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    • This week at Bentley...

      Published 15/07/22

      Thank you to you all for your amazing support at home to make this a very special week of learning at school. It was wonderful to see pupils and parents so motivated and enthused at a time of year when we are all a little tired and ready for a holiday!

      A big thank you to the staff team for all their hard work in planning these special days. Children have worked collaboratively across the school and wowed us with their wider curriculum outcomes and understanding.

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    • This week at Bentley...

      Published 08/07/22

      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.

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    • This week at Bentley...

      Published 01/07/22

      We have had a super Move Up morning and hope our Alton Schools Year 6 pupils did too! Please see below for the staffing list for classes for next year.

      Tomorrow twenty-one brave cyclists are doing the ‘Bombay to Bentley’ Bike Ride. We also encourage you to come along with your children and support the cyclists as they return to school after their gruelling day. It is always quite an inspiring and emotional return. We have two super Year 7 pupils taking part this year too. They are expected back between 3.30pm and 4.30pm so do come along to welcome them back!

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    • This week at Bentley...

      Published 24/06/22

      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.

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    • This Week At Bentley...

      Published 17/06/22

      What a wonderful week we have had! The weather was perfect for Sports Day and our super athletes all wowed us with their speed, tenacity, athletics and good sportsmanship. A big well done to Nightingale House who were crowned the 2022 champions. Thank you to our amazing staff team for all their hard work, to CMSports and to all of you for coming along and cheering us all on.

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    • This week at Bentley...

      Published 10/06/22

      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.

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    • This week at Bentley

      Published 27/05/22

      What a brilliant Jubilee day we have had celebrating the Queen’s tremendous service to our country!

       

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    • This week at Bentley...

      Published 20/05/22

      We have had a lovely start to our Jubilee festivities with an active day of dancing! A professional dancer came to teach us dance steps from different eras, funded by school PE premium money; Year R had 1950s dances, Year 1 1960s, Year 2 had 1970s, Year 3 had 1980s, Year 4 had 1990s, Year 5 had 2000s and Year 6 had 2010s. It was somewhat galling to know your ‘heyday’ of youthful dancing is now seen as a historic era by the primary children, but we all had a great time (and learnt some cool moves)!

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    • This week at Bentley...

      Published 13/05/22

      Year 6 have completed their week of SATs and worked hard to do their best in these national tests. We are really proud of their sensible attitude and know they really enjoyed their movie afternoon yesterday to mark the end of the tests! The test papers are all securely collected and we will not know the results until the end of term when they will be shared with the children and parents through the annual end of year reports. In the meantime the children continue to work hard and teacher assessment continues in all areas, especially with their written work.

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    • This week at Bentley...

      Published 06/05/22

      We have packed an awful lot into the four day week! Year 3 and 4 have had a brilliant time at their first school residential. One of the children described it to me as “like the best ever sleepover, but with your whole class and you’re all having fun”. I visited earlier this week and can confirm the Gordon Brown Centre remains a child’s paradise with animals to pet, plenty of green space to play, and brilliant instructors to inspire, and our Bentley teachers are on hand to offer support and fairness. A huge thank you to Mrs Rushin, Mrs Rhodes, Mrs Phillips, Miss Hastie and Mr Goddard for juggling home life so they can take the children for this amazing opportunity. We are so lucky to have staff who volunteer to do this. You can read more about what they have been up to by clicking here to read the blog.

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    • This week at Bentley...

      Published 29/04/22

      It has been great to come back to school with sunshine, and we can report the children have been really refreshed after this break and the difficult winter with Covid and other bugs. We are aware we have several staff and families who have had Covid two or three times now and suspect it will continue to circulate. Whilst children have seemed little affected and some adults have reported a mild case, it has caused some adults more difficulty and the disruption to work (and to running the school!) has been very problematic. We know many parents with primary aged children are now booking Covid vaccinations. These are booked directly by parents and will not be held in school. Please be aware any medical appointments booked for Covid will be authorised and will not affect attendance outcomes, but please complete a request for time out of school form if you need to – click here to complete the form.

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    • This week at Bentley...

      Published 08/04/22

      It has been lovely to come back into school after being off with Covid – it finally ‘got’ me! It has certainly made this term quite a challenge in staffing but I am so incredibly grateful for our amazing staff team and our regular supply staff too. Everyone has pulled together and we have somehow – miraculously – continued to be open every single day for school except for the terrible storm day just before the half term break. We have continued to offer the children a rich and engaging curriculum, hot school lunches every day, a great offer of clubs and wrap-a-round childcare was only affected once. I am not sure quite how we managed to pull this off but I do know I wish each one of the adults working in school a very restful and re-generating Easter Break!

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