We are very proud and excited to announce that the school now has four 'Houses' that all of us have been sorted in to, that is pupils and staff.

The purpose will be that of promoting responsibility and team work as well as the opportunity to recognise good behaviour, work and attitudes.

All staff will be able to award House Points (HPs) and our new House Captains will be responsible for collating these, recording how many each house has but also for motivating others to gain HPs in order to achieve a goal.

The houses have been named:

Cope (red)

Rawding (green)

Smith (yellow)

Doughty (blue)

These houses have been named after four soldiers from Long Bennington  who fought and died in WW1, but were unknown at the time of the creation of the War Memorial in the village, therefore are not named on it.

We hope that through our school and our children, their names can live on.

We are hoping that our houses will be able to organise competitions, run clubs, motivate others to do good work and to show what being a citizen of Long Bennington Academy should look like.

Here are a couple of beautiful photographs taken by Miss Baliol-Key at the recent cross-country meet.

I am very proud of all our runners and the effort and enthusiasm they put into it!

Well done everyone.

We have quite a nasty sickness bug sweeping through school at the moment.

If your child is poorly with either sickness or diarrhoea  please note they need to be off school for 48 hours after the last episode. This way we can ensure that it is not spread amongst others.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Most children don’t write letters

'A survey by the National Literacy Trust has found that two thirds of primary school children and more than three quarters at secondary school never write letters. Those who did pen letters on a regular basis were more likely to have writing skills above the level expected for their age group. '

Daily Telegraph

I just found this piece of research and thought it was interesting enough to share with our school community. Food for thought I think......

Thank you to all families and staff for making this first morning of our new routine such a crisp, productive start.

The children came in to school quietly and calmly, sorted their bags and coats out efficiently and were in the classrooms ready to learn for 9.00am. When I walked the school at 9.05am I was so pleased to see the children working busily in their classrooms and I thank you all for such a good response.

We have registered for the Flora Tubs for Tablets scheme which will give us a free Samsung Galaxy tablet for our school for every 50 tokens we collect from special Flora promotional packs.

The scheme runs up until December and promotional tubs are only available at Tesco.

If you can help us to collect, please bring them in an envelope to the office.

Thank you!

We have just returned from our annual Year  6 Residential Visit Weekend. We left on Friday, June 26th and returned home at 5:30 pm on Sunday June 28th.

 Mrs Eveleigh, Mr Wells,Mr Heathcote, Mrs Kelly and Mr Korcz  took 40 children to The Manor Adventure in Shropshire. We had a fantastic weekend with lots of fun, excitement, friendship and personal challenge. Well done children - you were wonderful to be with. When you first came to this school 7 years ago I was looking forward to the time when I could take you away for a weekend and trust you to behave beautifully, look after yourselves and each other and become independent young people ready for secondary school. You proved that you are all of those things -  I am proud of you all.

Browse through the photos below as a sample of what the children did throughout the weekend.