The Sprotbrough Also covering Warmsworth, 4800 distribution monthly
January 2017
Issue No. 136
Happy New Year Arrow Publications
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elcome to the January issue of the Sprotbrough Arrow. After the buzz of December, January peeks around the corner and the thought of a new year dawns. New healthy eating plans, exercise regimes and resolutions fly around our heads making us feel ready and motivated for 2017. What ever your aim, whether it be fitness, new career or just a change of routine, I hope you manage to achieve your goal… but don’t be too hard on yourself, there's always 2018! I hope everyone had their most perfect Christmas whatever that may be. If you are stuck for choice on how you are going to celebrate the start of a new year, all of our local pubs have something lined up to keep you entertained. A great choice if you feel like an evening out but don’t want to travel far and rely on taxis. Whatever you choose to do, I hope you have a great time with your family and friends and that 2017 is a year filled with good health and happiness. The deadline for the February issue will be Wednesday 18th January. The Arrow will be delivered the last full weekend in January.
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Community News The Christmas tree lighting event took place on Saturday November 26th. The event was enjoyed by around 300 people who came along to support the second year of the event. Ottos lighted the trees on the edge of the green, and the still developing Sprotbrough Tea Rooms situated in the old post office , joined in by lighting the large tree on the perimeter of their site. St Mary's church and Scott practice joined in with lights of their own and the growing Christmas tree was decorated with hundreds of ice white and blue lights. The whole event was supported by funds from the recent tour de Yorkshire and a generous donation from Dorothy Weaver. Beavers and Rainbows entered a competition to draw a poster advertising the event and everyone taking part received a small gift. Copley school choir led the community singing of three festive songs and everyone was offered mince pies or cakes. There were so many people to thank but space limits naming them all. Suffice it to say that it is becoming a real community event. Planning for next year has already begun. If you would like to, donate, sponsor, help or support this event, please contact me below. Everyone is welcome. Contact carolmaryrees@hotmail.co.uk.
WARMSWORTH LADIES’ CLUB
SPROTBROUGH MUSIC SOCIETY presents
HUW WIGGIN (saxophone) and SOMI KIM (piano) What be er way to start the new year than with a concert of live music from dis nguished instrumentalists in music ranging from Baroque to Bernstein in our own village hall!
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Make it a Happy New Year come and join us 10 Jan 17 A Welcome to the New Year 17 Jan 17 Conscientious Objectors 24 Jan 17 Sheffield in Tudor and Stuart Times 31 Jan 17 German Ancestors
Thursday 19th January 2017
Everyone is very welcome.
St Mary's Church Hall 7.30PM. Admission by annual subscrip on or £8.00 (members) £14.00 (non-members)
We meet on Tuesdays 7:30-9pm Warmsworth Community Centre, Low Road
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Sprotbrough Community Library Courses & Activities 2017 Day/Date
Course/Activity
Time
Monday Monday Monday
10am-12.30pm 1pm-3pm 1pm-3pm
Practical Philosophy (next course starts 09/01/17) Art for Leisure – weekly art group Tai Chi – 5 week taster course (WEA) - starts 9th Jan 2017
Monday
6pm-8pm
Tuesday
2pm-3pm
French – 5 week taster course (WEA) -starts 9th Jan 2017 Sprotbrough Readers Group - FREE 2nd Tues of month
Tuesday
12.45pm 2.45pm
Family History – 11 week course (AFCL)- starts 3rd Jan 2017
Tuesday
10.15am-12.15
Tuesday
1pm-2pm
Tuesday
2pm-3pm
Tuesday
6.30pm-8.30pm
Wednesday
2pm-3pm
Thursday
9.30/3pm/5pm/7pm
Creative Writing – 5 week taster course (WEA)- starts 10th Jan 2017 Children’s story time & activities (preschool) - FREE Dominoes, draughts & card games – FREE Starts 17th Jan 2017 – everyone welcome! Evening Social Club – bingo, quizzes, etc. Starts 17/01/17 – everyone welcome! Children’s craft activity hour – under 10’s - FREE Slimming World Classes
Thursday
2.30pm-4pm
Friday
11am-12pm
Afternoon Tea & Scones/Cakes – last Thurs of month – starts 26/01/17 Social Group – new members welcome!
Events & Activity Sessions 2017 Date Tue 10th January Tue 31st January Wed 25th January
Time 12.00-1.00 12.00-1.00 14.00-16.00
Activity/Event Explore Your Computer – FREE Explore Your Computer – FREE Introduction to Website Marketing - FREE
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Richmond Hill Primary Academy KS1 Christmas Performance It’s that special time of year! Our Y1 and Y2 Christmas Performance was ‘A Magical Journey’, which received an abundance of fantastic comments and praise from the audience.
Christmas Fayre
We always look forward to our Christmas Fayre with lots of games to play like the classic Wheel of Fortune!
Nursery Christmas
Our Nursery children welcomed parents into Nursery for a little gathering to enjoy hot chocolate and festive biscuits and to listen to them singing some Christmas songs. Next step the stage to join the Reception children in the Foundation Christmas Performance in front of a bigger audience.
Thank you Sainsbury’s!
A great big massive thank you to our Sainsbury’s Local for donating a scrumptious food hamper for our Christmas raffle.
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Sprotbrough Orchard News What a busy month December has been here at Orchard! Our children have been super excited about all the activities we’ve had planned and they’ve been involved with. On Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd December, children in school visited St. Mary’s church to listen to the first nativity story told by Reverend Amanda in the chapel. They were actively involved in the story using puppets to symbolise the main characters. Afterwards, they were given opportunity to view the nativity display before heading back to school. School would like to extend their thanks to Rev. Amanda for her continued support and links with us. On Monday 5th December, the Children’s Society came to make Christingles with the children. They talked with them about the Christingle symbol and what it represents. That afternoon we invited the Children’s Society back into school to participate in our Christingle assembly where the children presented their donations. On Tuesday 6th December we held our Nursery concert where the youngest children in school sang a selection of their favourite Christmas songs. On Wednesday 7th December the two Reception classes performed their take on the first nativity and it was greatly received by our fabulous audience. The Key Stage One concert will be held on Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th December. On Thursday 8th December, Sprotbrough Orchard Infant School turned the big 5-0! To celebrate fifty years of the school being open, Mrs Rimmer cooked a birthday lunch and children participated in traditional party games in the afternoon. We also held our termly school disco which was well attended as usual and raised £378 for school funds. We would like to extend our thanks to the parents who help to make these events happen and the support from all parents who brought their children along. With a week still left at school, there’s still so much more happening before the long awaited break. Keep your eyes peeled in next month’s issue for the activities we have yet to tell you about.
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School News from Copley Junior School Christmas was celebrated at Copley Junior in a number of ways including Year 5’s Space themed presentation, Year 6’s performance of ‘Snow White and the Seventeen Dwarfs’, a very busy Christmas Fair, carols to celebrate the Christmas tree lights switching on in Sprotbrough, Christmas Jumper Day in support of ‘Save the Children’, Christmas parties, Christmas lunch, Christmas disco and a traditional carols and readings service at St Mary’s Church. The photographs below show just a few of the characters from our Christmas performances. The Year 5 children impressed everyone with their fantastic knowledge about Space with their performance of ‘Into the Great Unnknown’. The Year 6 performance of ‘Snow White and the Seventeen Dwarfs’ had something for everyone – fantastic acting, super singing, dramatic dance, humour, slapstick comedy, high tension, true love, tragedy and the triumph of good over evil! Express Events Over the last few weeks we have welcomed parents/carers and relatives into school to share in the children’s learning. As part of their project on ‘Predators’ Year 3 designed and made some wonderful models. These were displayed to create our gallery together with writing and Science work. As part of their work children also created life size paintings of an elephant and a bear! In Year 4 children demonstrated their knowledge about ‘Raiders and Traders’ with group presentations of their work, which included extended writing, models, sewing, paintings, fact files, PowerPoint presentations and posters. They even demonstrated their skills as powerful Viking guards! The Year 6 express was entirely pupil led, with the different groups deciding how they would present their learning about what life was like in World War 2. There was a great variety of work presented from models, posters, PowerPoints, poetry, factual writing, painting, quizzes etc. It was lovely to see the children sharing their work with such enthusiasm and confidence.
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Young Shakespeare Visit for Year 5 and 6 Our children in Year 5 and 6 have had the fantastic experience of engaging in ‘theatre in the round’ with the Young Shakespeare Company. We organise this for Years 5-6 every year so that by the time children leave Copley they have had live theatre experience of two Shakespeare plays. The Young Shakespeare Company visits provide a wonderful first experience of Shakespeare. Their performance of ‘Macbeth’ was, quite simply, electrifying, and the children were completely absorbed. At points children were actively involved in the performance and afterwards there was opportunity to ask the very talented actors questions about the plot and the motivation of the characters. We look forward to sharing more school news next month. Best wishes, E.A. Crayton Head teacher
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What’s On In Sprotbrough? Day
Activity
Meeting Place
Time
Mon
Rainbows
Scout Barn in Sprotbrough Village
5.30pm
Mon
Rising 2’s play session
Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough
9.00-11.30am
Mon
Rising 2’s play session
Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough
12.30- 3.00pm
Mon
Brownies
Sprotbrough Methodist Church
6.15-7.45pm
Mon
Beavers (6-7yrs)
Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough
6.00-7.30pm
Mon
French Conversation Group
Sprotbrough Community Library
6.00—8.00pm
Mon
Adult Beginners Ballroom/Latin Dance
St Mary’s Church Hall, Sprotbrough
2pm –3pm
Tue
Sprotbrough Starz
Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough
9.15-11am
Tue
Coffee Morning
Sprotbrough Methodist Church
10.30-11.30am
Tue
Tuesday Club
Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough
1.30-4.00pm
Tue
Painting Class
Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough
2.00-4.00pm
Tue
Dancing
Sprotbrough Methodist Church
4.00-7.00pm
Tue
Story time & Activities (term time)
Sprotbrough Library
1pm—2pm
Tue
Taekwondo
Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough
6.00-9.00pm
Tue
Cubs (8-10yrs)
Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough
6.30-8.00pm
Tue
Cubs 'Kestrels' (8-10yrs)
The Barn, Main Street
6.45-8.15pm
Wed
Rising 2’s Playgroup
Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough
9.00-11.30am
Wed
Sprotbrough Park Playtime (term time)
Sprotbrough Methodist Church
9.30-11am
Wed
Sequence Dance—Ian Sadler
Royal British Legion
1pm –3.30pm
Wed
Story Time & Activities Alternate weeks
Sprotbrough Library
1.30pm—2.30pm
Wed
Dancing
Sprotbrough Methodist Church
4.00-7.00pm
Wed
Taekwondo
Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough
5.30-6.30pm
Wed
Sequence Dance Club
St Mary’s Church Hall
7.30pm—10pm
Wed
Cubs 'Falcons' (8-10yrs)
The Barn, Main Street
6.45-8.15pm
Wed
Scouts (11-14yrs)
Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough
7.00-9pm
Thurs
Coffee Morning
The Stable, Main Street, Sprotbrough
10—11.30am
Thurs
Little tykes (childminders drop in)
Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough
9.15—11.00am
Thurs
Thursday Club
Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough
1.30-4.00pm
Thurs
Dancing Class
Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough
4.45-8.45pm
Thurs
Brownies
Sprotbrough Methodist Church
6.00-7.30pm
Thurs
Yoga Class
St Marys Church Hall
7—8.30pm
Thurs
Adult Improvers Ballroom/Latin
Sprotbrough Methodist Church
8-9pm
Thurs
Beavers (6-7yrs)
The Barn, Main Street
5.30-6.30pm
Thurs
Scouts (11-14yrs)
The Barn, Main Street
7.00-9.15pm
Thurs
Explorer Scouts (14-18yrs)
Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough
7.30-9.30pm
Fri
Sprotbrough Starz
Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough
9.15-11am
Fri
Tea Dance
Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough
1.00-4.00pm
Fri
Taekwondo
Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough
6.30-9.00pm
Sat
Sequence Dancing
Royal British Legion Club
7.30—10.30pm
Sat
Dancing Class
Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough
9.15-3.15pm
Sun
Sunday Club
Sprotbrough Methodist Church
10am—11am
Sun
t-Time, Crafts, bible stories and more
St Marys Church Hall
4—5pm—check hall for dates
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What’s on in Warmsworth? Day
Activity
Meeting Place
Time
Monday
Playgroup
Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)
9am-3.15pm
Tuesday
Playgroup
Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)
9am-3.15pm
Tuesday
Brownies
Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)
6.30pm-8pm
Tuesday
Ladies Club
Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)
7pm-9pm
Wednesday
Playgroup
Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)
9am-3.15pm
Wednesday
Ladies Dancing
Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)
8pm-9pm
Thursday
Playgroup
Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)
9am-3.15pm
Thursday
Dancing Class
Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)
4pm-9pm
Thursday
Watercolours
Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)
10am-12 noon
Thursday
JW Club
Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)
1.30pm-2.30pm
Friday
Playgroup
Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)
9am-3.15pm
Saturday
Children’s Dancing
Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)
10am-12noon
Sprotbrough Community Centre Bookings Tel: 788093 Methodist Church Hall Bookings Tel: 570036 (office hours 10am-12noon Tue & Fri) St Marys Church Hall Bookings Tel: 07891 813986 Warmsworth Community Centre Contact Mrs Jill Sharpe 01302 858377
Monthly Events in Sprotbrough & Warmsworth Monthly
Activity
Meeting Place
Time
3rd Monday 1st & 3rd Tuesday
St Mary’s Mothers Union
The Stable, Main Street, Sp’boro
7.30pm- 9.30pm
Sequence Dancing
Royal British Legion Club
7.30-10.30pm
1st Wednesday
Sprotbrough Wives
Sprotbrough Methodist Church
8.00-10.00pm
2nd Thursday
Lunch Club
Sprotbrough Methodist Church
12.15pm - 2.00pm
2nd Tuesday
Jigsaw Puzzle library & Coffee
The Stable, main Street, Sprotbrough
10—12noon
2nd Tuesday
Sprotbrough WI
St Mary’s Church Hall
7.30—9.30pm
4th Thursday
Chatroom
Sprotbrough Methodist Church
1.30-3.30pm
Last Thursday of month
Parish Luncheon Club
Newton Arms, Sprotbrough Rd
12 for 12.30pm
2nd Monday
Ladies Club Committee
Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)
7pm-9pm
3rd Monday
Parish Council meeting
Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)
7pm-9pm
2nd Wednesday
Pudding Club
Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)
7pm-9pm
3rd Thursday
Community Partnership
Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)
6.30pm—7.30pm
1st Thursday
Warmsworth WI
Warmsworth Community Centre
7—9pm
1st Friday
Baby Clinic
Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)
1pm—3pm
1st Saturday
Ward Councillors Surgery
Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)
10.30am to 11.30am
1st Tuesday
Warmsworth & Edlington Lions Club
The Fairway, Warmsworth Rd, Balby DN4 0RP
7pm
3rd Wednesday
Warmsworth Neighbourhood Watch
Cricket Club
7pm
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Education Copley Junior School, Sprotbrough
01302 856445
Orchard Infant School, Sprotbrough
01302 853655
Richmond Hill Primary School
01302 782421
Ridgewood School
01302 783939
Doncaster Council - Education
01302 734444
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