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DIARY DATES APRIL/MAY 2015
28Mar Slimbridge Gardening Club Spring Show. Village Hall
2.15pm
1Apr Local History Society “Victorian School Logbooks” by Fiona Mead. Village Hall 7.30pm
4Apr Vale Friends of Cancer Research UK Coffee Morning. Slimbridge Village Hall 10am-2.00pm
8Apr Slimbridge Parish WI - Stroud Auctions. Village Hall
7.45pm
13Apr Annual Parish Meeting - all welcome. Village Hall
7.45pm
14Apr Slimbridge Legion Friendship Club Day Trip to Mechanical Museum, Northleach 10.00am
14Apr Slimbridge Gardening Club “Photography in the Garden” talk by Clifton Cameras. 7.30pm
20Apr Parish Council Meeting. Village Hall
25Apr Slimbridge Showgroup Members Evening. Village Hall
7.30pm
28Apr Slimbridge Friendship Club Mtg. - Games, Raffle etc. Slimbridge Legion
2.00pm
8May Gloucestershire Police Choir Concert. St. John’s Church, Slimbridge
7.30pm
9/10May Little Vintage Show. Old Dursley Road, Cambridge
12May Slimbridge Friendship Club Day Trip to Bourton-on-the- Water
10.00am
12May Slimbridge Gardening Club. “Auriculas” talk by Mike Steel. Village Hall
7.30pm
13May Slimbridge Parish WI - Samba Drumming with World Jungle. Village Hall
7.45pm
14May “Business as Usual” - play with music presented by Everyman Theatre. V.H. 7 for 7.30pm
15May Slimbridge Singers “Famous Musicals” Concert. St. John’s Church, Slimbridge
7.30pm
16May Slimbridge Gardening Club Plant Sale. Village Hall
10.30am-12noon
16May Slimbridge Parish WI - Quiz and Pudding Evening. Village Hall
7.00pm
23-25May Flower Festival. St. John’s Church, Slimbridge
10.30am-4.30pm
26May Slimbridge Friendship Club Mtg. - Games, Raffle etc. Slimbridge Legion
2.00pm
3June Local History Society “HMS Shah and the Victorian Navy” by Dan Allen. V.H.
7.30pm
SLIMBRIDGE CRICKET CLUB- ANOTHER
150YEARS!
In 2014 Slimbridge Cricket Club celebrated its 150th
birthday, and is now going out to bat for another 150
years! We welcome young people of all ages and all
abilities to join our existing blend of age and
experience (early teens to 65+!) playing on
Saturdays in Division 1 of the Stroud league, Sunday
and weekday friendlies and evening 20/20. We play
hard and fair, but we primarily play for the enjoyment
of the game and for comradeship, so come and join
us in getting the next 150 years started off with a
fanfare! Contact Jeff Chandra on 0779123477.
SLIMBRIDGE PARISH COUNCIL would like to welcome newly
co-opted Cllr Linda Dibley who joined the council last month. The
Parish Council have recently been working in partnership with
Stroud Valleys Project and have planted some trees along the
Dursley Road. The Solar Farm continues to be built and the Parish
Council hope to hear soon about the proposed Community Fund
that will come from this. The Annual Parish Meeting is taking
place on Monday 13th April, 7.45pm at Slimbridge Village Hall.
Everyone is welcome to come and see what the Council has been
doing over the past year and raise any questions. The next Full
Council meeting takes place on Monday 20th April. Helen Dunn,
Clerk to the Council. 07943 894637 clerk@slimbridge.org.uk
NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK AT SLIMBRIDGE PRIMARY SCHOOL....What an opportunity, to have
National Science week ending with a partial eclipse! The children were all prepared with
pinhole cameras and reflection boards to track the eclipse on Friday 20 th March. Fingers
were crossed and forecasts checked that the cloud we had had all week would clear in time.
The children and parents arrived early, armed with their pinhole cameras, and thankfully
everyone got to watch part of the eclipse. An experience we won’t have again until 2026!
Earlier in the week the children had all been involved in an engineering project to design
and build bridges. The bridges were built of paper and sticky tape and had to bridge a gap
of at least 30cm, the more inventive children also found additional materials to strengthen
and decorate their construction. At the end of a creative and inventive construction period
the children came together to test their bridges to see which would hold the heaviest weight.
Several of the bridges held 3 house bricks! Andrew from Year 6 thought it was a great
experience, they had to problem solve to make the ends of their bridge stronger and used v
and x shapes to support the platform and sides. When it came to testing he said ‘my group
were really scared as the bricks were added, but it all held together, brilliant’. We definitely
have a few budding engineers in the school. The bridges are now in the school’s foyer for
everyone to admire.
Alison Cooke (Headteacher)
TREES in DURSLEY ROAD....THE PARISH COUNCIL
Friday 15th May will see the SLIMBRIDGE
SINGERS return to entertain you all once
again! We will sing a large selection of
wonderful songs from the famous
musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein:
The Sound of Music, The King and I,
Carousel, Oklahoma, and South Pacific.
Come along for 7.30pm start, at St John's
Church, Slimbridge. No entry charge but
please do donate to the retiring collection
which raises much needed funds for the
maintenance of our beautiful church
building, and its organ which is in great
need of repair. P.S. We always welcome
new singers, of whatever ability, you do
not have to be especially good at it!
Ursula Toher 890592.
HAS RECENTLY PLANTED A QUANTITY OF TREES IN
DURSLEY ROAD, IT IS
TUBEX PROTECTION,
DISAPPOINTING TO ADVISE SOME OF THESE TREES HAVE BEEN UPROOTED AND REMOVED ALONG WITH THEIR STAKES AND
IF ANYBODY HAS ANY INFORMATION WOULD THEY PLEASE CONTACT THE PARISH COUNCIL