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Melbourn Children’s Centre

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Melbourn Youth Club Activities

Where? Community Sports Pavilion, The Moor, Melbourn When? Tuesdays, 7-9pm Who? For all aged 11-18 What and why? Free activities!

If you’re a parent or carer of a child from 0-5 years old, just register with us and we’ll keep you up-to-date with what’s going on in the local area for under-fives. Once you join one children’s centre, you can attend sessions at any centre in Cambridgeshire, such as our partner centres in Bassingbourn, Cambourne and Caldecote.

At Melbourn we hold weekly groups and other activities, so please call in – our office is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9am to 12pm – telephone (01763) 223460, email melbournchildrenscentre@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or check our website at www.cambridgeshire.org/cambschildrencentres for more information.

For instance, we’ll be holding another of our popular Paediatric First Aid courses from 6pm to 8pm on Thursday 26th March, and we’ll shortly be running Home and Garden Safety workshops, Baby Massage classes and parenting courses (advance booking required for all).

We look forward to welcoming you to our Centre soon. We are tucked in between the Primary School and Baptist Church on Mortlock Street – look for the white sign!

Melbourn Primary School

The long awaited refurbishment of our Key Stage 1 building got underway last summer holiday and, as with all building projects, encountered a few hiccups along the way. One of the hiccups resulted in wifi being installed throughout the school ahead of schedule. Every cloud…

The term started with Buttercup Class commandeering part of the school hall and Poppy Class in one of the mobile classrooms, however half term saw both classes move back in to the ‘middle block.’ What a transformation – bright and airy classrooms and a fabulous music room, with state of the art interactive whiteboards. The children were excited, but even their excitement didn’t quite match that of the teachers! My personal favourite has to be the funky design of the new cloakroom panels.

The new computer suite ran a little farther behind schedule, but is now ready and waiting for new computers. Sadly, we do not have the funding to purchase the required hardware. We have several fund raising projects in the pipeline, but anyone out there with £15,000.00 (or part thereof) to spare, please do get in touch. The school budget received from the government allows us allocate only £3,000 per year for all of ICT needs. We find ourselves with a fitted out ICT suite which we are unable to use. Please do contact us if you are aware of any potential donors / sponsors we could approach. Despite the aforementioned ‘hiccups’ we are thrilled with the outcome.

Melbourn Youth Club is open every Tuesday evening

Contact:

Martin Goddard, Youth Worker martin.goddard@groundwork.org.uk www.groundwork.org.uk/cambs @groundworkcandp #MelbournYouthClub Developing the Arts

Music is very much a strength at our school with some year groups learning the recorder and Ukulele in class and a number of children learning instruments with the peripatetic teachers who visit. Our HMI recognised our achievements in music and also in art and encouraged us to develop this aspect of our curriculum even