Biggleswade Academy Mead End Biggleswade Bedfordshire SG18 8JU Tel: 01767 660515 Web: www.biggleswadeacademy.org E-mail: enquiries@biggleswadeacademy.org 12 May 2022 Dear Parents/Carers, On Friday, 27th May 2022 we are very excited to be able to invite you to our Platinum Jubilee Garden Party! This will be a chance for you to join us as a whole school and enjoy a picnic alongside your child, to celebrate the Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen. In the morning pupils will enjoy taking part in a variety of different celebration activities to learn more about about British Values and the Monarchy system in Great Britain. During the afternoon we would like the whole school to join together for a traditional English Tea Party. The timetable for the afternoon will be as follows: From 2.30pm 2.35pm – 3.15pm 3.15pm Enter the field area via Kitelands Park gate. Children will be gathered in classes across the field for you to collect your child/children from – please see attached map for guidance. For safeguarding purposes the school gates will be locked after the last person enters. (Gates will be staffed in case you need to leave). Enjoy a picnic with your child/children in the central location which will be marked out for families. Please bring your own food, soft drinks and picnic blankets, but please bear in mind that pupils will have had their lunch so a full picnic lunch will not be required. Due to allergies, please do not bring any form of nuts in your picnic. Smoking and alcohol is also not permitted on the school grounds. Please also note that there will be little access to shade on the field so please consider suitable clothing, including sun hats and sun cream in the event of a hot day! For safeguarding reasons the filming of videos or taking of photographs will not permitted on this occasion and access to toilets will not be available. Tidy up time! Please return to your children to their form groups before making your way out of the Kitelands Park gate. We would appreciate it if you could take your rubbish home with you. 3.20pm Pupils return to form classes 3.30pm Usual end of day dismissal from regular places. If you would like to join us for the afternoon please complete the form on the link below by Tuesday, 25th May, so the necessary preparations and arrangements can be made: form If you are unfortunately unable to join us, we would appreciate it if you could please provide your child with something to sit on, a drink and celebratory snack that they can enjoy with their friends and class teacher. The entire Academy looks forward to welcoming you. Yours sincerely, Ms Flynn and the Academy Team Academy Principal: Ms S. E. Flynn Part of LIFE Academies Trust Registered in England, Company Number 07928028