Richard Barnes Academy

A memorable day at Shakespeare's Globe 🩵

Macbeth students headed to London to experience Shakepeare's work in its most authentic setting.

After studying the play in their English lessons, they enjoyed an interactive workshop led by Globe practitioner, Jim.

They impressed staff with their curiosity and growing confidence as they asked lots of thoughtful questions and embraced new challenges.

Experiences like this help broaden horizons and inspire young people to achieve their potential. 🚀

Well done to all students who represented the academy so brilliantly. 👏

🌟 Building Life Skills🌟

This term, our Year 8 students have been developing important life-saving skills in RSHE through their First Aid studies. ⛑️

In today’s lesson, they focused on learning the recovery position — a vital skill that could help them support someone in an emergency. 👏🩹
We’re proud to see our students gaining knowledge that is not only educational, but truly valuable for everyday life. 💙

🚶‍♂️💚 Our GEMS students recently took part in a mental health charity walk, showing fantastic teamwork and commitment for a great cause.

After creating their own T-shirts, students walked to Central Park, completed the full route around the park, and returned to school — walking for around 2 hours in total!

Together, they raised an amazing £80 for charity. Well done to everyone involved! 👏

💙 Charity Head Shave for Prostate Cancer 💙

On Friday 22nd May, Mr Fletcher bravely volunteered for a charity head shave in support of Prostate Cancer awareness 🎗️✂️

Thanks to the generosity of our community, we have raised an amazing £500 so far! 🙌💙

A special thank you to student Josh and to Mario from the Youth Dreams Project barbering course for assisting on the day 👏💈

If you would still like to donate, please visit the JustGiving page.
https://www.justgiving.com/page/james-fletcher-1303?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL

🧁 Sweet Success in GEMS! ✨

Our GEMS students had a fantastic time decorating cupcakes and showing off their creativity! 🎨🧁

From colourful icing to fun toppings, their designs looked amazing and everyone had lots of fun taking part. 💛

Well done to all involved! 🌟

💐 Michelle Moran, our Lead Practitioner Family Liaison, was delighted to receive gifts of flowers and chocolates in recognition of going above and beyond while supporting the local authority. 💝

✨ Michelle’s dedication, care and commitment make a real difference, and this thoughtful gesture was a wonderful way to acknowledge her hard work. 👏

🌟 Staff Wellbeing at Trinity 🌟

Last week’s staff wellbeing session at Trinity was a great opportunity to pause, connect and focus on wellbeing. 💙

These sessions take place weekly across both sites and are already proving to be very beneficial for staff. 🙌