Bentley Weekly Update 21.11.2025
Important Information to ShareSchool Christmas Lunch - 18th December
The survey opens at 12pm today for you to order your child's Christmas Lunch - there are no other options for lunch on this day so if your child does not want to have a Christmas Lunch, they will need to bring a packed lunch from home. KS1 children are free, as are children in receipt of free school meals; all other KS2 children need to pay £2.80 in the usual way on spider.
Christmas jumpers
Please come to school in your Christmas jumpers on Friday ready for our advent service.
Advent tags
It is great to hear so many children are keen to be advent elves as part of our giving at Christmas, thank you. We will be adding tags to the tree for families to collect in our advent service next Friday. Each tag will have a number on it. If you would like to make a donation, please take a tag and bring in your Christmas treat on that date in December. We will be sharing an online link to see the goodies 'delivered' each day.
Flu Immunisation
Please ensure you have responded to the attached Flu immunisation link even if you DO NOT want your child to be immunised.
Second hand bikes
We are looking to acquire a few second hand bikes for aged 8/9. If anyone is planning on replacing bikes for Christmas and may consider selling us their old ones, subject to them being in good working condition please contact the office.
PTA update Thank you for all your support the Halloween disco raised £108.02 A big Thank you too , to everyone who is taking part In the 100 club this year. We raised £300 for the school children & have a monthly prize draw of 1st £14, 2nd £9 and 3rd £5 Congratulations to the winners - September 2025 - 1st - Ali Nye, 2nd - Danielle Blackman, 3rd - Janet Patterson October 2025 1st - Carol Shoesmith, 2nd - Garry Daynes, 3rd - Chris Daynes Save the date for our Christmas events Friday 12th December after school.. Open to all school children. More information to follow next week Thursday 18th December -Hot chocolate sale and children selling their Christmas gifts they made in school at 3:15pm. Please check the attachments for some information and our Local events and clubs page on the website for things going on in the community.- 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!!!! School Photos
A reminder if you order before 24 November, they will be delivered free in to school.
Parent Questionnaire
Thank you to the 3 families who have already responded to the questionaire sent out in October. Worship group would appreciate a few more responses please to support their action planning. Thank you https://forms.office.com/e/1YRDgjigAw
Christmas Dates for your diary
Tree Service & Decoration Making
Families are invited in for our tree service on Friday 28th November. This will be at 9am and this is instead of the usual afternoon sharing family assembly.
If anyone has any pine cones they would be gratefully received for decoration making.
Wolves parents are invited in on Thursday 27th November at 2.30pm to help the younger children making decorations.
Wednesday 10th December - Christmas Experience at the church - children will be at the church for the morning doing Christmas activities - parents to drop at church please.
Xmas Performance times
The christmas Performances will be on Wednesday 17th December - times below, ticket information to follow soon
KS1 Christmas Performances 2.00 - 2.30pm & 5.00 - 5.30pm KS2 Christmas Performances 2.30 - 3.00pm & 5.30 - 6.00pm There will be a creche for school children to wait during the performance that they are not in, while you are watching the sibling's performance. Christmas Dinner and Jumper Day
We will be having our Christmas lunch on Thursday 18th December. Please see the menu for this, there will be no other lunch options on this day, so if your child is not having a Chrismas lunch, they will need to bring packed lunch. We need to have lunches pre-ordered by Thursday 4th December. Please see the survey on spider to order your child's lunch
Advent Elves
If you would like to be an Advent Elf, then read on! As part of our Advent Service we will be launching our countdown to Christmas by continuing our good deeds with a reverse Advent Calendar. This is a charitable initiative where instead of receiving something each day, we donate an item daily in the lead-up to Christmas. This year our Christmas tree will have some tags on for families to collect. Each tag will have a number to represent the days in December until we finish school on 19th. If you would like to take a tag, please donate a small Christmas treat on that day of December. As we open the doors on our advent calendar each day in school, we would like it to feature a photo showing these acts of kindness. As the children give a gift, they will receive a small token of appreciation to recognise their contribution, just like in an advent calendar.
Arbor
Please ensure that any changes to your details, or your child's medical details are regularly updated on Arbor.
Please can we remind you to name all clothing , including PE kit and lunch boxes, water bottles. We can easily reunite items if they are named. The box of lost property in school since September has now been donated to charity or the PTA second hand uniform stock.
School Library
Please remember to complete the Library agreement consent on Arbor after you have reviewed the short agreement accessed on our website Library Agreement. .
Art tokens
Tokens will be printed in the Ipswich star and East Anglian Daily Times from 29th September and running until the 6th December. Simply cut out the tokens and drop them into the office for the school to have a chance of winning some art supplies. There will be bonus tokens during the week of 27th October. 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!
Wolves Settlement and trade Hedgehogs: friction and consequence Adders: mechanism and idler |
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Mondays Swimming Yr 3 & 4
Mondays - Forest school at Copdock
Mondays - After School Dodgeball club (at Copdock) for children who have signed up
Friday mornings from 14th November - Christmas Craft Club for children who have signed up. Tuesday 25th November - yr 3 / 4 Dodgeball - see email sent on Thursday Thursday 27th November - Decorations making - Wolves Parents invited in at 2.30pm to help. Friday 28th November - Tree Service 9.30am - children to wear Christmas Jumpers Friday 5th December - 9am - Flu immunisations - please complete form even if you are declining consent. Tuesday 10th December - Christmas Experience at church - children to be dropped off at church in the morning please. Wednesday 17th - Christmas performances - times above - ticket booking information to follow. Thursday 18th December - Christmas dinner in school - need to book a Christmas lunch by Friday 4th December Thursday 18th December - PTA Hot chocolate and Christmas sales after school 19th December - Last Day of Term Monday 5th January - PD Day - no children in school Tuesday 6th January - children return for Spring Term |
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Learners of the week " Work Hard " Wolves: Avril and Harrison Hedgehogs: Eliza and Amy Adders: Bella and Phillippa The School Value this term is "trust' See the Link for ideas you could discuss at home: Well done to Avril, Amy and Cordy for showing this value this week.
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Reading Giants This is our weekly Reading Challenge! Adders and Hedgehogs
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