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8th March 2024 - Friday Letter

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 Friday Letter  - 8th March 2024

Dear Parents,

We have had a wonderful week promoting a love of reading.  The week was planned collaboratively with St Marks and we are extremely grateful to the reading leads Mrs Pain and Mrs Whale for organising the event.  The highlights were so many families sharing pre-loved books at our book swap, the opportunity to meet Hannah Shaw, a children's author and illustrator, and the big swap around where children from both schools met to share their learning from across the week.

It was wonderful to see so many of you at parents' evenings this week.  Thank you for continuing to support us.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Love from Miss Morris and the team.

Pre-School News

This week in Pre-School we have continued to be Mini Musicians, the children have had a beat baby session which they took turns to move individually, whilst the whole group chanted the rhyme. The children enjoyed creating a Benhall Band and performing a variety of songs with interesting moves, they have also explored a variety of musical instruments, particularly the drums playing with gusto. We have celebrated world book day on Thursday and have shared the children’s books throughout the week. On Thursday we celebrated  all our mummies, thank you for coming to our Mother’s Day celebration it was lovely to see you all. Our Little Wandle Letter sound this week has been ‘w.’ This week we have a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Hugo. Next week our Learning Focus is Spring part 1. Have a wonderful weekend, The Pre-School Team

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Year Group in Focus

Year 1 have been really engaged in their learning this week. 

They have really enjoyed emerging themselves in the shared text Flotsam.  This has prompted story telling, story writing, exploring camera's through the ages and making their own Camera.

The children were memorised by their session with Hannah Shaw on Tuesday and had a go at drawing one of her characters.  This has prompted some book making at home.

In addition to the literature festival the children have also continued their learning about continents and oceans in order to answer their big question - "Where does our food come from?"

Purple Learning

As part of our focus this term ‘I can celebrate others’ our fantastic Year 2s created and performed celebrations in assembly last week – thank you Year 2! We certainly had lots of fun pretending to snorkel in the sea and celebrate Fishy Friday in school. We are excited to see what our other year groups in school share with us.

Purple Learners

Elsie

Poppy

Scott

Arthur

Max

Lois

Mrs Newman

School Council

Our School Council have ordered the table football and once it is delivered will be sharing with the children in assembly.😊

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Welcome to the Benhall Family

We are pleased to announce that Ben's baby brother has arrived safely.  Ben is going to be such a brilliant role model for Zach.

Congratulations to the whole family. xx

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Another fabulous big brother

Sasha would love you to meet his little brother Daniel who was born earlier this year.  You can see just how proud he is of his new brother.

Congratulations to the whole family. xx

 

St Mark's Year 6 Leavers will be hosting a sweet sale on St Marks playground on Friday 22nd March, to raise money for their final celebration evening. 50p per bag of sweets. They would really appreciate your support. Thanks 🙂  

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Wear Red for Red Nose Day - 15th March 2024

Children and Staff at Benhall and St Marks can wear Red (including their hair) on Friday 15th March 2024.  

If you would like to make a donation to the Comic Relief charity, please hand this to the teacher on the door.   

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Children arriving late into School in the mornings.

We have noticed an increase in children arriving late into school in the morning.

Lateness not only disrupts the lesson in progress but can have an adverse effect on your child’s education.  If your child misses the initial part of the lesson they often struggle to grasp the new concept being taught.

Children who arrive late for school are often upset and embarrassed by joining a lesson in progress and find it difficult to contribute.

Children should arrive at 8.45am for starting their learning at 8.50am.  We will be monitoring and contacting parents if we have a concern.

If there is anything that you wish to discuss, please contact Miss Morris.

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We would like to wish members of our Benhall Family who have celebrated their birthday a really happy birthday.  Happy birthday to:

Elizabeth
Ralf
Elsie
Hugo

 

Class Routines

PE Kit

What a great start to wearing school PE kit on PE days – thank you parents for your help with this.

PE Kit reminder:

  • Navy blue shorts or tracksuit bottoms
  • Plain white or purple T-shirt
  • Navy blue hoody or sweatshirt
  • Trainers

If your child has joined an after school sports club they can wear their school PE Kit on club days too (no football strips).

Orange Class
PE Days - Wednesday and Friday
Forest School Days - Every other Thursday
Book Bags - Every day please
Book Changes - Bring in on Wednesday go home on Friday
Sound Books - Back in on Wednesday
PPA Day and Cover - Weds am by Miss Bilton

Yellow Class
PE Days - Wednesday and Friday
Forest School Days - Every other Thursday
Book Bags - Every day please
Book Changes - Bring in on Wednesday go home on Friday
Sound Books - Back in on Wednesday
PPA Day and Cover - Weds am by Mrs Skelton

Green Class
PE Days - Tuesday and Thursday 
Forest School Days - every other Wednesday
Book Bags - Every day please
Book Changes - When 3 reads in class completed
Spelling Books - Thursday
PPA Day and Cover - Tuesday am by Mrs Selby

Blue Class 
PE Days - Tuesday and Thursday 
Forest School Days - every other Wednesday
Book Bags - Every day please
Book Changes - When 3 reads in class completed
Spelling Books - Thursday
PPA Day and Cover - Tuesday am by Mrs Skelton

Indigo Class
PE Days - Monday and Thursday
Forest School Days - Starting week beginning 19/9/23 every other Wednesday
Book Bags - Every day please
Book Changes - Friday
Homework - Thursday (Tapestry)
PPA Day and Cover - Thursday am by Mrs Wisdom

Violet Class

PE Days - Monday and Friday
Forest School Days - Starting week beginning 19/9/23 every other Tuesday
Book Bags - Every day please
Book Changes - Friday
Homework - Thursday (Tapestry)
PPA Day and Cover - Thursday am by Mrs Skelton

Diary Dates

For the full calender - please follow the link 

Benhall Infant and Pre-School - Calendar (benhallinfantschool.co.uk)

Comic Relief/Red Nose Day - Charity Fundraising Day - Donation to charity
9:00am – 3:00pm
15
March
Last day of term for School and Pre-School - normal finish time
All Day
22
March
School and Pre-School re-open
All Day
08
April
Year 1 Parent Pop in
8:45am – 9:00am
25
April
Bank Holiday - School and Pre-School closed
All Day
06
May