Benhall Infant and Pre-School Parent Portal - 30th September 2022

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Friday Letter -30 September 2022

Dear Parents,

We have had such a busy week and midterm tiredness is starting to set in for the children and teachers, so a restful weekend is needed by all. This week we have been demonstrating how we are ready and respectful. I have had some wonderful conversations with the children across school about how much they enjoy being at here because they have kind friends and teachers. The highlight of my week has been with our focus year group - Reception. I have spent time in both orange and yellow chatting to them about their families and telling them about mine.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Love from Miss Morris and the Benhall Team xx

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Pre School News

This week in Pre-School we started our theme of learning ‘All About Me.’ The children took turns to hold Teddy Benhall and say their full name and how old they are, they have also used Kofi the monkey, who supports children in speaking with confidence taking turns to talk about who is in their family, including any pets. In their groups we have talked about understanding if they are a boy or a girl and using mirrors, they individually looked at the colour of their eyes, hair and facial features. We have also enjoyed lots of outdoor play with assorted physical equipment. In gold and silver families we have created height charts and then looked at the different sizes that we all are and what makes us unique. Next week we continue with our theme of All About me. In Pre-School we have a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Mrs Muirhead. Have a pleasant weekend, The Pre-School Team.

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Focus Year Group of the Week

Our Reception children have just about finished their first fabulous full week at school and are all utterly exhausted! They have settled together so well, and embraced all the new experiences in true Purple Learning style. They had a wonderful time with Mrs Stephens at their first Forest School in the rain, went on a glorious Welly Walk to hunt for beautiful Autumn leaves and have been catching raindrops on their tongues! We have been learning lots of songs about Autumn, days of the week and counting and have been getting active with dances to wake up our bodies and brains. Our classroom caterpillars have already become chrysalis’ and we cannot wait for them to hatch into butterflies in a couple of weeks. Please talk to your children about ‘metamorphosis’, which has been our Wow Word of the Week! Yellow and Orange Team, you all deserve a wonderfully restful weekend. We are all super proud of you. Mrs Aitken and the Reception Team x

Year 1 Plea

Over the next couple of weeks Year 1 will be learning all about different communities, including the local community of Benhall. If you would like to come in to talk about (and maybe show a few things!) a community you are part of then please email rebeccabilton@benhall.gloucs.sch.uk – we would love to have some visitors in to inspire our children. You might be part of a sport community, be a Brownie leader, work in the care community or may be part of something totally different but we would love to find out about different roles in the community. I am looking forward to hearing from you ??

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Nut Free School

As many of you will already know we are a nut free school. This means none of the food that we provide in class or through our hot school meal provider contains nuts.
We currently have children in our school who have a severe allergy to nuts and or sesame. Therefore please do not send the following products into school for snack or in packed lunches.

* Products that contain any type of nuts.

* Products that contain sesame, please bear in mind that this includes humous.

* Products that may contain peanuts.

Purple Learning

This week our focus has been ‘Ready’. The children in our school are all now so ready to learn and when walking round the school you can hear such enthusiasm. It really is a joy to see our children so early on being ready for learning.

As a task this week over the weekend you might like to ask your child(ren)

What does ready mean?

How can we get ready for school happily?

What do we need to do to be ready to go to sleep?

These questions can aid discussion all about purple learning. Please do let us know if your child has been a purple learner at home so we can share in the purple learner assembly, you can email Miss Bilton on rebeccabilton@benhalll.gloucs.sch.uk

Purple Learners of the Week

Miss Mason
Oscar GS
Hasvi
Buddy
Lilyana

Well done everyone, we are all really proud of you.

School Council

The PTA and School Council have been in communication over emails about a special project that we have going on in school called ‘Rag to Riches’. On Tuesday, the School Council helped to lead an assembly with Mrs Aitken all about ‘Rags to Riches’. You should have received information on an email so please do check. This week the School Council have met and are planning to do a litter pick around the school ground with some friends. We will hopefully do this next week. Look out in the newsletter for photos of the exciting event! ??

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PTA

Our fabulous PTA work so hard to come up with some incredible fundraisers and as you will have seen from the newsletter they sent out this week they have raised an incredible amount of money over the last year. These funds are vital to continuing all the enrichment opportunities we are able to give your child!

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Being part of the PTA is a lot of fun and a great way to get to know parents from across all year groups. Please come along to their next meeting (The AGM) on Tuesday 4th October 2022 at 7.30pm. You can join them in person at school or via zoom from the comfort of your home. Scan the QR code or follow the link

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5791684223?pwd=WG42NGloQTJINk1yZGhzcWlObkh5dz09

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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:

Sophia P
Ezra

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Update from Marijana

Hi All,

Just a quick reminder that our webinar on Helping children to cope with "big feelings'' is taking place on the 5th of October at 6pm. The registration link is here :

How to Help Children Deal With "BIG Feelings" - Move More (move-more.org)

I will be focusing on self-regulation and tools to use to encourage self-regulation. As always, the webinar will be recorded so anybody who registers for it will get a recording to watch at their own time.

Kind Regards,

Marijana Filipovic-Carter

Family Engagement and Support Lead

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 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 - Monday and Wednesday
Forest School Days Starts 27/9/22 - every other Tuesday
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 Everett

Yellow Class
PE Days - Monday and Wednesday
Forest School Days Starts 27/9/22 - every other Tuesday
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

Green Class
PE Days - Wednesday and Thursday
Forest School Days - Starting on 29th September then every other Thursday
Book Bags - Every day please
Book Changes - Friday
PPA Day and Cover - Weds pm by Miss Bilton and Mrs Smurthwaite

Blue Class
PE Days - Wednesday and Thursday
Forest School Days - Starting on 29th September then every other Thursday
Book Bags - Every day please
Book Changes - Friday
PPA Day and Cover - Weds pm by Miss Bilton and Mrs Smurthwaite

Indigo Class
PE Days - Monday and Friday
Forest School Days - Starting on 28th September then every other Wednesday
Book Bags - Every day please
Book Changes - Friday
Homework - Thursday (Tapestry)
PPA Day and Cover - Tues by Mrs Aitken

Violet Class
PE Days - Monday and Friday
Forest School Days - Starting on 28th September then every other Wednesday
Book Bags - Every day please
Book Changes - Thursday
Homework - Thursday (Tapestry)
PPA Day and Cover - Tues am by Miss Morris