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Environmental Conference

Schools discuss vulnerability of the Antarctic at COP27 event On Wednesday 16th November, 9 students from Bassingbourn Village College joined 13 other local schools at Sawston Village College for a special youth COP27 climate conference. Keynote speaker on the day was Dr Simon Morley, from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).  Dr Morley shared with the conference how the research conducted by BAS informs and reinforces what actions are required to protect the Antarctic as well as the impact this has to the global climate. To understand the complexities of global cooperation, the next segment of the conference was run as if the students were taking part in global negotiations.  Each school was assigned a country and asked to prepare in advance opening arguments on the main environmental issues facing the country, ideas on how they could overcome them, as well as make a request of an allocation from the Climate Resilience Fund of £100billion.  Countries then voted on what proposals they would consider.  Bassingbourn Village College, represented Bangladesh, and reached the final five proposals. However, when it came to the required unanimous decision, all five were unable to achieve a unanimous vote.  Dr Morley, explained to the students that this is a current challenge facing global cooperation with climate decisions and allocation of resources, and that all countries have to agree but very rarely do. The final stage of the conference was to provide the students with the opportunity to discuss how they can impact change to their own communities.  Students explored ideas such as recycling initiatives and green…

Young people’s support and safeguarding information

If students need any support or guidance over the festive period especially while school is closed, they can visit our dedicated safeguarding page:  https://bassingbournvc.net/parents/student-support-and-safeguarding/. We would especially like to highlight the following organisations who offer young people support and advice : Kooth -  https://www.kooth.com/ Young Minds - https://www.youngminds.org.uk/  Child Line - https://www.childline.org.uk/ We also have a comprehensive list of wellbeing and support contacts which can be downloaded here: Wellbeing and Support contacts  

PFA Second-hand uniform sale – now live!

On behalf of BVC, the PFA are now running a second-hand school uniform sale. You can find the latest available stock by joining their new Facebook group and accessing their live Google sheet. You can pay via PayPal to reserve your items, and collect from school at the end of August: facebook.com/groups/ParentsandFriendsofBVC

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.    

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