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Buckden Roundabout
January 2020
School and pre-school
January always seems very quiet at Preschool after our hectic
Decembers! The children and their families thoroughly en-
joyed all the festive things we did in the last few weeks of
autumn term: Santa’s Grotto at the Buckden Light Festival
(which raised £243), the Christmas Concert, their trip on the
Nene Valley Santa Train, their Christmas party, a trip to the
primary school to watch their Christmas play, the church visit
to see all the beautiful Christmas wreaths and their movie,
pyjamas and popcorn day to finish off the term.
Huge thanks to parents and committee members who
helped to make these events so successful and enjoyable,
and to everyone who visited our Grotto or came along to our
Pamper Evening, which raised around £100. Also, a big thank
you to everyone who has continued to donate to our collec-
tion box at Nisa. At the time of writing, the box has just been
emptied and the contents haven’t yet been counted, but it
was very full, so many thanks to all those who have donated
their change.
Now, here we are in a New Year, with new children to wel-
come to Preschool along with their families. We hope our
new starters will be very happy at Preschool and that their
families will enjoying being part of our community. We are
hoping that Pauline Coker continues to recover from her in-
jury and can come back to us for her sessions, as children
and staff alike have really missed her Music and Movement
sessions.
Looking ahead, the children will be thinking about cold, win-
ter and snow—what clothes they need to keep them warm
in winter and what kind of animals live in cold, snowy places.
If snow arrives this term, we will of course be taking the chil-
dren outside to explore it for real!
Committee enquiries: contact Jo Chillmaid (Chairperson) at
buckdenpreschoolchairperson@gmail.com
or on
07393650084.
To enrol your child or arrange a visit: contact Samantha Sin-
clair (Manager) on
01480 810600
. For more information, visit
www.buckdenpreschool.co.uk
or see our Facebook updates
at
https://www.facebook.com/
www.buckdenpreschool.co.uk/
.
BUCKDEN CHURCH OF
ENGLAND SCHOOL
(Primary Academy Trust)
December 2019
Where has the last year gone – it has flown by!
Once again our run-up to Christmas has been
very busy with a wide range of activities and events.
Our Reception children performed their play ‘Mary’s Knitting’
to the school, family and friends. This was their first perfor-
mance at Buckden Academy and was beautifully acted and
sung. The children in Years 1 and 2 also performed their Christ-
mas play ‘Camel, Lights, Action’ to the school community, fami-
ly and friends. Another very accomplished performance was
given by the children. Well done to all our budding actors and
actresses and to the staff who turned their hand to directing,
producing, costume making and prompters.
The children in Key Stage 2 gave a beautiful performance of
Christmas carols and songs at the Buckden Christmas Lights
Switch-On. Our annual Key Stage 2 Christmas Carol Concert
was held at St Mary’s Church and was attended by many par-
ents and friends of the school, who enjoyed mulled wine and
mince pies after the service. This is always a festive occasion
and this year was no exception.
Our PTA have also been very busy. At the Christmas Lights
Switch-On they organised the raffle which was very successful.
We hope the winners enjoyed their prize hampers. They also
organised a shop where the children could buy Christmas pre-
sents for their family and the end of term Christmas discos for
the children at school. Thank you to their hard work fundrais-
ing this term – they have more fundraising events planned for
the Spring Term.
During the month we had a Green Day, when the children came
to school wearing Green in exchange for a donation for our
school orchard. The school has sourced trees from the Sustain-
able Food Trust who are ensuring the trees we plant are native
to Cambridgeshire. Some parents have also made a larger do-
nation to have a named plaque put on their tree. We are look-
ing forward to watching our trees grow over the next few
years.
A reminder to prospective parents – 15
th
January 2020 is the
final date for applications for admission to primary school in
September 2020. To apply for a place you need to go to
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/schooladmissions
The school would like to thank all parent helpers and friends
who regularly come into school to work with the children. Your
help is very much welcomed and appreciated. May we take to
opportunity to wish the residents of Buckden a very Happy
Christmas and prosperous New Year.
The school re-opens for the Spring Term on Mon-
day 6
th
January 2020
.
The Buckden Village Festival
Youth Committee would like to
say a big thank you to everyone
who supported us in the past
half year at the Village Festival,
our pancake stall and through St
Mary’s church.
We are very happy to say that
we have raised £1,133 for the
WWF (World Wide Fund for Na-
ture) to protect endangered spe-
cies!