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Barnsley Council’s annual Barnsley in Bloom poster competition will still go ahead, despite schools being closed. This year, instead of children designing their artwork in school, they are encouraged to get creative at home.
The poster competition will run from Wednesday 15 to Thursday 30 April. Children up to the age of 16 are encouraged to draw their best Barnsley in Bloom picture on a sheet of A4 paper, take a picture of it and email it to parkservices@barnsley.gov.uk with the subject: ‘Barnsley in Bloom entry’. Include the child’s age and name in your email. This year there is no specific theme – just get inspired by nature and the flowers blooming around your home this spring. Use colours and paints to brighten up your picture.

There will be three age categories: six and under, seven to 11 and 12-16. Our park services team will judge and shortlist the artwork, and then the Mayor will choose one winner from each age category. Each winner will receive a certificate over email, and their artwork will be shared on Barnsley Council’s social media channels, so everyone in the borough can celebrate them.
Cllr Pauline Markham, Mayor of Barnsley, said; “This year we’re doing the Barnsley in Bloom competition slightly differently, but we still want all of Barnsley’s budding young artists to get involved. This fun activity should hopefully keep children entertained for a while at home, and I encourage families to stick their artwork in their window so that other children can enjoy spotting them on their daily exercise.

“I’m sorry that I won’t be able to welcome the winners to lunch with me at the Town Hall, but hopefully they will enjoy seeing their artwork being celebrated online.”

This news is linked to Town Spirit, our new way of working better together. We believe, that if everyone in Barnsley does just one thing, we can make our borough a more welcoming place to live, work, invest and visit.

This half term we have been discussing what makes a good friend and how we can be better friends. The class were asked to choose friends to be photographed with it was so lovely to see friends coming together.

The girls cooked up a storm today in baking club. During university time, they made these beautiful buns. Many thanks to Mrs Rayner for her patience and support.

Zoo Lab came to visit and we got to meet lots of interesting creatures. Sydney the Millipede had travelled all the way from the Congo and Harry the hissing cockroach was from Madagascar. Everyone was very brave and even if they weren’t keen on the creature they had a go at either holding or stroking. We found out lots of interesting facts – baby scorpions are called scorplings, cockroaches will not eat concrete, glass, plastic, and metal but will eat ANYTHING else!!! Cockroaches can hold their breath under water for 20 minutes and can survive being frozen for a year. Thank you very much to the lady from Zoo Lab as she was very engaging and down to earth.