Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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World Book Day.....Who are you?
Sun 05 Mar 2017These strange characters were in school on Thursday! Who are they? Do you trust them with your children!!!!!!!
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World Book Day!
Sun 05 Mar 2017A HUGE thank you to all the children and staff who took part in World Book Day.
The children looked amazing in their costumes (and so did the staff!) We had a fantastic day!
Mr Korcz was our judge for the day and took great delight in visiting all the classrooms and awarding prizes for his favourite costumes. We had competitions in the library run by our brilliant librarians. The children could match the staff to their favourite book characters, take part in a scavenger hunt and turn their teachers into story book characters. Mr Haigh got all creative and invited children to come and help him to decorate Mr Twit's beard and the Roly Poly Bird's tail. Then in the afternoon we had whole school story time, the children were able to listen to three stories around the school read by staff. Year 6 children took their buddies with them and it was lovely to see them enjoying the stories we had chosen and hopefully some of them want to carry on reading the stories that they heard.
If your child took home a competition entry they need to be returned to Mrs Mills by Thursday 9th March, there are prizes to be won!
Finally a MASSIVE THANK YOU to YOU our fantastic parents/carers! Without you we couldn't have had this fabulous day. Your support is amazing. You dressed your children in such brilliant costumes and supported our theme for the day. I really appreciate all your support in creating such a magical and memorable day for your children. THANK YOU
Mrs Mills
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We have two winners!
Fri 03 Mar 2017Our cake winners this week are Oliver Kitchener - Class 10 and Mollie Ludlum Class 6.
We raised just under £50 this week, so thank you all so much for buying tickets!
Many thanks to the parents of Otis Williams and Max Willis who baked such scrummy looking cakes - all of us were very jealous that we didn't get to take a cake home tonight.
Don't forget your 20 pences next week - two more beauties up for raffle.
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Cake Raffle
Thu 02 Mar 2017Huge thanks to everyone who sent in money for raffle tickets for the very first cake raffle. We raised a staggering £65! This is amazing and all proceeds will be going in to school funds to provide key resources to support learning across school.
The cake was won by Finn Jones in Class 9 - Well done!
This week we will have two cakes - so even more reason to buy a ticket, double the chances of winning.
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Help Needed For Parents Evening
Tue 28 Feb 2017Shout out – help needed for parents evening!
Dear Parents and Carers
What’s the one thing that would help make parents evening that bit easier? A hot drink and a biscuit I hear you say!!
Well the FSA (Friends of the School Association) would like to come to the rescue by offering refreshments but we need your help.
We are looking for volunteers to help man the refreshment table for just 1 hour at a time. Each evening we’ll need a minimum of 6 volunteers to make this happen: parents, carers, grandparents all welcome!
All we need you to do it let us know which day and time you can do. You can do this by Parentmail or on email by the 3rd March.
Tuesday 7th March
Wednesday 8th March
3.45-5.00pm
4.15-5.30
5.00-6.00pm
5.30-6.30
6.00-7.15pm
6.30-7.45
We’ll then let everyone know if refreshments will be available by the 6th March.
If this works well we’ll look to offer refreshments at other school events.
Thanks
The FSA
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Breaking Cake News......
Thu 23 Feb 2017The cake for tomorrow's raffle is now ready.... 20p per ticket and it could be yours!!!
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Cake Raffle
Mon 30 Jan 2017Dear Parents and Carers,
We are hoping to start a Cake Raffle to raise funds for some projects we wish to undertake around school.
The idea is that we set up a rota for parents providing a cake on a Friday morning (bought or made, either is fine!) and then school council sell tickets on a Friday morning play and last play to the children (and staff!) for 20p per ticket. At the end of last play the winning ticket is pulled and the winner gets to take the cake home for eating over the weekend. There will be no limit as to how many tickets can be bought, but if every child in the school buys at least 1 ticket a week, that could be £200 per month that we can raise.
All we need is a number of willing volunteers to put their names down for the cake rota (the more of us there are, the fewer times our names will come up on the rota) and bring a cake in on the nominated day. I am happy to put my name down for Week 1 – Friday 24th February.
If you feel that you are able to support this, please fill in the attached slip and we will organise the rota. This will be distributed ahead of half term so you have plenty of notice for your turn and also we will put it on the website under FSA if you ever need to access it.
Many thanks for your continued support – I look forward to tasting… I mean viewing all those lovely cakes.
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Photos from the Tag Rugby
Mon 16 Jan 2017Many thanks to Mrs Weaver for sending us some photos from the tag Rugby tournament for Y3/4.
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Would you like to be in the FSA??
Mon 16 Jan 2017Dear Parents and Carers,
Financially, the climate for schools – particularly for stand-alone academies like us, is not looking very positive at the minute.
You may have read in the press about schools making cuts and having to take difficult decisions in order to balance the budget and here at Long Bennington I think it is fair to say that we too are feeling the pinch.
We would therefore like to harness the fantastic ideas and fundraising powers of our parents –and I am aware that many of you recently have mentioned that you would be keen to get on board to help fundraise for our fabulous school. We have got a core group of very committed parents already, however I know that there have been lots of you enquiring how you can get involved in supporting the school.
I would like to invite you to a meeting where we can examine the capacity within the existing body of parents for re-launching the FSA (Friends of the School Association) and see if we can work together to make our school an even greater place for our children!
If you are interested and would like to get involved, please come to the school hall on Wednesday, 1st February at 6.30pm. All of you are very welcome!
Regards,
Mrs R J King
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KS2 Carol Concert - change of date
Mon 12 Dec 2016Dear Parents and Carers,
I have only just been informed by Rev’d Harriet that we will not be able to use the Church for our KS2 Carol Service on Monday 19th December as there will be a funeral taking place and she has sent massive apologies to all of our parents and children.
We are however, able to hold this service in the Church on Tuesday, 20th at 10.00am.
I am very aware that this is short notice and understand that there are a number of people who have organised work commitments around this event. We hope that a week’s notice might be enough for some people to reschedule, however for those of you who cannot change their time off, we are happy to do an extra performance in school on Monday morning at 10.00am so you can be part of this Christmas tradition.
We know it is not ideal, but we have tried to organise a compromise at very short notice so at least we can involve as many of you as we can!
Places are limited on the Monday morning, so please can we ask for only those people who cannot change work commitments to have priority at this performance, we look forward to seeing everyone else at St Swithun’s Church on Tuesday 20th December.
Thank you for your support and flexibility with this new arrangement,
Mrs R J King
Headteacher
