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News Index 2006 / 2007
   
Barry Comprehensive School’s new staff meet in the Conference Room

Preparing for Autumn Term

New Staff, New 6th Form Uniform
Full Story

   
Real Radio's Lisa Hunter interviews pupils and parents

Best Ever GCSE Results!

Full Story

   
A Level Results Are UP!

A Level Results Are UP!

Full Story

   
Lunchtime on Year 6 Day

Preparing for Year 7

Year 6 spend the day
Full Story

   
The Centre of Alternative Technology at Machynlleth

Centre of Alternative Technology

The Eco Committee’s pilgrimage to CAT
Full Story

   
Activity Week 2007

Activity Week 2007

Rain does not stop play
Full Story

   
At the Brandenburg Gate

History Trip to Germany

Exploring Weimar, Munich & Berlin
Full Story

   
David, Sam Sion and Daniel are joining the Cardiff Blues U16 squad

Cardiff Blues

David, Sam, Sion & Daniel get the Blues
Full Story

   
Language enthusiasts Tyler and Sophie

Study Visit to Bristol University

Enthusiastic about Languages
Full Story

   
The Barry Sixth Form Valedictory Dinner

Valedictory Dinner 2007

Goodbye and Goodluck
Full Story

   
Sports Day 2007

Sports Day 2007

Rain does not stop play
Full Story

   
Fundraisers getting ready to sleep for charity

Sleepathon 2007

Sleeping on the job
Full Story

   
The boys with their mortarboards and certificates after the successful completion of the course

UWIC First Campus

A taste of student life
Full Story

   
Oink - Helping out at the Amelia Trust Farm

Eco-Week

Proud to be green
Full Story

   
The group with gargoyles ready to be fired

Year 7 Gargoyle Project

Scary Artwork
Full Story

   
Ben Todd with Town Mayor, Councillor Margaret Payne

Ben Takes The Prize

Reward for Youth Survey
Full Story

   
Muscle Bound – which way is the beach?

Annual PGL trip

Which way to the beach?
Full Story

   
Sam & Lewis with their Aerospace Saturday Club certificates

Aerospace Saturday Club

Up, up and away
Full Story

   
Forhad Ahmed receiving an award from ITV Wales Tonight presenter Jonathan Hill

Presentation Evening

Celebrating our achievements
Full Story

   
Winner Kyle Barros with the Year 7 competitors

Slam Dunk Assembly

Year 7 Basketball Compeition
Full Story

   
Sean Limbrick holding the ‘Best Manager’ trophy and Ashley Brown with his runner-up medal.

Schools Fantasy League

Here we go, here we go...
Full Story

   
5.	A great display of teamwork

Atlantic College

Amazing activity adventure
Full Story

 

   
Rhys Davies, Scott Paramore and Elliot Evans, Vale of Glamorgan Sports Personality Team of the Year

Team Of The Year

Rhys, Scott & Elliot honoured
Full Story

   
5.	The dramatic performance captivates the audience at the Wales Millennium Centre

Millennium Centre Performance

A multi-media event
Full Story

   
David Swallow (Headteacher), David Lloyd (School Governor) and pupils Zack and Ben handing over the school’s contribution to Barry Town Council's Mayor Margaret Payne and Youth Survey Steering Committee representative Tom Burley

Town Youth Survey

Talk to us...
Full Story

   
Some of the group taking a break at Trafalgar Square

Creative Arts Go To London

From Les Mis to LotR
Full Story

   
Exploring the Nou Camp Stadium - home of FC Barcelona

Barcelona!

"...the best trip ever..."
Full Story

   
Barry Comprehensive School Year 10 at the Barry College Faculty of Technology

College Success

Pupils take to college life
Full Story

   
The Barry Comprehensive FLA Competition team with Miss Evans and ‘their’ FLA Laetitia Paris

CILT Cymru Competition

Getting to know the FLA
Full Story

   
The Barry Comprehensive team of Warren Meshke, Robin Gough, Stine Bang, Dirk Ewer, Andrew Grisdale and Mr. Peacock, Head of Physics

Paperclip Physics 2007

In a spin at the Institute of Physics
Full Story

   
James and Jay, proud of their achievements at the World Martial Arts Games in Ireland

World Martial Arts Games

James and Jay return from Ireland
Full Story

   
Barry Comprehensive School’s Victorious Year 10 Team ‘The Entertainers’

Seagar Cup

Entertainers Victorious in Epic Encounter
Full Story

   
Joshua Simpson, Evan George, Jac Osbourne & Harry Tobin

Scumball Rally 2007

Cheer on the JamFund Jalopy
Full Story

   

Murder Mystery 2007

Who looks guilty?
Full Story

   
Councillor Gwenllian Landsdowne and Grant Jones (seated) with Craig Lowry and Josh Dymond and teacher Jane Edwards

Hot Topic

Media4Schools on the election trial
Full Story

   
The group outside their youth hostel

Work & Play

Study visit to France
Full Story

   
Dwarfed by Solheimjokull glacier

Destination: Iceland!

Visiting the land of fire & ice
Full Story

   
The first lucky pupils tackle the wall

Onwards & Upwards

Scaling new heights in PE
Full Story

   
Proud pupils displaying Barry Comprehensive School’s top marks from the Estyn inspection

The Numbers Are Good

Top marks from the Estyn Inspection
Full Story

   
Creative Arts Festival of Drama, Song, Dance and Art

Creative Arts Festival

Drama, Song, Dance & Art
Full Story

   
The Barry Comprehensive group fly the flag

Skiing at Chatel, 2007

Can't wait to go back!
Full Story

   
Sketching and mapping the rich geological features

Pembrokeshire Rocks!

Geologically that is...
Full Story

   
The BCS Under 18 team with coach Leighton Coles

County Basketball Champions

We storm the courts again!
Full Story

   
Seeing red at the Comic Relief Assembly

Comic Relief 2007

"Red is the colour..."
Full Story

 

   
Chris ‘Korkey’ Corcoran form BBC Scrum V

Click On Korkey

ICT Class Hi-jacked by BBC
Full Story

   
Year 7 raise the roof

Eisteddfod 2007

Never forget your Welsh
Full Story

   
Rhys and Karl (centre) with two of their crewmates aboard the Stavros S Niarchos

Tallships 2007

The voyagers return
Full Story

 

   
Green fingers at Cwm Talwg Wood

 

Cwm Talwg Woodlands

Green fingers at work
Full Story

 

   
Mad Potters Tea-Party

Mad Potters Tea-Party

Turning cakes to cash
Full Story

   
We adopted a beach!

Marine Conservation Project

We adopted a beach!
Full Story

   
Healthy Living Week

Healthy Living Week

Mind, body and lots of fruit
Full Story

   
The Barry Comprehensive School Gymnastics Team

Tumble & Vault

A fistfull of medals
Full Story

   
Getting used to the publicity – Kayne being photographed for an upcoming

Kayne Signs For Southampton

Aiming at the Premiership
Full Story

   
Jacob Hollings Welsh U18s Basketball Team Captain

Jacob Leads Welsh U18s Basketball Team

Welsh Champions
Full Story

   
Senior Learning Mentor Graham Jenkins addresses the pupils

Revision Weekend 2007

GCSE Preparation Underway
Full Story

   
Hywel Arcos, winner Daniel Morgan and Matthew Fairweather with the judges

Rotary Club Young Chef

Ready, Steady, Cook
Full Story

   
The team at the Lilleshall Trials

Success at the Lilleshall Trials

Austria here we come!
Full Story

   
Year 10 at the University of Glamorgan

ACE Day Out

Full Story

   
Rhys and Karl head for the sun

Sun, Sea and Ships

Canary islands ahoy
Full Story

   
Star collectors Connor Rowlands, Ben Callow, Ian Bosley and Matthew White

Green Christmas

Eco-Committee recycling initiative
Full Story

   
15 Bags of rubbish collected in just one hour

Beach Cleanup

Use the bin!
Full Story

   
Rhodri Phillips, James Cosgrove, Steve Hodgetts, Joseph Mees, Jonathon Barrett, John Peacock & Lloyd James

Airport Initiative

Language experts at work
Full Story

   
The Barry Comprehensive Santas with staff and patients at the Children’s Hospital

Children's Hospital

Year 7 Santas
Full Story

   
The Barry Comprehensive School Carol Concert at All Saints Church Carol Concert at All Saints
Full Story
   
John Smith MP pays a visit John Smith MP pays a visit
Full Story
   
Reading Partnership News Reading Partnership News
Full Story
   
The cast of Aladdin

"Aladdin" Barry Comprehensive Style

Panto time again!
Full Story

   
Some of the Year 8 pupils with their Christmas Boxes ready for collection

Operation Christmas Child

Boxes of Delight
Full Story

   
Hospitality & Catering Christmas Dinner

Hospitality & Catering Christmas Dinner

A Festive Feast
Full Story

   
Some of the lucky Barry Comprehensive group with Brian May

Rocked by Queen

So, I said to Brian May...
Full Story

   
Caelum, Liam, Tom, Ethan,  Kyle, Jay, Nathaniel in action at the Cwm Talwg Woodlands earlier in the year

Saving the Cwm Talwg Woodlands

Growing a green community
Full Story

 

   
Yes, it is as cold as it looks!

Storey Arms

In search of adventure
Full Story

   
Big Brains take the prize at the PTA Quiz

PTA Quiz Night

Big Brains earn Big Chocolate prize
Full Story

   
The VIBE Experience

The VIBE Experience

Hands-on fun for Year 9
Full Story

   
Bronze Award for Green endeavours

Bronze Award For Green Endeavours

Full Story

   
Engineering Challenge at Treforest

Engineering at Glamorgan University

If you build it they will come...
Full Story

   
BCSX-Factor 2006

Children In Need 2006

Full Story

   
David Harkus and Kevin Davies with the freshly applied 'puzzled' design

WRGB Art Car 2006

Pleased with 'Puzzled'
Full Story

   
Lloyd, Curtis and Tom at the Badminton Championships

County Badminton Championships

Successes for year 9 to year 13
Full Story

   
Joshua making his presentation

Pupil Progress Evening

Year 7 demonstrate their achievemnts
Full Story

   
Barry Comprehensive pupils Rory MacEwan, Zackary Ledbetter and Thomas Rees joined Minister Jane Hutt and the Mayor of Barry at the Royal British Legion Remembrance Service at Barry Cemetery on Friday 10 November 2006

Remembrance Service 2006

 

Heroes remembered.
Full Story

 

   
Funky Surfboards

Arts Showcase

Plenty to see, plenty to watch and enjoy.
Full Story

   

Media4Schools Awards

Another successful year.
Full Story

 
The Ysgolion Bro Curig y Barry Schools Gymnastics Display Team

Ysgolion Bro Curig y Barry Schools Gymnastics
Display Team

 

London Gymnastics Festival Report
Full Story

   
Construction Skills Championships

Construction Skills Championships

Hard work pays off...Full Story

   
(Above) The amazing WNO production of Sweetness and Badness (Images(c)KirstenMcTernan) and (below) PianoMan Richard Meyrick with some of the lucky master class students

Welsh National Opera &
The PianoMan perform at
Barry Comprehensive School

 

 

 

The finer things in life
Full Story

   
Mr Picton and Mrs Bush from nPower present Mr Tidman, Mr Dimmick and the boys with a cheque

Conservation, Design & Technology

Birds and the bees...Full Story

 
A giant still life is a hit in the Art Room

Open Evening &
Primary Visit Day

Giving Year 6 a taste of Barry Comprehensive...Full Story

 
The BCS runners with Mr Adamson (front centre)

The Runners Revealed

Run, run, run...Full Story

 
The International Students meeting with Mr Bourton (Head of Sixth Form) and Ms Walters (Student Exchange Tutor)

International Education

Here, there and everywhere...Full Story

 
7.	The new School Council members with Mr Maitland-Evans (Chief Executive & Returning Officer for the Vale of Glamorgan) and Mrs Hawke-Williams

School Council Elections

Cast your vote...Full Story

 
Working hard at Wicked Maths

Wicked Maths

Maths is wicked...Full Story

 
Richard Meyrick

pianoMan Richard Meyrick

Workshop & concert...Full Story

 
Gerran with the rest of the cast of Young Dracula

Young Dracula

Young Dracula takes to the screen
Full Story

 
Mr Emery, Senior Learning Mentor for Communication, and some of the pupils who are using the new Planners

New look pupil planner launched

New pupil planner keeps Year 7 organised...Full Story

 
New year, new kitchen

New Year, New Kitchen

New year, new kitchen...Full Story

 
 

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