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!

Congratulations to our World Book Day competition winners!

They have each won a £5 book voucher.

Harry in Class 1: KS1 Match the Character Competition

Emily in Class 9: KS2 Match the Character Competition

Connie in Class 5: Dream Jar Competition

Olivia in Class 4: Magic Wand Competition

Sophie in Class 4: KS1 Scavenger Hunt

Jacob in Class 7 KS2 Scavenger Hunt

Mother’s Day Gifts

Dads don’t worry we have the solution!

Your children need look no further than school to find that perfect Mother's Day gift.

Each gift is £3.00 and comes beautifully wrapped. By purchasing your Mother’s Day gift from school not only do all the mums get a great present but the school does too. For every £3.00 spent the school gets 60p. The money raised from the pop up shop will go towards funding new PC’s and outdoor play equipment.

The pop up gift shop will be open on 23/24^th March (Thursday/Friday).

We also wanted to say thank you to Gill, Andrea, Tamasin, SallyAnne, Ann, Tracey, Linda and Ruth for your help at parents evening last week; we wouldn’t have been able to offer refreshments with out you.

Thanks, The FSA