December 2018

Buckden Roundabout

December 2018

School & Pre-school

The autumn term always feels like one event after the oth-

er! The children loved decorating Preschool for Halloween

and seeing the home corner transformed into the Witch’s

Kitchen from one of their favourite books,

What’s in the

Witch’s Kitchen?

Firework crafts and work on our beautiful

Remembrance Day display came next and we hope you all

got a chance to see our cascade of poppies on our balcony

and in our windows (photos can be found on both the Pre-

school and Buckden residents’ Facebook pages). Hanukkah

and Christmas activities will take us to the end of term. The

children will be making paper plate menorahs and a range

of Christmas crafts.

The Preschool community has also been busy on the fund-

raising front too. Orders for the Christmas cards designed by

the children have raised £40 for Preschool, while our Hal-

loween Party raised £279 and our Quiz Night, £200 – we

hope you had a great time if you came along. Thank you to

everyone who supported, organised and ran these events!

Our sponsored ramble in aid of Children in Need went well,

although the distance to Diddington proved a little ambi-

tious for some children, ones who were younger or not so

used to stretching their legs! We are still awaiting some

sponsorship money, so we don’t have a final total as yet.

Coming up, we will have a stall at the Christmas Lights Festi-

val on 2

Dec and an open morning in the Lincoln Room

and Preschool on 7th Dec 9-11.30, with Christmas crafts and

a sensory circuits session. Our term ends with a Christmas

concert and party—we’re told a very special visitor might be

popping in with presents!

Finally, a reminder that we still have funded places available

for three-year olds—and still need more committee mem-

bers! If you are interested in securing a place for your child

or arranging a visit, please contact our Manager, Samantha

Sinclair, on 07941 671999. To discover what’s involved in

becoming a committee member, contact our Chairperson,

Becky Milne, at

buckdenpreschoolchairperson@gmail.com

For more information, visit the preschool or visit

www.buckdenpreschool.co.uk

or see our Facebook updates at

https://www.facebook.com/www.buckdenpreschool.co.uk/

Last but not least, from everyone at Preschool:

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!

Miss Alison

BUCKDEN CHURCH OF

ENGLAND SCHOOL

(Primary Academy Trust)

Another busy month here at Buckden School. Our Year 1 chil-

dren visited The Higgins Museum in Bedford to learn about

toys from the past. Everyone had a lovely day and learnt so

much about how our grandparents played with their toys.

Pudsey Bear visited the school. Everyone was amazed when he

came into assembly one morning. What a lovely surprise for us

all. On Children In Need Day we all dressed up in our pyjamas

to raise money for the charity.

Some members of the school are learning to play instruments

in our own band. We are learning the guitar, keyboard and

drums, and we also have some singers to create our own rock

band. It’s all a lot of fun while we learn.

Our PTA has been busy arranging events for our parents to en-

joy. They have arranged a murder mystery evening, which was

very well attended, a Christmas shopping evening, and a Nearly

New Uniform shop. They are also busy organising some Christ-

mas events for the children. Thank you to all members of the

PTA who all work so hard to help our school.

The school has received complaints about the parking in the

roads around the school. To help make the parking easier we

are asking parents and those who bring and collect children to

school to use the following guidelines:

•

The car park in front of the school is for teachers and

official visitors to the school only.

•

Please do not park on the staff car park for dropping off

or collecting your children.

•

Please do not park on the yellow lines around the

school, in the bus bay, or use these areas to drop or pick

up your child/children. These areas are reserved for

disabled parking and the school bus.

•

Please do not park across the driveways of the local resi-

dents in School Lane, Greenway or Mill Road.

•

Please do not park on, or near to, corners of roads. This

can block visibility for road traffic and pedestrians.

•

Please do not ‘double-park’ blocking the free flow of

traffic on the roads.

•

Please do not park in the car park by the shops.

If you have difficulty parking around the school, please use the

car park at The Village Hall off Burberry Road, which is a short 5

minute walk to the school. Thank you for your help with this

issue.

We have set the school dates for the school year 2019/2020.

Please see the updated Term dates on page 13.