Ackworth November
Issue No. 09
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Editor’s letter... Panto season is nearly upon us, Oh no it isn’t…. Oh yes it is! Sorry, I just couldn’t resist! This year, Doncaster Race Course will he hosting its first ever Pantomime, Peter Pan. You can win a family ticket by e-mailing me your name and address, the competition details are on this page, good luck! Congratulations to the winners of last month’s Trophy Post, Lesley Hurworth from Haxey, Mr Kielty from Branton, Michael Mowbray from Pontefract and Sue Young from Sprotbrough. We hope you all had an enjoyable and lucky day at the races! We are looking for some new delivery people to help distribute the Arrow in Ackworth & Badsworth. If you would like to earn a few extra pennies and have a few hours to spare a month, please contact me on the details below. Thank you again to the local primary school who shares a bit of school life with us all. The deadline for the December issue for advertising and articles is Wednesday 19th November. The December Arrow will be delivered by the last weekend in November.
Best Wishes Michelle Sidebottom Tel: 01302 534256 / 07795 387937 Email: michelle@arrowpublications.co.uk
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News, News, News, News ... 40th Anniversary Celebrations On the evening of October 14th The Ackworth 74 Club Members, past and present gathered in the Methodist Chapel Schoolroom to celebrate 40 years since the inauguration of the Club. The Club began life in October 1974 and started as a support group for the then many young wives who had recently moved into the village. The Club had the support of the Rev. John McCarthy and met in the Methodist Church Schoolroom, where it still meets today. Mrs. Val Bamfield the first Club Secretary was invited to speak and she read out the very first minutes of the Club dated 28thOct 1974. The present Methodist Minister Jacqueline Evans was guest of honour and she gave her blessing to the Club, it’s members and spoke of the importance of friendship. She expressed a hope that the Club would continue to prosper in the years to come. Fifty ladies, members past and present and invited guests enjoyed a delicious knife and fork buffet supper provided by Richard from the Brown Cow. There was an Anniversary Cake which the Club Committee had hoped would be cut by their oldest member, Mrs. Betty Varley, who sadly was indisposed. Instead, Mrs. Kath Shannon was invited to cut the cake in recognition of the hard work and effort she had put into keeping the Club going through the 1990’s when membership declined and it was feared the Club might have to be disbanded. The Current President of the Club, Moira Spears thanked everyone for coming and she and the Committee presented all members of the Club with a small gift, as a reminder of this special evening. She expressed a hope that the next decade will prove to be a successful one for the Club. New members are always welcome and anyone interested should contact Club Secretary Pat Lawson on 01977 612255.
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CRAFT FAIR SUCCESS Ackworth Community Library's first craft fair has raised nearly ÂŁ600 for library funds The craft fair, held on Saturday, 18th October at Ackworth Village Club attracted over 300 visitors who enjoyed browsing stalls offering everything from jewellery to knitted goods, chalk boards to bath bombs. Volunteer, Philippa Petty stated 'we are over the moon with the success of our first major fundraising event and would like to thank everyone involved, volunteers, local businesses, Ackworth Village Club and the local community for supporting the craft fair, raising much needed funds for the library which, as a charity now relies, totally on grants, donations and fund-raising local library services and much more. We have created a new event which we hope to repeat next year and add as an annual event to the Ackworth Community calender. Our next event will be a Christmas fair, complete with a visit from Santa, which will be held in the library on Saturday, 29th November. Everyone will be welcome.' Further details of fund-raising events and library opening hours are available on their website at www,ackworthcommunitylibrary.co.uk
Above: a presentation by the "friends of Brackenhill" group, who have now disbanded and have given the library the remains of their groups money.
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Class 2 visit the Sculpture Park! “On Tuesday Class 2 visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. We saw some amazing sculptures but our favourite was the lady hare by Sophie Ryder. In the afternoon we created our own sculpture and presented our Skipping Bird, Falling Dinosaur, Sculpture Snake, Snappy Dragon and Flying Bear to the rest of the class.” Mrs Albaya. “It was a colourful snake. It was blue, red, yellow and green and had spikey pinecones at the bottom. The face was a wooden brick.” Darcy in Class 2. No Pens Wednesday On Wednesday the school took part in the National initiative of No Pens Day Wednesday. This is a national speaking and listening event which provides free resources to support schools and settings to put down their pens and pick up their language and teach a full day of lessons focused on speaking and listening! The children throughout school had a fantastic day. Class 1 used their speaking and listening skills to describe different coins in math’s and in literacy worked in groups to learn and perform different poems with actions. Class 2 made paper sculptures and talked about how they created them. In math’s they used nail boards to described different shapes. Class 3 used the new playground markings in the front playground in math’s to design their own number games. In class 5 the focus for the day was Space and an alien invasion. In literacy they created their own BBC news reports about a crashed UFO in Roswell. In maths they looked at humans colonising the moon, in groups investigated the cost of building and planning a lunar theme park. The class particularly enjoyed ICT and making hoax UFO photos.
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St Cuthberts & All Saints Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness Any English Literature student will know that this is a line from Keats’ poem, Ode to Autumn. I have to confess that I am not a great fan of poetry, unlike some of my colleagues. But this is one poem which has stayed with me. Autumn is a time when the nights get longer, the weather gets colder and damper, the leaves on the trees start falling, and garden, and much of nature seems to fall asleep, before the grey months of Winter. It is a time also, when many people start to feel down, and sad. A condition known as Seasonal Affective Disorder is the extreme form of this general feeling. It is a time when a lot of people follow nature and just retreat indoors for most of the season and wait for Spring. But to do this means missing out on a lot of things. I mentioned the greyness of Winter, and I worry sometimes that our world might become just that, grey. Autumn is far from a grey season. The leaves on the trees, although they are dying, give a fantastic display of colour, from green, to orange, to yellow and to brown. To look upon deciduous woodland at this time, it to discover a world of colour in our lives. In Winter, many shrubs and trees will still have berries on them. The holly tree is just one example, and frequently seen in Christmas displays. So even in the seasons where nature seems to shut down for several months, there is a lot of colour which displays the life underneath. We too can be in danger of becoming grey, not just in Autumn or Winter, but throughout the seasons, and throughout our lives. As I sit and watch the world go by sometimes, what I see is a world conforming to norms which are set by unknown groups, and seem to be accepted without question. Why should we conform? Why shouldn’t we question? Why can’t 8:30am Communion All Saints Church we be individuals, within a society, rather than the 10:15am Communion St Cuthbert's Church same individuals in a society? Where is the flare? 15:30pm Afternoon Worship All Saints Church Where is the creativity which makes me, me, and Monday-Thursday you, you.
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One of the characteristics of God is that he is The Creator, of the world, and of you and me. God is creative. If you and I are created in his image, then we too are creative, and we should never forget that aspect of ourselves, and our spirituality. So I believe we should be ourselves, we should be individual, we should show flare and creativity, and by doing this, we should bring colour into the world. I hope that all of us, together, will bring a rainbow of colour into our community, and brighten up not only own lives, but the lives of the people we meet day by day. Rev Paul Fox revpaul.fox@gmail.com
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