Bentley Weekly Update 11/09/20
New Football After School Club
We are very pleased to be able to offer an after school club on Thursdays to 4:20pm, starting on Thursday 24th September, at a significantly reduced price of just £1.75 a session. This club will be open to all children in years 3-6 and will run for 10 weeks every term. Space will be limited and on a first come first served basis. Children taking part will need to wear shin pads. If your child would like to take part, please email the school office.
Covid letter from Suffolk County Council
Please find attached a letter from Suffolk County Council to parents / carers about Covid-19 in schools.
Data Collection
We were amazed at how many people got their data collection return back so quickly! Thank you all, it makes a huge difference to us being able to process contact information accurately and quickly. The lucky winner of the tub of chocolates was Tammy (Mylie and Ella's mum).
Online Family Assemblies
It was lovely that so many families were able to join us today for our first remote family assembly, we'd love to see more next week. The link was sent to you via email; please remember to put your name and child's name in the user profile so that we can make sure we are only admitting people who are safe and known to us to the assemblies.
School Council and Head Pupil elections - week beginning 21st September
Next week we will be chatting to the children about the role of Head Pupil and school councillor. Although the roles will be very different, we are still hoping to involve the children in many tasks, such as leading whole school assemblies and reviewing and enhancing school life. Meetings will be held outdoors and socially distanced to support our risk assessment. Please chat with your child about these opportunities and support them to prepare for their speech to the whole school. They will do this via video link as part of our assemblies.
Head Pupil roles are only applicable to Year 5/6 pupils but Councillor roles include Y1 to Y6.
Macmillan event - 25th September
This year will be different but you can still join in the fun... and have an excuse to eat cake and put your feet up!
All classes will be preparing a performance - a song or poem - to entertain you from afar via live video link. Where possible, we would like you to send in your donations as usual to support Macmillan Cancer Support. For a 50p donation, children will be able to decorate their own biscuit too. Each class will be performing at a slightly different time to allow you to watch all classes if you would like. We will also be holding some remote fundraising games too. More information will follow about times and activities soon but save the date!!
Harvest - 30th September
We will be holding our annual Harvest service in school this year, collecting donations to support West Villa, alongside our local church. We will be reflecting, with the children, how lucky we are to have many people who help us in food production and sharing our thanks. At this difficult time, many families are heavily reliant on other people's generosity. We thank you in advance for your contributions which will be collected at the school gate on arrival.
Blogs and homework
We have had a few questions about homework this week so thought it best to clarify. All classes will have a weekly blog which will identify the pages to be completed in the homework booklet sent home EACH EVENING. Children will have completed a task in class to remind them of this area of learning and the booklet is important to support understanding of what has been covered in class. This will ensure any potential gaps in knowledge, or areas children have forgotten, are quickly recapped so we can move onto new learning. Much of this should be familiar to the children and should therefore only take 5-10 minutes each day. We need your help to ensure this happens so together we can support your child. Blogs for each class can be found at the top of the website page if on a computer OR at the bottom of the page if using the app.
Wolves
Wolves are learning about Baptism next week. If any Wolves could bring in photos, baptism candles, Christening presents or gowns next Wednesday 16th please.
PGL Postponed
Pupils in years 5 and 6 were due to have a residential visit to PGL in November. The company have offered us a date in March instead; we are hoping that the trip will go ahead (at no extra cost to parents) the week commencing 8th March 2021. This also means that the payment deadline has now moved to Friday 5th Feb 2021. Watch this space for further updates closer to the time.
Positive Parenting booklets
We have managed to get some excellent booklets on Positive Parenting for the massively reduced price of £1 each. If you would like to purchase one, please send a £1 in an envelope marked with your child's name and we will get them sent out to you.
Wishing you all a lovely weekend.