Barney Friends
We have wholeheartedly recommended Barney School to our friends. My wife and I also enjoy the developing social scene for parents and look forward to a long and developing association with the school.
Prof. Ian Greaves
"The school has excellent links with parents"
(Independent Schools Inspectorate 2011)
We would like to offer parents a very warm welcome to Barnard Castle Prep School and Barney Friends.
The idea behind the " Friends" is to bring together and encourage social contact between parents within each class and year group and across the school itself. It can be a very isolating experience when your child joins a new school and we want to make sure parents are made as welcome as the children.
Information regarding events will be sent home with the Newsletter.
Each class/year has a parent representative who co-ordinates events. Recent social events have included:
- Coffee mornings
- Second hand clothing sales
- Race for Life in Darlington
- Cricket match for the fathers
- Fund raising
- A quiz night
- Winter Ball
Barney Friends have produced a school directory to enable parents to contact each other for social reasons such as invitations to tea, birthday parties, etc. (or forgotten prep!).
