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On June 13th 2018 we took 12 students to a new charity accessible water sports day which was hosted by The Rivertime Trust at Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre.

We all met outside school to a welcome of the dawn chorus and at 4.30am we boarded the coach and headed for the ferry port of Dover. Following a smooth crossing of the English Channel, we travelled through France and into Belgium to Tyne Cot, the largest British and Commonwealth cemetery. We spent time searching for long lost relatives who travelled here 100 years ago but never returned. Mr Leybourne read the last post poem.

In the same week that saw the Royal Wedding, Cathy Jones, manager of The Chalfonts Community College’s Additionally Resourced Provision (ARP) which supports students with physical disabilities, attended a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, in recognition of her services to supporting disabled students.

Thank you to Simon Collins and his team at Astarcor for helping our Year 7s secure first and fourth places at the regional heats of the ‘Race for the Line’ rocket car championships. Astarcor is a local company which is based in High Wycombe and they specialize in injection moulding. They very generously agreed to provide us with 300 injection-moulded Delrin wheels to go with our own light-weight designed cars.

Over a year and half in the planning and finally nine excited staff arrived at Heathrow airport to greet sixty-four students and their parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters. Once the relatives had waved us goodbye, the first ever South Africa sports tour was started.

The subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths live comfortably together under the acronym of STEM. One of the big initiatives this year at Chalfonts has been to see all of Year 7 building rocket cars as part of the UK bid to exceed the land speed record with the Bloodhound car.