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Buckden Roundabout
February 2017
School and Pre-School
BUCKDEN CHURCH OF
ENGLAND SCHOOL
(Primary Academy Trust)
February 2017
We would like to wish residents of Buckden, Diddington and
Southoe a very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year
from the staff and pupils at Buckden School.
We returned after the Christmas holidays ready for the new
term. It is a much quieter time at school following the hectic
build up to Christmas.
The major event of this month was the school Young Voices
choir attended the Young Voices concert at The 02 Arena in
London. This is a national event with schools from all over
the country attending, to perform together. All the music was
specially selected and gave our children a wide variety of
songs to perform. The choir has been learning and practising
the songs since September. On the day of our concert there
were over 5,000 children singing, accompanied by a wide
range of musicians and artists, to create an amazing perfor-
mance. We spent most of the day practising for the evening
concert which- many of our parents were able to come along
to enjoy. We arrived back at school very late. What an ex-
citing, eventful and tiring day, but we all had a wonderful
time.
We are well into the swing of the spring term now and have
introduced a new routine so that children spend more time
with peers of their own age in separate spaces, although they
still come together for shared play and snack time. This has
worked well, allowing us to give the children access to more
age-appropriate activities. We’ve also started working our
way through the alphabet for our theme of the week.
Our new starters have settled well into preschool life and as
the term progresses, we’re looking forward to planting seeds
and starting spring and Easter activities.
Nisa has kindly been playing host to a donation pot for Pre-
school and their customers raised £25.50 for us in December.
We would like to thank Nisa yet again for their continuing
support of Preschool and thank their customers for donating
so generously. Thanks to this and donations from carers and
parents of last year’s leavers, we have been able to purchase
literacy resources, more books to support diversity and emo-
tional wellbeing and some lovely new numeracy resources to
encourage counting and numeral recognition. We also buy
resources using Sainsbury’s Active Kids vouchers and this
year’s campaign has now started, so we would be grateful for
donations of any vouchers. Thank you!
Miss Alison
To arrange a visit or book a place for your child please contact
our Manager, Michelle Nelson on 07941 671999. For more
information, please visit
www.buckdenpreschool.co.uk
.
For more information, please visit :
www.buckdenpreschool.co.uk.
Date for your diary:
Sunday July 9
th
: Kimbolton Country Fayre and Classic
Car Show, Kimbolton Castle.
Copy for the March edition
of the Roundabout
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