May 2024

14 Buckden Roundabout May 2024 School BUCKDEN CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY ACADEMY April 2024 For the first two weeks of April, we were on Easter school holidays. At the time of writing it is the last day of the spring term and it is still feeling a bit on the chilly side, so fingers crossed that we get to experi- ence warmer/sunnier weather very soon. After the Easter holidays our Year 4s will be going on their an- nual residential trip to Grafham Water. They will be going for a 2 night/3 - day stay at the Grafham Water Centre and they will be taking part in lots of activities such as archery, bushcraft, mountain biking and raft building. The children will hopefully enjoy themselves and have lots of fun, and return home happy and exhausted. On Thursday 21 st March we celebrated World Down Syndrome Day by children and staff wearing odd socks to school for the day. Odd Socks Day highlights that everyone is different and unique in some way. We talked to the children about equality and equity and held a special assembly to highlight and raise awareness of Down Syndrome. We were proud to announce in March the relaunch of our Play Leaders for 2024! We have a fabulous group of 67 pupils (the biggest group ever!) trained as Play Leaders and Peer Media- tors and have begun work at break and lunchtimes this week. Their job is to help organise games, give children ideas of things to do, help mediate minor issues and generally improve pupil wellbeing on the playground. All of this work goes to- wards our Anti - Bullying Quality Mark that we are working on as a school. We have recently updated our Facebook page for the school so please Like and Follow our page to keep up to date with what we are getting up to at Buckden Primary Academy. There has been a lot of concern over parking around the school in recent weeks. Residents, parents, staff and pupils have not- ed people parking dangerously, on corners, the staff car park, on the bus stop area and on the zig zag lines and non - badge holders in the disabled spaces. It is a huge concern for every- one as we worry that this irresponsible parking could cause a serious accident. Our children school parliament have discussed that the best interests of the child are not being considered and ask all par- ents to rethink their parking behaviour. Our school parliament will be designing their own parking tickets, which, after Easter at different times across the weeks, will be placed upon cars who are parking inconsiderately. We are also going to be introducing a Park and Stride initiative linked with Walk to School week, which will incentivise parents and children to park safely in the Millennium Centre car park and walk the short distance into school. We look forward to the Summer Term and all that it brings with the warmer weather! of corn from Stirtloe Farm and imprisoned for a year, losing the beer - sellers licence. He came home a skeleton and his wife died of a broken heart, and he died a few months before both his sons were killed in the First World War. A tragic story told by his granddaughter to the History Society in 2017. The Record of Valuations by the Inland Revenue for Buckden in 1910 ( Ref 5 ), recorded Mrs Ingram as the owner of the Wind- mill public house with a gross annual value of £10 and a ratea- ble value of £8 10 shillings. A Miss Ingram lived there between the wars, and after the Second World War Mr. Sharpe was the occupant until the early 2000s. A November 1914 photograph shows The Windmill ale house (extreme left) with a windmill sign standing out above the doorway, still very much in use. But by the 1930s, another photo would indicate that its beer house days were over, with lovely flower baskets cascading beside the door. A former Parish Councillor remembered an archaeological sur- vey being done on behalf of the building contractors prior to the new cottages being built in roughly 2011. Unfortunately, despite a lot of searching with the help of York University and the York Archaeological Trust, no record can be found of it. References 1. A more detailed view of the Inclosure Map and other pho- tographs can be seen at https://www.buckdenhistory.co.uk/ historic - buckden. 2. Huntingdonshire Archives 1266/3/26. From the Tebbit Col- lection of Windmills, Huntingdonshire Archives. 3. Buckden A Huntingdonshire Village, page 28. 4. Huntingdonshire Archives P119/20. Mill Cottage, 1933. 5. Huntingdonshire Archives IR5/1/8. Land Values Duties Book WIth thanks to: Huntingdonshire Archives, John Moore, Derek Randall, Buck- den A Huntingdonshire Village and Barry Jobling - Richard Storey Chairman/Secretary Buckden Local History Society (Continued from page 12) Windmill Public House, 1914