Bowls Malcolm Davey 262704 Bridge Club Howard Waller 261693 1st Melbourn Rainbows Abigail Roberts 261505 Brownies 1st Melbourn Stephanie Clifford 220272 Brownies 2nd Melbourn Samantha Pascoe 261400 Cricket Martin Winter 262733 Croquet Janet Pope 248342 Football Club Andrew Edwards 223109 Dynamos Football Club Les Morley 07739 593771 Gardening Club Helen Powell 245887 Judo Derek Coult 225004 McSplash Joanne Greene 263313 Melbourn Sports Centre Graham Johnson-Mack 263313 Ramblers Dave Allard 242677 Royston and District Round Table Michael Seymour 221398 Squash Club Nick Sugden 261064 Swimming Club Jenny Brackley 244593 Tennis (Meldreth) Sue Davies 220174
1st Melbourn Rainbows The autumn term began with the introduction of our new Rainbows and then a discussion about our summer holidays. As part of our harvest celebration, the Rainbows created their own scarecrows with concertina legs. Many fabulous scarecrows were made, but they were all far too lovely to scare any crows I’m afraid so not much use to the farmers for protecting their crops. We created a ‘junk’ orchestra, using our instruments to produce music for a good old sing-song and a bit of a dance as well. The girls held their own Antiques Road Show bringing an antique from home to tell all of the other Rainbows about. They told us how old their object was, what it was and where they had got the item from. It was a wonderful evening with many varied objects. Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who allowed the girls to bring to the evening, these valuable objects to share. For bonfire night we made chocolate apples covered in sprinkles, made our own firework pictures and then finished off the evening around the camp fire with some of our favourite songs. (I should say it wasn’t a real camp fire
but Violet created a fantastic artificial one, flames and all.) We decided to have an etiquette evening where the girls learnt how to set a table and fold napkins. They sat down to a meal of jacket potato followed by dessert where they were encouraged to use their knife and fork correctly. Christmas was soon upon us and we decided not to think of ourselves, but of others. Over a couple of weeks the Rainbows decorated terracotta pots and then planted within them miniature cyclamens. These were given to the community which we hope they enjoyed as much as we enjoyed making them. We were also very lucky to have a visit by Cambells of Melbourn who entertained us with carols and then we finished the year with a Christmas party. It has been a very exciting and busy year for Rainbows, and we are looking forward to what the New Year will bring. Although we do have quite a long waiting list, if your daughter wishes to become a Rainbow, please call Abigail Roberts, Unit Leader on 01763 261505.
1st Melbourn Guides Ten million Girl Guides celebrated the end of our Centenary, and two thousand of us packed into Ely Cathedral on October 20th for our singing, dancing finale. Through November and December we themed our autumn term programme to fit traditional events. On Bonfire night we staged a little play to enact the Gunpowder plot, with some girls dancing as fireworks afterwards. On Armistice Day the girls learnt skills they would have been taught in the World War II, such as first aid, morse code, and simple cooking. On Remembrance Sunday twenty girls attended the parade and church service, and the following
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