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Here we are, three quarters of the way through the year….I’m not even going to tell you how many days until the dreaded ‘C’ word, but it isn’t many and I have no doubt it’ll be upon us before long!! Every year, I have a plan! It starts around now and it involves me getting organised by purchasing some gifts for our loved ones…..and this is where the plan ends until around the 18th December!! I mean, it’s the same time every year! I don’t know what I’m surprised but yet I am doomed to repeat the same mistake like some kind of merry ground hog day! I suppose the only exception was last year as we knew we weren’t going to see some of the family, so what happened there was a ridiculously elongated gift obtaining session! It started around the 18th as usual (remember covid was initially planning to take a Christmas week hiatus!) and then sort of rolled into a cycle of sporadic gift buying – forgot what we bought them – bought more gifts – hunt down Christmas paper – wrapped gifts – can’t remember what they are – buy more presents…until we saw the family in June! Anyway,
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From the Editor this year is going to be different!! Honest!! Perhaps our front covers will help this month with the stress of it! In honour of International doodle day, we’ve changed the material of our front covers so that you can whip out your felt tip pens/crayons/paints and join in the fun. Laura has written a cracking article on this, see page 22 for details and keep your eyes peeled on our social media where we will be posting some of our attempts and please feel free to share yours! Happy Reading,
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BAKEWELL TOWN FC NEWS & UPDATES Bakewell Town FC has developed what we think is a new and truly unique process in attracting coaches to the club. We recently met with Vickie Norman head of “employability” at Sheffield Hallam University where there is a bottomless pit of talented young people looking to gain coaching experience. Trainee teachers, coaches, physiotherapists, and sports business students are looking to gain coaching experience. Dave Cottrell - the club Chairperson explains: “Student coaches teach our children the techniques of football and are developmental in their outlook and not win at all costs. The student coaches have been amazingly positive and develop all children regardless of their ability not just the match winners!”
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The students at Sheffield Hallam University travel 36 miles each time they come to Bakewell to coach, and they do this twice per week! This gives them invaluable experience and references for when they look for jobs. The club interviews all coaches for suitability of personality and experience. This gives the student interview practice and sets standards. They are also further trained and mentored as well as obtaining coaching materials. We also invest in coaches by financing their FA level 1 and 2 certificates. However, when a student does get to work for Bakewell Town FC, they go onto gain more experience and paid coaching experience.
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Over the last year many of us have changed the way we do things, at Derbyshire Adult Community Education we’ve rethought the courses we offer. We have both online and centre based courses available in the Autumn term. You can upskill and gain a qualification or have a go at one of our wide range of leisure classes. We have many courses to help improve your wellbeing or to help you get fit. Get inspired, make friends and start a new journey of discovery! The first two weeks of September are for our FREE online taster sessions. These are an opportunity to find out more about some of the longer courses coming up this term. We have a number of new online courses that are ideal if you are living on your own, wanting to make new friends or thinking about first steps exercise including: Easy Meals for One, Chair Based Yoga, Creative Get Together and Lower Impact Zumba for Wellbeing. Our live online courses are delivered using freely available video conferencing software, either Zoom or Microsoft Teams. We make it as easy as possible for you to join a course, whatever device you have. You will be sent a link a few days before the course together with information about any resources you need for the course. Your tutor will guide you through the course activities
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FOCUS ON LEARNING Voice Magazines recently had the pleasure of chatting to Sandra Smith, a secondary school maths teacher of 29 years standing. Sandra, who hails originally from Nottingham, has created a series of exercise books aimed primarily at 11 to 16 year olds but also suitable for a younger age range. We asked her what had inspired her and how these books could help children succeed both at school and in life. Talking to Sandra it is crystal clear that she is absolutely passionate about teaching and helping children to learn and grow…this is her WHY, her driving purpose and is what led to the creation of the books. The original idea of blank books with a contents page at the front, came to her back in November 2015 after she had asked the class she was teaching to locate a particular piece of work and saw how difficult that was for the children. Sandra jotted down that germ of an idea in a notebook, but it was November 2019 before she began to think about it again, and this time she realised that adding simple motivational quotes to each page would make the concept even stronger. In her own words, “it only takes one word or key phrase to inspire a child and sow the seeds for them to take charge of their own learning.” Focus Learn Book Company was born out of Sandra’s desire to get the exercise books published, printed and out to the people who need them children. So what exactly are these exercise books, and how can they help children towards success?
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National Doodle Day - 3rd September It seems it’s true, there is in fact a day for everything…even doodling, because Friday 3rd September is National Doodle Day - who knew? There is a serious side to National Doodle Day, it was initially dreamt up in 2004 as a way to raise funds and awareness for epilepsy support and research in the UK. Celebrities were encouraged to create a doodle and add their signature with the resulting, ahem, ‘artwork’ sold off via eBay. Do you doodle - now that’s not a question you get asked every day is it? The theory goes that because we tend to doodle almost without knowing we’re doing it, our innermost feelings or demons can be revealed as we let go of consciously thinking and just let the pen or pencil do its thing. You may start of just scribbling on the notepad in front of you whilst you’re on hold to the council / telecom provider / bank (or whatever) only to see a monster with goggly eyes appearing in front of you (this is especially prevalent when waiting in an interminable queue to speak to anyone who says you owe them money!). There are apparently translatable patterns to our scribbles: many of us will doodle hearts, stars, moons, flowers, squares, circles (and other shapes) and these tend to be connected with our basic need for love and security (apparently). Digging down deeper, are there more straight lines (masculine) or curves (feminine)? Straight lines appear more with fact based analytical people, whereas curves and circles show up with those who are more creatively minded. Doodle a house - square, with a pointy roof and uniformly square windows, and you
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are probably a very down to earth and practical person with an eye to the material things in life. The pressure of the pen on the paper can also be an indication of someone’s state of mind at the time they made their doodle. Have you ever noticed that when you are feeling irritated or angry you press harder, almost as if you want to rip the paper? I know I have. Feathery light hesitant marks on the other hand can denote uncertainty, even a reluctance to make or take a decision. The next time you are sitting absentmindedly doodling, see if any of what I’ve just written fits your scribblings. Take note of your state of mind, were you happy, annoyed, feeling sad? Do your doodles reflect this? Or are they just random markings on the paper made to pass the time? To find out how to buy the doodles being created this year by celebrities ranging from cricket legend Dickie Bird to Maureen Lipman and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, you’ll need to visit https://www.epilepsy. org.uk/doodle-day. Who knows, you could end up with a rather unique piece of art for your wall, whilst at the same time helping support epilepsy research in the UK. These articles are researched and written by Laura Billingham, a local content writer and author. Laura moved to the Peak District several years ago to pursue her passion for writing. To find out more visit www.landgassociates. co.uk or contact Laura on 07736 351341
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Over the next two editions we’re excited to share an interview with Jacob Whittle, the 16 year old swimmer from Alfreton who became the youngest swimmer ever to make the British Olympic team. This month we look at how he began his swimming career.
Did you always love the water? Yes I did - my mum first took me to a mother and toddler session when I was maybe 1 year old and we went together every week. As soon as I was old enough my parents signed me up in a learn to swim programme - they aren’t swimmers but wanted me to learn to swim and not to be afraid of the water.
How old were you when you first learned to swim? I was 3 years old, possibly younger, I just transitioned from the mother and toddler water rhymes sessions where me and my mum were in the water together singing nursery rhymes. I went every week to learn to swim sessions on a Saturday at Water Meadows, Mansfield.
When did you realise you had the ability to swim competitively? I joined Ripley Amateur Swimming Club & Life-Saving (RASCALS) when I was 8 or 9, but I was 10 before I attended my first swimming competition. Derbyshire County Championships was my first major competition, and I didn’t make a final but the following year at the same competition I pretty much won every event I swam. At that age I was swimming all strokes and distances. I competed at the Regional Championships (East Midlands) and came away with a handful of gold medals, and I was given the opportunity to supplement my training at RASCALS by joining Dervenio Excel on a part time basis, moving to full time 6 months later as part of their national squad. From the age of 12 I was selected each year to be part of the talent programmes for Swim England. In 2019 at the age of 14, I qualified for the British Swimming Championships and whilst there I swam a huge lifetime best breaking the British record for aged 14 in 100m Freestyle. As a result of this competition I was selected for the European Junior Championships and European Youth Olympic Festival. Later that year I was selected onto British Swimming’s Podium Potential Programme.
How many hours a day do you train? Usually it is 4hrs per day in the pool and then I also do gym and circuit sessions a few times a week too.
Do you eat a special diet? No, but I eat a balanced healthy diet, with lots of greens, lots of food rich in iron, fish, chicken, plenty of carbs, lots of fruit, milk and I also drink lots of water. At the end of the day I am a teenager and my parents have always allowed me to eat like a teenager in moderation, which means I will have treats sometimes! Next month, Jacob tells us about his Olympic experience.
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Peak Time for the Dragons We touched on Damsels last month but later in the summer and through into autumn it is the time of the Dragons! These are the big beasts of the insect world and in and around the Peak District the bigger dragonflies really come into their own. What is more, with warmer summers as we have experienced in recent years, the numbers and varieties have increased significantly. Along lower-lying rivers and canals you can expect to see the huge ‘brown hawker’ with a mostly brown body but shimmering goldenbrown wings. This will be joined by the ‘Northern Hawker’, the ‘Southern Hawker’, and the slightly smaller ‘Migrant Hawker’ with its downward drooping abdomen. The biggest of all is probably the appropriately named ‘Emperor’, or maybe one of our ‘specials’ of peat-moor and bog, the ‘Golden-ringed Dragonfly’. With their generic name reflecting their feeding behaviour these are called ‘hawkers’ and they will pursue and on the wing, eat, smaller insect prey. You can see them catch a butterfly in the air and then pull off its wings and eat the body without pausing in their flight. The prehistoric ones were about two feet across so just imagine that! Other groups of lesser dragonflies are similarly named with descriptive titles – so we have skimmers, darters, and chasers. Some of these species will be more commonly found in lowland parts of Derbyshire and the Peak; with others like Golden-ringed and Black Darter denizens of boggy pools and fast-flowing streams. The larger species however will turn up well away from their
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