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SEPTEMBER
Tuesday 1
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Melbourn Bridge Club every Tuesday Vicarage Close 2pm contact Howard Waller 261693 Melbourn & District Photographic Club AGM Foxton Village Hall 7.30pm (runs weekly September to April) Budding Beaders every Tuesday at The Hub 7pm
Wednesday 2
Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30am
Thursday 3
New term begins Holy Communion All Saints 10am Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm weekly Royston & District Local History Soc. Royston Town Hall 8pm
Friday 4
Coffee URC 10.30am
Saturday 5
Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am Cambridge Family History Soc Fair 10-4pm
Sunday 6
Holy Communion All Saints 9.45am Holy Communion URC 11.00am Evensong All Saints 6.30pm Baptist Communion 6pm
Monday 7
Melbourn Bridge Club every Monday at Vicarage Close
Tuesday 8
Toddlers Plus 9.30-11.30 (TT) Mothers’ Union contact Pauline Hay 260649 Melbourn & District Gardening Club ASCH 7.30pm
Wednesday 9
Craft Club Baptist Church 9.30am (TT) Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30am Hub Club lunch 12.30pm
Thursday 10
Holy Communion All Saints 10am Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm weekly
Friday 11
Coffee URC 10.30am
Saturday 12
Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am URC Ride & Stride (see article) BBQ & Ceilidh in aid of ‘Save the Children’ Barkway Village Hall contact 01763 838172
Sunday 13
Family Communion & Sunday School All Saints 9.45am URC Service 11am
Tuesday 15
Toddlers Plus 9.30-11.30am (TT)
Wednesday 16
Craft Club Baptist Church 9.30am (TT) Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30am
Thursday 17
Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm weekly Rail User Group Shepreth Village Hall 7pm
Friday 18
Coffee URC 10.30am
Saturday 19
Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am
Sunday 20
Holy Communion All Saints 8am Family Service All Saints 11am Communion Service Baptist Church 10.30am Harvest Festival URC 11.00am Bring & Share Tea at 4pm
Monday 21
Royston & District Family History Society ASCH 7.30pm
Tuesday 22
Toddlers Plus 9.30-11.30am (TT) Women’s Group 7.45pm Meldreth
Wednesday 23
Craft Club Baptist Church 9.30 (TT) Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30am Royal British Legion Women’s Section Vicarage Close 7pm
Thursday 24
Holy Communion All Saints 10am Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm
Friday 25
Coffee URC 10.30am URC Musical Evening incl hot buffet supper (see article) ‘No Picnic’ play ASCH 7.30pm (see article)
Saturday 26
Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am
Sunday 27
Harvest Festival & Communion Service All Saints 9.45am URC Service 11.00am ‘Afternoon Tea at The Ritz’ Meldreth Village Hall 2.30pm
Monday 28
MVC Open Evening 6.30pm-8.30pm
Tuesday 29
Toddlers Plus Baptist Church 9.30-11.30am (TT) MVC Post 16 Evening 7pm Homestart Royston AGM St Mary’s Catholic Church 8pm
Wednesday 30
Craft Club Baptist Church 9.30am (TT) Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30am
OCTOBER
Thursday 1
Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm weekly Royston & District Local History Society Town Hall Royston 8pm
Friday 2
Coffee at URC 10.30am Harvest Supper Meldreth Village Hall
Saturday 3
Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am
Sunday 4
Holy Communion All Saints 8am Evensong All Saints 6.30pm Holy Communion URC 11am Communion Service Baptist Church 6pm
Monday 5
Melbourn Bridge Club every Monday Vicarage Close 7pm
Tuesday 6
Toddler Plus Baptist Church 9.30-11.30am (TT) Melbourn Bridge Club every Tuesday Vicarage Close 2pm Melbourn & District Photographic Club AGM Foxton Village Hall 7.30pm (runs weekly September to April) Budding Beaders every Tuesday at The Hub 7pm
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
Friday 9
Coffee at URC 10.30am
Saturday 10
Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am Quiz Night in aid of Homestart 7pm (see article)
Sunday 11
Family Communion & Sunday School All Saints 9.45am URC Service 11am
Tuesday 13
Toddler Plus Baptist Church 9.30-11.30am (TT) Mother’s Union contact Pauline Hay 260649 Melbourn & District Gardening Club ASCH 7.30pm
Wednesday 14
Craft Club Baptist Church 9.30am (TT) Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30am Hub Club lunch 12.30pm
Thursday 15
Holy Communion All Saints 10am Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm weekly A10 Corridor Cycling Campaign 7pm TAP Biosystems Royston
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
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
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
Sunday 25
Family Communion All Saints 9.45am URC Service 11am
Monday 26
Half Term
Tuesday 27
Women’s Group ASCH 7.45pm
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
Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am Churches Together Light Party Baptist Church
NOVEMBER
Sunday 1
Family Communion & Sunday School All Saints 9.45am Holy Communion URC 11am Baptist Communion 6pm Evensong All Saints 6.30pm
Monday 2
Melbourn Bridge Club meet every Monday Vicarage Close
Tuesday 3
Toddlers Plus Baptist Church 9.30-11.30am (TT) Melbourn Bridge Club every Tuesday Vicarage Close 2pm Melbourn & District Photographic Club Foxton Village Hall 7.30pm (runs weekly September to April) Budding Beaders every Tuesday at The Hub 7pm
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 Royston 8pm
Friday 6
Coffee at URC 10.30am
Saturday 7
Coffee Stop ASCH 10.30am
Sunday 8
Service of Remembrance The Cross 10.45 followed by Holy Communion All Saints Service URC 11am
Tuesday 10
Toddler Plus 9.30-11.30am Baptist Church (TT) Mothers’ Union contact Pauline Hay 260649 Melbourn & District Gardening Club ASCH 7pm
Wednesday 11
Craft Club Baptist Church 9.30am (TT) Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30am Hub Club Lunch 12.30pm
Thursday 12
Holy Communion All Saints 10am Craft & Chat URC 2-4pm
Friday 13
Coffee at URC 10.30am
Saturday 14
No Coffee Stop All Saints Church Bazaar Budding Beaders The Hub 9-3pm
Sunday 15
Holy Communion All Saints 8am Communion Service Baptist Church 10.30am Family Service All Saints 11am
Monday 16
Royston & District Family History Society ASCH 7.30pm
Tuesday 17
Toddler Plus 9.30-11.30am (TT)
Wednesday 18
Craft Club 9.30am Baptist Church (TT) Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30am
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
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
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 Meldreth 7.45pm
Wednesday 25
Craft Club Baptist Church 9.30am (TT) Coffee Break Baptist Church 10.30am British Legion Women’s Section Vicarage Close 7pm
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 MADS Pirates of the Panto Meldreth Village Hall
Sunday 29
Holy Communion All Saints 9.45am URC Service 11am MADS Pirates of the Panto Meldreth Village Hall
The closing date for the next issue is Friday 16th October 2015 which will appear in December, listing events in December, January and February 2016.
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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.
BIN COLLECTION
MELBOURN
5 September Black Bin Saturday Collection 11 September Blue & Green Bin 18 September Black Bin 25 September Blue & Green Bin 2 October Black Bin 9 October Blue & Green Bin
16 October Black Bin 23 October Blue & Green Bin
30 October Black Bin 6 November Blue & Green Bin 13 November Black Bin 20 November Blue & Green Bin 27 November Black Bin 4 December Blue & Green Bin
Christmas dates will appear in the next issue
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 Off 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
Each team has been assigned a scientist from the GSK ‘Germ Squad’ as a mentor, who visits the school to help with planning. The Exgerminators met their mentor microbiologist Louise Bater , when she advised and observed them in their investigation.
They are using a special ‘Glo-gel’ which glows in the dark under a UV lamp to see how much it is transferred to differently designed taps after hand washing.
She is very excited about their questions, and they have lots more!
This week, The Dark McLaren team were due to meet Dr Julian Phipps to report their results so far on their project about whether exposure to sound can kill bacteria growing on agar plates.
The next stage is for the teams to win selection to present their findings at the Science Museum and have a VIP tour, and the chance to win vouchers for team members, money for equipment for the science department and a visit to a GSK science laboratory.
Dance
Year 9 and 10 Dance students at Melbourn Village College were treated to a workshop by Laura Gibson, a dance artist from Richard Alston Dance Company.
They were given a technique class, looking at various styles of movement including Cunningham and Release.
Students then learnt some professional repertoire from Richard Alston’s piece ‘Overdrive’, which is part of the GCSE Dance curriculum.
They were then given time to use the material they had learnt to complete a creative task.
Teacher Jill Douglas said: “The pupils worked incredibly hard throughout the workshop. The dance artist was fantastic and the students were very engaged and focused.”
Spanish Visit
of over 100 people and a chance to sample some of over 100 people and a chance to sample some speciality cakes in a local café too! Day 2 Spanish lessons and a visit to the wonderful Altamira Cave, with a delicious paella for lunch. Day 3 After our Spanish lessons, we marvelled at the amazing stalagtites and stalagbymites at El Soplao, and did a treasure hunt around the town, speaking to the locals to get the clues. Day 4 This was spent with our Spanish friends, learning flamenco or playing in a football tournament, followed by playing on the beach and a visit to the El Capricio De Gaudi in Comillas, to learn about Antoni Gaudi’s style of architecture. Our students were kept riveted, as the guide was so engaging, involving them in all his explanations. Day 5 For our final day, we went to Cabarceno, the largest national park in Europe, which is used as more of a rehabilitation centre for sick animals. It was wonderful to see the animals being cared for so well in such a large space for them and the birds of prey show was impressive – even if they did fly rather close to our heads.
I have been leading foreign language visits for over 20 years now, and this trip certainly had everything for the students - better than any I’ve organised: language learning, experience of the food and culture of the country, the chance to get to know young people one’s own age, and all this whilst staying in a lovely hotel with a pool, which we enjoyed in the evening!
Our students have not only improved their Spanish but grown in confidence all round too.
Well done everyone – it was a pleasure!
Sports News
Congratulations to Year 10 boys relay team who broke the school record for the 4 x 100 relay which has stood since 2004. Shaun Charter, Will Tucker, Manny Singh and Ben Greenaway took the record in 50 seconds.
On Thursday, 14th May, 55 year 8 students set off for a 5 day academic visit to the beautiful town of Comillas in Cantabria, Spain. This is the first year of our new second language offer of Spanish and we were overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of our students to get onto the trip. Our programme included: Day 1 Spanish lessons given by native speakers in the morning, followed by an academic interaction with Spanish students, presentations in Spanish in front
Action Art
A collaborative project between Melbourn Village College and several of its feeder primary school has helped one of them raise more than £1000.
ActionArt sees professional artist Nick Juett, an MVC teacher, work with youngsters on a range of different art projects.
And now the work of youngsters at Harston and Newton Primary school has boosted the coffers of their school’s PTA by a four-figure sum – with more still coming in – after an exhibition of their watercolours attracted more than 100 family and friends.
An amazing 67 pieces of artwork produced by children from Reception to Year 6 was sold in just 90 minutes at £10 each. A further 33 were snapped up the following night at a special showing for those unable to attend the exhibition.
Mr Juett said: “Parents were really pleased with the whole school activity I taught. We sold 67 paintings the first night then another 33 and there’s still more time to go next week.”
Year 5 taste Secondary School
Almost 150 youngsters from Melbourn Village College’s feeder primaries spent the day experiencing lessons – a whole year before they are due to make the move to secondary school.
Year 5 students were given a taste of secondary school life with a day at the college which included lessons in science, maths, dance, drama, French, history, PE, ICT, Design Technology and Food Technology.
It also gave the students from Melbourn, Meldreth, Foxton, Thriplow, Barrington, Harston & Newton and Hauxton primaries the chance to start making new friends among their peers ahead of their move to secondary school in September 2016.
Melbourn Assistant Principal Regina Lawrence said: “The day was one of our many primary activities organised by Mrs Coghlan and the pupils took the day at their secondary school firmly in their stride, trying their best in all the subject areas.
“We hope they enjoyed the day and are now looking forward to seeing them all again, with their parents, at our Open Evening on Monday, 28th September. We also welcome parents and carers to visit us during the school day. Please do get in contact if you would like to do this.”
Melbourn Village College, part of the Comberton Academy Trust, recently won recognition for being in the top 10% of schools nationally for student progress and achievement.”
Battle of Waterloo Commemoration
Tom Jackson, Head Boy, represented the College yesterday at a service at St Paul’s Cathedral commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. Two hundred students representing two hundred schools took part and an e-book has been written and can be seen at www.ebook. waterloo200.org. MVC’s contribution is a chapter on Private Thomas Chapman (1790-1875) who fought at Waterloo and lived in Cambridgeshire, buried at Comberton. A member of the royal family as well as military representatives and the 9th Duke of Wellington were present at the service.
All classes start week commencing 28th September 2015. Please ring Comberton Village College on 01223 264721 to enrol Course Day Time Wks Fee Book keeping Pt 1 Tue 9.30-11.30 10 £80 Book keeping Pt 2 – 12/01/16 Tue 9.30-11.30 10 £80 Computing for Beginners – 23/9/15 Wed 3.30-5.30 4 £32 DIY (electrical & plumbing) Tue 7.00-9.00 8 £63 First Aid Paediatric Cert – 26/04/16 Tue 6.00–9.00 4 £70 Fun with cut Flowers Mon 10.00–12.00 10 £78 Fun with cut Flowers Tue 7.00-9.00 10 £78 Indian Cookery Made Simple Tue 6.45-9.15 1 £10 Knitting for beginners Tue 7.00–9.00 10 £78 Knitting for improvers – 12/01/16 Tue 7.00–9.00 10 £78 Painting in Watercolours Mon 11.15-1.15 8 £63 Pottery Mixed Ability Mon 10.00–12.00 9 £90 Pottery Mixed Ability Tue 7.00–9.00 9 £90 Spanish – beyond beginners Mon 2.00–4.00 10 £78
On returning to Notre Ecole after the Easter break, children at our Wednesday after school group learnt vocabulary around the theme of zoo animals. We talked about which animals we like and which we don’t like. We used the vocabulary to practise position words and we played games around the zoo animal theme. We also practised polite expressions and numbers. At the same time we made sure we continued to care for the bean and tomato plants we had planted the previous term. During the last few weeks of term we prepared a play called ‘Les Legumes d’Olivier’ (Oliver’s Vegetables). We practised the lines and made some beautiful props so that during the final session of the school year we were able to perform our little play to friends and family.
We had a zoo theme for the Thursday after school club too, during the summer term. We learnt new vocabulary, made animal masks and played many games, both inside and out, around the zoo animal theme. We also practised numbers and colours in French and learnt how to say where we live. At the final session we invited family and friends to come and see what we had learnt. We performed short role plays and sang some French songs for our guests.
Beginners Adults have recently been practising asking questions. Beginners Adults have recently been practising asking questions. We have been looking at the present tense and we have been saying how long we have been doing things for. We have talked about our families and our homes and practised making bookings at a B&B. Then finally at the end of the term we learnt how to talk about the weather.
The more advanced adult group have studied the pluperfect tense and some idiomatic expressions. They have looked at a text about the summer solstice and translated an English article about one of their member’s recent trip to Provence.
The new school year is here again so 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 fifteen years. Call either Marine on 07533 443153 or Janet on 07791 853448 for further details. If you prefer e-mail, contact boultermarine@gmail.com or janet.whitton@tiscali.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you. 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)
Little Hands is a Private Nursery School specialising in quality education for the under fives and offers
Flexible hourly booking - open 08.30 to 16.30 Term time bookings with optional holiday club
Bumble Bee room for children 12 – 24 months
Ladybird room for 2 year olds
Butterfly room for children 3-5 years With optional “ready for school sessions”
Holiday club for children aged 12 months to 8 years
All sessions have a high staff to child ratio and are available for funded 2 year olds and funded 3/4 year olds with no extra charges
Categorised as “Outstanding” by Ofsted
For further information please contact Anne McCrossen - Nursery Manager : 01763 260964 e-mail lh-melbourn@btconnect.com
Little Hands is also at Bourn, Linton and Newton visit the website at www.littlehands.co.uk
