The Chalfonts Community College Drama department invited students from across the college to participate in an ‘Introduction to Screen Acting Workshop’ run by Middleweek Newton Academy of Film & Theatre. They are one of London’s leading acting agencies for young, raw talent.
Fifty-seven school teams from all around England took part in the national STEM competition at RAF Wittering, Lincolnshire on Thursday 28th June.
Congratulations to Aleksandar Pavlov (Year 8) who entered the ‘Young Writers’ Poetry Competition’ and did brilliantly.
His inspirational poem, ‘The Unearthly Chasm’ has now been published in the Young Writers’ Anthology, ‘The Poetry
Games.’
If the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, ‘resilience’ was built at the battle of the Coleshill cauldron.
Last term we elected a new Head Girl and Head Boy, plus their deputies for the sixth form.
Head girl: Priya Dhatt, Deputies: Lucy Magor, Lucy Brooker
Head boy: Adam Day, Deputies: Chaydine (Hance) Do-Oma, Jamie Woods
The following students were also nominated by their teachers who felt would make great student ambassadors:
Ella Casey-Priday, Rahul Kapur, Rosie Monger, Jack Pittman, Emily Warren and Hannah Yates.
All those involved in the process made a “campaign” speech to the teachers and sixth formers who voted
for them. Well done to them.
As part of the A level History British Empire module, Year 12 students visited Hughenden Manor just near High Wycombe on a glorious sunny summer’s day.
On June 13th 2018 we took 12 students to a new charity accessible water sports day which was hosted by The Rivertime Trust at Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre.
The Chalfonts Community College PE Department recently held the sixth annual Sports Awards Evening at Denham Grove. Designed to recognise the fantastic commitment, time and effort our students put into all the sports teams here at the school, the evening was once again, a great success.
We all met outside school to a welcome of the dawn chorus and at 4.30am we boarded the coach and headed for the ferry port of Dover. Following a smooth crossing of the English Channel, we travelled through France and into Belgium to Tyne Cot, the largest British and Commonwealth cemetery. We spent time searching for long lost relatives who travelled here 100 years ago but never returned. Mr Leybourne read the last post poem.
Back in October, twenty of our students from Year 10 and above began mentoring twenty students from Years 7 and 8. Through weekly 1-to-1 reading sessions in the LRC, our “Reader Leaders” have been practising and improving the literacy skills of our “Readers” through a series of reading, phonetic and quizzing challenges.
In the same week that saw the Royal Wedding, Cathy Jones, manager of The Chalfonts Community College’s Additionally Resourced Provision (ARP) which supports students with physical disabilities, attended a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, in recognition of her services to supporting disabled students.
We just wanted to update you on Emma’s fundraising efforts for Liberty’s Legacy. She has now raised over £1,000!