Bentley Weekly News 11.7.2025
Important Information to Share
Lost Property We have a lot of unnamed lost property - this will be put out in the playground again tonight. Please check the boxes and claim anything that your child is missing. There are a couple of fleeces in the box which are quite expensive so we are sure you have missed them. Please ensure all clothing, bottles, lunch boxes are named to help us reunite belongings with their owner. Books to come home Children will be bringing their books home next Friday. During the week, please can you send in a large strong bag so they can be safely brought home, The large resuable shopping bags are ideal. PE next week There is no cricket coaching on Tuesday so Adders and Hedgehogs will not be going over to the cricket club. Please can Adders wear PE kit Monday, uniform on Tuesday Hedgehogs to wear PE kit Monday and Tuesday. Wolves wear PE Kit on Monday, uniform on Tuesday Updated Free school meals information See attached flyer Leavers Moving on Assembly - Year 6 will be attending a 'moving on' assembly at Bentley church on Tuesday 15th July. Children will be taken from, and returned to school in the school minibus. Leaver's Assembly will be on Monday 21st July - all families are welcome. As usual please drop children off at the church from 8.35am where they wll be met by staff. if you are not staying for the service, please continue to drive along Church Road rather than turning round for safety and in consideration of other road users. Children wiill either walk back to school after the service or be transported in the school minibus. Food Festival next week Parents are invited in to share what your children have been cooking on Wednesday afternoon from 3.00pm. Please go round to the outside classroom for dellicious samples of food. Federation Writing Day Thursday 17th July As per the recent email, Thursday 17th July is the Federation Writing Day, as part of this KS2 children will be going to a workshop at Copdock school on the afternoon of 17th. KS1 children will remain at Bentley for their writing day. As part of the day, KS2 in both schools will be spending the afternoon together at Copdock where they will share their writing in their phases and at 2pm, Lisa Thompson, popular children's author and ex-Copdock parent, will be running a publishing workshop. There will also be an opportunity for the children to purchase her latest book, 'The Boy in the Tree' (£7 each or 3 for £20, cash in a named envelope please).. KS1 will also have some exciting activities planned where the two schools can link up via a video link to share their writing. All parents are invited in to school on Friday 18th at 2pm to look at what your child has been writing and join in some activities. Please open your invitation. Open me! Change to Menu Friday 18th July The Kitchen have advised a change to the menu next Friday 18th July. The main meal choices will be Chicken Sausage in a roll, or veggie sausage in a roll, with curly fries and vegetable sticks with chocolate brownie and ice-cream for dessert. There will also be usual jacket potato and sandwiches on offer. Please let your child know so they can make their choice of lunch. School Council and Head Pupil Elections A reminder that school council and Head Pupil elections are taking place next week. Children have been spoken to in assembly about this. School Council elections will take place on Monday 14th July and Head Pupil elections will take place on Tuesday 15th July. Please speak to your child at home if they are keen to be part of this process and support them to write their election speech ready for election day. If they would like to put up posters around school to promote themselves, that is fine too. In their speech to the whole school, they will need to demonstrate how they can meet our school vision...'to be confident individuals, successful learners and responsible citizens', and explain why they are a good candidate for the position. For the Head Pupil role, children receiving the highest number of votes will be considered for interview with Mrs Austin. A copy of the Head Pupil job description can be found here. Possible external Dance Club
Please see attached a flyer for a local dance club who are able to run an after school dance club at school on either a Tuesday or Friday after school. If you are interested in this, please contact the office or the dance school directly and advise a preferred day. We will then let them know and it will be up to them whether this is viable, Please note this is not a school afterschool club and all payments and queries would have to be referred to them.
PTA News Non-uniform day Friday 18th July Non-school uniform day 18th July - Wear the Rainbow 🌈
PTA needs your help with donations for the school fete. Please support the rainbow tombola, colourful items such as toys, books, toiletries, teddies or sweets would be appreciated. See Poster attached.
Wolves - Red/Blue
Hedgehogs - Purple/Orange
Adders - Yellow/Green
Please hand your donations to the PTA on the gate.
☀️End of school summer party ☀️ ☀️Monday 21st July ☀️5:00 - 7:00pm Everyone is invited We hope everyone will be able to join us to help celebrate the end of an amazing school year where the children have worked so hard and achieved so much. We will also be saying goodbye to our year 6 pupils and wishing them well for their move up to high school and welcoming our new Bentley bunny’s. All friends and family are welcome. We will have a BBQ and bar. All BBQ food must be pre-ordered by Friday 18th July. This is to help keep waste and cost down. 🍔Burger - £3 🌭Hotdog - £2.50 🍔Vegetarian burger - £3 🌭Vegetarian hotdog - £2.50
To order food please comment on the Facebook post or email into school. Please let us know of any food allergies upon booking. Please make payment upon ordering food either by BACs ref - surname & bbq
Bentley primary PTA Sort code 30-99-50 Account number 65910268 or cash in named envelope with your name and order on. Please check the attachments for some information and our Local events and clubs page on the website for things going on in the community .and over the summer break. - we are always adding new information from 3rd parties for you to consider - there may be holiday clubs or sporting opportunities, or events taking place in local villages. We also include courses available to parents on a variety of topics.
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REMINDERS!!!!
Consents in Arbor It is very important that we have the consent forms completed for all children in Arbor please. If you have had an email this week asking you to log in and complete these, please could you action asap. Thank you for your support. Lunch and Morning Club payments - Please ensure that all payments are paid weekly as taken - thank you for your support
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Every week we encourage parents to support their children to learn and use new vocabulary. In school we will be exploring the origin of new words, what they mean and how to use them effectively in context. If you can encourage your child to use these words it would be really helpful! no words this week Wolves Hedgehogs: Adders: |
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Monday 14th July - last after School Activity Club
Tuesday 15th July - Year 6 'Moving on' assembly at church
Monday 14th July - School Council elections
Tuesday 15th July - Head Pupil elections.
Wednesday 16th July - 3pm parents invited in for food festival
Thursday 17th July - Federation writing day - KS2 children will go to copdock for a workshop in the afternoon - see email and info above Friday 18th July 2pm - KS2 parents invited in to share children's writing from Writing day Friday 18th July - Rainbow non-uniform day - see email above, Friday 18th July - Family Assembly Monday 21st July - Leaver's Assembly - 9am, children to be dropped off at church. Monday 21st July - PTA Leaver's party 5 - 7pm Tuesday 22nd July - end of term Worship Group Monday 21st July.
New term
Monday and Tuesday 1st and 2nd - PD Days
Wednesday 3rd September - children back to school
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Learners of the week
Wolves: Tilly and Isabella B Hedgehogs: Raffie and Austin Adders: Oliver and Frankie The School Value this term is 'truthfulness' See the link for ideas you could discuss at home: Truthfulness Well done to Emilia, isabella M, Sophia for showing this value
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Reading Giants This is our weekly Reading Challenge! Last week was: Adders
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