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Our third annual French exchange has started with the college playing host to over 70 students from our partner school, Collège Joseph Bédier. Year 10 students Evelyn and Imogen describe the visit: "On Monday 27th January, we finally got the chance to meet our French exchange partners for the first time. They arrived after a long journey from the south of France by coach, and they had stopped on the way at Windsor castle and Grantchester for a cream tea! We picked them up from school and took them home where we gave them a tour of the house, bonded over activities such as watching films, playing games and answering their questions. "The next day the students came to our school, travelling with their partners by bus or car. Firstly, we had a presentation by students lead by college captains, which involved performances on the trumpet, piano, singing, GCSE dance students and a performance from some of the Matilda cast. The French students were really impressed! During the rest of the day the French students participated in activities such as a tour of the school, games in the library, PE and a short English and Maths lesson. They also shared a traditional English lunch in our canteen. "In the evening we took our partners out to enjoy bowling and a meal out. This was a great way to learn more about them. "Overall it was a great experience which has improved our French, our communication skills and we can’t wait to go to stay with…

Student voice is loud and clear

The tradition of producing good public speakers from BVC has continued with another of our students being awarded a Best Speaker award. The English Speaking Union's Churchill school's public speaking competition attracts entries from over 400 schools in England each year, with the Cambridge branch competition being hosted at Bassingbourn this week. Seven teams from four schools competed against each other - Bassingbourn and Bottisham Village Colleges, St Mary's, Cambridge and St Bede's Inter-Faith school - with teams from Bassingbourn and St Bede's winning their way through to the branch final. Bassingbourn fielded two teams, photographed above with English teacher and public speaking coach Mrs Rebecca Boxall. BVC team A comprised Katie Cheeseright, Ciara Free and Archie Lievesley with Katie choosing to speak on the proposal that 'The #MeToo movement has instilled fear rather than empower people'. Special mention must be made of Ciara who stepped in with just 20 minutes notice and impressed the judged with her confidence and calm manner. BVC team B - Jon Cheeseright, Matt Gilliland and Fraser Clapham - won through to the next round with Fraser speaking on the controversial proposal that 'Recycling is a waste of time'. Following in the footsteps of former BVC students Ed Evans and Iain Lynn, Fraser also scooped the main award of the evening - Best Speaker. This is the third consecutive year that BVC has won this award. The Churchill district final will be held at Hills Road Sixth Form College on Thursday, 6th February. Year 9 students showed great promise at…

Recycling project sorted!

A student-led recycling project has received the backing of the BVC Parents and Friends Association. Annie Safford, a year 11 student and Head of Luther King, launched an environmental awareness programme across the college as part of her role on the Student Council. Last term saw a number of quizzes take place with information posters placed in classrooms and public areas of the college to reinforce the importance of recycling to students. Annie said: “I have been working with our subject ambassadors to raise money for recycling bins which are badly needed in the college. “I think that having recycling bins would be a big step towards making the school much more sustainable and would be greatly appreciated by everyone.” When the PFA was approached to see if a cash contribution could be made toward the bins, they immediately agreed to buy ALL the bins for the student council – enabling the project to be completed much sooner than expected. Ann Lynn, acting Chairman of the PFA, said: “We were very impressed by how hard Annie and the rest of the school council have worked to raise awareness of sustainability and recycling in the school. Annie’s request for funding was one which we felt we could whole-heartedly endorse and unanimously agreed to pay for all the bins.” Vickey Poulter, BVC Principal, added: “We are very grateful to both the school council and to the Parents and Friends Association for their hard work and financial support for this project. I think that Annie in particular should…

Dance Show 2020

Tickets are now available for the annual BVC Dance Show. The show will feature entertainment from all year groups and is one of the post popular creative arts showcase events in the BVC calendar. There are three shows - 7pm on Friday 7th February plus 2pm and 7pm on Saturday 8th February - and tickets are £6 (adults) and £4 (concessions). These can be purchased via Wisepay. A licenced PTA bar will be available at all shows for refreshments.

Bad weather arrangements

We would like to inform parents of our closure procedures in the event of adverse weather conditions. Parents and students will be informed via the following methods: Announcement via the local radio (Heart, Radio Cambridge) A notice will be posted on the school's website and sent via Parentmail BVC Facebook and Twitter page If you use the Cambridgeshire.gov website to see whether schools are closed, please be aware that if the status column is blank then the Council will not have received any information from us.  Therefore please rely on the information posted on our website and sent via Parentmail, Facebook or Twitter as this will be the most accurate and up to date information available.

Matilda sell-out success

Heron News

Our termly Heron has been published and can be found by clicking here.  

Leavers’ celebration evening

Our former year 11 students were welcomed back to college this week for the annual GCSE Heron Awards evening. Students, along with family and friends, attended the event which saw awards being presented for overall attainment and progress, alongside individual subject achievement. Prizewinners were: Principal’s Award for Attainment: Diaan Gill, Eve Morris, Annie Baigent, Alfie Duckett, Edward Evans, Becca Hannon, Noah Telford-Reed, Cassie Evans, Ed Weekes, Rebecca Day & Katie Wilkins Principal’s Award for Progress: Diaan Gill, Edward Evans, Eve Morris, Lucy Daws, Rachel Mingay, Meg Hollidge, Emma Kitely, Katie Wilkins & Leila Joy Principal’s Award for Services as College Captain: Edward Evans, Cassie Evans, Diaan Gill, Jenny Burgess, Alfie Duckett, Rebecca Hannon & Katie Brown. Art Ben New BTEC Media Teagon Collins Drama Emma Kitely Dance Rachel Mingay Music Tech Noah Telford-Reed English Literature Edward Evans English Language Cassie Evans Hospitality & Catering Meg Hollidge BTEC Construction Ellie Meehan Craft Sam Daniels Textiles Lucy Sherratt Geography Hazel Shipsey History Eve Morris Computing James Baxter Maths Diaan Gill GCSE PE Patrick Robinson VCERT Health & Fitness Anthony Georgiou Religious Education Katie Brown Sociology Ava Stallworthy Joint Linguist Max Jenkins Spanish Emma Foley Latin Max Crane French Becca Hannon Synergy Science Leila Joy Biology Alfie Duckett Chemistry Annie Baigent Physics Ed Weekes

Holocaust survivor Harry visits BVC

Holocaust survivor Harry Spiro BEM visited Bassingbourn Village College as part of our termly Curriculum Day. Harry was accompanied by his daughter Tracey Moses during the visit which was organised by RE teacher Mrs Jess Miller and the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET). Tracey's talk was followed by a question and answer session with Harry himself to enable students to better understand the nature of the Holocaust and to explore its lessons in more depth. The visit was part of the Holocaust Educational Trust’s extensive all year round Outreach Programme, which is available to schools across the UK. Vickey Poulter, Principal of BVC, said: “It was a privilege for us to welcome Mr Spiro and his daughter to our school and his testimony will remain a powerful reminder of the horrors so many experienced. We are grateful to the Holocaust Educational Trust for co-ordinating the visit and we hope that by hearing Harry’s testimony, it will encourage our students to learn from the lessons of the Holocaust and make a positive difference in their own lives.” Harry's story: Harry was born in 1929 in Poland. When the Nazis occupied Poland, the area where Harry and his family lived became part of the Pietrokow ghetto, where all of the Jews from the area now had to live. Whilst here, Harry worked in the glass factory. In 1942 there was an announcement that everyone in the ghetto had to stay in their homes except for those who were working in the glass factory. Whilst Harry was at work,…

Diverse activities for Curriculum Day

Students enjoyed a Curriculum Day of non-timetabled lessons and instead had the option to take part in a huge variety of activities. For Year 11 students there was the opportunity to look ahead to adulthood with guest speakers advising on such topical subjects as politics, learning to drive, money matters, mindfulness, contraception and mental health. An impromptu - but timely - mock election showed our students favouring the Lib Dems by a large majority. Year 10s studied the Holocaust with a special assembly featuring the life of survivor Harry Spiro who visited along with his daughter Tracey. A trip to the V&A museum in London was the main choice for Year 9 students, with some electing to take part in a combined sports/first aid day instead. A series of STEM challenges faced Year 8s as they endeavoured, among other tasks, to build weight-bearing structures from newspaper and to create working parachutes which they had great fun testing. All our younger students in Year 7 were able to have a taster of a multitude of different languages - Portuguese, German, Japanese, Catalan and Italian.  The students also had great fun creating mosaics, getting to grips with chopsticks and dressing in authentic Japanese clothing.    

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