I hope you enjoy this newsletter. It’s a chance toshare of some school life on and off site this term. Itis also an opportunity for me to thank our wonderfulstaff team. Their skills, energy and commitmentamaze me everyday, making me feel incredibly proud.

40 year 11s and 8 post 16 students left school thisterm. l’m sure you’ll join me in wishing them well asthey take up their college placements in September.

“Moving Up” Fortnight has gone well. For the lastten days everyone has “moved up” into their newclasses following their new timetable. Everybody willknow where they are going and what they will bedoing come September.

We welcome 43 year 7s in September. They have allspent time at Bensham this term getting to knoweveryone and their way around.

May I take this opportunity to wish you a happy andhealthy holiday. I look forward to seeing all thepupils normal time on Wednesday 4th September forthe start of the Autumn term.

We say goodbye and good luck to thefollowing staff this term. They are relocating,

starting new jobs or commencing teachertraining.

We will miss you all.

…as well as Zehra,Jo, Cindy M,Deborah and Trevin.

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By Lewis

Year 7 have been reading Charleyand the Chocolate Factory book

by Ronald Dahl .

As part of their learning theyhave written a diary entry, as

Charlie.

Congratulations to Jamie James our keystage 3 History Teacher and Duke of

Edinburgh coordinator on winning the JackPetchey Leaders Award. Well Done Jamie.!

Year 10 Designed flyers for the Valentine’sDay disco, which was held on 14th February.

Introducing you to our assembly about the Shoebox Habitats we have been making in science.

Here they are…

The ocean is cold and blue.It is salt water.

It is deep and dark.

An octopus has 3 hearts.

Sharks don’t sleep but they do rest.

A puffer fish is also called a blow fish or aballoon fish.

Sea turtles live for a long time.

The clown fish is also known as the anemonefish. It lives in anemone.

The habitat I have chosen is the Arctic Tundra.It is white, cold and icy. It is also very windy.

Polar bears have strong legs to walk and swim.

Arctic foxes have white fur to camouflagethemselves in the winter and it changes to

brown fur in the spring and summer.

The habitat I have chosen is thejungle.

It’s very warm and sunny. It rainsa lot.

Jungles have lots of plants andanimals, like tigers, gorillas,

cheetahs, panthers and monkeys.

A leopard’s tail is just about aslong as its entire body.

My habitat is the desert. It’s hot, it’ssandy and it has camels. It is windy.

Camels and scorpions live in the desert.

A large camel can drink 140 litres ofwater in just 13 minutes.

My habitat is the jungle. It’sreally warm.

The animals I have chosen aretigers, monkeys, gorillas and

meerkat.

Some monkeys live on the ground.as long as its entire body.

The Arctic is cold, windy and it’s also icy.

The Arctic fox can change his fur into whitein the winter.

The ocean is cold and it can be deepand dark. It is salted water.

Jellyfish do not have any brains butsome types do have eyes.

Whales sleep for 3 minutes sometimes.

Sharks have the largest brain of anyfish.

Dolphins use squeaks and whistles tocall to each other.

An octopus guards its eggs for 4 to 5years.

Learn these symbols andyou too can become an

electricity Kung Fu Masterlike 8CL and 8FA!

In Textiles, year 10 have been studyingthe theme ‘Order and Disorder’,

They took their inspiration fromlooking at the patterns from the

nature to created patterns and thenmade screen prints.

Year 7 had a very productive WonkaDay to celebrate 'World Book Day'for their Charlie and the ChocolateFactory topic in English. Lots of fun,excitement and creative learning. Aquiz, treasure hunt, team building

games throughout the day all toppedoff with an afternoon of Charlie and

the Chocolate Factory Film andchocolate fountains!!!. -Ms David

Year 7 have had an exciting year in Mathematics,exploring their own creativity while designing

BeeBot mats to develop their direction skills, Flowerclocks to help them tell the time and designing

"Mocktails" to learn about capacity. Students havehad lots of fun discovering how to transfer theirmaths knowledge into real life situations, dealingwith money and calculating change, measuring

distances with trundle wheels and collecting datafrom around the school to interpret into their own

Maths is fun, we enjoyed working on 'MyMaths' and achieving Magic Maths

certificates, working with money andmaking the Beebot mats. We learnt how towork out change with money and achievedMagic Maths certificats, We really enjoyed

making the Beebot mats.

-7ZN

We enjoyed working with numbers, usingaddition and subtraction and making

number rockets. Mocktails in capacity wemeasured out quantities for Mocktails, how

tall we were and used trundle wheels tomeasure large areas of our school.

-7KS

We have learnt how to tell the time, identifyshapes, weight items using scales andorder negative and positive numbers.

-7DD

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Year 7 produced digital drawings of some ofthe devices they were exploring.

I went to the Youth Games on 24th May and didthe swimming competition. I got 2 medals forswimming. I came 2nd and 3rd. It was a fun

day, I feel happy and proud. -Chloe

Our year 11's have just completed the final section of their Duke of Edinburgh bronze award. Theyworked as independent groups in order to navigate and complete a 15 mile hike over the course oftwo days, cook all their own meals and assemble their own campsite in which they slept overnight.The pupils involved in the expedition showed great tenacity and self-reliance in overcomingchallenging weather conditions and their spirits remained high throughout. They were a credit tothemselves and the school.

Click here for moreinformation on the

Duke of Edinburgh

On Friday 14 June 9JC visited Hobbledown Farm inEpsom – thanks to The Jack Petchey Foundation andour winner Jerelle.In between torrential downpours, we enjoyed twoanimal experiences getting up close to a tortoise,guinea pigs and goats, we managed to look at theanimals on the farm and play on the fantastic playequipment.A big thank you to Jerelle for working so hard toachieve the award and Jack Petchey for funding thefun day out..

Playing in the maze and in the adventure playground

Checked out the llamas.

Jerelle won the award for his excellent workresearching and building an animal habitat. He

is showing a genuine care for animals byfeeding the stroking the guinea pig and

handling the tortoise.

For more information on Hobbledown Farm,click here: https://www.hobbledown.com/

26 year 10 pupils spent 2 nights at lovely venue on theNorth Downs in June. They were expected to cooktheir own meals, make their own beds and worktogether as part of a team. It was good to see newfriendships developing and pupils building theirindependence skills. We had long hikes across, up anddown the North Downs which were very challenging.

JED’s driving-all Year 11 pupils took part in a 5 weekseries of Driving Theory lessons and then experienceddriving a car round the playground. They learnt about roadsigns, driving safely ensuring that they are concentratingon the road and the different controls in a car.( Can you attach the video clip that Sean produced forassembly?)

All year 11’s took part in the Palace for Life FoundationEnterprise course. They spent a day at Selhurst Park andwere able to see behind the scenes. They met localentrepreneurs and each group had to set up a company toraise money. This ranged from selling smoothies and icelollies to a car washing venture. The money raised wasused to hire a Party Bus for their year 11 leaver’s mealcelebrations at JRC in Valley Park.

Since his first day at Bensham Manor SchoolShae has been a polite, well-mannered,likable and perfectly behaved young man.Now he is in year 10, and that hasn’tchanged. He is a model student, who works

hard on his work to make sure it is always perfect and well-presented. He always looks sharp and presentable, andwears the correct uniform. He is always the 1st to raise hishand when the class are asked to help with something, andis very efficient when carrying out jobs he is given. He has alovely sense of humor with those that know him well. Hehas made tremendous progress with his reading this year onthe head sprouts program. He has done incredibly wellwhen learning about road safety when out in the communityand we hope that he will be able to be travel trained in thevery near future. He represents the school brilliantly whenout and about in the community and keeps his eyes on hisclassmates to make sure they are doing the right thing to.We feel that Shae has more than proved that he isdeserving of this award and we are sure his lovely naturewill continue with him into Key stage post 16 next year

We went on a History trip to theRiver Thames.

Click here for more information on Jack Petcjey:

https://www.jackpetcheyfoundation.org.uk/

For our end of year trip, 9JC spent themorning playing mini golf at Dragon’s Quest

and then went to Lloyd Park for a picnic.We had a great day. Well done to Keiron

and Tavaughn for winning the golf.

7DD, 7AH and 8GD a an exciting journey to Lloyds Parktravelling by train and tram. The weather was glorious andwe had a fabulous time, interacting with our friends, lots

of fun and we even had an ice-cream. A wonderful way tocelebrate the end of year 7

9JC were hiding from the sun.

9MEl outing at the brick wonders.

7ZN had a fantastic taster day atForest School. We explored the forest,climbed hills and learnt how to workas a team following a leader.Everyone enjoyed climbing andmonkeying about on the trees. Theday ended with learning how to lighta camp fire and cook marshmallows.

9ASi went on a London Experience trip.

7BM went to Dean City Farm.