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Thursday 24th October 2024 VI - Practising Independent Living Skills This afternoon the VI pupils practised their independent living skills by making sandwiches, biscuits and washing up afterwards too. This is a great skill to start learning young, as I was told by some students at the Royal National College for the Blind during my visit earlier this half term.
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Tuesday 15th October 2024 VI - Adventure to Big Rock Climbing Centre, MK Our brilliant and brave Year 3 VI Provision pupils reached dazzling new heights today at the Big Rock climbing centre. All four children made it up to the very top of the climbing walls on more than one occasion!
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Thursday 26th September 2024 A Day in the Life of a Visually Impaired Student The pupils in our Visual Impairment Provision have created a brilliant short film, showing a day in the life of a visually impaired student a Chantry. The video stars our fabulous VI pupils and is narrated by them too. This short film is the brain child of Zuzanna and Maryam who have been attending a SEND Voices of the East group on behalf of all of our SEND pupils. The girls wanted to raise awareness of visual impairments in our community and further afield.
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Tuesday 17th September 2024 Year 6 WOW - African Drumming Year 6 had a fantastic experience taking part in an African drumming workshop. They enjoyed learning different drumming techniques and developed their collaborative skills by performing together. During the session, they also learnt about refugees and different African cultures which will help with their understanding of this term’s text, Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah.
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Tuesday 10th September 2024 VI - Swimming Lesson As part of our VI enrichment programme we took our 3 fabulous KS1 pupils to their first swimming session at Inspire, Luton.
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Tuesday 25th June 2024 VI - Bouncy Castle Fun The VI provision children had an amazing time this morning bouncing on their very own bouncy castle! We love giving our pupils enrichment opportunities that others may take for granted as a normal activity to access. Today everyone was smiling and laughing with enough space to bounce safely.
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Tuesday 11th June 2024 Year 5 WOW - Visit to Celtic Harmony Year 5 enjoyed a thrilling day at a Stone Age village! At Celtic Harmony, they followed the footsteps of our early ancestors: learning how to hunt and gather, building a shelter out of wood and foliage, preparing plants and herbs for cooking and listening to a storyteller by the fire. The children took advantage of the opportunity to learn from the experts and were excellent values and role models for our school out in the community.
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Thursday 6th June 2024 VI WOW - Visit to Keysoe International Horse Centre Some of our lucky VI pupils visited the amazing Keysoe Horse Centre today and were allowed to groom and work with the beautiful miniature ponies. The Keysoe Horse Centre is hosting the Olympic equestrian team members for their important training sessions before they attend the Paris Olympics this year. We are so excited to have been able to set up a great relationship with the Centre and we will be revisiting them for a horse care course in the next academic year.
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Thursday 9th May 2024 Reception WOW - Mead Open Farm Visit Chantry Primary Academy's Reception classes recently had a fantastic day out at Mead Open Farm. The children loved to see all the wonderful animals and had a great time learning about them.
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Tuesday 30th April 2024 Year 2 WOW - Whipsnade Zoo This term, Year 2 has been reading 'The Paper Bag Prince', an inspiring story about sustainability and looking after the planet we live on. To support this, they had a fantastic day at Whipsnade Zoo, learning all about how we can care for all of life on Earth and how we can ensure that we have a positive impact on the world around us.
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Thursday 25th April 2024 Year 3 WOW - Author Visit Year 3 were lucky enough to meet the amazing Chrissie Sains who is the talented author of their current class story 'An Alien In The Jam Factory'. They had a great time, sharing story ideas and even coming up with an exciting story about a giant brussel sprout that wants to take over Easter and replace eggs with sprouts! They are very much enjoying the story and are looking forward to writing their own!
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Tuesday 23rd April 2024 Year 1 WOW - Hindu Mandir Visit Year One had one of the most amazing experiences on their visit to the local Hindu Mandir (Temple).
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Monday 22nd April 2024 Year 4 WOW - Houghton Hall Walk Monday morning saw Year 4 take part in a nature walk around Houghton Hall Park, taking note of the different plants and animals they could see on the way. The walk finished at the Kitchen Gardens where they learnt about the different plants and vegetables they grow, the different insects and creatures that try to eat the vegetables and the planting process. A great time was had by all with a lot of facts and information being learnt.
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Wednesday 17th April 2024 Year 6 WOW - Macbeth Workshop Year 6 students were joined today by West End in Schools for an exciting Macbeth Workshop. The workshop aimed to immerse students in the world of Shakespeare's infamous play, allowing them to explore themes, characters, and language using dance to retell the story.The collaboration with West End in Schools offers students a unique opportunity to delve into the world of theatre and literature in a fun and interactive way!
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Tuesday 16th April 2024 Year 5 WOW - Hazard Alley Safety Centre Year 5 have visited Hazard Alley Safety Centre for their WOW this week. Here they were able to learn all about keeping safe in an interactive and memorable way. A great time was had by all.
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Wednesday 27th March 2024 Bedford VI and HI Sports Festival at the Bunyan Centre Some of our pupils attended today's brilliant Beds Borough VI and HI Sports Festival with other children from around Bedfordshire. They took part in sports specifically adapted for children with sensory impairments. The pupils were incredible and played table tennis, football, goalball and more and they were so fast and competitive, yet showed great support and encouragement towards each other too. This is a great example of how to be inclusive in PE and life to build healthy happy young people.
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Wednesday 28th February 2024 Year 6 WOW - Atomic Abbie! Year Six children had a fantastic day during their WOW! ‘Atomic Abbie’ has really enthused their learning with some superb chemical reactions, followed by a ‘hands-on’ workshop on evolution.
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Tuesday 27th February 2024 Year 1 WOW - Chicks Year 1 followed the journey of some fertilised eggs and watched them hatch into wonderful chicks.
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Wednesday 24th January 2024 VI Theatre Visit - The Witches, The National Theatre, London
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Tuesday 9th January 2024 Year 1 WOW - Puppet Workshop Year 1 had a visit from Pirate Ron who presented a pirate show that they absolutely loved! They used their voices to join in with the show and help his puppet companion navigate the seas. Later, they went back to their classrooms to create their very own puppets using a paper bag. These were brilliant and they used them to act out their own plays with their friends. This was a great start to Year 1's History unit all about toys and their Design Technology lessons where they developed their sewing skills to create a puppet. Lots of fun and learning took place!
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Tuesday 9th January 2024 Year 5 WOW - Mad Science For a WOW, this half term, Year 5 was joined by the brilliant 'Lightning Laura' from Mad Science. The children took part in experiments that demonstrated different states of matter and the difference between solids, liquids and gases!
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Thursday 30th November 2023 The National Theatre comes to Chantry's VI Provision Jonny Ball from The National Theatre came and worked with our Year 4, 5 & 6 VI pupils today, to bring the world of theatre to life. The children performed, sang and acted their hearts out to the Roald Dahl Witches show. We looked at props at close range and even got to sing a song from the show together.What a brilliant way to show the value of Aspiration!
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Wednesday 15th November 2023 VICTA Decorate Our Tree Competition 2023 The VI Provision children all made their own Christmas decorations today, so that we can enter the VICTA (Empowering blind children and young adults charity) Christmas competition. All the pupils’ decorations will be hung up in Milton Keynes Shopping Centre over the Christmas period, so do go and take a look!
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Tuesday 7th November 2023 Year 6 WOW - Life of a Victorian This week children of year 6 became immersed into the life of a Victorian. They were transported back to a Victorian school and worked incredibly hard using the ink pens and pots to make notes, learning about how harsh school life was and understand the currency of the era. They were completely immersed and wore some fantastic outfits. In the afternoon, the children had the opportunity to explore genuine Victorian artefacts including irons, games and ice skates. They explored the suitcases of a range of different people from different social classes and had the opportunity to make spinning tops as well as other Victorian amusements.
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Monday 6th November 2023 Year 5 WOW - Royal Observatory, Greenwich
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Tuesday 3rd October 2023 VI - The Inclusive Farm Visit Today we had an amazing trip to The Inclusive Farm, run by Mike and Ness. Mike is the first-ever blind farmer in the UK and is an inspiration to our VI provision pupils. We go to hold, chickens, ducks, stroke the cows and feed the goats. We threw straw in for the pigs and had a sunny, fantastic time!
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Monday 18th September 2023 Ofsted Report We had the privilege of hosting the Ofsted team during our most recent Ofsted inspection on 13th and 14th June 2023. I am delighted to inform you that the report reflects the wonderful aspects of our work at Chantry. We are filled with immensepride for our dedicated children, our exceptional staff, and the vibrant community that we serve. It is truly gratifying to see our collective efforts and the achievements of our children recognised and celebrated by the inspectors.
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Tuesday 12th September 2023 Year 6 WOW - African Drumming
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Tuesday 12th September 2023 Year 5 WOW - Bollywood Dancing
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