Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Years 5 and 6 take part in knife crime workshop

  Fri 31 Jan 2025

  On Tuesday 28th January Year 5 and 6 pupils took part in a Knife Crime Intervention workshop.

   

  The Safety Centre Charity (Hazard Alley) have been awarded funding from The Heart of Bucks Community Foundation to provide fully funded workshops, teaching about Knife Crime Intervention to Year 5 or 6 classes across Buckinghamshire. We have been lucky enough to access these sessions as our school falls in the area set out in the funding.

   

  These workshops lasted 1 hour 15 minutes each and were delivered in an age-appropriate way by Jodie from the Hazard Alley Safety Centre.

  The children learnt about:

  • How choices have consequences that can affect us, our future, friends, family, and the wider community

  • The risks of carrying knives

  • The consequences of being involved in Knife Crime

  • The laws around knife crime

  • Where to get help and support

  The Year 5 pupils also went through a ‘story’ of how a young person becomes involved in carrying a knife and explored each choice the character makes, and how this affects his life and the people around him.

   

  The Year 6 session started with a quiz, which highlighted the key messages needed to move forward in the session, which included information on;

  • Decision making through practical activities

  • Discussion around scenarios involving knives to clarify any misconceptions

  • Exploring how and why peer pressure can affect decision making and outcomes

  • Strategies for staying safe

  • An introduction to ‘Joint enterprise’, exploring this theme through a film narrated by a young person who received a jail sentence for being a bystander in an incident involving a knife

  • Where to report or get help and support with knife crime

   

  A really important and informative workshop.

  

• Year 1 enjoy a visit to ZSL Natural History Museum at Tring

  Fri 24 Jan 2025

  Recently Year 1 pupils enjoyed a fantastic visit to Tring Natural History Museum, they had fun exploring the exhibits, were really enthused and engaged excitedly in discussion as we walked around.

   

  They also took part in an interactive classifying workshop session, where they thought carefully about grouping different animals from the collections into animal groups.

   

  A great day out was had by all!

   

  

• Year 6 visit the Natural History Museum in London – A Pupil Perspective

  Fri 24 Jan 2025

  On Thursday 16th January, Year 6 pupils went to the Natural History Museum in London. After a coach ride into London, we arrived at the
  museum at 10.45am. We went straight downstairs to the school rooms, dropped off our coats and bags and had an early lunch at 11.00am. Once we had finished our lunches, we started our journey around the museum.

   

  There were so many different zones we wanted to visit as
  they all linked to our Science topic of Adaptation and Evolution, our English work looking at the life of Charles Darwin, as well as our
  Geography topic of Earthquakes and Volcanoes.

  
  We started by visiting the Mary Anning room and looked at the amazing display of fossils that have been discovered or collected by Mary Anning in the 1800s, we could not believe the size of some of the fossils they were ENORMOUS!

  
  Next, we made our way to the main hall, we saw the statue of Charles Darwin, a giant Sequoia tree stump that was over 1335 years old when it was chopped down and some amazing displays of sea birds, land-based birds and a very interesting exhibit on explorers and their
  discoveries.

   

  After that, we went to the bird section, we saw a fantastic display of hummingbirds and spent a long time looking at the anatomy of different types of birds and how they had evolved, including amazing Eagles, Dodos and Vultures, which were much bigger than we expected!

  
  We then visited the Earthquake and Volcano zone, unfortunately, the escalator that travelled through the Earth’s core was broken, but we
  had an amazing time when we got to the earthquake simulator and experienced what it is like during the different stages of an earthquake that took place in Japan in the 1990s. We also learnt so much about the different types of rocks, different types of reasons for earthquakes
  and saw a brilliant display on crystals that are found in the Earth – some of the crystals were so big that the Scientists looked like ants.

  
  Finally, we were able to visit the dinosaur section, it was wonderful to find out so much about the different dinosaurs as well as meeting a full-size T-Rex that surprised us all when we turned the corner and were faced with his deadly smile!

  
  At 2.15pm, we headed back to the school rooms and collected our belongings before heading to the coach to make our way home. We had a
  great day and really enjoyed visiting the museum to bring our learning to life. Thank you to Mrs Flefel, Miss Standring and Mr May for taking us out of school for such an exciting trip!