2025-11-10 15:50 - 19:30
The Autumn Parents’ Evenings for Nursery – Year 6 will be as follows: Further information regarding how to book will follow via Arbor.

Appointments available from 3:50pm – 7:30pm
Y6 – Miss Ward

Y5 – Mr Kellett
Y4 – Miss Johnes
Y3 – Mr James
Y2 – Mrs Fox
Y1 – Miss Kelly
Reception – Miss Evans
Nursery – Miss Watts

Year 5 & 6 Into Film Festival Cinema Trip - How to Train Your Dragon - Odeon Cinema Liverpool One
2025-11-11
We have been fortunate enough to secure some free cinema trips for for our pupils as part of the IntoFilm Festival. The festival is a fantastic initiative aimed at inspiring students through film, helping to enhance their creativity, and fostering a love for storytelling.
As part of the festival, our Year 5 & 6 classes will be attending screenings designed to engage their imaginations and will link to work back in school.
These screenings will not only provide an engaging experience but will also support our broader educational goals by encouraging discussions about themes such as friendship, anti-prejudice and teamwork.
Year 5 & 6
Tuesday 11/11/2025 – How to Train your Dragon
We have some spaces for parents and carers to join us on the trip, details will follow via Arbor.

Parents' Evening
2025-11-11 15:50 - 18:00
The Autumn Parents’ Evenings for Nursery – Year 6 will be as follows: Further information regarding how to book will follow via Arbor.

Appointments available from 3:50pm – 6:00pm
Y6 – Miss Ward

Y5 – Mr Kellett
Y4 – Miss Johnes
Y3 – Mr James
Y2 – Mrs Fox
Y1 – Miss Kelly
Reception – Miss Evans
Nursery – Miss Watts

Year 2 IntoFilm Festival Cinema Trip - Flow - FACT Cinema, Liverpool
2025-11-12
We have been fortunate enough to secure some free cinema trips for for our pupils as part of the IntoFilm Festival. The festival is a fantastic initiative aimed at inspiring students through film, helping to enhance their creativity, and fostering a love for storytelling.
As part of the festival, our Year 2 classes will be attending a screenings designed to engage their imaginations and will like to work back in school. Completely dialogue-free, animated with a brilliantly innovative style and told only through visuals and animal noises, Flow creates an immersive environment that feels fresh and alive.
Year 2
12/11/2025 – Flow
We have some spaces for parents and carers to join us on the trip, details will follow via Arbor.

Reception IntoFilm Festival Cinema Trip - Tiddler and Tabby McTat Double-Bill - Odeon Cinema, Liverpool One
2025-11-12
We have been fortunate enough to secure some free cinema trips for for our pupils as part of the IntoFilm Festival. The festival is a fantastic initiative aimed at inspiring students through film, helping to enhance their creativity, and fostering a love for storytelling.
As part of the festival, our Reception classes will be attending screenings designed to engage their imaginations and will link to work back in school.
These screenings will not only provide an engaging experience but will also support our broader educational goals by encouraging discussions about themes such as family and friendship. This double bill showing is animations based on the popular books by Julia Donaldson.
Reception
Tuesday 11/11/2025-Tiddler and Tabby McTat Double-Bill
We have some spaces for parents and carers to join us on the trip, details will follow via Arbor.

Year 1 IntoFilm Festival Cinema Trip - Tiddler and Tabby McTat Double-Bill - Odeon Cinema, Liverpool One
2025-11-12
We have been fortunate enough to secure some free cinema trips for for our pupils as part of the IntoFilm Festival. The festival is a fantastic initiative aimed at inspiring students through film, helping to enhance their creativity, and fostering a love for storytelling.
As part of the festival, our Year 1 classes will be attending screenings designed to engage their imaginations and will link to work back in school.
These screenings will not only provide an engaging experience but will also support our broader educational goals by encouraging discussions about themes such as family and friendship. This double bill showing is animations based on the popular books by Julia Donaldson.
Year 1
Tuesday 11/11/2025-Tiddler and Tabby McTat Double-Bill
We have some spaces for parents and carers to join us on the trip, details will follow via Arbor.

Parents' Evening
2025-11-12 15:50 - 19:30
The Autumn Parents’ Evenings for Reception – Year 6 will be as follows: Further information regarding how to book will follow via Arbor.

Appointments available from 3:50pm – 7:30pm
Y6 – Miss Hughes

Y5 – Mr Stevens
Y4 – Mrs Clemson
Y3 – Miss Hamilton
Y2 – Mrs Lawrence
Y1 – Mr Allinson
Reception – Miss Bradshaw

Year 6 IntoFilm Festival Cinema Trip - Deep Sky - Vue Cinema IMAX, Cheshire Oaks
2025-11-13
We have been fortunate enough to secure some free cinema trips for for our pupils as part of the IntoFilm Festival. The festival is a fantastic initiative aimed at inspiring students through film, helping to enhance their creativity, and fostering a love for storytelling. As part of the festival, our Year 6 classes will be attending screenings designed to engage their imaginations and will link to work back in school.
“This awe-inspiring documentary tells the story of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, one of the most powerful pieces of technology to capture images of space billions of light years away from Earth. The film pulls back the curtain on how the telescope was built and its high-stakes launch in 2021 into orbit, rocketing one-million miles from Earth. Space is like a time-machine: by travelling through it, we can see evidence of how stars are born and begin to understand how the universe began. It also delves into the mysteries of the universe in its search for other lifeforms. Featuring interviews with scientists explaining the different components of the telescope and the significance of its scientific discoveries, we travel to never-before-seen cosmic landscapes, recently discovered exoplanets and planets around other stars.”
Year 6
Thursday 13/11/2025 – Deep Sky
We have some spaces for parents and carers to join us on the trip, details will follow via Arbor.

Parents' Evening
2025-11-13 15:50 - 18:00
The Autumn Parents’ Evenings for Reception – Year 6 will be as follows: Further information regarding how to book will follow via Arbor.

Appointments available from 3:50pm – 6:00pm
Y6 – Miss Hughes

Y5 – Mr Stevens
Y4 – Mrs Clemson
Y3 – Miss Hamilton
Y2 – Mrs Lawrence
Y1 – Mr Allinson
Reception – Miss Bradshaw

Children in Need - Own Clothes and Crazy Hair
2025-11-14

Reception Parents & Carers 'How to...' Mathematics Workshop
2025-11-17
We are excited to share with you that this academic year, we have introduce a new mathematics curriculum across our school – the My Mastery Mathematics Curriculum.
To introduce this curriculum to parents and carers and share important learning strategies for Autumn Term, we will be holding Parent and Carer ‘How to..’ Mathematics sessions, led by our maths leads Mr Allinson and Miss Hughes.
Parents and carers are invited to attend, with their child, on the following dates to learn about the techniques we use in the classroom and different ways you can help your child with mathematics at home:
Reception – Monday 17/11/25
Year 1 – Wednesday 19/11/25
Year 2 – Thursday 20/11/25
Year 3 – Monday 24/11/25
Year 4 – Wednesday 26/11/25
Year 5 & Year 6 -Thursday 27/11/25
We hope you will be able to join us!

Year 3 Stone Age Workshop with Dr John Hill
2025-11-18
We are delighted to welcome back Dr John Hill, an Archaeologist and Liverpool University Lecturer to deliver a Stone Age Workshop with real artefacts to your Year 3 Students. The sessions will take place on Tuesday 18/11/25 and Thursday 20/11/25.
Dr Hill brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the field of archaeology, particularly focusing on prehistoric societies.
During this engaging workshop, students will have the chance to learn about the Stone Age, including its culture, tools, and significant developments.
Dr Hill will employ a hands-on approach, allowing students to interact with artefacts and participate in activities that illustrate the daily lives of our ancestors.
This is a fantastic opportunity for our students to deepen their understanding from an expert in the field!

Year 5 and 6 Positive Footprints Career Conversation Izzy Haines
2025-11-18
As part of their personal development education, we are pleased to announce that Year 5 and 6 pupils will be attending an online career conversation with Izzy Haines, a Social Values and Net Carbon Zero Consultant.
The primary objective of this session is to expose our students to various career pathways and to help them understand the importance of setting goals and aspirations for their future.
The online session which is being hosted by Positive
Futures as part of our Positive Futures Careers Aspiration Programme, will engage students in discussions about the skills and attributes needed in today’s job market.
This initiative is designed to inspire and empower our students as they begin to consider their futures beyond primary education.
We encourage you to discuss this opportunity with your child and to support them in reflecting on their own interests and potential careers they may wish to explore.

Year 5 IntoFilm Festival Cinema Trip - Wicked - FACT Cinema, Liverpool
2025-11-19
We have been fortunate enough to secure some free cinema trips for for our pupils as part of the IntoFilm Festival. The festival is a fantastic initiative aimed at inspiring students through film, helping to enhance their creativity, and fostering a love for storytelling.
As part of the festival, our Year 5 classes will be attending screenings designed to engage their imaginations and will link to work back in school. “After two decades, the beloved and enduring stage musical makes its journey to the big screen as a spectacular, generation-defining cinematic event. The untold story of the witches of Oz stars Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Ariana Grande as Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege, who has yet to discover her true heart. As they forge an unlikely friendship, their extraordinary adventures will see them fulfill their destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.”
These screenings will not only provide an engaging experience but will also support our broader educational goals by encouraging discussions about themes such as themes of redemption, stereotypes and friendship.
Year 5
Wednesday 19/11/2025 – Wicked
We have some spaces for parents and carers to join us on the trip, details will follow via Arbor.

Year 6 IntoFilm Festival Cinema Trip - Ocean - Crosby Plaza Community Cinema
2025-11-19
We have been fortunate enough to secure some free cinema trips for for our pupils as part of the IntoFilm Festival. The festival is a fantastic initiative aimed at inspiring students through film, helping to enhance their creativity, and fostering a love for storytelling. As part of the festival, our Year 6 classes will be attending screenings designed to engage their imaginations and will link to work back in school.
“Legendary broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has spent over 70 years filming the natural world, leading him to a passionate belief that the ocean plays a critical role in sustaining life on Earth. This visually stunning and deeply moving documentary takes audiences on a journey through the planet’s most extraordinary marine environments, from vibrant coral reefs and expansive kelp forests to the mysterious open ocean. Attenborough reflects on the remarkable ocean discoveries made during his lifetime, while highlighting the pressing threats facing marine ecosystems today, including overfishing, pollution, and climate-driven coral bleaching. Yet, amidst these challenges, the film delivers a powerful message of hope. Through inspiring stories of conservation and restoration from around the world, Attenborough shows that with urgent action and global cooperation, the ocean’s health can be revived – leading our entire planet to thrive.”
Year 6
Wednesday 19/11/25 – Ocean
We have some spaces for parents and carers to join us on the trip, details will follow via Arbor.

Year 3 & 4 IntoFilm Festival Cinema Trip - IF - Odeon Cinema, Liverpool One
2025-11-19
We have been fortunate enough to secure some free cinema trips for for our pupils as part of the IntoFilm Festival. The festival is a fantastic initiative aimed at inspiring students through film, helping to enhance their creativity, and fostering a love for storytelling.
As part of the festival, our Year 3 & 4 classes will be attending screenings designed to engage their imaginations and will link to work back in school. The children will attend the screening of If, a film full of delightful characters, ‘IF’ is a heartfelt story about family, friendship, and growing up.
Year 3 & 4
Wednesday 19/11/2025 – IF
We have some spaces for parents and carers to join us on the trip, details will follow via Arbor.
