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.
On Tuesday 6th March Yr7 students welcomed the debut author, Nicholas Bowling to our school. Nicholas’ book, Witchborn is set in the 1500’s and focuses on the country when it was deeply divided as medieval superstition has not yet given way to rational science.
On Thursday, 22nd February, the year 10 Curriculum Leaders put on an excellent Options Fair for our Year 8 students.
Austin Taylor is a four-time member of Team England and has won nine gold medals while representing the country. He has now won another gold medal while competing in a tournament in Holland against the best of the best in Europe. Averaging 225 over 16 games of ten pin bowling, Austin beat the best 50 bowlers, ranging up to the age of 25 and was able to surpass all of them to attain the gold medal at the age of just 16.
At the crack of dawn 46 Year 10 to 12 students and 6 staff arrived at Heathrow Airport with oversize suitcases and smiling faces. As parents waved them good bye, the first of many challenges awaited us. Firstly, at check-in, where some of us were over the 23kg limit. There was a lot of transferring of clothes amongst a frenzy of laughter and yes, Mr Howard did have the heaviest bag!