Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children

EXCITING NEWS! We are inviting you all to the launch of the BSL Curriculum for Primary and Secondary Schools. This is the official date for the roll-out of the curriculum nationally. 💙❤️🤍

Want to come to the LAUNCH PARTY, book your ticket via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsl-curriculum-launch-party-tickets-731174270927?aff=ebdssbeac

Come and join our Sign Stay and Play, Wednesdays, 10:00-12:00. Led by our Nursery class teacher and Speech and Language therapist. Our first session of the term is tomorrow 20th September.

Can you join us this Saturday? There will be a family fun day at the British Library from 12pm to 4pm. The event is free. It would be great to see you there to have a good time.

Thursday 6th July 2023
During Deaf Studies, Gasholders class were very lucky to be joined by Mandy Docker, one of the duo of sisters that owns Deaf Chef. She came in to lead a healthy cooking session with the children. The children made 3 yummy healthy dips to accompany some fruit- Chocolate Yoghurt, Strawberry Cheesecake and Peanut Butter dip.
Mandy explained about her job and her journey with her sister setting up their new food truck. It was amazing for the children to meet great Deaf role models and to remind them that they can do anything they want to in life and deafness is NOT A barrier.

Monday 10th July
We held our annual football tournament at Market Place Road and were joined by other Deaf schools, including Blanche Neville Primary and Knightsfield School. It was a hot day but the children did so well and played some good matches. The football pitches were brilliant and it was so good to see other Deaf children signing and playing sport together. Well done to Blanche Neville for winning the whole tournament. Kery from Frank Barnes won the Best Player of the Tournament award.

International Evening 🌎

International Evening 🌎 Face Painting 🎨🖌️

'It has transformed my child's life' - Deaf school gets top marks from Ofsted.
We’re so proud of our amazing OUTSTANDING Ofsted result 🙌🏼
Take a look at the news article @ www.hamhigh.co.uk

https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/23634713.frank-barnes-school-deaf-children-outstanding-ofsted/

Centre Parcs Day 4 - Thursday 29th June. Part 4/4
We ended our evening going bowling, competing in three teams: two teams of children and a staff team! Some of us took to scoring points seriously! 😆
After a change into our best clothes, we had a brilliant dinner 😋 at the Huck’s American Restaurant 🇺🇸 and found a play adventure treat to burn off our sugar high after dinner! 🤪

Centre Parcs Day 4 - Thursday 29th June. Part 2/4
Our adventure golf was cancelled due to flooding from the rain so we happily went swimming instead and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves racing around the river rapids, cyclone 🌀 and slides!
Finished off our morning with a trip to the sweet shop 🍭, we were impressed with how careful the children were with their money 💷!

Centre Parcs Day 4 - Thursday 29th June. Part 1/4
We woke up to rain ☔️! Weather forecast said it’d be sunny later in the afternoon so all would be well. Off with our morning on the lake on Pedaloes, we came back completely soaked through and waddled our way back to the lodges🥶 and had some hot chocolate to warm up!

Frank Barnes School are hosting our annual International Evening on Wednesday 12th July 2023, 4pm to 8pm. £2 per person or £3 for families.

We have activities suitable for children such as a bouncy castle, face painting, games and more.

We are inviting not only our Frank Barnes children, but parents, families, friends, ex-pupils of Frank Barnes and the wider community. If you would like to come and meet old/new friends, do come along too.
Everyone is welcome.

To attend you must RVSP to [email protected] as soon as possible. We hope to see you there 😊

Centre Parcs Day 3 - Wednesday 28th June. Part 3/3
We were knackered after a full morning of activity, the last few days clearly taking their toll on our bodies🥴! We slowly cycled 🚲 back to the lodge and got working on our diaries. Finished off our evening with preparing, chopping, slicing salad 🥗, chicken/veggie burgers 🍔, fruit kebabs 🍡🍉🍇🫐🍍 and had a lovely zoom chat with our families 🥰. Milkshakes 🥛 and pancakes 🥞 and we’re ready for bed!

Centre Parcs Day 2 - Tuesday 27th June. Part 3/3
We had an hour to spare in between our activities and used the time well by writing in our diaries, ✍🏾 and wrote postcards home. Finishing off our evening with preparing, chopping, making pizzas 🍕 with salad 🥗. Headed off for a late night swim and ended our night with milkshakes 🥛and popcorn 🍿. The girls went a bit further and had facials before bed! 😂

Centre Parcs Day 2 - Tuesday 27th June. Part 1/3
We started our morning with kayaking at the lake. An excellent way to wake us all up with a workout! 🥵 We finished our session with wet bottoms and headed over for a morning swim and thoroughly enjoyed scaring ourselves going down the cyclone 🌀, slides and rapid river!

Centre Parcs Day 1- Monday 26th June. Part 4/4
Got our bikes for the week sorted. 19 bicycles later 🚲, we set off for our lodges and promptly got lost in the woods 🌲! 🫢😅 An hour later, we finally found our lodges, unpacked, cooked dinner, headed off to a late night swim and back again for showers and bed. What a first day it’s been!

Centre Parcs Day 1- Monday 26th June. Part 2/4
Made it to Centre Parcs with very hyped up children 😄, enjoyed our packed lunches by the beach and ended up on the beach! 🏖️ Some wet wet clothes, sand everywhere, but it’s all good, we are still going strong! 🙌🏾

Friday 23rd June 2023, Centre Parcs prep part 2/2.
At last we finished our shopping list 😮‍💨. Frenetic packing, 4 trolleys 🛒🛒🛒🛒 and a fortune £££ 💷 later, we headed back to school and sorted these out ready for our trip on Monday.

Friday 23rd June 2023, Centre Parcs prep part 1/2.
We headed to Sainsbury’s to buy all our food for our Centre Parcs trip following our shopping list! We decided to split into 3 groups: breakfast group, lunch group and dinner group. With our trolleys, we split up and off we went! 🛒 Some of us followed our shopping list exactly 🧐 and some of us got a little carried away with all the food choices! 😅

Thursday 22nd June 2023, Centre Parcs prep part 2/2.
We worked in groups to create a shopping list of all the ingredients we will need for Centre Parcs. Very focused on writing our list!

Wednesday 21st June 2023, Centre Parcs prep part 1/2.
We discussed our rules for Centre Parcs and came up with a list of all the rules we wanted- excellent rule thinkers! 🤩 We checked our lodge numbers and who we are sharing bedrooms with. We had a look at our jam packed timetable of activities for the week, what an amazing week we have planned!

Tuesday 20th June 2023, Centre Parcs prep part 2/2.
We finished our morning with weather forecasting, it seems the weather at Centre Parcs next week will be sunny with light rain and still very warm! ☀️🌤️🌧️🌦️ We brainstormed the clothes and toiletries we will need to pack, great work!

Monday 19th June 2023, Centre Parcs prep part 2/2. We carried on with our morning focussing on sorting the contents for our diary 📔.
We talked about who was going to Centre Parcs, both staff and children and there are 19 of us in total going!

Monday 19th June 2023, Centre Parcs prep part 1/2
We started off this week with a group of our Year5&6 pupils preparing for our week-long residential trip to Centre Parcs next week.
We spent the first hour discussing how we felt about going to Centre Parcs for 5 days, away from home! Great feelings & emotions written up.
We designed our front cover for our diary 📔 ready to journal ✍🏾 our daily activities! We’re all really excited!

A beautiful fort 🏰 made with excellent team work - great independent work boys !

Today’s aim in Science was to understand the digestive system 🔎 the organ function, order, and placement in the human body. We had fun working in pairs to create our own life size digestive system !

In Gasholders class we learned the history of pride and why we are learning about it today. Pride is about embracing diversity, equality and inclusion, something we are very passionate about at Frank Barnes. We also agreed that equality should be for all regardless of gender, race, religion, disability and we should be kind to everyone everyday and not just for June.

Ready for the coronation weekend. We’ve set our whole school with a coronation 👑 homework project. For the little ones all the way up to KS2 children!
From making a paper plate carriage to a coin collage 🪙 to writing ✍🏽 an information text to reading comprehension 📖 and more…!
Looking forward to seeing everyone’s work after the weekend.

We are coronation 👑 ready 🇬🇧!

New job vacancy at Frank Barnes: BSL Level 2 tutor! Please apply within! 👍🏽

Job Title: BSL teacher – Level 2 Salary: £27/ hour
Hours: 6-8pm (day/s negotiable), term time Contract: Sessional, 2 hours per week
Start date: September 2023

The First Choice for Deaf Children in London
Frank Barnes is an innovative and exciting sign bilingual school for profoundly Deaf Children with a national and international reputation as a centre of excellence in Deaf Education. We have recently been awarded Outstanding Status by Ofsted for the fourth consecutive inspection and have a commitment to high quality education as well as your professional development. We are a friendly, supportive school, based in Camden, a short walk from St Pancras International Station with good rail links across London and beyond. In 2015, the school moved to a state of the art building at King’s Cross and is co-located with a mainstream primary school. You can find out more information about the school on our website: www.fbarnes.camden.sch.uk

The role:
We are looking for an enthusiastic, committed person to teach BSL lessons with following knowledge, skills and experience:

• Excellent BSL skills (minimum BSL Level 3)
• Be a native BSL user
• Experience of working in educational settings
• Communicating with people from different backgrounds
• Excellent networks within the Deaf community
• Experience of teaching/assessing/delivering BSL courses or curriculum to adults
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines
• Carrying out assessments BSL learning and progression
• Planning and delivery of BSL lessons
• Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding practice

We are committed to safeguarding children and any appointment is subject to satisfactory checks and references. The position will require an Enhanced DBS check including barred list check. The post is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (as amended in 2013 & 2020). This means that applicants are not required to disclose details of any youth cautions or ‘protected’ criminal convictions, adult cautions or bind-overs they may have incurred.

The School’s safeguarding policy is included with the application pack and we ask you to read this before applying for a post.

For further information please contact the Headteacher ([email protected]). Application forms can be found on our website– www.fbarnes.camden.sch.uk

Please download the application form, job description and person specification and email your application and supporting statement to: [email protected].



Closing date for applications: Thursday 25th May 2023, 12noon

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Job Title: BSL teacher – Level 2 Salary: £27/ hour
Hours: 6-8pm (day/s negotiable), term time Contract: Sessional, 2 hours per week
Start date: September 2023

The First Choice for Deaf Children in London
Frank Barnes is an innovative and exciting sign bilingual school for profoundly Deaf Children with a national and international reputation as a centre of excellence in Deaf Education. We have recently been awarded Outstanding Status by Ofsted for the fourth consecutive inspection and have a commitment to high quality education as well as your professional development. We are a friendly, supportive school, based in Camden, a short walk from St Pancras International Station with good rail links across London and beyond. In 2015, the school moved to a state of the art building at King’s Cross and is co-located with a mainstream primary school. You can find out more information about the school on our website: www.fbarnes.camden.sch.uk

The role:
We are looking for an enthusiastic, committed person to teach BSL lessons with following knowledge, skills and experience:

• Excellent BSL skills (minimum BSL Level 3)
• Be a native BSL user
• Experience of working in educational settings
• Communicating with people from different backgrounds
• Excellent networks within the Deaf community
• Experience of teaching/assessing/delivering BSL courses or curriculum to adults
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines
• Carrying out assessments BSL learning and progression
• Planning and delivery of BSL lessons
• Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding practice

We are committed to safeguarding children and any appointment is subject to satisfactory checks and references. The position will require an Enhanced DBS check including barred list check. The post is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (as amended in 2013 & 2020). This means that applicants are not required to disclose details of any youth cautions or ‘protected’ criminal convictions, adult cautions or bind-overs they may have incurred.

The School’s safeguarding policy is included with the application pack and we ask you to read this before applying for a post.

For further information please contact the Headteacher ([email protected]). Application forms can be found on our website– www.fbarnes.camden.sch.uk

Please download the application form, job description and person specification and email your application and supporting statement to: [email protected].



Closing date for applications: Thursday 25th May 2023, 12noon

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated class teacher to join our innovative and exciting bilingual school in September 2023.

Have a look at our website for details:

https://www.fbarnes.camden.sch.uk/vacancies/

Dani, Headteacher, Catherine, Deputy, Jodie, Team Leader, Katie, SENCO and Lisa, Deaf Instructor, enjoyed a fantastic private viewing this evening of the launch of the Deaf Mosaic exhibition. Photo Portraits of amazing Deaf people from all walks of life by Stephen Illiffe, Deaf Photographer.

Wonderful seeing some of our children on these portraits including our headteacher, Dani Sive.
Speeches by Stephen Illiffe followed by Dani Sive , , Argent and the BDA.

Proudly supported by and

Exhibition can be seen in Kings Cross for the next 4 weeks.

What a great day for our first National BSL Day.

In Literacy we have been immersed into the world of Ronald Dahl and his book ‘Witches’! We learned about Ronald Dahl’s life by visiting his museum, reading the first chapter of the book retrieving information about how to identify a witch and making a ‘wanted’ poster of a witch.
This morning we discussed the features we could see on a typical wanted poster and we will be making our own! The children dressed up as a witch using green screen and this week we will be compiling information from what we have learned and include them on the poster. Why are all the girls dressed as a witch? Because witches are female. Can you answer this question- what do they call the male version of a witch? Type in comments below!

The children made costumes linked to the backstage skills lesson. They used felt fabrics and different materials to made their own costumes. Their costumes are amazing.

Yesterday, we had Christopher and James from Museum of London in our school as part of our Great Fire of London art project.
We had a fun quiz to recap on our knowledge and then for our 1st art session, we had to create a self portrait using cut out paper in different colours. The children really enjoyed themselves.

Watch out for our art work in the next 4 weeks!

Yesterday, we had Christopher and James from Museum of London in our school as part of our Great Fire of London art project.
We had a fun quiz to recap on our knowledge and then for our 1st art session, we had to create a self portrait using cut out paper in different colours. The children really enjoyed themselves.
Watch out for our art work in the next 4 weeks!