Local News All smiles at Chiltern Way Academy work in small groups is going on at most DfT publishes recommendations to CWA Wendover local reserves like Weston Turville Reservoir, deliver fairer deal for communities continues to Bacombe Hill and Dancersend with contact on HS2 property schemes details at bbowt.org.uk/volunteering. We strive for the best ways to communicate with our students. The nationwide rules around face coverings are being implemented around the school to help prevent the spread of Covid-19. Our students have SEMH (Social Emotional and Mental Health) challenges and as such face coverings make their ability to communicate and read emotions much more difficult. At a time when our students are already feeling more anxious this presents them with extra challenges.
shall also be continuing our series of online talks by Zoom with a new speaker at 7.45pm on Tuesday 19 January - please go to bbowt. org.uk/events for details. Thank you for your support in the year gone by and the year to come. richardbirch60@yahoo.com
An overhaul of how land and property is purchased for High Speed 2 (HS2) will deliver a fairer deal for communities impacted by the project, Transport Minister Andrew Stephenson announced 17 November, as he published a range of recommendations to improve acquisition processes. Read more on https://bit.ly/3pYbLIj.
The Friends of Wendover Health Rob Butler, MP - Letter to HS2 Centre desk has reopened! A letter was sent on Thursday 19 November
You can call between 1pm and 3pm on weekdays to book transport to a medical appointment or to ask for your prescription to be delivered. (Regular prescription deliveries continue as in lockdown.) Luckily at CWA we provide ourselves on Please ring on 01296 622565 for more being solution focussed and look for ways to information or email friendsofwhc@aol.com. help our students succeed. Our staff have been issued with high quality face masks that Shakespeare and Emilia incorporate a clear panel around the mouth Peter Bassano, Music Director of the area. This allows students to be able to read Wendover Choral Society for nearly two facial expressions more easily and be able to decades, has taken the opportunity granted communicate with staff more successfully. by lockdown to finish a book which he has been working on for some years about the Importantly it also allows our fantastic relationship between William Shakespeare students to see us smile! and Emilia Bassano, an ancestor of his. Paul Coffey, Head of Campus , Wendover He says: "It struck me that many of your readers will have come to the WCS concerts BBOWT Christmas and New Year The shop and cafe at College Lake Reserve in St Mary’s and may be interested in reading HP23 5QG is open from 10am till 4pm the book. At the moment it is only available Wednesday to Sunday but closing on 24 as an e-book from Amazon but I hope that it December, reopening 1 January. Come and will be printed as a paperback soon." combine a bracing walk with some shopping and a hot drink with a pastry or a pastie. If Search Shakespeare and Emilia on the you are feeling more active, conservation Amazon website to find the e-book.
to Andrew Stephenson, MP, querying HS2’s application of a Transport and Works Act Order in Bromford, whilst refusing the same in Wendover. Please have a read of it on the Wendover Parish Council website - www. wendover-pc.gov.uk/post/transport-andworks-act-orders-letter-hs2. See also page 7 for more about the letter.
Local Community Impact Award
In late November, WPC Chair Tom Walsh accepted the WPC Highly Commended, ‘Local Community Impact Award’ from Buckinghamshire Council for the ‘Wendover Good Neighbour Scheme’. Thank you to everyone who made the Scheme possible.
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The Trustees of Wendover Swimming Pool would like to thank Peter Chaplin for his dedication and service to the Pool for the
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