Bentley Weekly Update - 14.01.2022
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Learners of the Week |
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Malachi, Molly, Harry F and Blossom Try New Things, Enjoy your learning - Tom, Felicity, Olivia |
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Words of the week |
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Reception - between, big Year 1 and 2 - environment, individual Hedgehogs - direction and reincarnation Adders - prairie and density
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Monday - please can children in Wolves class bring in their favourite toy (for one day only!) as we are looking at gender for our diversity learning in PSHE.
Friday - Wolves class need magazines next Friday for their art work if anyone has any they can send in please. We need some large faces from magazines for our art collages
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COVID testing update
From 11th January all staff and pupils who test and report a positive LFD result will no longer be advised to get a confirmatory PCR test. This change is informed by public health advice as the risk of a positive LFD result being false is very small. A confirmatory PCR is only required if they:
- have symptoms (in which case they need to follow the stay at home guidance, self-isolate and order a PCR test)
- have been advised to take a PCR test because they are in a clinically vulnerable group
Anyone with a positive LFD test result should self-isolate and follow self-isolation guidance. Information on the new arrangements can be found in the stay at home: guidance for households with possible or confirmed COVID-19 infection.
- It is important that all LFD results are reported (positive, negative and void) to NHS Test and Trace report a COVID-19 rapid lateral flow test result
Changes to the self-isolation period for those who test positive for COVID-19
From Monday 17 January, people who are self-isolating with COVID-19 will have the option to reduce their isolation period after 5 full days if they test negative with a lateral flow device (LFD) test on both day 5 and day 6 and they do not have a temperature. For example, if they test negative on the morning of day 5 and the morning of day 6, they can return to their education or childcare setting immediately on day 6.
The first test must be taken no earlier than day 5 of the self-isolation period, and the second must be taken the following day. All test results should be reported to NHS Test and Trace.
If the result of either of their tests is positive, they should continue to self-isolate until they get negative results from two LFD tests on consecutive days or until they have completed 10 full days of self-isolation, whichever is earliest.
Anyone who is unable to take LFD tests or anyone who continues to have a temperature will need to complete the full 10 day period of self-isolation.
Further information on self-isolation for those with COVID-19 is available.
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Census Day Lunch
Every now and again our kitchen team offer a special menu. We have one for next Thursday. There is no need to pre-order on this occassion but this menu will be replacing the usual Week 1 Thursday lunch. This will be chargeable to KS2 children at the usual £2.50 price and can be paid in the usual way.
Cheeseburger
British Beef Burger in a Homemade Roll
topped with Cheddar Cheese
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Vegetarian Hot Dog (v)
Vegetarian Sausage in a Homemade Roll
Served with
Chips, Vegetable Sticks
and a Tomato Sauce Dip
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Chocolate Brownie
This lunch is included in the Universal Free School Meal Allowance. We hope your child/children enjoy their lunch!
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The Platinum Pudding Competition - a recipe fit for a Queen
A special competition has been launched this week to make the perfect pudding fit for the Queen.
If you have the perfect recipe ideas and are aged 8years or over, you have the chance to join in the fun by inventing the Jubilee Pudding for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022. CLICK HERE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Closing date is 4th February and all finalists will be invited to bake their recipe for the judging panel in March.
People up and down the country will be celebrating with Her Majesty by taking part in street parties, fun and games on a special bank holiday in June this year. As a Federation, we hope to hold our own special street party on Friday 27th May. We may even have our own special 'bake off' competition on the day too so why not get some practice in now by entering the competition!
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Assemblies
From next week we will be ?reverting to whole school assemblies in the school hall. This includes our Family Assembly which will return to the time of 2.50pm, once again. This will allow us to celebrate learning together as a whole school. Each Friday, any parents who have children sharing are welcome to join us in the hall at 2.50pm. It will still be important to wear a face covering if attending. We hope to open this invitation to everyone in the coming weeks but will be waiting on guidance for the LA before confirming this.
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Yopa - Tech for Schools
We have signed up for local Estate Agent to sponsor our school and their company in their 'Tech for Schools' promotion. For every 10 boards put outside a house in the Ipswich area, we receive a tablet for school. The board will stay up for a minimum of 8 weeks and you do not need to be in when it is put up. The board just advertises that the school is taking part in the 'Tech for Schools' promotion and that Yopa are sponsoring us. Please read the attached letter for more information.
Sign up for a board outside your house by 10th February through website www.yo.pa/schools
Yopa - Refer a friend Offer
If you are thinking of selling your house through Yopa and you use the refer a friend discount code below when you instruct Yopa to sell your house, the school will receive a £50 Amazon voucher upon successful sale. You will also receive £50 off the price of selling your house.
The refer a friend discount is ALTECH50
The offer details are:
For every successful instruction that is made using the code ALTECH50, the vendor will receive a £50 discount off their home selling fee and the school will receive a £50 Amazon voucher.
Closing date for this offer is 11th April 2022
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Tennis
We have fantastic chance coming up for girls to get into tennis.
We have a have teamed up with a local business to subsidise the sessions. Each session is £1.00. The coaching sessions are aimed for girls aged 7-11 years.
Please could you help spread the word ?
We are going to have 12 places available.
The sessions are start after Feb half term on Fridays at 4pm at East Bergholt tennis club for 6 weeks. Please see the link below with details and how to book.
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Orwell park are hosting a children’s holiday camp in April 2022 it would help them to see what type of activities children and parents would like to see happen.
You can access it from this link https://forms.office.com/r/id5ch2ei8A