💡 What’s it like to take part in an EEF trial? Magnus Harrison from Benchill Primary tells us about his school’s experience of taking part in Reciprocal Reading, a structured 12-week approach to teaching reading comprehension for Key Stage 2 pupils. 👉eef.li/mQxyrG

Y6 had a good nights sleep and are now eating their breakfast, ready for their last day!

We had a fantastic response from Year 5 at Benchill Primary yesterday to the pilot of our new tram safety lesson, written in collaboration with Manchester Metrolink 🚊 #travelsafepartnership Looking forward to releasing the free resource to all of our engaged schools in September!

Celebrating world music day with a fantastic drumming session.

Great fun with Travelling Tuba this morning.

3D enjoying World Music Day #Worldmusicday #rockstars

Happy Eid al-Adha to all in Benchill Community who will be celebrating starting this weekend

Tear 5 have been having a great day at MEA

More fun from Y5 at MEA.

Y5 pupils delivered their speeches today as part of the Oracy work they’ve been doing with Mrs Sealy @ MEA #oracychampions

Year 3 doing a traffic survey as part of our geography lesson

Year 3 have had a fun morning making bread and making their own butter, we can’t wait to try it when it’s baked.

🥳 Talk Through Transition 🥳 We were also joined by some brilliant Year 5 pupils from Ringway Primary & Benchill Primary who presented speeches to a whole assembly, giving them the opportunity to practice public speaking 👏 #AFantasticFutureForAll #Voice21 Voice 21 Oracy

Thank you to everyone for coming to Benchill’s Art Exhibition.

We are delighted to share our summer improvements! Our dining room and a number of our classrooms have been renovated over the summer and there is so much more to come! We can’t wait to share our plans for further improvements! Watch this space! 💙🤩💙

Mr Rooney was delighted to visit Year 2 this morning. The pupils have been using concrete resources to make 2 digit numbers. Fantastic learning. Well done!👏🤩

We are absolutely delighted with our new school meals provider! Freshly cooked meals served everyday! Please contact the school office if you would like your child to have school meals instead of packed lunches. We highly recommend it.