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July 2014 edition of the Bowthorpe News
Transcript of Bowthorpe News July 2014
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JULY/AUGUST 2014
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WHAT HURTS THE MOST?
This month you will see around Bowthorpe young people from
NEW DAY who will be surveying the area with the question
`WHAT HURTS THE MOST?’ Or put another way
`WHAT’S THE ONE THING IN LIFE YOU FIND HARDEST TO HANDLE?’
WHO CARES? is a country-wide initiative where churches are working together to
listen to the needs of local people and offer compassion and hope. We don’t claim
we have all the answers but we represent a community who cares and wants to
listen and respond to the issues that people are facing.
All responses collected in Bowthorpe will remain anonymous and will be returned
to Bowthorpe Church. The Church will be responding to the issues people have
raised from September onwards.
You can find out more by visiting www.who-cares.org.uk
Your answers matter and will help to shape the way your
local Church seeks to care for the community around them.
While churches will be responding to the issues people share from September
2014 onwards, if you’d like to, you can connect before then with someone who
cares by contacting Bowthorpe Church (01603 749614) or Revd Mark Elvin (01603
747871 or [email protected])
or by leaving a message on this phone number: 07943 052638
or by emailing [email protected].
WHO CARES? Is a registered charity, no. 1156065
A special occasion. Want a party! Need to hold a meeting!
Chapel Break Village Hall Harpsfield, Chapel Break
Large or small room for hire ( Very Competitive rates )
Bar available for extra charge. For details Contact
Veronica 731188
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More news concerning the Care Village on page 17.
Update: development at Three Score Background Three Score is the last Norwich City Council-owned land designated for development in the Bowthorpe area. In June 2013, outline planning permission was secured for 1,000 homes, community facilities, a care home and open space on the 32-hectare site. The outline application provides over 10 hectares of public open space, retains existing features such as important tree belts and hedges and also proposes a network of cycle and walking routes across the site. It is intended to be an exemplar scheme with high quality design and high environmental standards. In January 2013, Norwich City Council agreed to work in partnership with Norfolk County Council, NPS and NorseCare to provide a housing with care and dementia care facility on the site. The city council supported NorseCare’s funding application to the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) for care and specialised support housing and promised to donate the 2.3-hectare plot of land. Preparatory work, including ecological and archaeological surveys, has now been completed and the first construction work on site is due to be on the
Bowthorpe Care Village at the end of July.
Next steps A contract for the site’s infrastructure is in the process of being agreed and the council expects to appoint a contractor in July, with work expected to start in late summer.
This will include delivery of: the whole spine road (as shown in plan) two drainage lagoons foul sewer bus gate – temporary bollards, with enforcement measures to follow provision for putting overhead cables underground.
Funding for the delivery of this work will come from the £2.5m allocated to Three Score as part of the council’s investment partnership with the Homes and Communities Agency.
An important feature of the site is a sustainable urban drainage system to help prevent flooding. This will make sure that the surface run-off will not increase from current levels as the site is developed.
Drainage swales and lagoons will also be turned into landscape features, not only controlling the release of water into the river, but adding to the existing wildlife habitats.
P.T.O.
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Landscaping at the spine road’s junction points will be completed but kerbs and finishing at the edge of the road will only be carried out as each section of the development is completed. This is so construction vehicles don’t damage them as work continues. Where the spine road continues through areas that are yet to be developed, earth bunds will be made at the edge to protect the site and prevent unauthorised access. Future phases of work Plans for the next phase of work on the site are already underway. Back in February, the council’s cabinet agreed to make funding available to design and build the next phase of the housing scheme.
The council is now looking into what shape this might take and the best way for this to be delivered. The precise mix of properties is still being determined, but the scheme is expected to consist of around 140 units.
The area of land selected is adjacent to the housing with care scheme and will complete a self-contained area to the north of the tree belt, preventing both the housing with care scheme and new housing from being isolated on the site.
The next stage would be detailed design work for a planning application, followed by appointment of a contractor for delivery. If it goes ahead, work is likely to start next year and the phase would take an estimated two years to build.
There will be public consultation opportunities throughout the process.
Contacts Norwich City Council: [email protected] or 0344 980 3333. [URL to be set up] www.norwich.gov.uk/threescore
NorseCare (for queries relating to housing with care) [email protected]
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. NOTICE BOARD
Job Advert
CLOSING DATE
15th JULY
Bowthorpe Community Trust
Assistant Service-User Supervisor needed
Part-time 2 days a week
Tuesday and Wednesday 0900—1600
St. Michael’s Workshop is a small woodworking workshop providing activities for adults with learning and physical difficulties, referred
through Social Services.
We are looking for an Assistant to work alongside and organise
activities with Adults with Disabilities in the finishing room.
Good communication skills and organising ability are essential, including flexible approach to changing situations. Previous experience of working with people who have learning difficulties would
be useful but not essential.
A visit to the Workshop would be beneficial before an
application is submitted to view the working environment.
Contact Ian Taylor on 01603 746106 or
WEST NORWICH LIONS charity no. 1154145. The West Norwich Lions are still searching for new members to assist in their fundraising activities, which include taking part in fetes, parking cars at football matches, xmas collections and running race- nights for different organisations. The club also collects used spectacles from opticians and shops in the city for use in improving eyesight in third world countries. To date they have collected over 10,000 this year so if any of you ladies and gents have a few hours to spare please contact either
Derek Goodswen on 01603 743709 or Rodney Barrett on 01603 767258 and we will pay you a visit.
The club meets at the Brook hotel at Bowthorpe on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at 8pm.
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Bowthorpe Police Station Norfolk Constabulary Wendene Norwich NR5 9HA non emergency Tel: 101 [email protected]
Burglary crime remain low in Norwich. However we can all take additional measures to protect ourselves. Remember your garden, as well as your home, contains valuable possessions that could attract thieves. It can also contain equipment that could help them break into your house. Burglars look for easy ways of getting into a house or garden. By taking a few simple precautions you can reduce the risk of being burgled and make your house and garden more secure.
•The natural defence provided by a prickly hedge will offer some protection to your property and help stop intruders. •Put away all tools and equipment and ensure that all outside sheds and store cupboards are securely locked when not in use. •Do not leave items in your garden. e.g. ladders, that could be used to gain access to your home. •Bring the tools inside if you do not have a garden shed or outbuilding. •Install outside security lighting which comes on automatically. •Photograph valuable garden plants or ornaments.
•Mark your property with your postcode or with a property marking system like SmartWater. This makes stolen property easier to trace, harder to sell on and it can be positively identified as yours.
•Check that your household insurance policy covers theft from your garden and outbuildings. •Join your local Neighbourhood Watch Scheme. Neighbourhood Watch County Contacts •Ensure valuable garden items are securely fixed in the garden to prevent them being stolen by opportunist thieves. •If possible always place valuable items out of sight in the rear garden and in all cases avoid putting them close to the perimeter area of the garden where they are more easily accessible to thieves. •Make sure garden furniture and barbeques are securely stored after use, in the garden sheds or garages, if they are mobile. •Ensure your garden gate is kept closed and is locked from the inside. •Make sure your fencing or hedges are well maintained to prevent unwanted visitors entering your garden.
If you have any information relating to a crime, please call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 or visit: www.Crimestoppers-uk.org To report a crime to Norfolk Constabulary on 101 or in an emergency, please dial 999. Should you wish for advice on crime prevention, please contact the Bowthorpe Safer Neighbourhood team.
PC 1403 Lester
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TRIBUTE TO JO STORIE
The May elections saw the retirement from the City Council of Jo Storie after her second term as one of Bowthorpe’s Labour City Councillors. Jo, a Scot, originally from Galashiels, was among Clover Hill’s first residents, moving to Notykin Street with her husband Jim in April
1979.
A long-term member of the Labour Party Jo’s first term on the Council – where her special interest was in housing - was from 1986 to 1990, when she became a full-time social worker, specialising in adult social care, especially older people, a field where her empathy and personal warmth really came into
its own.
Following the death of her husband, and with her daughters Blyth and Olive with children of their own, Jo continued as a social worker until she retired in 2008, when she returned to the Council for her final stint from 2010. Here she served on scrutiny committee, ever a thorn in the side of the opposition, and continued her interest in housing, while fighting hard for her Bowthorpe constituents in terms of casework –
her motto being ‘I like to do things properly!’
While still busy in public life on bodies such as the Older People’s Forum, and the Bowthorpe Ruin Trust, Jo’s looking forward to spending more quality time with her 4 grand-daughters, 2 great-grandchildren, and partner Ron. Typically, Jo also wanted to say how much she’s enjoyed representing the people of Bowthorpe. She feels it’s been a real privilege to have worked for the Bowthorpe community and even though she’s no longer a councillor she intends to be active on the local scene. And having known Jo since back in 1979 I’m
sure she’ll be true to her word!
Brenda Ferris DL, Bowthorpe Councillor 1979-
2008
FROM OUR NEWEST COUNCILLOR
I would like to thank the people of Bowthorpe who kindly voted for me to represent them at Norwich City Council at the local election.
May I assure all Bowthorpe residents of my absolute commitment to continuing to act in the best interests of our community. In the eight years in which I have been honoured to represent Norwich City council, I have always sought to do my best to act on all issues brought to my attention by residents and this will most certainly continue to be the case. My promise to Bowthorpe is to continue to be active in the community, working with and alongside committees and voluntary groups and to be readily accountable and transparent in all that I do. It is a real privilege and pleasure to be able to represent you all. Please do get in touch if I can help you in any way.
Councillor Sue Sands 01603 594 995 or
07825993893 or on [email protected].
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Main Service — 10 : 30 am Sundays
Sunday Evening Service — 6 : 30 pm
Wednesday 10 am Service of Holy Communion and Healing
For Roman Catholic services Tel. Rev Bill Dimelow 743476 or Fr. David Ward at St John's Cathedral 624615
Happy holidays
Summer is finally here! With warmer days and sunshine on our faces, summer is a wonderful time. For many people, summer is a time when they take their annual holiday. Whether we are going to Cromer or to Crete, Sheringham or Spain, Yarmouth or Yellowstone, it is important to have a break from the everyday routine. This is also true for children. They need time just to be children, to enjoy life, to rest from all their studies.
Rest is vitally important. We are told right at the beginning of the Bible that God `rested from all his work’ (Genesis 2:2). Doctors have been telling us for years of the value of a break from work or the daily routine and the importance of taking a holiday. Having rested, we can return to the everyday feeling refreshed and better able to cope with all life throws at us.
Of course not everyone can get away. That is why we at Bowthorpe Church started Holiday at Home, so that those who are older within our community and who were unable to go away could at least have a break, a holiday at home. This year it will be on Monday 14 and 21 July. If you would like to apply for a place on one or both days, please contact Roger Hinton (01603 741989).
Even if we cannot have a holiday, it is vital that we learn the importance of taking a day of rest. Originally holidays were in fact Holy days, days set aside from work to worship God. These holy days eventually became holidays. Whether we hold to the Christian faith or not, God gave us all a day of rest: `And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy’ (Genesis 2:3).
So whether you are going on holiday this summer or not, do make sure you remember God’s gift of a day of rest, a holy day, and use it wisely.
Until the next edition, Happy holidays! Revd Mark Elvin
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WEDDING
June 7th Aaron Leek of Bowthorpe
and Jessica Langham of Cringleford, at Hethersett.
June 7th Dale Plunkett and Denise Thompson both of Bowthorpe ,at
Colney
Joyce Woolnough
was 78 years old and started the Bowthorpe Players as soon as we moved here in 2003.
Prior to that we had a group called Pams Players where
Joyce worked in Sheltered Housing and when she retired Joyce joined a group at Kier
Hardy Hall where she introduced her grandchildren to the arts.
Joyce was a lovely lady and will be sadly missed.
Paul Woolnough
R.I.P.
Christine Coulton 17th
April aged 61
Ronald Noble on 7th May
2014 aged 87
Joyce Woolnough 26th May aged 78
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BOWTHORPE HERITAGE GROUP
COMMUNITY GARDEN Contacts: Madge 734767 Veronica 749280
Adrian 07765350383
Carol 474633 Jill 746118
Next Help-days: Sundays from 2pm
July 13 & 27 August 10 & 24
News from Bowthorpe
WI
This month we held our
Birthday Party, as Bowthorpe
WI is now 25 years old. We
were pleased to welcome
back two of our founder
members as well as members
from several other WI
branches. We celebrated
with lots of food and, of
course, a birthday cake.
Lorraine Theobald began the
festivities with a
demonstration of Egyptian
dance and lots of us joined in.
On July 7th our speaker will be
Christine Humphries. She
will be telling us about tracing
our family history.
If you would like to know more about our activities please contact Janet on 01603 744237, or e-mail [email protected]. Alternatively come and meet us at Bowthorpe Church. We begin the evening at 7:30 p.m. We’re a friendly bunch and welcome visitors and new members.
NPS Archaeology A Report is still in the pipeline!!
Watch this space.
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Friends of West Earlham Woods The wood in summer. Outside the sun is shining and it’s a bit too
hot. You see the wood like a dark green wall in the strong light. Go closer and an entrance opens between two trees. Step inside and the wood is dim and shady. The leaves of the canopy filter out any harshness of the light just as the trunks dampen the traffic noise. It is a different world. The horizon is just yards away seen through the spaces between the trees. The changed perspective gives clarity to the immediate surroundings. It is like being in a large ancient building with stone pillars supporting a distant roof or like swimming underwater in the quiet cool. Step a few paces off the path and you are disorientated. Keep going and you will soon feel lost even in a small wood. Further in the undergrowth fades and the trees develop a dominating presence. They have been here for a long time: some for perhaps ten generations. They have a life of their own: huge roots delving deep into the ground, trunks thrusting far up pre-senting myriads of leaves to the sun. There is a commu-nity of growing things here: honeysuckle and ivy wrapped around the trunks and trailing on the leaf litter, birds high up and butterflies in the odd splatters of sunshine. What you notice most is the still calm. You find yourself be-coming quieter as well. But the wood is small and soon you find the warm sunshine again and the noisy world outside.
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Norfolk County Council encouraging Norfolk to get active and eat well
From now until 10 July, visitors to the Forum Open Air Screen can enjoy World Cup football, Wimbledon matches and stages of the Tour de France... all free of charge.
There’s also a chance to see feature films, take part in competitions and find out about local sport and healthy lifestyle opportunities**.
Help and advice will also be on offer to help people make healthier lifestyle choices, including:
• Giving up smoking: Smokefree Norfolk • Eating well: Joy of Food
• Getting more active: Norfolk Community Sports Foundation
Adults needing a helping hand to make healthier lifestyle choices, like increasing their activity levels or improving their diet, can also sign up to receive free 1-1
support from their own personal health trainer, through the Norfolk and Waveney Health Trainer service. They will also be on hand to offer health checks and give
general health advice. Young people aged 7-12 will also have the chance to brush up on their multi-sports
skills, thanks to the Community Sports Foundation’s health team. They will be running fun, ‘have-a-go’ sessions covering: sending and receiving, evasion
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Presentation by Karen Knight and Richard Smith of Norse Care
about the new Care Village to be built in Bowthorpe.
This was presented at the AGM of Clover Hill Village Hall last month.
The project at Bowthorpe will have 88 apartments for those with dementia and another 92 apartments for housing with care. Norse Care will provide 24/7 care and the unit will be run by Saffron Housing Association. 85% of the accommodation will be for those with need who are referred, and 15% will be for sale. There will also be a separate 80-bed specialist dementia care unit, so if necessary residents can move from housing with care to the exclusive dementia care unit but stay on the same site. Entrances and exits will be secure and there will be communal areas, also gardens designed so that residents can wander around in safety.
These will obviously be very large buildings but they will be bright and airy and surrounded with green space and gardens, and the existing green areas will be protected. There will be a café and community space for residents to use, including those in the dementia care unit who will be able to leave their more secure accommodation in the company of a carer or relative. They will also be open to residents
from the local area and it is hoped that the communities will mix.
Planning permission was granted at the end of 2013 and Norse Care gave a presentation at the church end of 2013. They are working closely with the councils.
L Curtis said that their pride and passion comes through and asked about the source of initial funding. Karen said that it is a not-for-profit organisation. Any profit goes into new developments with a dividend to the County Council. They had applied to the Homes and Community Agency who gave £ 4.5m, the County Council put in £ 3m, and is a large mortgage for the balance. The land was gifted by the Council. Norwich City Council wants the housing with care to be for Norwich area residents.
They hope to be on site in July 2014 with completion in spring or summer 2016. A community steering group will be set up, meeting regularly once the building starts.
games, striking and hitting games and speed and agility. Find out more about the services we help to provide at
www.norfolkslivingwell.org.uk .”
Norfolk County Council Public Health will be running health and wellbeing
roadshows, as part of the Norfolk Food and Drink Festival, which runs from 30
August until 12 October. This will be another great chance for people to find out more
about the healthy lifestyle opportunities available. More details to be announced soon
Find out more at: www.norfolkfoodanddrinkfestival.co.uk
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Reproduced from Norfolk Broadsides, a humorous, moving and thoughtful collection of Norfolk verses by Brian Lamont. Only available from Amazon Kindle.
Mythical Maze
A Summer Reading Challenge at your local library
www.mythical-maze.org.uk
Children are invited to get caught up in a legendary adventure
this summer at their local library. They will have a chance to lose themselves in
a mythical maze and meet mermaids, leprechauns and dragons along the way.
Taking part is easy and best of all its completely free!
Encourage your children to read 6 books and those who complete will receive a
medal and a certificate. They can choose any books they like: fact books,
stories, joke books or picture books. Audio books and e-books count as well, so
long as they borrow them from a library. They will be able to keep track of it all
on a special fold-up poster and complete the maze with sticker rewards. There
will also be a chance to collect ‘Munglers Quest’ Top Trumps cards and swap
with family and friends
To find out more, and for details of special events, pop in to your local library
on Breckland Road in Costessey. Tel: 01603 742669.For library opening times
visit: www.norfolk.gov.uk/libraries
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ACORN FELLOWSHIP FOR THE OVER 50’s
Alternate Mondays 2.30 Bowthorpe Church July 14th Members Party
Even with the excitement, of the World Cup, the other entertainment continued at Ashwell Court. We had a lovely evening with Pat James entertaining, and as usual a great buffet. Our thanks to the Entertainment Team! We also had a delicious strawberry tea, followed by entertainment by Dick High. On another evening entertainment was provided by Michael
and Helen, which again was very enjoyable.
Some of us joined Bradecroft on their outings to Bury St Edmunds, on Market Day, and recently to Spalding where we visited a Romany Camp. We love these trips. They are always very interesting and enjoyable and we are already looking forward to the next one to Sheringham, which will be the
last one this summer.
Sadly we have to report the death of one of our liveliest former residents, Dolly Brown. Dolly was one of the original residents when Ashwell Court was opened and was well known in the area. She would
have been 90 this month. We send our sympathy to her family and friends.
A very warm welcome to our three new residents, Gladys Mee, John Cameron and Mike Edwards. We hope they have settled in well and have a
very happy time living here.
Well that is all for this month. Good luck and best wishes to all our friends
and neighbours. Margaret
ASHWELL COURT
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Notices from
neighbours
Bye all. PAT
THE NORWICH ELEC-
TRONIC ORGAN & KEY-
BOARD CLUB
Last Tuesday of the month at
Drayton Village Hall, at
7.30pm –10pm Entrance is
£6.00 at the door.
Tuesday July 29th – Chris Powell Chris is a
familiar face to our regular members and is making a very welcome return to our club. He was last with us back in November 2012 when he finished off our year in cracking style. Ex Blackpool Tower ballroom, this popu-lar inter-national pipe and electronic organist plays a wide variety of music with an emphasis on theatre organ, all accompanied with a cheerful, cheeky
smile.
Do come and join us for an evening of good musi-
cal entertainment with like-minded, friendly people,
you will be very welcome.
Martin Drake – Chairman
01603 745544
BRADECROFT
Hello everyone,
Well we here are all keeping well, except one poor soul who had a fall but she is
getting about a bit now.
Well together our June TRIP was a great success. We went to Lincolnshire, to the
Gorden Boswell Romany Gypsy Museum.
I think everyone enjoyed it, I did not hear any complaints. It was very interesting to see the carts all painted up and to hear all
about how the Romany people lived - the cooking pots that they used, great heavy things. I was surprised how much room there was inside those carts -
double bed and another one underneath it. There was no taps, no electric, but those
people lived.
The owner came out to greet us as we got off the coach, a cup of coffee and biscuits
all ready for us.
After that we went to SPRINGFIELDS shopping centre for lunch, not my sort of place, so looked round the gardens and
had an ice cream.
All in all it was a nice day out. I think it will be a talking point for a day or so.
So till next time, keep well
As you can see the misses was out all day again, but I don’t mind, I had fun. I had three walks, my friend came and played so I was not alone long. But the misses didn’t bring me anything home, too
busy enjoying her self.
buy for know , woof woof
from Tootsie
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Another month has flown by at West Norwich Troop with so much going on! As well as our busy regular weekly training and events there are a few other notable things going on!
We’ve had our newest Cadets attend their first training weekend which included a night sleeping out on the training area at Thetford, sleeping under a ‘poncho’ – no tents for the ACF! They all had a great time, picked up lots of new skills and made a few new friends from across Norfolk as well.
We are preparing for the Dunkirk Veterans Parade which is taking place at Honingham Church in June where we are expecting the Troop to be inspected by General Sir Richard Dannatt. This will be a fantastic experience for the Cadets to meet the former head of the Army!
We’ve also had one of our Cadets, Cadet Sergeant Culling, nominated for a
national award – The Jubilee Awards for Service Youth Award so we all have our fingers crossed for her!
Lastly, our annual camp is on the horizon. This year Cadets from the Troop and across Norfolk will be heading off to Nesscliffe for ten days of training and adventure and everyone here is looking forward to going.
So if you are aged between 12 & 18, it sounds like the sort of thing you want to get involved with and want to find out more then come along with a parent or guardian to the Clover Hill Community Hall on a Wednesday evening at 7.30pm or call 01362 694515 for more information.
Costessey and Bowthorpe District Rainbows, Brownies and Guides Bowthorpe Units
I may not have mentioned before that our District is part of The Wensum Division, which covers the area from Spixworth & Old Catton to Taverham, Drayton and our own District, with 370 Brownies in total. Carole Smith the Division Commissioner organised a Giant Sleepover at OPEN, Norwich’s Youth Venue in the beautiful building which was once Gurney’s and later Barclays Bank, built prior to 1780. Our Brownies were amongst the 270 who slept under the very high ceiling in the main banking hall. The Giant Sleepover gave our Brownies tremendous fun and a unique, memorable experience that hopefully they will remember for a long time. During the evening there was a variety of craft activity, traditional camp fire singing, a disco and orienteering around the building. The winning unit of the Commemorative Badge competition had use of the 12 metre high climbing wall, which I hear was amazing. The Brownies and Leaders of Wensum Division would like to
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Funky Families Summer Holidays Clover Hill Village Hall every Thursday 10—11.30am
Thurs 24th Jul Group - Disco and Break Dance demonstration. Tots Messy Art and Baby Zone for mums and babies.
Thurs 31st Jul Summer Community Fete see front page. Please bring a pack lunch and drinks.
Sat. 2nd Aug Volunteer (adult) meal 7pm—11pm £7.50 2 courses at The Brook Hotel Restaurant.
Thurs 7th Aug Group —-Arts and Crafts and baby zone. Tots, water and messy play. Soccer skills on the fiels for those aged 7 and above. Followed by picnic on field.
Thurs 14th Aug Group—Sponsored Sports morning. Help toraise money for the group by taking part in a morning of sports activities such as skipping. Football skills, Racket skills, star jumps etc. followed by picnic on the field (Book & pay for Beach Trip).
Friday 15th Aug Crew members and helpers trip.
Thurs 21 Aug Trip to Lowestoft Beach. Meet at the Community Centre at 9.30am leaving at 9.45am. Bring buckets, spades, pack lunch, towels etc. £3 per seat. Coming back—meet at the bus at 4.30pm. Back at between 5.30/6pm. Adult Volunteers seats Free.
Thurs 28 Aug Funky Families Celebration. Refreshments on sale. Display of the Six Week Summer Holidays photos. Art exhibition of children’s Work and favourite moments, activities and trips. Break dance battle.
thank Carole for all her hard work, for such a well - planned and run sleepover. I wonder
how many actually slept after all the excitement!
We hope you would like to find out more about our meetings' activities, and join in
the fun. It would be wonderful to welcome some new leaders and helpers to the team,
especially now at 4th Costessey, so if you feel that you can offer us some help please
contact us by calling Julie on 01603 749717 or Sheila on 741989. We look forward to
hearing from you. Sheila.
For any enquiries about Bowthorpe please contact Becky on Tel. 07990518373 or e mail [email protected] or Louise on 07921155235.
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Those simple things.
I get such joy from simple things,
A tree lined park with slide and
swings,
A kitchen wall with cheerful tiles,
The smell of baking, children’s smiles,
Roast turkey on a Christmas day,
Old fashioned quilts with patchwork
gay,
An evening spent with trusted mates
A glass of wine with snacks on plates.
A fire lit room with rugs and books,
Outside from trees the caw of rooks.
It’s good to sit out in the sun
On easy chair when work is done.
Thank God for all these simple things
With all the joy his garden brings.
Jenny Holmwood.
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News from Clover Hill VA Infant and Nursery
School
Our Eco Council have been working hard to reduce the amount of electricity we use in school by switching off lights, computers and whiteboards when not in use. Last week they saved 150 units of electricity, which has saved the school £15! Well done to them for their hard work. We hope they keep it up at home All of our pupils have all been learning about renewable and non renewable energy. Keep an eye out for some changes to our school roof over the summer as the children have asked for solar panels!
Please help to support our children in their charity work for ‘Guide dogs for the Blind’. Donations to the school office will be warmly welcomed.
Please join us at our coffee morning on Thursdays, 8.30-10.00am at Clover Hill VA
Infant and Nursery School
Summer Fair
St Michaels Junior School Thursday 3rd July, 2.30pm – 4.00pm.
The fair will include refreshments, a bouncy castle, fairground games, raffles and enterprise stalls. If you wish to run a stall please ring the office on 01603 745812
Please come and join us.
We would like to thank members of the Bowthorpe Church for the ‘Open the Book’ sessions in school. The children loved
them.
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News from St Michael’s VA Junior School.
Sarah Claflin - Senior Leader
Shakespeare Showcase
Children across the school have been studying some of Shakespeare’s
most famous works and participating in a range of drama and writing
activities. Every year group will be performing a different play which
include: The Tempest, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream and Macbeth. These performances will take place in
full costume on our theatrical amphitheatre.
Diary Dates
02/07/14: Sports Day -
children will be competing
in sporting events during
the morning.
14/07/14 Sharing Maths
— from 9-10:15am parents
are invited to join their
child for a fun session of
maths strategy games .
03/07/14 : The
summer fayre
will take place
on the school
playground/field in the
afternoon. If you would
like to book a stall, please
come into our office or
call on: 01603 745812.
Thoughts from Eco—council…
It has been very hot recently and it is
important to drink plenty of water and
to stay hydrated. Instead of buying
bottled water, why not buy a refillable
bottle? This will mean you can refill it
over and over again; it is much cheaper
than buying bottled
water and is better
for the environment.
Amazon Adventure
As part of their studies of Brazil, Y4
will be visiting Amazonia in Cromer,
where they will see over 200 animals
from South America. On the day
children will also learn more about
important conservation issues.
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CHILDREN’S PAGE Hi Oz here again. I don't know if anyone else has noticed but on the
far side of the world there seems to be some sort of football thing
taking place. Everywhere you look in shops on the news or even on
food products it seems to have taken over. As a concession to this
Oz’s word search uses some of the teams taking part in the World
Cup. See how you get on with it.
a n a p a j l d l d
u n f o a f i n c n
g t i r t c z a o a
e l o t c a a l l l
r y c u n m r g o e
m u i g l e b n m r
a i x a t r g e b i
n l e l i o y r i r
y o m o w o h x a l
s a r u d n o h s o
ARGENTINA BELGIUM BRAZIL CAMEROON
COLOMBIA ENGLAND GERMANY HONDURAS
IRELAND JAPAN MEXICO PORTUGAL
Well that’s all for Oz for this time and for the summer in fact.
I would always appreciate feedback about this page and any
suggestions you would like to make as to how it could be better
(email as on back page). Hope you all have enjoyable summer break
and that you all stay safe.
Bye Oz
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