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Karen Whitten and Sílvia Catarino
Directors
Hannah Bergius
Headteacher and Class Teacher
Caroline Nutting
Deputy Headteacher and Class Teacher
Gemma Aldridge
Early Years Foundation Stage Teaching Assistant
🇵🇹 Portuguese Freedom Day 🇵🇹
The day was filled with activities and emotions. We started with a special assembly featuring a video, reading poems, and the entire school singing the song "Uma Gaivota, Voava, Voava." Then, we had...
Spring Fair Fundraiser
Thank you to everyone who came to our Spring Fair fundraiser! It was a great family day out and we greatly appreciate the team effort from parents and staff to ensure it was a successful day 🙏🥳 We...
Arts Day
Arts Day was a big hit! It was amazing to see the children expressing themselves through the arts and enjoying being so creative. We had expressive dance, music, art and digital art. A huge thank...
Easter Celebrations
A fantastic Easter Day! A huge well done to all the children for their superb creations with hats and decorated eggs! The children enjoyed the ‘eggshibition’ to admire the beautiful eggs and they...
Drama Day
A fantastic day was had by all the children on Friday’s Drama Day! The school was full of brilliant builders, very smart Victorians, elegant Ancient Egyptians and colourful Mayans. 🌎 The children...
⚽️ Barlavento vs Nobel Football Match ⚽️
Huge well done to all the children that took part in the football tournament at Nobel, Lagoa today! You were all fabulous, not only on the pitch but off the pitch also. Well done to you all. Thank...
Lagos Zoo Trip!
A wonderful day out at the zoo with all the children today! Lots of exploring, learning and bonding after the Christmas break 🥰 Well done everyone!🙏🐄🐸🐒🐢🐓🐑🦎🦜
Spreading the Christmas Cheer!*
Well done to all the children today for spreading the Christmas cheer at the Old People’s Home in Espiche. Some beautiful singing, you were filling the room with Christmas joy!...
Barlavento Christmas Celebration!
A huge well done to our super star children for a superb Christmas Celebration on Thursday! 👏 They were all so confident and calm and we are very proud of all of them for their hard work 🥰🥳 Thank...
Dia do Pijama and World Kindness day
💕 Today we started with a whole school assembly learning about the importance of spreading kindness (like a boomerang!) The children then completed lots of kindness challenges throughout the day ♥️...
Patricia Galhardo
Early Years Foundation Stage Lead Teacher
São Martinho Assembly
We had a special Portuguese assembly to celebrate São Martinho 🐴🇵🇹 Well done to the children for a fantastic retelling of the story and song. The children have also taken home some tasty castanhas 👍...
Cake Sale School Fundraiser
A huge thank you to everyone for all the delicious and wonderful treats that were brought in for the cake sale! 🙏🙏 It was a lovely, sunny and busy afternoon. Thanks to everyone who came 🥰 All funds...
Erasmus+ visit from St Joseph’s school in Cork, Ireland
KS2 had a special morning with students from St Joseph’s school in Cork, Ireland who are part of the Erasmus+ program. We had a welcome assembly to learn about both schools, we then completed a...
Halloween fun!
The children had a brilliant day with lots of Halloween fun! We started with a Halloween parade to see the fantastic costumes with Winnie the Witch, then we were treated to a Halloween performance...
Sporting Tournaments
We had an energetic finish to a busy first half term with our Key Stage 2 Field Hockey Tournament! So lovely to see such great team work. Well done everyone 👏🙌. Barlavento Football Academy also...