Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire are organising a three-county summer garden party to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Four thousand guests, together with The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh, will attend the party to be held near Henley-on-Thames on the afternoon of 25 June.

Residents of these three counties can be a part of this unique event through a public ballot to be drawn next month. There is no charge for applications or tickets.

Click the link below to download an application form, or pick up a hard copy at Buckinghamshire public libraries. The ballot closes on 30th April with successful applicants being notified by the end of May.

Look at all these fantastic Easter bonnets the Reception children have made. They did a great job at making these beautiful hats and had a brilliant time performing their Easter dance and song to the rest of the school. Well done Reception!

View the Easter bonnets here.

For the first time in many years the school took part in the Amersham, Chesham & District Schools Music Association Annual Musical Festival, presenting a concert at the Chiltern Hills Academy in Chesham.  Others schools represented in this, of two, the ‘Amersham Schools’ concert, were Chalfont St Peter Academy, Chenies School, Chesham Bois CE Combined School, Little Chalfont Primary School and St Mary’s CE Primary School, Amersham.

40 of our pupils from Years 1 to 6 sang in an Olympics themed musical, remembering all the words and actions from memory. Of these about 15 also played in the orchestra which featured the National Anthem and a Sea Songs Medley written by one of the Festival organisers. Several of our Year 6 pupils played in the Guitar Ensemble, an affecting arrangement of Chariots of Fire. The concert concluded with a rousing rendition of Rule, Britannia!

The children should be congratulated for their sustained commitment to this project which has demanded a lot of work through the Spring Term, all in their own time. I was impressed with the discipline and patience shown by all the year groups at the two combined schools rehearsals on 7^th and 22^nd March where there was, inevitably, a lot of waiting around before the children got to ‘do their bit’. It really showed in the end performance. Well done everyone, you are a credit to the school.

For more pictures, please visit the school gallery.

Mr Hayes.

Please view the PDF below for a presentation of the results from our pupil survey.

359 children have been asked the same questions....

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On 13th and 14th December, Great Missenden Combined School took part in the first ever joint Christmas concert with the Misbourne School at St Peter and St Paul Church.

Pupils from Year 6 and the school choir took part, singing several songs by themselves and with the Misbourne pupils. There was a great turn-out of parents on both nights, all of whom seemed to enjoy themselves thoroughly.

Thanks must be given to David Dwight and Rachel Appleyard, music teachers at the Misbourne, who organised the concert. Mr Dwight has also been coming into our school on Mondays to lead Year 6 music lessons and help with the school choir. This term he is teaching Year 6 the ukulele and is helping the choir learn songs for our performance at the Amersham and Chesham Music Festival on 22nd March at the Chiltern Hills Academy in Chesham.

Please visit our School Gallery for photos of the event.

Great Missenden C of E School are proud to announce that we are now a GOLD Food For Life School. This shows our continuous commitment to changing food culture within our school and the local community. Only 11 schools in England have achieved this prestigious awards. Well done Great Missenden! 

Last week the whole school spent a day learning about the history of Great Missenden. Some classes really got into role by dressing up! KS1 learnt about how the school had changed which included a visit from Mrs Collins who told the children about her time at the school and a visit to the Oldham Hal, the original school building. In Year 3 the children learnt about medieval churches by making nets of churches and visiting St Peter and St Paul. Year 4 looked at how the high street has changed which included a visit from local resident Richard Hawkins and a walk around the village. Year 5 had a busy week learning about the Victorians.

Have a look at some photos from the day in the school gallery!

Year 4 took a trip to Hampton Court Palace on Friday 11^th November. They had a very informative learning session all about the Tudor Explorers where they learnt about the trade routes, the New Worlds that were discovered and some of the famous explorers themselves, namely Drake and Raleigh. This was followed by a tour of the Tudor Kitchens and Henry VIII’s apartments. The highlight was the unexpected meeting of King Henry VIII himself!

Around 2000 people attended our spectacular firework event. Children and adults alike enjoyed a fun-filled evening. The bar ran dry and hot dogs sold out. The playground was alight with ‘glowing’ children enjoying the party atmosphere. The bonfire was lit and Mrs Thomson ceremoniously threw on the guys then everyone watched in awe the fantastic display by Star fireworks for the fifth year running. Afterwards over 40 lucky people found themselves winners of some incredible raffle prizes.

The whole evening saw a fantastic profit of £7600 being raised for the school.

Our school was recently featured in the Express newspaper for our participation in the Greenfingers charity scheme ‘Get Gardening’.

"The campaign is backed by Honda (UK), which makes a highly rated range of garden equipment such as lawnmowers, hedge trimmers and brush cutters. Each school that signs up for fundraising will be visited by a Honda Lawn and Garden dealer, to talk to children about garden safety. The school that raises the most money will win £5,000 towards a specially designed outdoor classroom. Great Missenden Church of England School was the first to sign up to the campaign."

Read the full article on the Express website here.