November 2015

As I write, we are preparing for Halloween, but when

this appears Christmas will be looming! Our advert is

below for our Christmas Fayre and Santa’s Breakfast

(N.B: it’s a morning event this time), so please put it in

your diary. As usual, we will also have a stall at the

Christmas Lights event on the 29th November, so

please come along and say hello.

In preschool, thanks to the skills of the lovely Pete

Carter (Miss Denise’s husband), we now have a won-

derful wooden mud kitchen on the balcony and the chil-

dren are loving the opportunity to stir and ‘cook’ their

concoctions outside. The online learning journals are

also proving a huge success and it’s been great to see

parents and carers adding their own observations and

comments.

Finally, huge thanks to everyone who supported or or-

ganised our ‘little’ Treasure Hunt, which raised an

amazing £449 - not so little after all! The children had a

great time and 10% of the funds will be donated to Mac-

millan Cancer Support.

Please visit www.buckdenpreschool.co.uk for more in-

formation and ring us on 07941 671999 to book a visit

or talk to our Manager, Michelle Nelson.

Our Chairman, Alan Scott, can be contacted on

07745274921, and www.facebook.com/

www.buckdenpreschool.co.uk has our latest updates.

Miss Alison

BUCKDEN CHURCH OF

ENGLAND SCHOOL

(Primary Academy Trust)

October 2015

It doesn’t seem possible that we are now approaching

October half term. We had a busy time at school with a

variety of events taking place. All of the children have

all settled into their new classes and routines very quick-

ly and happily.

We had just had our Harvest Service at St Marys

Church. It is the first service of the school year at the

church, and the first visit to church by our Reception

children for a school assembly. The children brought

gifts of tinned food which has been donated to St Neots

Community Foodbank. Thank you to our parents for

their generous donations. Our Reception classes have

visited the library. Thank you to the library staff for

making us so welcome. Our Year 5 and 6 children at-

tended Ely Cathedral for the Church Schools Day along

with many other church schools from the Ely diocese.

We had a very busy day taking part in a number of

workshops and activities ending with a service before

we came home. On the last week before half term our

Year 6 children had a very busy week. Some of them

visited Normandy, France on a residential visit. Whilst

in France they visited the World War 1 battlefields, the

towns of Rouen and Dieppe and visited a chocolate fac-

tory, a cheese and farm and a cider factory. Everyone

had a lovely time. The remainder of Year 6 had a

French themed week. The week started with a Living

History day when visitors to the school to talk about

World War 1. The followed this up with a visit to the

Imperial War Museum in London. It was a long day, but

the museum was well worth the visit.

The work replacing the school roof is expected to be

finished in early November. We are now looking for-

ward to the winter without leaking roofs.

FORTHCOMING EVENT

On Thursday 12

November we will be having a lunch

followed by afternoon tea for the Over 60’s in the village.

The lunch will be £3.50 – the menu will be published in

next month’s Roundabout. Visitors are invited to the

school for lunch followed by a cup of tea and an after-

noon of entertainment by the Year 6 children. If you

would like to attend please telephone Buckden School –

01480 810241.

1st Southoe & Buckden Scouts Group

This is prior warning that once again the Scouts

will be doing their Christmas Card delivery Ser-

vice to the people living in Buckden from Decem-

ber 7th until December 18th.

We are sorry but we cannot deliver to addresses

outside the village. More information will appear

in next month’s roundabout!