Due to the scheduling of a whole staff training event after school on Wednesday 20th September, our CLASS INDUCTION MEETINGS will now place on Wednesday, 13th September.

The times of each class meeting will be sent to you by Parentmail this week.

This meeting will be an opportunity to meet your child's new class teacher and to hear a little more about the timetable and curriculum, spellings and homework and ask any questions.

We look forward to seeing as many of you as can attend.

As you know, our children have to undertake certain assessments at different stages of their school life. These results get published by the Department for Education and are a yardstick by which one aspect of our school is measured.

Last year, our Phonics and KS1 attainment results were significantly above national however our KS2 SATs results were only just above national.

We are very pleased to let our school community know that our Phonics, KS1 and KS2 attainment results are all significantly above national with key improvements seen particularly in Reading and Maths at KS2. Well done to all the team and to the children for a year of hard work.

We had a very important visitor in to school as part of science week.

This is Star the Golden Eagle - who is owned and cared for by Joshua Daniel-Fox's Grandad.

We learned loads of new facts about this amazing bird including:

• Eagles can live to be up to 50 years old!
• Eagles salivate when they are getting ready to kill their prey, which not many birds actually do;
• A Golden Eagle can kill other animals many times it's own size including..... WOLVES! How amazing is that!
• Star was truly beautiful and incredibly well behaved and we were honoured to meet her.

After all the teams performances were checked we found out that Long Bennington were amazing!  The boys team came second in their competition, out of 21 schools which is absolutely fantastic.  They were pipped by the girls though, who came first in their competition!  And for the icing on the cake, the mixed team also came first out of 21 schools!!  What a brilliant performance by all of them, we are so proud of their efforts and look forward to seeing the trophies proudly displayed in the cabinet soon

in lovely conditions Ms Flint and I took 10 boys and 10 girls to the Meres for a cross country race. 

The boys ran first with the following results (around 120 boys competing):

Harry Bliss              11                                Tom McDermott     30

Toby Shaw              13                                Matthew Jesson     53

Joshua Lane           18                                Lewis Sadler              55

Hari Pritchard      24                                Oliver Grant              60

Oliver Baumann  27                               Thomas Henton      69

 

The girls lined up next, also with around 120 of them competing:

Mollie Ludlam          2                               Victoria Gray            44

Emily Parczuk          5                               Rebecca Limb            72

Xanthe Mills             22                            Henrietta Weaver  73

Izzy Donaldson       31                            Daisie Weguelin      74

Izzy Moakes             32                            Katherine Gray        75

 

Fabulous running from everyone, with great determination shown by them all.  Ms Flint and I are very proud of you!