People across the world have been saddened by the news of Queen Elizabeth II’s death. In Collective Worship today we remembered her and prayed together. Children have had an opportunity to draw, write and talk about their memories of her and their feelings today in class.

Despite the heat, we have all had a lovely last week in school. There has been lots of fun and celebration of a great year of learning at Bentley. Thank you to everyone for joining us and for the many heartfelt messages, comments and generous gifts to thank the whole team. Everyone here at school works so hard for the pupils and hearing your positive feedback is extremely rewarding.

It was an emotional moment as all the children cycled the ‘Bombay to Bentley’ cyclists back through the school gates last Saturday! A big well done to everyone involved. We can report they have raised over six thousand pounds which is absolutely astonishing! To everyone involved thank you so much for collecting sponsorship, raising awareness of the PTFA and for all your hard work. I am absolutely delighted to say this total means we have placed the order for the new laptops and they will be with us ready to use at the start of term. All of our pupils will benefit so much from this generous donation from the PTFA, not only in their computing skills but also across many other areas of learning too.

Thank you for all the lovely messages and thanks to staff regarding our super Bfest last Saturday. Apart from the rain starting just at the end, it was a perfect day. The children performed brilliantly, the PTFA stalls were superb, the Well-being tent was wonderful and the Year 5 and 6 stalls kept everyone thoroughly entertained. Bravo to everyone involved and a huge well done to Mrs Proud for masterminding the whole event and creating so many special memories for all of our children! Please see the thank you list below.

We are all in a great state of excitement for Bfest and preparations are going very well. Thank you to every parent/carer/grandparent who has signed up for a slot to help this event. WE NEED YOUR HELP to make this a successful day for all our children - so please get involved. There is really something for everyone before/during/after and no special skills are required – just like we say to the children, ‘give it a go’ and I promise you won’t regret it.