Diary

DECEMBER

Monday 1

Melbourn Bridge Club every Monday at Vicarage Close contact Howard Waller 261693

Tuesday 2

Toddlers Plus 9.30am Baptist Church Hall URC Christingle Service Brownies & Guides 7pm

Wednesday 3

Craft Club 9.30am followed by Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30

Thursday 4

Holy Communion All Saints 10am Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm Homestart Christmas Door Workshop £20 per person contact 262262 Royston & District Local History Soc. Town Hall 8pm ‘Christmas Food Through the Ages’

Friday 5

Coffee at URC 10.30am Melbourn Bowls Club Whist Night 7pm MADS ‘The Flintstones Save Christmas’ 7.30pm Meldreth Village Hall

Saturday 6

Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am The Bookshelf URC ‘Tastes of Christmas’ 11-3pm MADS ‘The Flintstones Save Christmas’ 7.30pm Meldreth Village Hall

Sunday 7

Holy Communion 8am Evensong 6.30pm All Saints Communion Service Baptist Church 6pm URC Communion Service 11am MADS ‘The Flintstones Save Christmas’ matinee 2pm

Monday 8

Last Poetry Workshop The Hub 2-4pm

Tuesday 9

Toddlers Plus Baptist Church 9.30-11.30am (TT) Mothers Union ASCH Service for Advent 2pm

Wednesday 10

Baptist Craft Club 9.30 (TT) followed by Coffee Break 10.30am Hub Club Lunch 12.30pm Carol Singing at The Black Horse 8pm Churches Together

Thursday11

Holy Communion All Saints 10am Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm

Friday 12

Coffee at URC 10.30am

Saturday 13

Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am

Sunday 14

Family Communion & Sunday School All Saints 9.45am Nativity Service Baptist Church 10.30am URC Service 11am

Monday 15

Royston & District Family History Society ASCH 7.30pm Members Christmas Social

Tuesday 16

Toddlers Plus Baptist Church 9.30-11.30am (TT) Melbourn & District Photographic Club each week until April Foxton Village Hall 7.30pm contact Bruce Huett 232855

Wednesday 17

Craft Club 9.30am followed by Coffee Break Baptist Church Hall 10.30am

Thursday 18

Holy Communion All Saints 10am Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm

Friday 19

End of Term Coffee at URC 10.30am

Saturday 20

Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am Carol Singing at The Cross 10.30am Churches Together

Sunday 21

Holy Communion 8am All Saints Baptist Communion Service10.30am URC Nativity Service 11am Churches Together Carols at Moorlands Court 2.30pm & Southwell Court 3.30pm Carols by Candlelight Baptist Church 6pm Carol Service All Saints 6.30pm

Wednesday 24

Coffee Break Baptist 10.30am Crib Service All Saints 3pm URC Watchnight Service 11.30pm Midnight Mass All Saints 11.30pm

Thursday 25

Holy Communion All Saints 8am URC Christmas Service 8.30am Christmas Morning Baptist Service 9.30am

Friday 26

Coffee URC 10.30am

Saturday 27

Coffee Stop All Saints 10.30am

Sunday 28

Family Communion & Sunday School All Saints 9.45am URC Service 11am

JANUARY 2015

Friday 2

Coffee at URC 10.30am

Saturday 3

Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am

Sunday 4

Holy Communion All Saints 8am Holy Communion URC 11am Communion Service Baptist Church 6pm

Tuesday 6

Spring Term begins Toddler Plus Baptist Church 9.30-11.30am (TT)

Wednesday 7

Craft Club Baptist Church 9.30am (TT) Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30am

Thursday 8

Holy Communion All Saints 10am Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm weekly Royston & District Local History Society Town Hall Royston 8pm ‘Four Years Out of Our Lives’

Friday 9

Coffee at URC 10.30am

Saturday 10

Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am

Sunday 11

Family Communion & Sunday School All Saints 9.45am URC Service 11am

Tuesday 13

Toddler Plus Baptist Church 9.30-11.30am Mother’s Union Communion Service followed by lunch at The Hardwick Arms Arrington

Wednesday 14

Craft Club Baptist Church 9.30am (TT) Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30am

Thursday 15

Holy Communion All Saints 10am Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm weekly

Royston & District Family History Soc. ASCH 7.30pm ‘An Unruly Mob’ – tales of Balsham

Friday 16

Coffee at URC 10.30am

Saturday 17

Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am

Sunday 18

Holy Communion All Saints 8am Family Service All Saints 11.00am URC Service 11am Communion Service Baptist Church 10.30am URC Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Service 6pm

Monday 19

Royston & District Family History Society ASCH 7.30pm

Tuesday 20

Toddler Plus Baptist Church 9.30-11.30am (TT)

Wednesday 21

Craft Club Baptist Church 9.30am (TT) Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30am URC Reflective Service 7pm

Thursday 22

Holy Communion All Saints 10am Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm weekly

Friday 23

Coffee at URC 10.30am

Saturday 24

Coffee Stop at ASCH 10.30am The Bookshelf

Sunday 25

Family Communion All Saints 9.45am URC Service 11am

Tuesday 27

Women’s Group ASCH 7.45pm AGM

Wednesday 28

Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30am Royal British Legion Women’s Section Vicarage Close 7pm

Thursday 29

Holy Communion All Saints 10am Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm weekly

Friday 30

Coffee at URC 10.30am

Saturday 31

Winter Flower Festival All Saints 11am-5pm

Sunday 1

Winter Flower Festival All Saints 11-5pm followed by service for Candlemas Holy Communion All Saints 8am URC Communion Service 11am Baptist Communion 6pm

Monday 2

Melbourn Bridge Club meet every Monday Vicarage Close contact Howard Waller 261693

Tuesday 3

Toddlers Plus Baptist Church 9.30-11.30am (TT)

Wednesday 4

Craft Club Baptist Church 9.30am (TT) Coffee Break 10.30am

Thursday 5

Holy Communion All Saints 10am Craft and Chat URC 2pm-4pm weekly Royston & District Local History Soc Town Hall 8pm ‘The Abbey, the Knight and the Cross’

Friday 6

Coffee at URC 10.30am

Saturday 7

Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am

Sunday 8

Family Communion All Saints 9.45am URC Service 11am Evensong All Saints 6.30pm

Tuesday 10

Toddler Plus 9.30-11.30am Baptist Church (TT) Mothers’ Union contact Pauline Hay 260649

Wednesday 11

Craft Club 9.30am (TT) Coffee Break 10.30am Reflective Service URC 7pm

Thursday 12

Holy Communion All Saints 10am Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm

Friday 13

Coffee at URC 10.30am MVC Training Day with primary schools

Saturday 14

Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am

Sunday 15

Holy Communion All Saints 8am Family Service All Saints 11am URC Service 11am

We shall be pleased to receive contributions in any form, articles, poems, drawings, photographs, letters etc., pertaining to Melbourn. Please send any contributions to the Editor, at 110 High Street, Melbourn, marking them ‘MELBOURN MAGAZINE’ or you can email them to melbournmagazine@gmail.com

Monday 16

Half term Royston & District Family History Society ASCH 7.30pm

Wednesday 18

Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30am

Thursday 19

Holy Communion All Saints 10am Coffee & Chat URC 2-4pm

Friday 20

Coffee URC 10.30am

Saturday 21

Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am The Bookshelf

Sunday 22

Family Communion All Saints 9.45am URC Service 11am

Tuesday 24

Toddler Plus Baptist Church 9.30-11.30am (TT) Women’s Group ASCH 7.45pm ‘Hats’

Wednesday 25

Craft Club Baptist Church 9.30am (TT) Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30am British Legion Women’s Section Vicarage Close 2pm

Thursday 26

Holy Communion All Saints 10am Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm

Friday 27

Coffee URC 10.30am

Saturday 28

Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am

Winter Flower Festival

All Saints’ Church Melbourn Saturday 31st January and Sunday 1st February 2015

The closing date for the next issue is Friday 16th January 2015 which will appear in March, listing events in March, April and May 2015.

Village information continued

Orchard Surgery & Dispensary

Monday to Friday 8:30 – 1pm and 3pm – 6pm Phone 01763 260220 Telephone requests are not accepted For repeat prescriptions you can: Fax 01763 262968 or email: prescriptions.orchardsurgery@nhs.net • Allow at least 48 hours (two working days – excluding weekends and bank holidays) for repeat prescriptions to be ready. • Do not leave your request to the last minute. Prescription/medication depending on eligibility can be collected from the Surgery Co-op Tesco in Royston Please let the dispensary know where you wish your prescriptions to be sent.

This will remain your choice until we are informed otherwise.

Green bin collections during the winter

Through the winter months of December, January and February only, the green bins will be moving to a monthly collection. From March to November the green bins will continue to be collected fortnightly.

BIN COLLECTION

MELBOURN

5 December Black Bin 12 December Green & Blue Bin 19 December Black Bin 27 December Blue Bin ONLY Saturday Collection 9 January Black Bin 16 January Green & Blue Bin 23 January Black Bin 30 January Blue Bin ONLY 6 February Black Bin 13 February Green & Blue Bin 20 February Black Bin 27 February Blue Bin ONLY 6 March Black Bin 13 March Green & Blue Bin 20 March Black Bin 27 March Green & Blue Bin

For an update on collections visit: www.scambs.gov.uk/content/friday For more information and collections of large household items Telephone 03450 450 063

Melbourn Health Visiting Team

Drop in clinics for parents and babies are held as follows: Melbourn clinic every Wednesday between 9.30am and 11.00am at: 35 Orchard Road, Melbourn. Telephone 01763 262861

8a Romsey Terrace, Cambridge. CB1 3NH Offi ce Mon-Fri 9.00am-12.30pm. Telephone 01223 416 141 answerphone out of these hours enquiries@cambridgeshirehearinghelp.org.uk A drop in advisory session is held at Vicarage Close Community Room, the 4th Thursday every month from 2pm to 4pm See the website for more information www.cambridgeshirehearinghelp.org.uk Battery exchange and retubing. We do not do hearing tests

Cam Sight’s Rural Support Group meet in Melbourn to provide help, friendship and ongoing support to local people with sight loss. The group enjoys speakers, music, information, advice and a chance to try out low vision equipment. They meet on the 1st Wednesday of each month, 2 – 4pm at Vicarage Close. For further information please call 01223 420033 or info@camsight.org.uk

The event was spread over two days to accommodate all the Year 5 children from Melbourn, Meldreth, Barrington, Hartson and Newton, Hauxton, Fowlmere and Foxton primary schools.

They looked at rock and roll and jazz while working in the dance and music departments, while drama were focusing on the main themes of the 1950’s.

The art activity was based on the artist Victor Vasarely and the Art Movement Op Art. The pupils worked with watercolours and had the opportunity to design their own example of Op Art.

Half the children attended on each of two days but after the final day all were invited to perform and show off their work at a special gala evening for parents.

Kelly Coghlan, Primary Liaison Co-Ordinator at Melbourn Village College, said: “All the pupils were fantastic and a credit to their primary schools, parents and themselves. For most, this was their first time experiencing a secondary school environment, but this didn’t seem to faze them.

“The step up to a secondary education is often a daunting one, but days like this can make that process easier. It was great to give these young pupils a taste of secondary education and the great opportunities that will be provided to them. “Melbourn is a school that takes pride in knowing each of its students and events like this are vital in starting off that learning process, and connection between school and student.”

This summer, the college recorded its best ever GCSE results with 75 per cent gaining at least five A*-C grades including maths and English. The results also demonstrated, most importantly, that pupils were making above the expected levels of progress.

Melbourn Village College joined with the Comberton Academy Trust, a partnership of four academies, a year ago. The college has been working in partnership with its other schools to share best practice, expertise and help improve standards in South Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

Rugby Tournament

On the 16th October Melbourn Village College’s Year 9 team entered the end of season rugby tournament. The previous two years saw the college finish in 4th and 3rd place so the aim this year was to go better.

In the first round Netherhall were the opponents and a very tight game was played with only one try scored by Kai Linnell after catching a wayward kick and forcing his way over the line. This set up a second round match against Melbourn’s ‘bogie team’, Parkside. A much more free flowing game was played and tries scored by Kai Pendlebury, Fin Livingstone, Charlie Clark and Alex Howorth along with the conversions by Stuart Dingwell allowed Melbourn to progress to the Semi Finals.

Chesterton lay in wait, a team not played before but powerful play and two early tries from Livingstone and Clark settled early nerves. Later in the game more tries scored by Howorth and Harry Gee and conversions by Dingwell and Alex Little give Melbourn a commanding lead. A consolation try at the end for Chesterton was not enough and Melbourn won 28-7. Melbourn finally made the final and played Linton. A tight opening half played out with no team showing that they could take control of the game until Gee broke through after some fine back play to score converted by Dingwell. This caused a fight back from Linton who scored a well worked converted try down the wing to level the match at half time. Linton continued this intensity in the second half scoring early but crucially missing the conversion.

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MVC Creative Art Summer exhibition

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Attempt after attempt and unfortunately Melbourn couldn’t get over the line until a break from the rapid Dylan Miller looked like it would be the one, but he was tackled half a metre out. An outstretched arm reached over placing the ball on the line prompting everybody to look at the referee who, after a moment’s thought, gave the try, score 12-12 with a conversion to win it. Dingwell who hadn’t missed a kick all day stepped up and carefully slotted the ball between the posts and heard the full time whistle seal victory 14-12 and Melbourn were crowned Champions. Onto the County Championships now with Nene Park Academy awaiting in round 1.

Notre Ecole

We have made some changes at Notre Ecole! Our Thursday after school session is now taking place at Melbourn Primary School for children who attend the school. In making this change we hope our club will become more easily accessible to the children in the village and hope to support Melbourn Primary School in their drive to offer a wide range of interesting clubs. So at our new Thursday club children have been learning how to introduce themselves, to name the colours in French and to count to 20. We have also been learning the French words for some fruit, singing songs and acting out role plays around this theme. The children seem to be having fun and they are learning lots of new language.

Meanwhile, our Wednesday after school club continues as before and this term we have been learning French around the theme of mini-beasts. We have been able to enjoy the late summer sunshine by taking a number of activities outside. We have played games to reinforce our newly learnt language and we even went to the woods for an insect hunt one sunny afternoon. The first half of the autumn term finished with revisions of some Halloween words and a crafty session making Halloween mobiles. We are looking forward to continuing our autumn theme after half term but also to leaning some new French words and phrases around the theme “By the fire” or “Au coin du feu” in the lead up to Christmas.

Adults at our beginners group continue to make good progress having returned from the summer break full of enthusiasm. We have been looking at some of the main sights of Paris and learning to describe them in French whilst also finding out how to obtain tourist information. We have learnt how to book a room in a hotel and the French for the main things found in a hotel room. We have been practising the French alphabet and how to ask for “some” of something rather than a specific quantity.

Meanwhile members of our more advanced conversation group have been discussing a variety of topics including the secular aspect of French society and the Mediterranean industrial port town of Fos sur Mer and its effect on local public health and the group have also spent some time studying grammar, particularly tenses and verbs.

Why not make it your New Year’s resolution to learn a new language? If you or your child are interested in joining one of our groups please get in touch. Notre Ecole, led by a native speaker and a graduate of European Studies with French, has been teaching French to pupils of all ages for fourteen years. Call either Marine on 07533 443153 or Janet on 07791 853448 for further details. If you prefer e-mail, contact marineboulter@yahoo.fr or janet.whitton@tiscali.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you. Learn French in a friendly atmosphere *French for Children – Games, role-play, songs etc. Every Wednesday from 3.45pm to 4.30pm Every Thursday from 4:15pm to 5:00pm *French for Adults – All levels, Conversation Every Wednesday from 8.00pm to 9.00pm GCSE lessons available by arrangement. Individual lessons also available. Telelephone Marine 01763 222876 or Janet 01763 261231 mob-07533 443153 mob-07791 853448 Email marineboulter@yahoo.fr or janet.whitton@tiscali.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you. (Enhanced CRB clearance recently completed)