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13th June 2019
Issue 1065
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VOLUNTEERS REVAMP SCHOOL
THIS week 30 volunteers from M&S Meadowhall joined Stocksbridge Junior School to help reinvigorate their indoor and outdoor learning spaces by clearing rooms, painting and decorating, as well as digging, weeding and planting flowers and vegetable beds.
Stocksbridge Junior School works to enrich the lives of pupils in the local community in Sheffield by creating a diverse learning environment and mixing traditional lessons with alternative learning sessions to build on the children’s life skills. The school has been an integral part of the community for 56 years and has hosted everything from summer fêtes to festive fayres. Stocksbridge Junior School reached out to M&S Meadowhall for support from their team as they needed funding and volunteers to renovate the garden and school bungalow so it can be better used for extracurricular learning, breakfast clubs and after school clubs. The M&S volunteer team rolled up their sleeves and got to work with landscaping the outdoor space and decorating the indoor learning areas. After they had completed the project, the chil-
dren excitedly explored their new learning spaces and were very happy with the outcome. The volunteers were 30 of 5,000 colleagues from more than 600 M&S stores across the UK, who took part in a week-long volunteering drive, committing over 40,000 hours to projects that work tirelessly to improve the lives of children, young people and families across the UK. The projects selected all help young people as a group that M&S and its customers feels passionate about supporting. As well as Stocksbridge Junior School, M&S is working with 400 organisations including schools, food banks, youth clubs and education charities to create positive outcomes for thousands of young people across the UK. Dave Cater, Plan A Community Champion at M&S Meadowhall said: “We’re really proud to be coming together as a team to support Stocksbridge Junior School. At M&S Meadowhall we care passionately about supporting young people in our community. The education of young people is something we know our customers care about too and we were really pleased to be able to get stuck into decorating their learning ar-
eas. Volunteering makes a profound difference to communities, and we believe that lots of small actions from lots of people creates a lasting impact to initiatives that do so much good for young people in Sheffield”.
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Slimming World
MONDAY Stocksbridge The Venue, Manchester Road, 9:30, 11:30, 5pm & 7pm Donna: 07917 858 327 TUESDAY Penistone St John’s Community Centre Church Street 9.30am, 11.30am, 5pm & 7pm Janice: 07500 945661
WEDNESDAY Stannington Stanwood Methodist Church Stanwood Drive (Just off Stannington Road) 5pm & 7pm Jo: 2339304 High Green St Saviour’s Church Hall Mortomley Lane 9.30am, 11.30am, 5pm & 7pm Lindsay: 0114 2845866
Chapeltown Chapeltown WMC Market Place 5pm & 7pm Natalie: 0114 2611855
Grenoside St Mark’s Church Hall Main Street 5:30pm & 7:30pm Julie: 07411 110 014
Stocksbridge The Venue Manchester Road 5pm & 7pm Donna: 07917 858 327
Ecclesfield Neighbourhood Support Unit 712 Wordsworth Avenue 5.30pm & 7.30pm Joanne: 0114 2462499
slimmingworld.co.uk 0344 897 8000
THURSDAY Hillsborough Hillsborough Sports Arena Middlewood Road (Next to Hillsborough Park) 9am & 11am Christine: 0114 2817860 Chapeltown Chapeltown WMC Market Place 5pm & 7pm Lesley: 0114 2847552 Oughtibridge Parish Centre School Lane (Side of Oughtibridge Church Off Church Street) 5pm & 7pm Kirsty: 0114 229 9117 Penistone Oxspring St Aidens Church Sheff Rd 7pm Lindsey: 0785 2186799
Sophie Hicks, School Business Manager at Stocksbridge Junior School said: “It’s been fantastic to have the support of M&S Meadowhall on this project, the funding and manpower combined has made a huge difference to what we’ve been able to achieve. The outdoor space looks fantastic and
I’m so pleased that the bungalow we renovated last year is now a vibrant and homely space for us to host after school activities and breakfast clubs for the children – it’s like home from home. I can’t thank the team enough for the support they’ve given us”.
PARENTS JOIN IN WITH SCIENCE LEARNING
FRIDAY Chapeltown Chapeltown WMC Market Place 9.30am & 11.30am Lindsay: 0114 2845866 SATURDAY Chapeltown Chapeltown WMC Market Place 9am & 11am Emma: 07876 027201 Hillsborough Hillsborough Sports Arena Middlewood Road (Next to Hillsborough Park) 9am & 11am Christine: 0114 2817860
CHILDREN at Royd Nursery Infant School took part in a science afternoon and invited parents and carers in to carry out a range of practical experiments. The children rotated around four different activities throughout the afternoon. One child commented: “My favourite experiment was making a raincloud. I learned that that once the clouds get
full of water, they can’t hold anymore and the water falls back to the ground.”
sible and it is safe to say that the practical science experiments certainly did this.
Mr Sly, deputy head teacher, said: “This was a superb event that the children are parents really enjoyed. I must say a huge thank you to Miss Bamford for setting up such a brilliant event.
“As a school we really value the part that parents play in their child’s education and it was great to see such high numbers of parents attend.
“We always aim to implement as much fun and excitement into our curriculum as pos-
“The children were absolutely fascinated as were the parents with many of them commenting that they hadn’t seen the experiments before.”
