The Sprotbrough Arrow July2016

The Sprotbrough Also covering Warmsworth, 4800 distribution monthly

July 2016

Issue No. 101

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Welcome to the July issue of the Sprotbrough Arrow We should now be warming up to the start of summer! Surely, after all this rain we have had, July and August should bask in sunshine‌ fingers crossed!

If you have any news or events you would like to promote in the August issue, please get in touch, the Sprotbrough Arrow is delivered to every home in Sprotbrough by 1st of the month and the deadline is normally around 15th of the month.

Thank you to all the local school s in Sprotbrough who share school life with us each month. I hope you enjoy reading all about it.

The deadline for the August issue is Monday 11th July. The August Arrow will be delivered the last full weekend in July.

Best Wishes Michelle Sidebottom Website www.arrowpublications.co.uk E-mail michelle@arrowpublications.co.uk Mobile 07795 387937

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Community News WARMSWORTH LADIES’ CLUB It’s our Summer Break soon, so come and make the most of our July meetings.

We return on 13 September 05 Jul 16 Reminiscence: Childhood Memories 12 Jul 16 A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To …

19 Jul 16 Summer Supper 13 Sep 16 A Very Welcome Return Join us on Tuesdays 7:00pm to 9:00 pm

Warmsworth Community Centre, Low Road Tuesday 7:00pm – 9:00pm

SUMMER 2016 OLYMPIC STARTRACK CHALLENGE Sign up now for our 5 day summer programme 3 days training and 2 days of competition club members and non members welcome, open to anyone aged 5years to 13 years

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Coaching by our professional training staff.

Trophies to competition winners 5 day programme 10am-2pm each day.

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Sprotbrough Orchard Infant School What a fantastic start to the final half term we have had here at Orchard! During week commencing 6th June, we found out lots of fun and interesting facts about Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family before wrapping up our project on Friday 10th June with a traditional British garden party.

The children designed and created unique hats to wear for the day and participated in a parade for the judges to select a winner from each class. We joined in activities such as hook a duck, limbo, ten pin bowling, croquet and welly wanging to name just a few. Children had the opportunity to help bake scones in an end to our traditional British theme. One of our dedicated parent helpers, Mrs Brown, baked a replica cake just like the one Her Majesty herself tucked into. Mrs Rimmer kindly served fish and chips for lunch, in individual boxes so the children could eat in a picnic fashion.

The rest of this half term will be spent learning about the Olympics and other sporting events. We have a week jam packed with fun activities for the children to engage in during week commencing 20th June as part of National Sports Week. Please keep an eye out in next month’s issue for an update of the fun we have had!

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Richmond Hill Primary Academy Magnificent Marvellous Magic As part of their topic exploring everything ‘Enchanted and Magical’ a fun-filled time was enjoyed by our Year 1 children, including experiencing the delights of singing and dancing along to ‘The Monster Mash’.

Sporting Stars In a summer so far awash with ‘typical British weather’ we managed to enjoy a dry sports day.

Birthday Greetings Your Majesty Richmond Hill celebrated the Queen’s 90th birthday by designing and making cards and bunting. The children particularly enjoyed watching the live internet stream of her birthday celebrations from St. Paul’s Cathedral and learning all about her fascinating life.

Catch of the Day Congratulations to our girls’ kwick cricket team who competed in the Doncaster finals and achieved 2nd place – just pipped to the crease by the winners who had 4 more points!

Team Work Makes the Dream Work Year 6 pupils used their team building skills to produce some elaborate dens!

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Run by volunteers Sprotbrough Community Library has a range of courses, activities and events for people of all ages! Why not pop down to your local library and see what we have on offer or visit our new website for more details. Plus you can Find us on Facebook too!

In addition to our library book lending services, here's a snippet of what we have to offer:-

For Children:

Baby Bunnies, Story Time, Lingotots, Creation Station, Summer Reading Challenge, Bookstart, Summer Activity Fun Day and starting soon… Chatterbooks, Bumps & Babies and Little Green Fingers!

For Adults: Yoga , Art, Family History, Readers Groups, Practical Philosophy, Talking Newspapers, Volunteer Open Day, Animal Microchipping Day and starting soon… Coffee, Cake & Crafts, IT, Business Networking, Mentoring & Hub Facilities.

PLUS! Why not make use of our computers with internet connection and FREE public WIFI using your own device, photocopying & printing (fees apply), and meeting room hire only £6.50/hour or £19.50 for 4 hours.

Our new website has a business directory for local Doncaster businesses - please drop us an email if you would like a FREE basic listing. Limited enhanced listings and sponsorship listings are available for a small annual charge.

Got some local news to share or an event to promote? Send us your editorial and we'll add it to our local news page (sorry, no private or commercial advertising).

Plus we have ad hoc events throughout the year including Meet A Creature, South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Awareness Day, Coffee Mornings, Spring & Summer Fair's and much more coming throughout the year ahead.

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Local Library Needs Volunteers Sprotbrough Community Library is looking for volunteers aged over 18 who can offer around 2 -4 hours a week to help out with the following:

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Children's weekly activities (around 1-2 hours a week) for primary school age children reading, quizzes, games, crafts, etc.

 Library lending & counter services requires admin, computer use and customer facing skills.

Cleaners for general cleaning duties including vacuuming, mopping, wiping down surfaces and window cleaning.

You need to be a team player, be reliable, efficient and organised, and with good frontfacing customer service skills to deal with library customers and visitors. We will provide full training and ongoing support.

Group Leaders & Class Tutors Required The library is looking for tutors and group leaders to run formal classes and informal groups of various topics and interests from our rooms in the library.

We'll consider all class topics and social interests such as IT, Pilates, Local History, Social groups, Languages such conversations French, Italian, etc, Crafts of any nature, Creative Writing, etc.

For more details on any of the above volunteer or tutor opportunities please contact the library (see contact details in our main advert).

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20 minute private appointments available - must be pre-booked by phoning or calling in to the library.

Limited slots available.

Tel: 01302 782436 Email: info@sprotbroughlibrary.org.uk Website: www.sprotbroughlibrary.org.uk Sprotbrough Community Library Sprotbrough Road. Sprotbrough Doncaster DN5 8BA

Library Opening Times: Monday

10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.

Tuesday

10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.

Wednesday

10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.

Thursday

10.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.

Friday

10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.

Saturday

10.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.

Sunday

Closed

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School News from Copley Junior School Year 6 Residential Visit to Northumberland An evening on the beach

Well done to our Year 6 pupils, who have returned from a very enjoyable residential visit to Northumberland.

The children had a very busy four days, which included a visit to Vindolanda, the Roman Army Museum, a journey over the causeway to explore the island of Lindisfarne, a boat trip to the Farne Islands landing on Inner Farne and visits to Dunstanburgh Castle, the Grace Darling Museum, Bamburgh Church and Beamish Museum.

The children stayed in Seahouses in a hotel next to the beach so evening activities included cricket, paddling in the very cold sea and playing games on the beautiful sandy beach. Many adults at the venues we visited commented on the interest and enthusiasm of the children, as well as their excellent behaviour and polite manners.

Of course we expect this from our Copley children, but it is always lovely to hear.

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Express Events At Copley we regularly invite parents/carers in to share the children’s learning. At the end of their ‘Beast Creator’ project Year 5 prepared an informative and creative parent presentation with many fascinating facts aboutminibeasts.

As part of their ‘Potions’ project about the properties of materials children in Year 4 made bath time products and sold these at their express event. This activity enabled children to develop many skills – persuasive writing in the form of posters and adverts, maths skills in working out the cost of making the products and profit margins, making packaging and then running their stall at the event. We have some budding entrepreneurs in Year 4 as they made an amazing £415!

Year 4 Visit to Castleton To launch this half term’s Geography project, Year 4 explorers took part in a long hike around the beautiful landscape of Castleton and compared the landscape of Sprotbrough with that of Castleton.

Happy Birthday to Her Majesty To celebrate the 90th birthday of Her Majesty The Queen we held a birthday card design competition.

Our winning two entries were posted to The Queen at Buckingham Palace and hampers full of commemorative goodies were presented as prizes.

A selection of birthday cards made for Her Majesty One of the winning designs – we loved all the pop out and 3D features of this card, which has been posted to Buckingham Palace. I am sure it will look lovely on The Queen’s mantelpiece.

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Our plans for a street party had to be moved inside, thanks to the great British weather! We enjoyed our special party lunch in the hall as a school community, with a rousing rendition of the National Anthem and three cheers for The Queen. Thank you to CSA members who purchased a commemorative coin for each child to keep as a memory of the occasion.

Eve Merton Dreams Trust – Thank You! As part of our recent Sporty Week the children in our Sports Council organised a sponsored walk to raise funds for the Eve Merton Dreams Trust. This is a local charity that helps local people living with cancer to achieve their dreams.

Thanks to the generosity of children, staff and parents we raised an amazing £1200 from our sponsored walk for the Eve Merton Dreams Trust. Mr Johnson from the charity came to talk about the work of the Eve Merton Dreams Trust and how it has helped many local people.

The charity is a small local one so they are keen to spread news of their work. You can visit their website at www.evestrust.co.uk.

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

Mums & Toddlers

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

9.30-11.00am

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

Pre School Playgroup

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

9.15-12.15pm

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

Pre School Palygroup

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

9.15-12.15pm

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

Mums & Toddlers

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

9.30-11.00am

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 Fri

Explorer Scouts (14-18yrs) Pre school Playgroup

Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough Sprotbrough Methodist Church

7.30-9.30pm 9.15-12.15pm

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

t-Time, Crafts, bible stories and more

St Marys Church Hall

4—5pm—check hall for dates

Sun

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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: 850890 Warmsworth Community Centre Contact Mrs Jill Sharpe 01302 858377

Monthly Events in Sprotbrough & Warmsworth Monthly

Activity

Meeting Place

Time

3rd Monday

St Mary’s Mothers Union

The Stable, Main Street, Sp’boro

7.30pm- 9.30pm

1st & 3rd Tuesday

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

Also fit Alarms

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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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Warmsworth Primary School

01302 852200

All aspects of Joinery work undertaken

Barnburgh Primary School

01709 893125

High Melton College

01302 553666

Warmsworth Library

01302 853082

Sprotbrough Community Library

01302 782436

Doncaster Central Library

01302 734305

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