Bentley Church of England Primary School A GSG School
- Bentley Church of England Primary School
School Lane
Bentley
Farnham
Surrey
GU10 5JP - Head: Mrs Pinchess
- T 01420 525010
- F 01420 525011
- E admin.office@bentley.hants.sch.uk
- W www.bentleypri…ryschool.co.uk/
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 11.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Hampshire
- Pupils: 205
- Religion: Church of England
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- Early years provision Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 14th September 2021
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 26th April 2007
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Still sits in a pretty bucolic location more than 150 years later, next to a winding country lane surrounded by cottages, fields and hedgerows. It’s very easy to imagine how this typical village school might have looked in Victorian times. Although classroom atmosphere is relaxed and very friendly, children appear busy, engaged and enthusiastic – even at the tail end of a science lesson just before the lunch bell. Teachers take the lead in pointing out unacceptable behaviour (we observed a reception teacher doing just that) but no child is ever made to feel the black sheep...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmistress
Since 2012, Katy Pinchess (40s). Began her career as a children’s book buyer at Waterstones before settling on teaching (it’s in the blood, her mother was a head). Experience includes setting up CET Primary School Westminster, a free school in central London. Back to Hampshire, joining Bentley C of E after a stint as head of Bordon Infants. Keen to build on 20-year legacy of previous head Phil Callaway, who transformed Bentley from two-room village school into highly sought after primary through personal dedication and judicious financial management. Parents seem confident that she has stepped into his rather large shoes and say, ‘Everyone’s really pleased, she’s a lovely person.’ Energetic and hands on, she is married with two young children.
Entrance
Sought after primary school and always oversubscribed. At the time of our visit almost all...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
The school has a part-time SENCo who works with individual children and also provides support for the class teacher. We have children who have been diagnosed with mild ADHD and Aspergers. The 'Tracks' spelling programme is used to help pupils who have difficulties in this area. Nov 09.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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