We place great importance on enriching our children’s education and learning experience. We do this through a broad range of activities, inviting visitors into school and ensuring that they all take part in a full range of day trips as well as a week-long residential for children in Year 5 or 6.

Trips include:

• London Aquarium and Zoo
• A rich diversity of London’s museums: eg the Natural History Museum, Maritime Museum and the Science Museum
• Experiences like canal boat trips and the London Eye

In addition, every year we put on a Christmas production based on a pantomime selected by our children. Prior to the performance, workshops are held on prop making, face painting, drama and costume making.

Frank Barnes has achieved Healthy School status and strongly advocates children having a healthy lifestyle, being active and learning to be as independent as possible.

Subject and Collaboration Days

We enjoy whole school subject days to support curriculum learning and enrichment and host these throughout the year in conjunction with world events.

British Science Week Preparation

Monday 10th – Friday 14th March 2025 and the Theme is: "Change and Adapt".

During British Science Week, all classes will conduct an experiment or activity related to the theme "Changing and Adapting." Each class will have a designated Science Day on a different day of the week. In the final hour of each day, all other classes will visit the hosting class to observe their findings and experiments.

On their Science Day, each class will:

• Present their findings.
• Explain their experiment, plan, and conclusion.
• Demonstrate their experiment for all to watch.

Planned Experiments by Class:

• Ice Age Class: Lights and Reflections
• Jurassic Class: Rain Cloud & Magic Milk Experiments
• Ancient Egypt Class: Colour-Changing Flowers
• Roman Class: Which Sugars Melt Ice the Fastest?
• Tudor Class 1: How Does Milk Change to Cheese?
• Tudor Class 2: Surprising Stains

Joint Science Collaboration: On Wednesday 12th March, our Tudor Class will collaborate with Heathlands and Blanche Nevile Schools. The session will include:

• Sharing science experiment results conducted earlier in the week.
• A joint investigation on how nappies have changed and adapted over time.
• An afternoon of hands-on science experiments.

This initiative aims to foster scientific curiosity, teamwork, and cross-school collaboration while celebrating the theme of change and adaptation.

We enjoyed a fantastic British Science Week from Monday 11^th to Friday 15^th March 2024. The theme was ‘Time’. All classes conducted an experiment related to ‘Time’. Each class had a Science Day on a different day of the week. In the last hour, all classes visited the class who hosted their Science Day.

The Science Day Class presented their findings, explained their science experiment, plan, conclusion and showed their experiment example for us all to watch. Planned experiments were:

• Unicorn – Sand Timers (Making sand timers and how using more or less sand adjusts the time it takes to fall.)
• Mermaid – Growing Up (A timeline from birth to now.)
• Dragon – Seasonal Changes (What changes are there and making bird nests.)
• Werewolf – Melting Ice (What makes ice melt the fastest?)
• Vampire 1 – Melting Chocolate (Which chocolate melts the fastest and why.)
• Vampire 2 – Fabric Absorption (Which fabric absorbs water the fastest and slowest with including variables.)

A joint Science Collaboration with Heathlands School took place on Wednesday 13^th March. Our Vampire Class and Heathlands Class presented two science experiment results to each other that they did earlier in the week. Then spent the day seeing, making and investigating various science experiments: Elephant Toothpaste, Dry Ice, Methane Bubbles and Bath bombs.

Lunchtime Clubs

We have weekly lunchtime bike and running clubs as part of our PE and Sport Development encouraging more physical activities throughout the school term. Some children take part in a weekly scooter club at lunchtimes to support their balance and coordination skills. 

We also have a News Club where a group of children work together to write and publish the school newspaper called Fantastic Frank News!

Additionally, we now have a weekly BSL Sign Signing Choir club with Kings Cross Academy pupils! Check out the video of FBS and KCA pupils sign signing "Let it Snow" and "Silent Night" for the Christmas season. 

Let it Snow! https://youtu.be/wfSSWU07f68 

Silent Night https://youtu.be/KChMEDk2N6k