Keep up to date with our latest news below.

• Year 3 trips!

  Thu 12 Oct 2023 Miss Gilbert (Year 3 Leader)

  This week Year 3 were lucky enough to go on two trips! For our first trip we ventured out into Chalfont St Peter after being sent a very mysterious letter from Zaki Moon (Alien Supermarket Creator), who informed us he would like to flatten our village. Year 3 did not like the sound of this and decided the best option would be to visit our local area in order to create a poster of protest. Year 3 enjoyed using our tally charts to mark how our local area uses its land.

   

  On Thursday, we were treated to a visit to the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Neasden. We thoroughly enjoyed walking about the Mandir, where we got to see some beautiful shrines and sacred places. We were also invited to stay and watch the Arti Ceremony. We learnt some amazing facts, like, the temple took 3 years to construct and all of the pieces of marble were handcrafted!! We also learned about the reason for the temple's construction and what it means to be a guru. We attended an Understanding Hinduism exhibition where we saw more beautiful shrines, statues and images, and we learnt more interesting facts about Hinduism. 

  

• A Famous Children's Author visits CSPA!

  Wed 11 Oct 2023 Mrs Newton (English Leader)

  On Wednesday, we were very excited to welcome famous children’s author and script-writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce to Chalfont St Peter Academy. Also known for his spectacular 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony and the more recent Platinum Jubilee ‘Paddington and the Queen’ sketch, Frank delighted the whole school with memories from his own childhood, as well as extracts from his books for children, including his latest adventure, called “The Wonder Brothers”.

   

  Our pupils enjoyed the opportunity to ask Frank lots of interesting questions about his life and writing and were able to receive their pre-ordered, personally signed copies of “The Wonder Brothers” from Frank himself after the event. 

   

  Frank also encouraged the whole school to enter the BBC 500 Words 2023 Story Competition, where he is one of the judges, looking forward to reading their creative compositions and choose a winner!

   

  We would like to thank Frank Cottrell-Boyce for taking the time to visit our school and giving us all a very entertaining and inspirational afternoon. Mrs Newton (English Leader)

  

• House Captains

  Fri 06 Oct 2023 Mrs Alburg (Assistant Headteacher)

  Congratulations to our brand new House Captains! They gave convincing performances with their speeches and were voted for by members of their Houses across the school. We have no doubt they will be great leaders and role models in our school. Many congratulations to:

   

  Gray: Emilia and Ollie

  Hampden: Anna and Scott

  Milton: Jayden and Tommy

  Penn: William and Jacob

  

• Year 4 'Superstars Event'

  Thu 05 Oct 2023 Mrs Valentine (Year 4 Leader / Assistant Head)

  Last week a team of 10 Year 4 children represented the school in a Sports Superstars event at Davenies School. They had great fun taking part in a range of sport themed games, they showed huge enthusiasm throughout the event and worked as a supportive team. They were fabulous ambassadors for the school and were great company throughout the event. 

  

• Harvest festival - thank you!

  Mon 02 Oct 2023 Mrs Harrison (Headteacher)

  On behalf of CSP Church and the Foodbank, thank you so much to everyone who donated Harvest gifts for our service on Monday. As you can see in the photo above you were so generous with your donations, which will be gratefully received by local families in need. Thank you.

  

• Well done Year 6 Leavers!

  Fri 22 Sep 2023 Mrs Alburg (Assistant Headteacher)

  At the end of last academic year our Year 6 children (now Year 7) worked really hard to secure a set of fantastic KS2 SATs results yet again placing us well above national data. The results are also a testament to our superb teaching team, engaging curriculum and fantastic pastoral care. Well done everyone!

  

• Royal Correspondence!

  Fri 31 Mar 2023

  Did you see our Instagram post last week, sharing our correspondence from Buckingham Palace! Needless to ay, the children (and staff) were very excited! Thank you to Mrs Lipscombe for organising the tree planting  and letter writing, and for helping our children to love and cherish the natural world. 

  

• Netball County Finals

  Thu 30 Mar 2023 Mrs Finn

  On Thursday, our year 6 netball team travelled to Watling Academy in Milton Keynes to compete in the Bucks County Netball final, having already won the local competition.

  They played 8 matches during the day against the other top schools in the county and I am incredibly proud of how well they coped against such fierce competition. They showed fantastic team spirit and enthusiasm throughout the day and every member of the team scored at least one goal. A special mention to Darcey who was voted player of the tournament by the players from the opposing teams! They were all incredible ambassadors for CSPA and should be very proud of themselves.

  

• Year 3 DT/Science Project - Sandwich Making

  Thu 30 Mar 2023 Ms Meek

  The Year 3 children thoroughly enjoyed creating their own sandwiches this week and of course, eating them for lunch! These were no ordinary sandwiches though.....they needed to have nutritious healthy ingredients and be as imaginative as possible, so we had all sorts of creations from animals to stars and the Loch Ness monster to snowmen! What a creative group of children we have in Year 3. We all looked around the classrooms to view the displayed sandwiches before any eating was allowed and in the afternoon they evaluated their sandwich as to its strengths and whether any improvements could be made. Thank you so much to parents for your support with providing the ingredients.

  

• Year 3 Ancient Greek Day

  Wed 29 Mar 2023 Miss Goldsack

  On Wednesday, Year 3 were transported to Ancient Greece, with a whole host of activities and crafts to enjoy. There were some wonderful costumes, thank you to parents for your support with that!
  
  In the morning, our fabulous Arts team, Ms Waegner, Mrs Nicholas and Mrs Lipscombe, led activities in music, drama and languages, all linked to Ancient Greece and Greek culture. After lunch, the children made their very own Olympic wreaths, and then used clay to create some Olympic medals to incorporating elements of the modern and ancient games.
  
  The children also got to try various foods that the Ancient Greeks enjoyed, including pitta bread dipped in olive oil, feta cheese and olives. They also got to see what a pomegranate looks like, and they all were able to make links to the myth we studied last week - Persephone and the Pomegranate Seeds. As a special treat, they even got to turn the water in their bottles into 'wine' (with some blackcurrant juice... apologies to any parents who were momentarily alarmed if their children came home saying they drank wine!) - they enjoyed a real Ancient Greek feast! 

  
  Here is what some of the children had to say about the day:

  • "I liked trying all the food - I didn't like the olive oil but the rest of it was really tasty!" Jack
  • "The food was delicious and I liked how we could learn how the Greeks lived and everything they invented" Seb
  • "I liked dressing up and pretending to be part of Ancient Greece" Flynn J
  • "I enjoyed tasting the Greek food - I had never tried pomegranate or feta cheese before!" Callum
  • "I enjoyed learning the Greek language because I was able to write a sentence in Greek all about my favourite things" Ella
  • "I really enjoyed making the medals out of clay because it was really detailed and you got to be creative! It was fun making two different designs on each side" Poppy S