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22nd September 2023 - Friday Letter

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 Friday Letter  - 22nd September 2023

Dear Parents,

We can't quite believe that we are at the end of week 3 already.  Our wonderful reception and pre-school children have reached the end of their settling in sessions and we are confident they are ready to embrace everything Benhall has to offer them.

The children in Key Stage 1 have blown their teachers socks off with their continued enthusiasm to learn and their purple learning skills.  Our Year 2's are finding out "Why we remember Beatrix Potter?" and are busy classifying animals and humans.  Meanwhile, our Year 1's are finding out, "How the weather changes with the seasons." and have begun their first writing unit about Ruby's Worry.  Please have a look at Tapestry to see the knowledge organisers the teachers have shared with you.

Miss Morris and the PTA are looking forward to seeing our Pre-School and Reception families at a stay and play session tomorrow.  

Love from Miss Morris and team xx

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Year Group in Focus Reception

Our Reception children have just about finished their part time transition at school and are all utterly exhausted! They have settled together so well and embraced all the new experiences in true Benhall Purple Learning style. They have done so much already, from Welly Walking to pick blackberries, baking their own crumble and visiting the Crumble Café to taste it, problem solving to make sure Pesky Squirrel doesn’t eat any more crumble, made friendship dens together, been on a tour of school, learnt about different emotions and how to manage the big ones, started Little Wandle and stayed for lunch! Wow. They will be bringing home their first wordless reading books this weekend to enjoy together. Please remember to keep their reading folders in their book bags ready to change every Wednesday and don’t forget to keep water bottles separate so we don’t have any spillages on our beautiful books.

Yellow and Orange Team, you all deserve a super restful weekend. We so proud of every single one of you.

Mrs Aitken and the Reception Team x

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PTA News and Diary Dates

Our wonderful PTA committee are stepping down at the AGM on Tuesday 26th September 2023 at 7.30pm.  The meeting will take place at school but there is also a link below for those of you who wish to join virtually.  Please join with your name and child's class displayed.  The PTA can only continue if we can appoint a new committee.  The funds raised by the PTA are such a vital part of what we can offer the children at Benhall, so please consider standing for one of the committee roles.  Remember it is possible to share the role with someone else.

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Miss Morris and the PTA are looking forward to welcoming our new Pre-School and Reception Cohorts to our stay and play session on tomorrow.  Join us between 10 and 12 noon and get to know everyone.  We are aiming to be outside but if the weather isn't kind to us then we will be in the school hall.

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School Lottery - please consider signing up to our weekly lottery draw. Guarantee one person from Benhall will win a small prize each week and entry to the larger £25k too. https://www.yourschoollottery.co.uk/lottery/school/benhall-infant-and-pre-school?fbclid=IwAR0rUMXuSJkEwlSv70blK4UUdKENqdBxoF-bk_MQ1-nfMgxgef-7zEQpwQs 

Purple Learning Focus

This term our focus is to ‘embrace challenge’. To enable our learners to extend their thoughts and learning we sometimes ask questions such as:

How can we celebrate ….?

Can you go and improve it by….

Can I challenge you to…?

Share with me how…

Explain to me how you have improved..

Can I make it even trickier for you by…

You may like to use these at home when playing. 😊

Purple Learners of the Week

Alfie M
Isacc
Luke H
Max C

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

Lunchtimes at Benhall

Our amazing lunchtime team had their termly meeting this week where we discussed Big Wins of the term so far. We are so pleased at how our children have settled and are socialising on the playground. We are also pleased that the children are showing respect to the lunchtime team. We would like to send a few reminders of what would help some of our children at lunchtimes:

  • Please practise cutting food using a knife and fork
  • Remember to encourage your child to sit facing forwards when eating and making sure they use their eyes to cut food/put it in their mouth
  • Chat with your child during meal times so they understand it is an important and enjoyable part of the day
  • Encourage them to try new foods

We hope that these reminders will help our children when it comes to independently eating at lunchtime. Thank you.

School Council at Benhall

After the announcement in Celebration assembly last week we have enjoyed having our first meeting of the school year. Well done to Ralf, Charlotte, Lexi, Jacob, Arlo, Emily , Pia and Isaac who will be our School Council for Term 1 and Term 2. We introduced ourselves to each other and Miss Bilton explained what things we would do on School Council. Miss Bilton also showed us our information board, where we will post the things we get up to, our minutes from our meetings and any photos of us in action in school. We have agreed our two first jobs to organise by next week:

  1. Ask our classes how they would like to raise some money to spend on classroom resources – bring the ideas to our next meeting
  2. Print our photos and put them up on our School Council Board

We are hoping to invite Miss Morris to our next school council meeting so we can begin to share the ideas we have for fundraising. Well done School Council for a super first meeting 😊

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General Notices

At the start of the day - We no longer have a soft start and we need the children and teachers to be in the classroom as quickly as possible after the doors open.  If you do need to speak to the teaching staff please can you do this at the end of the day if possible.  Urgent messages can be left with the office.

Play equipment on the playgrounds - The children should not use the climbing frames, tyres and timber trails before and after school.  This is for insurance purposes.

Carpark - Our small school carpark is for staff only.  Please do not bring cars onto the school site.  We ask that if you need to drive to and from school that you park respectfully on the surrounding roads.

Clothes bank - The clothes bank, situated near the middle pedestrian gate, has been emptied.  Thank you to everyone who has donated items.  If you are having a sort out please consider donating unwanted items.  Please check the signage on the bin for what can and cannot be accepted.  School would like pre-loved uniform so please hand it into the office.

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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:

Lois
Daisy K
Harry M
Harvey K

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 - Starting week beginning 19/9/23 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

Yellow Class
PE Days - Wednesday and Friday
Forest School Days - Starting week beginning 19/9/23 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 Mrs Skelton

Green Class
PE Days - Tuesday and Thursday 
Forest School Days - Starting week beginning 19/9/23 every other Thursday
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 - Starting week beginning 19/9/23 every other Thursday
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)

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