The Sprotbrough Arrow January2017

The Sprotbrough Also covering Warmsworth, 4800 distribution monthly

January 2017

Issue No. 136

Happy New Year Arrow Publications

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elcome to the January issue of the Sprotbrough Arrow.

After the buzz of December, January peeks around the corner and the thought of a new year dawns. New healthy eating plans, exercise regimes and resolutions fly around our heads making us feel ready and motivated for 2017. What ever your aim, whether it be fitness, new career or just a change of routine, I hope you manage to achieve your goal… but don’t be too hard on yourself, there's always 2018!

I hope everyone had their most perfect Christmas whatever that may be. If you are stuck for choice on how you are going to celebrate the start of a new year, all of our local pubs have something lined up to keep you entertained. A great choice if you feel like an evening out but don’t want to travel far and rely on taxis. Whatever you choose to do, I hope you have a great time with your family and friends and that 2017 is a year filled with good health and happiness.

The deadline for the February issue will be Wednesday 18th January. The Arrow will be delivered the last full weekend in January.

Michelle Sidebottom Tel: 01302 534256 / 07795 387937 email: michelle@arrowpublications.co.uk

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Community News The Christmas tree lighting event took place on Saturday November 26th. The event was enjoyed by around 300 people who came along to support the second year of the event. Ottos lighted the trees on the edge of the green, and the still developing Sprotbrough Tea Rooms situated in the old post office , joined in by lighting the large tree on the perimeter of their site. St Mary's church and Scott practice joined in with lights of their own and the growing Christmas tree was decorated with hundreds of ice white and blue lights. The whole event was supported by funds from the recent tour de Yorkshire and a generous donation from Dorothy Weaver.

Beavers and Rainbows entered a competition to draw a poster advertising the event and everyone taking part received a small gift. Copley school choir led the community singing of three festive songs and everyone was offered mince pies or cakes.

There were so many people to thank but space limits naming them all. Suffice it to say that it is becoming a real community event. Planning for next year has already begun. If you would like to, donate, sponsor, help or support this event, please contact me below. Everyone is welcome.

Contact carolmaryrees@hotmail.co.uk.

WARMSWORTH LADIES’ CLUB

SPROTBROUGH MUSIC SOCIETY presents

HUW WIGGIN (saxophone) and SOMI KIM (piano) What be er way to start the new year than with a concert of live music from dis nguished instrumentalists in music ranging from Baroque to Bernstein in our own village hall!

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Make it a Happy New Year come and join us 10 Jan 17 A Welcome to the New Year 17 Jan 17 Conscientious Objectors 24 Jan 17 Sheffield in Tudor and Stuart Times 31 Jan 17 German Ancestors

Thursday 19th January 2017

Everyone is very welcome.

St Mary's Church Hall 7.30PM. Admission by annual subscrip on or £8.00 (members) £14.00 (non-members)

We meet on Tuesdays 7:30-9pm Warmsworth Community Centre, Low Road

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Sprotbrough Community Library Courses & Activities 2017 Day/Date

Course/Activity

Time

Monday Monday Monday

10am-12.30pm 1pm-3pm 1pm-3pm

Practical Philosophy (next course starts 09/01/17) Art for Leisure – weekly art group Tai Chi – 5 week taster course (WEA) - starts 9th Jan 2017

Monday

6pm-8pm

Tuesday

2pm-3pm

French – 5 week taster course (WEA) -starts 9th Jan 2017 Sprotbrough Readers Group - FREE 2nd Tues of month

Tuesday

12.45pm 2.45pm

Family History – 11 week course (AFCL)- starts 3rd Jan 2017

Tuesday

10.15am-12.15

Tuesday

1pm-2pm

Tuesday

2pm-3pm

Tuesday

6.30pm-8.30pm

Wednesday

2pm-3pm

Thursday

9.30/3pm/5pm/7pm

Creative Writing – 5 week taster course (WEA)- starts 10th Jan 2017 Children’s story time & activities (preschool) - FREE Dominoes, draughts & card games – FREE Starts 17th Jan 2017 – everyone welcome!

Evening Social Club – bingo, quizzes, etc.

Starts 17/01/17 – everyone welcome!

Children’s craft activity hour – under 10’s - FREE Slimming World Classes

Thursday

2.30pm-4pm

Friday

11am-12pm

Afternoon Tea & Scones/Cakes – last Thurs of month – starts 26/01/17 Social Group – new members welcome!

Events & Activity Sessions 2017 Date Tue 10th January Tue 31st January Wed 25th January

Time 12.00-1.00 12.00-1.00 14.00-16.00

Activity/Event Explore Your Computer – FREE Explore Your Computer – FREE Introduction to Website Marketing - FREE

Please enquire at Reception for course & activity fees or for more information. *WEA & AFCL courses are discounted for people on certain benefits, tax credits, etc. – please enquire at the library. Entry fees apply except where stated as free.

You can book your place or register your interest for future courses & activities via our reception or email info@sprotbroughlibrary.org.uk Visit our website www.sprotbroughlibrary.org.uk for more info.

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Richmond Hill Primary Academy KS1 Christmas Performance It’s that special time of year! Our Y1 and Y2 Christmas Performance was ‘A Magical Journey’, which received an abundance of fantastic comments and praise from the audience.

Christmas Fayre

We always look forward to our Christmas Fayre with lots of games to play like the classic Wheel of Fortune!

Nursery Christmas

Our Nursery children welcomed parents into Nursery for a little gathering to enjoy hot chocolate and festive biscuits and to listen to them singing some Christmas songs. Next step the stage to join the Reception children in the Foundation Christmas Performance in front of a bigger audience.

Thank you Sainsbury’s!

A great big massive thank you to our Sainsbury’s Local for donating a scrumptious food hamper for our Christmas raffle.

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Sprotbrough Orchard News What a busy month December has been here at Orchard! Our children have been super excited about all the activities we’ve had planned and they’ve been involved with.

On Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd December, children in school visited St. Mary’s church to listen to the first nativity story told by Reverend Amanda in the chapel. They were actively involved in the story using puppets to symbolise the main characters. Afterwards, they were given opportunity to view the nativity display before heading back to school. School would like to extend their thanks to Rev. Amanda for her continued support and links with us.

On Monday 5th December, the Children’s Society came to make Christingles with the children. They talked with them about the Christingle symbol and what it represents. That afternoon we invited the Children’s Society back into school to participate in our Christingle assembly where the children presented their donations.

On Tuesday 6th December we held our Nursery concert where the youngest children in school sang a selection of their favourite Christmas songs. On Wednesday 7th December the two Reception classes performed their take on the first nativity and it was greatly received by our fabulous audience. The Key Stage One concert will be held on Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th December.

On Thursday 8th December, Sprotbrough Orchard Infant School turned the big 5-0! To celebrate fifty years of the school being open, Mrs Rimmer cooked a birthday lunch and children participated in traditional party games in the afternoon.

We also held our termly school disco which was well attended as usual and raised £378 for school funds.

We would like to extend our thanks to the parents who help to make these events happen and the support from all parents who brought their children along.

With a week still left at school, there’s still so much more happening before the long awaited break. Keep your eyes peeled in next month’s issue for the activities we have yet to tell you about.

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School News from Copley Junior School Christmas was celebrated at Copley Junior in a number of ways including Year 5’s Space themed presentation, Year 6’s performance of ‘Snow White and the Seventeen Dwarfs’, a very busy Christmas Fair, carols to celebrate the Christmas tree lights switching on in Sprotbrough, Christmas Jumper Day in support of ‘Save the Children’, Christmas parties, Christmas lunch, Christmas disco and a traditional carols and readings service at St Mary’s Church. The photographs below show just a few of the characters from our Christmas performances.

The Year 5 children impressed everyone with their fantastic knowledge about Space with their performance of ‘Into the Great Unnknown’.

The Year 6 performance of ‘Snow White and the Seventeen Dwarfs’ had something for everyone – fantastic acting, super singing, dramatic dance, humour, slapstick comedy, high tension, true love, tragedy and the triumph of good over evil!

Express Events Over the last few weeks we have welcomed parents/carers and relatives into school to share in the children’s learning.

As part of their project on ‘Predators’ Year 3 designed and made some wonderful models. These were displayed to create our gallery together with writing and Science work.

As part of their work children also created life size paintings of an elephant and a bear!

In Year 4 children demonstrated their knowledge about ‘Raiders and Traders’ with group presentations of their work, which included extended writing, models, sewing, paintings, fact files, PowerPoint presentations and posters.

They even demonstrated their skills as powerful Viking guards!

The Year 6 express was entirely pupil led, with the different groups deciding how they would present their learning about what life was like in World War 2. There was a great variety of work presented from models, posters, PowerPoints, poetry, factual writing, painting, quizzes etc. It was lovely to see the children sharing their work with such enthusiasm and confidence.

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Young Shakespeare Visit for Year 5 and 6 Our children in Year 5 and 6 have had the fantastic experience of engaging in ‘theatre in the round’ with the Young Shakespeare Company. We organise this for Years 5-6 every year so that by the time children leave Copley they have had live theatre experience of two Shakespeare plays.

The Young Shakespeare Company visits provide a wonderful first experience of Shakespeare. Their performance of ‘Macbeth’ was, quite simply, electrifying, and the children were completely absorbed.

At points children were actively involved in the performance and afterwards there was opportunity to ask the very talented actors questions about the plot and the motivation of the characters.

We look forward to sharing more school news next month.

Best wishes, E.A. Crayton Head teacher

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What’s On In Sprotbrough?

Day

Activity

Meeting Place

Time

Mon

Rainbows

Scout Barn in Sprotbrough Village

5.30pm

Mon

Rising 2’s play session

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

9.00-11.30am

Mon

Rising 2’s play session

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

12.30- 3.00pm

Mon

Brownies

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

6.15-7.45pm

Mon

Beavers (6-7yrs)

Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough

6.00-7.30pm

Mon

French Conversation Group

Sprotbrough Community Library

6.00—8.00pm

Mon

Adult Beginners Ballroom/Latin Dance

St Mary’s Church Hall, Sprotbrough

2pm –3pm

Tue

Sprotbrough Starz

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

9.15-11am

Tue

Coffee Morning

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

10.30-11.30am

Tue

Tuesday Club

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

1.30-4.00pm

Tue

Painting Class

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

2.00-4.00pm

Tue

Dancing

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

4.00-7.00pm

Tue

Story time & Activities (term time)

Sprotbrough Library

1pm—2pm

Tue

Taekwondo

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

6.00-9.00pm

Tue

Cubs (8-10yrs)

Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough

6.30-8.00pm

Tue

Cubs 'Kestrels' (8-10yrs)

The Barn, Main Street

6.45-8.15pm

Wed

Rising 2’s Playgroup

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

9.00-11.30am

Wed

Sprotbrough Park Playtime (term time)

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

9.30-11am

Wed

Sequence Dance—Ian Sadler

Royal British Legion

1pm –3.30pm

Wed

Story Time & Activities Alternate weeks

Sprotbrough Library

1.30pm—2.30pm

Wed

Dancing

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

4.00-7.00pm

Wed

Taekwondo

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

5.30-6.30pm

Wed

Sequence Dance Club

St Mary’s Church Hall

7.30pm—10pm

Wed

Cubs 'Falcons' (8-10yrs)

The Barn, Main Street

6.45-8.15pm

Wed

Scouts (11-14yrs)

Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough

7.00-9pm

Thurs

Coffee Morning

The Stable, Main Street, Sprotbrough

10—11.30am

Thurs

Little tykes (childminders drop in)

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

9.15—11.00am

Thurs

Thursday Club

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

1.30-4.00pm

Thurs

Dancing Class

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

4.45-8.45pm

Thurs

Brownies

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

6.00-7.30pm

Thurs

Yoga Class

St Marys Church Hall

7—8.30pm

Thurs

Adult Improvers Ballroom/Latin

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

8-9pm

Thurs

Beavers (6-7yrs)

The Barn, Main Street

5.30-6.30pm

Thurs

Scouts (11-14yrs)

The Barn, Main Street

7.00-9.15pm

Thurs

Explorer Scouts (14-18yrs)

Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough

7.30-9.30pm

Fri

Sprotbrough Starz

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

9.15-11am

Fri

Tea Dance

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

1.00-4.00pm

Fri

Taekwondo

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

6.30-9.00pm

Sat

Sequence Dancing

Royal British Legion Club

7.30—10.30pm

Sat

Dancing Class

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

9.15-3.15pm

Sun

Sunday Club

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

10am—11am

Sun

t-Time, Crafts, bible stories and more

St Marys Church Hall

4—5pm—check hall for dates

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What’s on in Warmsworth?

Day

Activity

Meeting Place

Time

Monday

Playgroup

Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)

9am-3.15pm

Tuesday

Playgroup

Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)

9am-3.15pm

Tuesday

Brownies

Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)

6.30pm-8pm

Tuesday

Ladies Club

Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)

7pm-9pm

Wednesday

Playgroup

Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)

9am-3.15pm

Wednesday

Ladies Dancing

Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)

8pm-9pm

Thursday

Playgroup

Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)

9am-3.15pm

Thursday

Dancing Class

Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)

4pm-9pm

Thursday

Watercolours

Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)

10am-12 noon

Thursday

JW Club

Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)

1.30pm-2.30pm

Friday

Playgroup

Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)

9am-3.15pm

Saturday

Children’s Dancing

Warmsworth Community Centre (Front Hall)

10am-12noon

Sprotbrough Community Centre Bookings Tel: 788093 Methodist Church Hall Bookings Tel: 570036 (office hours 10am-12noon Tue & Fri) St Marys Church Hall Bookings Tel: 07891 813986 Warmsworth Community Centre Contact Mrs Jill Sharpe 01302 858377

Monthly Events in Sprotbrough & Warmsworth Monthly

Activity

Meeting Place

Time

3rd Monday 1st & 3rd Tuesday

St Mary’s Mothers Union

The Stable, Main Street, Sp’boro

7.30pm- 9.30pm

Sequence Dancing

Royal British Legion Club

7.30-10.30pm

1st Wednesday

Sprotbrough Wives

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

8.00-10.00pm

2nd Thursday

Lunch Club

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

12.15pm - 2.00pm

2nd Tuesday

Jigsaw Puzzle library & Coffee

The Stable, main Street, Sprotbrough

10—12noon

2nd Tuesday

Sprotbrough WI

St Mary’s Church Hall

7.30—9.30pm

4th Thursday

Chatroom

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

1.30-3.30pm

Last Thursday of month

Parish Luncheon Club

Newton Arms, Sprotbrough Rd

12 for 12.30pm

2nd Monday

Ladies Club Committee

Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)

7pm-9pm

3rd Monday

Parish Council meeting

Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)

7pm-9pm

2nd Wednesday

Pudding Club

Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)

7pm-9pm

3rd Thursday

Community Partnership

Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)

6.30pm—7.30pm

1st Thursday

Warmsworth WI

Warmsworth Community Centre

7—9pm

1st Friday

Baby Clinic

Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)

1pm—3pm

1st Saturday

Ward Councillors Surgery

Warmsworth Community Centre (New Hall)

10.30am to 11.30am

1st Tuesday

Warmsworth & Edlington Lions Club

The Fairway, Warmsworth Rd, Balby DN4 0RP

7pm

3rd Wednesday

Warmsworth Neighbourhood Watch

Cricket Club

7pm

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Useful Numbers Advice

General

Citizens Advice Bureaux - Advice line

01302 735225 Doncaster Council - General

01302 736000

Electricity Emergencies

0800 375 675

Taxes Helpline

0300 200 3300

Tax Credit Helpline

0345 300 3900

Care in the Community Age Concern Childline

0800 009966

Medical

08001111

NSPCC

0808 8005000 Doncaster Royal Infirmary Hospital

01302 366666

RSPCA

08705555999

0845 4647

NHS Direct

Weldricks Pharmacy, East Laith Gate, Doncaster Mon—Sat 9am—10pm, Sun 10am-10pm, 01302 369699 Bank holidays 10am-8pm, 365 days per year.

Community Sprotbrough and Cusworth Parish Council

01302 788093 Sprotbrough Village Pharmacy

Warmsworth Post Office

01302 853417

Doncaster Families Information Service

0800 138 4568

Goldsmith Centre

01302 788093

S Yorkshire Fire Service (non emergency)

0114 272 7202

S Yorkshire Police (non emergency)

01302 855622

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Education Copley Junior School, Sprotbrough

01302 856445

Orchard Infant School, Sprotbrough

01302 853655

Richmond Hill Primary School

01302 782421

Ridgewood School

01302 783939

Doncaster Council - Education

01302 734444

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Barnburgh Primary School

01709 893125

High Melton College

01302 553666

Warmsworth Library

01302 853082

Sprotbrough Community Library

01302 782436

Doncaster Central Library

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