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Heron Summer 2022

Our latest newsletter can be found here: Heron Summer 2022

BASSINGBOURN VILLAGE COLLEGE PITCH FOR THE PRIZE – AND WIN! On Thursday 23rd June, five Year 8 students from Bassingbourn Village College took part in Astra Zeneca's Pitch for the Prize competition as part of the Cambridgeshire County Day and snatched the top prize against two other formidable teams from Linton Village College and Melbourn Village College. The winning team named Allergy Alert, had already won top place as part of a Year 8 Enterprise Day held at school in February with the idea of a portable allergy sensor.  The sensor would be designed to allow the user to eat out with confidence as it could alert the wearer to any potential allergens within food or on surfaces.  Allergy Alert was picked as the winner of the Enterprise Day in a Dragon’s Den style presentation in front of 6 members of the local business community having won against 5 other teams from the year. The members of Allergy Alert were very excited to be told they would be pitching their idea to representatives from Astra Zeneca in the Entrepreneurship Marquee at Cambridgeshire County Day.  All three teams had three minutes to present their idea in front of an audience of 100 people including Astra Zeneca, Deloitte and members of the general public.  The winning idea was then chosen by everyone in the audience with a vote. Team Allergy Alert received a bundle of goodies including £50 Amazon vouchers from Deloitte as well as a lunch at Lucy Cavendish College and a private tour of the…

Open Mornings July 2022

We are delighted to be offering Year 6 students and parents the opportunity to take a tour around our school and explore the wealth of opportunities available at Bassingbourn Village College. Dates currently on offer are: Monday 4th July 9.15-10.30 Wednesday 6th July 11.20-12.30 Wednesday 13th July 9.15-10.30 If you would like to book a space on one of these dates please call 01763 242344.

Interactive Theatre

We were so lucky to be joined after Easter by TIC Box Production to deliver its powerful production “Boy” to our Year 7s & Year 9s. This interactive theatre was part of a whole day experience as part of our new anti bullying iniative within Bassingbourn Village College.  As well as students watching “Boy” and exploring and discussing its themes, students split into groups and took part in workshops to develop ideas for our new anti-bullying charter. All the ideas developed over the course of these two days will be shared with the whole school to agree together our new charter.

HERON SPRING 2022

Our Spring Newsletter can be found here: HERON Spring 2022

Bassingbourn’s Virtual Trek 2022

As part of our drive to encourage our students to be physically active and to fundraise for the local community we are once again holding a sponsored virtual walk/run/cycle for staff and pupils. The event will run between Monday 28th March and Sunday 10th April to allow students to participate over the first week of the Easter holidays. We have a current goal to cover a collective distance of around 9000 miles, which equates to approximately a mile a day for each member of the school community over the fortnight. This year we have chosen to travel around the USA, starting at Harvard University and ending at MIT, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts, going via places such as Orlando, Los Angeles and Seattle and will visit a range of different states and landmarks. We will be updating our website and social media each day to show the progress being made along our virtual trek and how the different colleges are doing. For 2022 we are raising funds for East Anglian Air Ambulance, a local charity that delivers highly skilled doctors and critical care paramedics by air to seriously ill or injured people. More information about the East Anglian Air Ambulance can be found here: https://www.eaaa.org.uk . We will be using a separate JustGiving page for each college to be able to see how much each has raised and ask that those donating use the following links: Keller: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/keller-college Luther King: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/luther-king-college Moore: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/moore-college Shakespeare: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/shakespeare-college Whole school: https://www.justgiving.com/team/BVCStaffandStudents2022 Thank you in advance for your support and…

Anti-Bullying Ambassadors at BVC

We are very excited that our new Anti-Bullying Ambassador training has taken place.  This 12 month scheme is being delivered by The Diana Award and its team will work with our ambassadors over the course of the ongoing months to develop meaningful change to create a safer, kinder school community for us all.  We are incredibly proud of our Anti-Bullying Ambassadors who made successful applications to lead on this project and we look forward to updating you with the changes we will be making over the coming months.    

Weekly Mailing

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Students at BVC raise over £500 for local charity

Students and staff at BVC have raised over £500 for local charity, Jimmy’s Cambridge, a local homeless charity in Cambridge.  Holding a non-uniform day on the last day of term in 2021, the students and staff donations raised a total of £572. Jimmy’s has been open for over 25 years providing help to people who experience homelessness in Cambridge.  Working with local people, communities, organisations and partners it delivers 24/7 emergency help, support and accommodation for those who would otherwise be sleeping rough.  As well as its emergency accommodation, Jimmy’s also runs a controlled drinking project for people recovering from alcohol addiction, 9 shared houses and 22 modular homes for people who need extra support. Vickey Poulter, Principal at Bassingbourn Village College comments, “As a school we look for every opportunity to support local charities and I am delighted that our community continues to support us when we run activities, such as non-uniform days, to raise funds for organisations like Jimmy’s.  We feel it is important to promote the message of supporting your local community and charities to our students.  We do hope that our donation will make a difference to those in need during the coming months.”

Return to school arrangements 5th January 2022

On Sunday 2nd January, the Government issued new guidance for schools including the introduction of face coverings in classrooms, encouraging all pupils to take an LFD test including those recently infected, a reduction in the number of days of isolation, and daily testing for close contacts. The new guidance is explained below and comes into effect when students return to school this week. I would like to take this opportunity to also remind parents that, as per the Parentmail sent on Friday 31st December, students should take an LFD test tomorrow, Tuesday 4th January, and report any positive test results to school. Return to school arrangements for Wednesday 5th January 2022 We are committed to reducing the further disruption to students’ education as much as possible, whilst reducing the potential transmission of the virus. We are however aware of the increasing cases of Covid19 in the local area, even though we only have a few cases reported directly to us at the moment. We are therefore continuing with our plan to test all year groups in one day on Wednesday 5th January and to return to normal lessons as soon as they have been tested. However, in order to reduce the mixing of year groups before they have been tested on-site, and potential transmission of the new variant, we are asking parents if they could possibly bring students into the school on Wednesday at staggered start times. Students who walk or cycle to school should also arrive at the allocated time. Year 7 to arrive at school as normal at 8.55am Year 10 arrive…

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