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should be addressed to make it easier for children to ask for help, and group sizes could be reduced during some activities.

The inspector said a strength of the setting was the commitment to ensure all children are included and supported.

She said: "Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) receive the early help and support that they need.

"Children with SEND willingly engage in the wider range of small-group sessions that staff provide. They are developing increasing confidence to engage with their peers and to seek comfort and support from staff across the nursery."

Manager Marie Sims said staff were "proud" to achieve a good rating.

She said: "We are now working towards our Curiosity Approach accreditation and looking forward to developing our setting even more."

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Inner Wheel Club of Chipping Sodbury

OVER the past month, our members have demonstrated the three main objects of the organisation: promoting friendship; encouraging the ideals of personal service and fostering international understanding.

We began with a private cinema event at the Armadillo Centre in Yate with Rotarians, family and friends.

A cream tea was provided before we watched, and enjoyed, Where the Crawdads Sing.

A few weeks later a few of us met up at one of the lovely cafes in our area for coffee, cake and chat.

Members have helped out in our local community at the Tea Dance in Chipping Sodbury Town Hall and across the road at the regular Memory Cafe in the Baptist Church.

Every year the club organises a lunch for members and friends to raise money for an international charity.

These used to be known as Frugal Lunches, but they’ve become increasingly less frugal over time and so have been renamed an International Lunch.

The charity chosen by our District is Mary’s Meals, which has been providing a meal at school for more than 2.4 million children worldwide.

With news of the devastation caused by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, we were so pleased to discover that Mary’s Meals were already working in Aleppo, Syria, feeding 5,000-plus children daily, and were quickly able to use local connections to give help where it was so desperately needed.

The profit from our lunch and a bring-and-buy table mean that we can send £460 to the charity. We didn’t manage to eat all the food bought for lunch, so the non-perishable leftovers were donated to the local foodbank.

This event combined all of Inner Wheel’s objectives - we had fun with friends and helped both an international and local charity.

To contact us email chippingsodbury@innerwheeldistrict10.co.uk.

Liz Pattison