Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Y2 St Mary's Church Visit

  Thu 14 Feb 2019

  On Wednesday 6^th February 2KL and 2BG walked from school to St Mary’s church. We were greeted by the wonderful Reverend Jeremy who gave us

  a tour of the church and helped us to identify the things in a church that make it a special place for Christian people.

   

  We learned about the font, the altar, the pulpit and enjoyed looking at the stories being told in the stained glass windows.

   

  Thank you to all the fantastic adults who came with us and to Reverend Jeremy for being so welcoming.

  

• Inter-School Quiz Competition

  Thu 14 Feb 2019

  On Tuesday 5^th February two children from each year group (who had previously scored highly in the in-school heats) travelled to Great Missenden School for the heat finals of the inter-school ‘Quiz Club’ competition. In teams of four the children answered forty challenging general knowledge questions against ten other teams from around Bucks. After over an hour of intense quizzing we were proud and delighted that Butlers Court Team 1 came in 2^nd place with Butlers Court Team 2 finishing in a very respectable 6^th place.

   

  Well done to the quizzers!

   

  Team 1

  Edward Tackley, Lucas Hallam, Oliver Price & Rithvik Rahul

  Team 2

  Corey Phippen, Laura Fletcher, Harry Fenton & Kiran Sriranjan

   

  

• EYFS Celebrate Chinese New Year

  Thu 14 Feb 2019
  We had a brilliant week in Reception celebrating Chinese New Year. We found out that 2019 is the Year of the Pig and we were all born in the Year of the Snake or the Year of the Horse. We thoroughly enjoyed all the colourful and creative activities in our classrooms. We made lucky red and gold envelopes, wrote good luck messages inside fortune cookies, designed dragon masks and the Chinese flag, tried to copy the Chinese symbols for numbers and decorated ‘pig’ biscuits which we enjoyed eating at home. We even tried to do our own Dragon Dance in a ‘mini parade’. 

  

• Y4 Bird Nests

  Thu 14 Feb 2019

  We had a fantastic time creating our own birds nest using materials from behind the Science Cabin. The children were then given tweezers to mould and sculpt their creations. The children were shown pictures of real life bird nests to create a warm and sturdy structure!

  

• Y4 Visit Shortenills

  Thu 14 Feb 2019

  Last week on Monday me and my class went to Shortenills.  I had never been before and I was so excited.  We stayed for four nights.  It was epic!

   

  When we were there we did things like orienteering, shelter building, trailer making, doing quizzes and pond dipping.  I really enjoyed pond dipping with Albert, Martin and William, because we were really lucky to get two newts and at least twenty water boatman.  We had so much fun.  The food was great as well! I had an amazing time and cannot wait to go away again to Longridge. 

   

  Written by Harry Smaje

  

• A visit from Florence Nightingale

  Thu 14 Feb 2019

  Year 2 were very lucky on Monday 28^th January as a someone from the past came to visit. Florence Nightingale dropped in to Butlers Court to tell us all about her life. We really enjoyed learning about her equipment and she showed us pictures of life in her times. She even let us dress up as soldiers and nurses, taught us a proper bedside manner and demonstrated how working in Scutari hospital was not very nice! Her visit allowed us to develop what we already knew from our Famous Faces topic and we really enjoyed travelling back in time.