Best days of your life – reminders of the happy times at Barnes Primary

Did we get you on camera as you built models? Or perhaps you were in the picture as you planted trees. All these scenes were captured at Barnes Primary School in Sunderland and we have delved into the Echo archives to remind you of them.

Youngsters from Barnes Infant School were pictured at the Build A Bear workshop in the Bridges. Can you spot anyone you know?

These children were collecting toys and gifts to be given by the Salvation Army to children less well off than themselves. Who remembers this wonderful reminder of 1997?

Year 1 pupils and Councillor James Blackburn were pictured planting trees in Barnes Park in 2011.

Burying a time capsule in the new development area of Barnes Park in 2011.

Pupils, staff and parents from Barnes Infants were singing festive songs in The Bridges in this photo from seven years ago.

Barnes Infants School pupils were pictured with their Teddy Bears for Children in Need in 1993.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas for these pupils in 2013 as they sang festive songs in The Bridges.

British Olympic volleyball player Peter Bakare is pictured with pupils six years ago.

Finlay Carter, seven, is pictured with his grandad Joe Newby putting the finishing touches to his model plane in 2013.