Bottisham Village College is an inspirational and aspirational academy providing education for 11 – 16 year olds, situated between Cambridge and Newmarket.
Peace under the moonlight at last. Camp site silent and year 7s tucked up in tents. A wonderful first day comes to an end...roll on day 2. Mr Darling, Fox and Baker are ready for the sunrise undesired and unpopular wake up call.
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students waking to their own singing of it’s coming home!!! Students and staff have had an excellent sleep so looking forward to another fun day of activities! Now time for breakfast!
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students getting a viewing of the closing stages of France v Belgium after evening activities before camp fire!!! Big screen for England tomorrow sorted!🏴⚽️😀
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students have had a lovely sausage and mash dinner to fuel ahead of two more evening activities and camp fire! Students are showing no signs of tiring!!!
Morning all! Welcome to updates of day 2 at camp. The sun is shining. Students have been fed for breakfast and now we are ready for another fantastic day. Half are off to Norwich and half doing activities on site!
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We have arrived at Wembley for
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@UkraineFooty
! This is a special trip for not only our Y7s but our Ukrainian refugees seeing their national side. Students excited with kick off approaching
Today we welcomed Sir Ian McKellen to BVC as part of
#AntiBullyingWeek
. Students & staff were enthralled by his inspirational talk about having confidence to be individual and embracing diversity.
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what a couple of hours! Students drowning the sorrows in typical Bottisham style at camp fire and a rendition of ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’!! Fantastic memories made once again tonight!
Y7s on site having a fantastic morning abseiling, raft building, bushcraft and climbing. Students and Mr Melling trying to splash Mr Darling and Mr Berry was a highlight of the students! Norwich students are now switching activities!
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May we thank all students for their incredibly calm and supportive response today: their conduct made a huge difference the swift way in which the college was able to react to today’s incident. Thank you to parents for their patience and support.
Year 7s have just finished indulging in a scrumptious spag bol served with garlic bread. Students are now well fuelled for this evenings activites and camp fire.
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Well what an afternoon! On our way home from a fantastic day of Rugby. We will update you with an ETA home when closer to home. Students had an amazing time
Over the Easter break, Mr Darling has been busy overseeing the final phase of getting a fleet of bikes for the college through DfE funding and other support. These will be used within lessons and extended schools. This is a really exciting programme for all our students.
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students have enjoyed an authentic Spaghetti Bolognese with garlic bread followed by Choc Ices! Evening activities to start shortly after tent inspections
Sincere thanks to Daniel Stoodley and
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for their kind donation of laptops to the college. Your support is genuinely appreciated by us all here in the BVC community.
Year 7s have been treated to a special edition of Sausage Sizzler tonight as their first meal of the week. Followed by a seasonal ice cream bar in the sunshine! Ummm... tasty!!
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Well that’s camp over for another year. What a fantastic week and camp it has been. Well done to all y7s for their amazing efforts this week-hopefully they will have made plenty of memories and want to come back in y11 as a prefect. Roll on Camp 2020...
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What a fabulous, uplifting, Leavers' day! It completely reflected everything we stand for as a school. A huge thank you and well done to everyone who organised and contributed to today, especially to Mr Lamb & Mrs Cook. Photos will be on our website early next week.
Year 7 students have made an excellent start this morning: great to see them. Thanks also to our House Captains who have come in a few days early to lead, assist and support our new students.
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Thank-you to our wonderful community for donating 25 devices, which are currently being refurbished for distribution to families. If you have a device you’d like to donate, please let us know or drop-in at reception.
Congratulations to Mr Gilbert and Mrs Eastwood, who have been presenting at The ResearchEd National Conference in London today.
Basing much of their presentation on the work undergone at BVC these past years, both are passionate about whole-school curriculum development.
Congratulations to Oli, who has been playing in Croatia for the Wales U15 Football team over the past week. He competed against Finland and South Korea. Keep up the excellent work!
Congratulations to a truly magnificent year group, as their Celebration Day comes to a close. All the staff and governors of BVC wish them every success for the future.
A selection of photos from this afternoons activities. Students having a fantastic time. There was a nice refreshing watermelon snack between afternoon activities.
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students are finishing off their last activity of Camp 2018! Prefects have done an amazing job of putting away tents and equipment in record time! They are simply amazing! Keep following for posts on when coaches leave and ETAs!
Year 8 Camp A had a great time this afternoon, using their newfound Wilderness First Aid skills to save their teachers from a terrifying plane crash! Luckily, they did choose to rescue us eventually...
What a magnificent couple of days it has been meeting year 6 students. Parent and carers: you must be very proud of them, as they have been a credit to you all.