Head Girl Abbey B and Charity and Events Manager Olivia M led on this term’s Sixth Form Charity Event. Thank you to everyone who supported the event by ordering sweets for Valentine’s Day. The profits will be shared equally between our 3 chosen charities: Young Minds, Barnados and the RSPCA.

Thank you to Senior Six and Charity and Events Managers for their delivery services.

G. Kaur in Year 9 produced this stunning work to memorialise the Holocaust.

The bottom half of the painting is Hitler and the Nazis segregating and isolating Jews, like how they were held in ghettos, concentration camps, and sent to death camps. That half shows a background that is dark as it conveys the negativity and chaos that the Nazis were bringing upon those they considered ‘undesirable’. The top half represents these groups being liberated by the allied troops, and the background is lighter to represent the good and positivity that liberation bought, it shows that these groups had been freed. These groups are represented by the birds, who are imprisoned and confined by the barbed wire. But then, birds can symbolise hope and freedom as they are liberated. 

Barr Beacon School pupils have marked Holocaust Memorial Day this week.

Students who have studied under the guidance of the Holocaust Memorial Trust have led assemblies for all year groups each morning this week sharing information about this significant event so that we can honour the day. 
In addition, students of A-Level History and Philosophy & Ethics attended a lecture; a testimony from Eva Clarke BEM hosted by the Holocaust Memorial Trust. 

Our pupils have found the opportunity to engage with the lecture both informative and moving as they reflected on Eva’s journey and experience. 

We have been overwhelmed by the support shown by our pupils, staff and families in contributing to Santa’s Black Country Toy Appeal – the charity that the school has chosen to support this Christmas.The whole school community have been collecting a range of items (stationery, toiletries, clothes, footwear, toys, books and sweet treats) to donate to local children and young people in time for Christmas.  This has been a great team effort led by our Year 13 Charity and Events Managers. Thank you to everyone for their contributions towards this great cause. 

Special thanks to the brother of Darby M (Year 12)  who made a generous donation of 8 pairs of football boots and 16 leather mini-footballs.  The donation has been gratefully received by the school and passed onto the Black Country Toy Appeal.

Thank you and well done to our Year 13 Ambassadors (Sophia A, Olivia M, Francesca G, Isabel F, Aisha H, Sapriya B, Harvey L, Anil M, Jhanae H and Divya P) for packing all donations into boxes, ready for collection.