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!
Thank you to Simon Collins and his team at Astarcor for helping our Year 7s secure first and fourth places at the regional heats of the ‘Race for the Line’ rocket car championships. Astarcor is a local company which is based in High Wycombe and they specialize in injection moulding. They very generously agreed to provide us with 300 injection-moulded Delrin wheels to go with our own light-weight designed cars.
On Sunday, 29th April the National Film and Television School (NFTS) was filming on location at The Chalfonts Community College. The graduate film is called “Dust” and it is written by Lydia Rynne.
Over a year and half in the planning and finally nine excited staff arrived at Heathrow airport to greet sixty-four students and their parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters. Once the relatives had waved us goodbye, the first ever South Africa sports tour was started.
On a cold Thursday morning at 6am, fourteen Year 13s joined Mr Smith, Mrs Byrne, Miss Keitch and Martin from D of
E for a trip to the Peak District, where we spent 5 days and 4 nights.
The subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths live comfortably together under the acronym of STEM. One of the big initiatives this year at Chalfonts has been to see all of Year 7 building rocket cars as part of the UK bid to exceed the land speed record with the Bloodhound car.
On Friday 16th March, thirty Year 9 STEM students attended The Big Bang Fair at the NEC in Birmingham.
Congratulations to Simar Singh from 9G2 who won the Gold medal in British Judo Championships at Chalfonts on 20th March.
After four months of rehearsal and with sold out performances, the cast of Blood Brothers (ranging from Year 7 to Year 11) stunned audiences with their mature approach to the GCSE text. Their professional approach and obvious talent as individuals and as an ensemble blew everyone away. Unfortunately snow stopped play and with the school closure, the postponement of the show was unavoidable leaving cast, crew and audiences devastated. But, as always, the show must go on, and on it will go; dates are to be confirmed after the practical drama examinations are completed this term. We send our sincere apologies that the show could not continue as planned and thank everyone for their ongoing support for the students and the drama department.