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 Melbourn Sports Centre Graham Johnson-Mack 263313 Photographic Club Bruce Huett 232855 Ramblers Dave Allard 242677 Royston and District Round Table Michael Seymour 221398 Squash Club Nick Sugden 261064 Swimming Club Jenny Brackley 244593 Tennis (Melbourn) Dave Liddiard 07508 995 781 Tennis (Meldreth) Sue Davies 220174
A Winter Wonderland at MSC! We’re not going to let those long winter nights stop us from enjoying our exercise! As well as our indoor facilities like the swimming pool, squash courts and sports hall, we have loads of classes to keep you fit and healthy, including Boxercise, Core Stability, Swim Clinic, AquaFit, Pilates and Body Workout. We also now offer table tennis alongside our normal indoor racket sports. And they’re all reasonably priced, so the one thing that will stay plump is your purse! Looking to book a birthday or Christmas party? How about bouncing those cares away with our new trampolining party, now available as well as our normal activities. We also have the adjacent Community Centre available for booking, with or without the pool facilities. Trampolining is also part of our Olympic countdown lesson programme, offered to children at full-time school, as are the Saturday gymnastic lessons run by a qualified instructor, for children aged 3 and up. With Christmas just round the corner, keep your eye out for our gift promotion – a fun and fit idea if you’re looking for something different to buy a loved one or friend (or treat yourself!). For further details on parties, gift memberships or any of our activities, please drop in, call 01763 263313 or go online at www.melbournsports. com. We look forward to seeing you this season! Graham Johnson-Mack, Melbourn Sports Centre
Autumn Review After the success of our summer
activities, including the ever-popular Pentathlons and holiday courses, we were looking for new and exciting ways to continue our community’s interest in exercise, as the nights grew shorter. This included a new gymnastics class on Saturdays, which was an instant hit. We also ran tennis coaching sessions during the summer, funded by Sportivate, aimed at 14-24 year olds. They proved to be very successful, with a healthy number of attendants continuing to play tennis after the course. The Melbourn and District tennis club is still working hard to increase participant numbers, with Set2Play Tennis having been awarded the coveted Beacon status, which usually takes years to gain! They have also donated windbreaks, already erected and in use on the courts. Attendance numbers for swimming seem fairly consistent, now that the summer holidays are over. We expect this trend to remain steady over the next few months. Why not get in some early practice for next year’s Swimathon and join our lane swimming or public swim sessions, in a nice warm pool? We would like to thank MC-Splash Swimming Club and its members for generously donating approximately £150.00 toward the purchase of a new speed clock, which we believe will be an asset to both young and old pupils on our popular swimming lesson plan.
1st Melbourn Rainbows During the summer term we worked towards our Roundabout Badge where we worked on activities based around the themes of Look, Learn, Laugh and Love. The girls have a choice of activities for each section and they choose which activity they wish to do. This is part of our encouraging the girls to make their own decisions and to accept decisions made by others in the unit. The first activity was based around the theme of Look and the girls chose to look at and discuss their dolls. Each girl told the other Rainbows their doll’s name, how they got their doll and if there were any characteristics about the doll that were similar to themselves. After this activity they chose for the theme Love, hand painting. The girls were asked to make creatures using melbournmagazine
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