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NewsletterSummer Term 2012

Bents Green School

Sheffield Lord Mayor visits Bents Green School to

meet Duke of Edinburgh StudentsAs part of the Duke of Edinburgh Expedition accreditation Bents Green School Year10 pupils plannedand trained for an adventurous journey in the UK. They completed theirovernight expedition in Derbyshire, walking with rucksacks and map reading their way to apredetermined campsite. A distance of approximately 18 kilometres was covered over the2 days. The students had to set up their own camp and cook for themselves on stoves.The Lord Mayor of Sheffield, Councillor Dr Sylvia Dunkley, visited the school on Friday 11

May and talked to the Duke of Edinburgh students who participated on the course.Marie Gregory, DoE Co-ordinator

We hope that you will be able to join us for the school official opening on Saturday 16th June.The day is all about the pupils, for them to show off their beautiful new school but it is also to come and enjoya day that has been tailored for them. We wanted the opening to be on a Saturday to enable as many of youto attend as possible.

All activities on the day are free of charge for pupils and their siblings. Activities on the day will include aclimbing wall, sports activity area, spa treatments, henna treatments, massage, face painting, stilt walkers,jugglers, live music and dance plus displays by the Army, Police and Fire Service. There will also be stallsselling various items and information for parents and students on life after Bents Green.We really want you all to come and enjoy yourselves, have a cake and a pot of tea and be part of a veryspecial day. Sandy Warne, Community Governor

OFFICIAL SCHOOL OPENINGSATURDAY 16 JUNE

Sheffield Childrens Festival 2012This term the Year 9's have been working with visiting artist Lucy Coyne to createsome large colourful day lilies for this yearsChildren's Festival.Lucy started usoff with a day workshop and we have continued in lessons to complete them.Those of you who came to the recent parent's eveningwill have seen one set offlowers displayed in the entrance hall. They createda wonderful, brightwelcometo visitors. All the flowers will now be collected to be displayed with work fromother schools in the Botanical Gardens from Monday 18th June. They will bethere throughout the summer so look out for them when you visit the BotanicalGardens. Karen Oakland, Art Tutor


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We are delighted that Quiana in Y8

is studying Food Technology at

King Ecgbert School. Ellie

(pictured), a Y10 student,

isenjoying meeting new friendsand following an Entry LevelFoodStudies courseat SilverdaleSchool.

Anyone for Table Tennis?

Food Technology at

Silverdale and

King Ecgbert School

Girls ClubGeorgina only attends Bents Green

School on Tuesday afternoons. Her

birthday was on pancake day and so we

decided to celebrate in styleby making

and eating our own pancakes!

Family Healthy Cooking SessionsIt was lovely to welcome more parents and grandparents to the

Family Healthy Cooking after school sessions. Families enjoyed

eating meals together, spaghetti bolognese, roasted vegeta-

blesand Yorkshire puddingswere very popular.

Janice Gosling, Healthy Schools Co-ordinator and Food Technology Tutor

The Y10 and Y11 General Studies option groups have been learningabout the Olympic Games and getting involved in the build up to London2012. As part of this they have had the opportunity to learn an Olympicsporttable tennis.

Shaun Alvey, a table tennis coach who trains youngsters all over thecountry, has been coming into school every Wednesday afternoon togive coaching sessions. He has helped us to acquire two good qualitytables and our pupils have really enjoyed the sessions.Staff have beenamazed at the progress pupils have made and some pupils are going tostart attending evening sessions run by Shaun to improve their gameeven more. Julie Crookes, General Studies Tutor

Bents Green School

WebsiteWe are in the process of building our schoolwebsite to enable parents/carers to accessinformation such as term dates, letters, trips,newsletters, termly school calendar etc.Please log onto: www.bentsgreen.co.uk. Ifyou would like to feedback to us about any ofthe articles in this newsletter or pass on anycomments or suggestions please completethe reply slip enclosed or send us an email viathe school website.

In RE lessons some students have taken part in the Send My Friend to School campaign. They have createdgold medal messages urging world leaders to keep their promise made in 2000 to get every child to school by

2015. We have sent them to local MP Nick Clegg. Visit www.sendmyfriend.orgfor more information.

Emily Whiteley, RE Tutor

SEND MY FRIEND TO SCHOOL
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Firstly, huge congratulations to the Post 16 students who wowed the

audience and music adjudicators with their performance in March and

have subsequently been asked to perform at the National Festival of

Music for Youth. This is the ninth consecutive year that an ensemble

from Bents Green has been asked to perform in the Nationals in Birming-ham, a prestigious musical event showcasing the best musical talent

from around the whole country. We are performing our own arrangement

of music from the French film Amelie with the professional percussionist

Mr Chris Bradley, who has become a regular visitor to the school in

recent years. Good luck to them on Wednesday July 4th. We will have

spaces available on the coach, so if you would like to support the group,

and fancy a day trip to Birmingham then please get in touch!

National Festival of Music for Youth

This years musicians are: Luke Flowers,

Joshua Scott, Luke Askham, Curtis Wright,

Alec Murphy, Graeme Allen, Louise Allen

and Mr Roger Simmons. (Isabelle Ingham

and Mrs Sam Hall are missing)

Y10 and Y11 pupils spent the day in London recently visiting the Royal

Opera House, Covent Garden to see a fabulous opera by Puccini called

La Boheme. Its one of the most popular operas in the repertoire with

lovely music and a very sad and emotional ending, and yes, some of us

had tears in our eyes at the end, but Im not telling you who it was! We

completed the day with lots of sightseeing and a lovely meal out. For

many of the pupils it was their very first trip to London and we are very

grateful to Happy Days Charity who very kindly funded our train fares

for the day. Judith Ennis, Music Tutor

Year 10 & Year 11 Pupils La Boheme

Opera Experience

The Six Book Challenge: Some of the students in Post 16 have been taking part in the Six Book Chal-

lenge aimed at encouraging reading in adults. The scheme is run by The Reading Agency through Sheffield

City Libraries. Students have enjoyed reading the books they had chosen and then reviewing and rating each

one in a personal reading log. As a result of all their hard work, students will be getting a certificate book token

and possibly meeting the Lord Mayor!

Pop Festival Date for Post 16 Student

Following his recent TV appearance on Look North, Under the Stars band member Sam Hayward will be

appearing in Tramlines Music Festival in July. Sam is a percussionist in the band and says he is excited to be

playing at Tramlines again.

On the 28th March a group of Y8 students visited West Midlands SafariPark as part of their Geography work on the animals of India and Africa.We were really excited to see all kinds of different animals, theseincluded giraffes, rhinos, leopards and many others. The students wereparticularly excited to see the unusual white tigers and lions. Some ofthe animals were actually very friendly; some of the students were evenlicked by a giraffe! Despite a very long journey home, all the students

were exceptionally well behaved and a good time was had by all!

Diana Porteous, Geography Tutor

POST 16 NEWS

Year 8 Safari Park Geography Trip


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FRIENDS OF BENTS GREEN

Post 16 Students Visit Stockholm

On 5th March 2012, 6 Students and 2 staff members met at Sheffield Station to begin their journey to Stock-

holm, Sweden to take part in an International Seminar on Inclusion of Young People with Learning Disability.

The school had been invited to take part in the event through contacts made by Post -16 staff member, Roger

Simmons, who has been involved in international work with young disabled people for some 30 years.

The Bents Green students joined young people from Sweden, Germany, Greece and Spain to stay in a hotel

on the outskirts of Stockholm and to share experiences about their lives in each respective country. Eachgroup made a presentation about their living situation and to what extent they were included in everyday life in

their own communities.

Bents Green students presented a Powerpoint slide show showing the City of Sheffield and the school itself

followed by various displays and collages depicting their interests and activities. The 5 day event also enabled

the young people to visit the City of Stockholm for sight-seeing and shopping.

The final day was spent at the Linderparken Special School where everyone saw education Swedish -style as

well as finishing off the day with a Farewell Party. And, just to make sure we knew we were in Scandinavia, the

snow started just as we were leaving!

Bents Green Students were a credit to the school and are looking forward to showing a slide show of the visit

to their families and friends.

The trip was funded by the European Youth for Action programme.

Forthcoming EventsFashion Shows: 20 June and 21 November2012Tickets 5

The FOBG stall will be in operation at the schoolsofficial Open Day on Saturday 16 June.

Can we say THANK YOU: to the parent who raised 600 on a bike riding

challenge. to the company who donated enough cream

eggs for all our young people at Easter. to the parent who collects ink cartridges from

Sheffield Hospitals for recycling.

Please can you help us by donating: DVDs (age appropriate)

CDs Rags Good quality books Unwanted gifts and bottles of wine for raffle

prizes

We are one of 2 Sheffield schools to be involved in a

School Produce Sale, a joint project from Waitrose and

School Food Matters. We will be selling our fruit and

vegetables at the Ecclesall Road Waitrose store from11am on Thursday 12 July. Please come along and

support us. All proceeds will come straight back to

school. The lovely fruit and vegetable plants arrived last

week and lots of us were very busy planting them out!

Hope to see you there!

Emily Whiteley, Land Based Learning Tutor

Date for your DiaryStockholm City sightseeing with Greek

friendsand familiesPosing with Swedish friends at

Linderparken Special School, Stockholm


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Parent Governors at

Bents Green School

The Governor election last November resulted in 6 new parents being elected to the governing body

as Governors and Associates . There are several different types of governors: Staff Governors, Parent

Governors, Community Governors and Associates, headed by the Chair of Governors and each

governor and member of the governing body brings their own experience and knowledge to the role.

The full governing body meets once a term and is attended by all Governors, Chair, Clerk to

Governors and the Headteacher.

All Governors are members of subcommittees and at Bents Green these are the Strategy, Teaching &

Learning, Resources and Community Committees. Sub-committee meetings take place more

frequently. Some governors will have additional link roles, for example Safeguarding, SEN, Health &

Safety.

The role of Governor within any school is to provide a strategic view, act as a critical friend and ensure

accountability. The Parent Governor role is to represent and take into account the views of parents

and to bring those matters to the attention of the whole governing body. Being a Parent Governor at

Bents Green School presents a particular challenge - most children have transport to school, so the

usual opportunities presented to Parent Governors to discuss matters and get to know other parents

can be limited.

As Parent Governors, we are looking at increasing our visibility and accessibility to parents in a

number of ways. We will be available at parents evenings and other events, and are planning to use

the school portal for communication in the future. We aim to give information about what is happeningat the school, carry out surveys and create a discussion forum. You can contact Parent Governors by

email on: [email protected]

We would love to hear what you think about the school any issues that concern you, what you think

works well, and not so well, and of course any suggestions you might have. We are all parents of

children at the school and want to work together to ensure the school remains a supportive and vibrant

place for all.

Parent Governors:

Donna Buckingham Michelle Cooke Rachel Crowther

Anne Gaydon

Laura Gillespie

Janice Lowe David Roe Jayne Woodward

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