The Benhurst Bulletin

The Weekly Buzz 🐝

🌟 Sun, Success, and Celebration: This Week at Benhurst!

​☀️ A Week of Sun and Celebration!

​What a fantastic, eventful week it has been! With high temperatures matching our high spirits, the countdown has officially begun. As we fast approach the end of yet another incredible school year, this week has been all about celebrating our successes and embracing our favorite traditions.

​Here is a look back at what our amazing community achieved this week:

​🏆 Celebrating Our Shining Stars

​Earlier this week, the LIFE Education Trust awarded six of our outstanding Year 6 pupils in recognition of their commitment and achievements. It was a truly delightful experience for the pupils and their families to enjoy such a wonderful evening.

​Adding to the magic of the occasion, our very own cheerleaders marked the event by performing their incredible routine for everyone to enjoy. They brought the energy, the talent, and an immense amount of pride to the night!

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🏃‍♂️ Sports Day: Fun, Games, and... Aliens?

​We were thrilled to welcome so many families to our annual Sports Day! With beautiful weather, fantastic enthusiasm, and plenty of fun-filled activities, it was a truly memorable day for everyone.

A heartfelt thank you to all our families for their understanding and flexibility in accommodating the last-minute changes we made to ensure the wellbeing of our children during the scorching heat. Your support and cooperation were greatly appreciated and helped make the day such a success.

​Highlights of the day included:

​The Parents' Race: Our parents showed serious competitive spirit, tearing up the track to the cheers of the crowd!

​The Staff Race: This year featured an interesting spin—mind that alien! A hilarious and memorable moment for everyone watching.

​Thank you to everyone who came out to support, compete, and cheer.

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🥪 Year 2 Get Cooking!

​On Thursday, our Year 2 pupils tied on their aprons and turned into mini-chefs for the day! The classrooms were buzzing with excitement as they enjoyed a fantastic sandwich-making session. They practiced their spreading, layering, and independent skills—and the results were delicious!

🎶🎸🥁Rocksteady concert🎤🎶🎸

A huge well done to all of our talented young musicians who performed in this week's Rocksteady concert. It was wonderful to see their confidence, enthusiasm and musical skills shine on stage after all of their hard work and practice.

A warm thank you to all of the parents and family members who attended to support our performers. Your encouragement and applause made the event even more special, and we know it meant a great deal to the children. We are incredibly proud of every performer!

Summer Fete

💫🤹‍♂️🎪We would like to say a huge thank you to Friends of Benhurst and all the volunteers who brought us such an incredible summer fete! Stay tuned for next week's edition for the highlights

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👋 Saying Goodbye to Some Special Members of Our Team 💙

As we approach the end of the school year, we will be saying goodbye next week to several valued members of the Benhurst Team. While it is always difficult to see colleagues move on, we want to take this opportunity to thank them for the care, commitment and dedication they have shown to our children and families.

🌟 Ms Shortt – Thank you for your incredible work in Year 2 and for the positive impact you have made on the children in your care.

🌟 Mrs Jeer – Thank you for stepping in as maternity cover and for your enthusiasm, professionalism and support during your time with us.

🌟 Ms Marie – Thank you for holding the fort in Year 1 and for the kindness and dedication you have shown throughout the remainder of this year.

🌟 Mrs Ghafoor – Thank you for supporting our Year 6 children during one of the most important stages of their Benhurst journey. Your guidance and encouragement have helped prepare them for their exciting next chapter.

We will also be saying a very special farewell to someone who has been a much-loved part of the Benhurst community for many decades.

💐 Mrs Kotschy has dedicated so many years of outstanding service to our school, supporting generations of children and families with warmth, care and unwavering commitment. Her exceptional contribution to Benhurst has left a lasting legacy, and she will be greatly missed by pupils, parents, colleagues and the wider school community.

❤️ On behalf of everyone at Benhurst, we would like to say a heartfelt thank you to each of these wonderful members of staff. We wish them every happiness and success as they begin their next adventures. They will always remain a valued part of the Benhurst community.

​Thank you to our families for making this week so incredibly special. Stay cool, enjoy the weekend, and let's make the final week of the year the best one yet!

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Reminder: With the temperatures remaining high, please ensure children come to school with filled water bottles, sun hats, and sun cream applied.

Have a lovely weekend!

The Benhurst Senior Leadership Team

🏅 Sports Day Champions! 🎉

Congratulations to Red Team for being crowned our Sports Day Champions! ❤️🏆

A huge well done to all of our teams for taking part with such enthusiasm, determination and fantastic teamwork. Every child showed great sportsmanship and gave their very best, making it a wonderful day to remember.

Thank you to our staff, volunteers and families for helping make Sports Day such a success! 🌟👏

Monday 1st June - Friday 17th July

📆 Monday 13th - Rocksteady performance 9:15am

📆 Tuesday 14th July- Children will meet their new teacher in the afternoon

📆 Wednesday 15th July - Red Team Picnic and water fight

📆 Thursday 16th July- Year 6 graduation 2pm

📆 Thursday 16th July- Class parties and non uniform day

📆 Friday 17th July 9.30am- Year 6 Leavers' production 9:30am

📆 Friday 17th July- School finishes at 2pm for all pupils (no clubs and no abacus running)

Are you interested in playing an important part in the quality of education at Benhurst Primary School? Would you like to work with other professionals to ensure the education we provide is of the best quality? We are looking for individuals who are passionate about the education of our children and who, working with other school governors; monitor the quality of education, scrutinise the views of stakeholders, monitor information on pupil progress and attainment and monitor Safeguarding and SEND and progress towards school development priorities. We are ideally looking for applicants who specifically have education expertise to link to the School Development Plan and the School Evaluation Form.

KS1 Winners Year 2 Rabbit

KS2 Winners Year 4 Fox

We would like to give more children the opportunity to win. From this term onwards, we will be monitoring pupils with 100% attendance on a weekly basis. Each week, those names will be entered into a draw. This means there will be more chances to win, and if a child is absent for a day, they will still have opportunities to take part in future weeks.

Wishing everyone a happy and successful Summer term.

In computing this term, our Year 4 students have been transforming from digital consumers into digital creators by building their very own video games using Scratch! This block-based coding platform allows the children to snap instruction blocks together like puzzle pieces to control characters, trigger sounds, and design interactive backgrounds.

The Iron Man! We have been writing descriptively in English; imagining ourselves as Hogarth in the story. We have looked carefully at the use of personification, metaphors and the impact of short direct sentences. To go along with our narrative we have also been learning about The Water Cycle and using key vocabulary

This term, our Year 4 mathematicians are stepping into the shoes of explorers and cartographers as they dive into the world of coordinates and grid systems! Following the White Rose Maths curriculum, the children are mastering the first quadrant—learning how to read, plot, and even draw 2-D geometric shapes on a grid using coordinate pairs. They are also discovering the concept of translation, which involves moving shapes up, down, left, and right across the plane.

• Bottle green shorts
• Round-necked plain white t-shirt
• Black plimsols or plain black trainers
• Black tracksuit bottoms & black sweatshirt

Please note that football kits are not permitted

• Bottle Green Jumper with Logo
• Bottle Green Cardigan with Logo
• White Polo Shirt
• Black trousers Black Skirt or Pinafore Black Skirt
• Summer Dresses – Green Gingham Dress
• Summer Black Shorts

A reminder that artificial nails including nail varnish, as well as long earrings are prohibited, we are seeing a number of pupils with nails and long earrings. We kindly request that these are removed during school periods.

Our before and after school provider is ABACUS. They have been supporting the children and parents at Benhurst since September 2008.

ABACUS are based in our Dining Hall and provide the children with a range of toys, games, computer consoles, Lego, creative activities, home corner, books, larger equipment and use of the school outdoor space. Only Benhurst children may attend this club.

ABACUS are flexible and will accommodate children who wish to attend other in house school clubs; they will collect them and bring them to the setting.

For further information please visit www.abacusafterschoolclubs.com or telephone 07903 708764.

Break time snacks can be:

● A piece of fruit;

● A vegetable;

● A healthy cereal bar (without chocolate)

Break snacks should not include:

● Crisps (including baked crisps)

● Confectionery such as chocolate bars, chocolate-coated biscuits and sweets;

● Cakes and biscuits;

● Nut or nut products (although they can be very healthy) because of the danger to other children with allergies.

Please ensure you are booking your child's meals with them on time. For late orders please call 0204 542 7211. If you have not booked your child's dinners please note that they will be offered a jacket potato. We appreciate that meals are free for primary children however you are required to book online so a number can be catered for.

🔈Please be advised that IFG has moved across to a new food ordering platform SchoolGrid, please ensure that you have activated your account.

Your child may be able to get free school meals please see the guidance below from the Government;

• Income Support
• income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
• income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• the guaranteed element of Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
• Working Tax Credit run-on - paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
• Universal Credit - if you apply on or after 1 April 2018 your household income must be less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including any benefits you get)

Children who get paid these benefits directly, instead of through a parent or guardian, can also get free school meals.

Your child may also get free school meals if you get any of these benefits and your child is both:

• younger than the compulsory age for starting school
• in full-time education

If you do not qualify for most benefits (also known as having ‘no recourse to public funds’), your child may still be eligible for free school meals. Ask their school or local authority whether they’re eligible.

Infant free school meals in England

Your child will be able to get free school meals if they’re in a government-funded school and in:

• reception class
• year 1
• year 2

Tell your local authority if you also get any of the qualifying benefits. Your child’s school can get extra funding if you do

https://havering.cloud.servelec-synergy.com/Synergy/Enquiries/Citizen/FreeSchoolMeals.aspx

Havering HAF Summer Programme 2026 – Now Open!

Free holiday activities and healthy meals are available this summer for children and young people in Havering who receive benefit-related Free School Meals (FSM).

✅ Fun activities
✅ Nutritious meals provided
✅ Local venues across Havering

👉 Book now: Book HAF activities
👉 Find out more: Havering HAF webpage

We currently have high volume of unclaimed lost property in the main office and encourage all families to come along and check for any belongings.

We kindly ask all parents and carers of children attending Benhurst Primary School to be considerate and respectful when parking during drop-off and collection times. Thank you for your cooperation and support in keeping our school community safe and respectful.

Contact the school office for more details

01708 450 807

office@benhurst.havering.sch.uk

We are currently looking for donations to support our Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL) provision. OPAL helps us create rich, creative and active play opportunities for all of our children, and recycled or pre-loved items are perfect for inspiring imaginative play.

We would be very grateful for donations such as:

• Toys
• Old suitcases
• Buggies or pushchairs
• Pots and pans
• Blankets and sheets
• Car seats
• Any other items you may be giving away that could be safely re-purposed for play

If you are unsure whether something would be suitable, please feel free to ask. We are always happy to take a look!

Thank you for your continued support in helping us enrich the children’s play experiences. We truly appreciate your generosity.

Parent short video here with further information https://vimeo.com/1121803010/ffabd80232?share=copy