June 2017

Buckden Roundabout

June 2017

School & Pre-School

Firstly, a thank you to all those who have kindly donated

Sainsbury’s vouchers (and dropped their change in our vouch-

er box at Nisa too!). The vouchers are no longer being is-

sued

but can still be donated until 30

June,

so if you have

any lurking around, please either drop them off at preschool

or pop them into the box kindly hosted for us by Nisa. We are

also collecting items for our summer tombola stalls at the

village festival and Buckfest, so if you have any suitable items,

please drop them into preschool. Thanks to all those who

have already donated items.

In April, we had great fun celebrating St. George's Day by

making shields and swords and the pre-schoolers leaving us at

the end of June began their PE sessions. Hopefully, by the

time they start school they will be super-speedy at getting

changed! The children also had great fun literally ‘watching

grass grow’ in our planting tray on the balcony. They have

been fascinated by this and have loved running their hand

across the new grass and describing how it feels.

As we start the new half-term, we have a visit from our local

PCSO to look forward to. The children love having visitors and

finding out about the jobs they do, so we’re sure they will

enjoy this just as they have previous visits from nurses and

postmen etc.! Nearer to the end of term, we hope to see you

at our stalls at the village fete on 1

July and Buckfest on the

July. We will also be running our popular Stay and Play

sessions again during the summer holidays – look out for de-

tails in the next Roundabout, or on our posters and Facebook

page.

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 contact our Chairperson, Lindsey Page,

at Buckdenpreschoolchair@aol.com

or visit www.buckdenpreschool.co.uk

Buckden Community Litter Pick

Firstly, a huge thank you!!

To our growing numbers of volunteers and local

business for all your support

Saturday 17

June @ 9.00 am outside Buckden Church

For an hour or so of fresh air, good company and light exer-

cise, helping keep our village as we would like it. Followed by

tea, coffee or squash with the compliments of Rev Jes Salt, at

the church tea room.

Please contact myself Peter Emeleus on Tel 07751289191 or

ging30@hotmail.com

if you wish to come along.

Hi Viz jacket, litter pickers and bags will be supplied compli-

ments of Charlie Wilkins at HDC. Please provide your own

gloves and suitable foot wear.

Children most welcome, if supervised at all times by a parent

or carer as we will be picking along roadsides at times.

BUCKDEN CHURCH OF

ENGLAND SCHOOL

(Primary Academy Trust)

May 2017

This has been a very busy half term. The children in Years 6

and 2 have been sitting their SATS tests. They have been very

busy in class preparing for the tests and have now completed

them.

Many of our children have taken part in both residential and

day visits.

The whole of Year 4 children went on a residential visit to the

Hilltop Centre at Sheringham in Norfolk. Despite the cold

weather everyone had an enjoyable time. The children took

part in a wide variety of activities throughout each day. These

included climbing up and down ropes, going along a tree-top

trail, an air jump, orienteering and taking part in field games

and team challenges. They also spent time both at and in the

local river, the River Glaven, studying the local environment.

Everyone came home exhilarated, but tired including the ac-

companying staff, Mrs Heather, Mrs Tarpey, Miss Wetzel,

Miss Lewsley, Mrs Smith and Mrs Bond.

Our Reception children visited Paxton Pits to discover the

world of the mini-beast. They spent a lovely day searching for

them in the ponds and undergrowth.

Our Year 5 children visited the Safety Zone based at St Neots

Fire Station. During the visit the children were given advice by

local police officers and PCSO’s, representatives from the Fire

Service, Environmental Health, Road Safety Offices and St

John’s Ambulance officers on personal safety. It was an in-

formative afternoon for both the children and the teachers

who accompanied them.

We would like to thank all the residents of Buckden for their

donations of plastic bottles for our greenhouse. We are

pleased to say that our greenhouse has now been built,

thanks you to Chris Skelton (the school site manager), Mrs

Tarpey and her son and Mark and Sabrina from Explore Plant

Hire. As we still have bottles in store to use as spares, we

don’t need any more. Thank you also to the residents who

have brought in Sainsbury’s Active Kid vouchers. We are

grateful for all your contributions.