Community, Parish Council & Village
The Premises & Recreation Sub-Committee of West Bergholt Parish Council met on 3rd April when, among other items, they discussed Football Clubs, Health & Safety, maintenance & repairs and users’ issues & requests. Continue reading “Premises & Recreation – 3rd April 2017”
The Premises & Recreation Sub-Committee of West Bergholt Parish Council met on 6th February when, among other items, they discussed Health & Safety, general facility amenities, equipment and repairs, Hire Charges, Football Clubs and Orpen & John Lampon Halls Toilets. Continue reading “Premises & Recreation – 6th February 2017”
Every Year the Rural Community Council of Essex holds a competition to determine the best Village of the Year. The award is based on the activities and work of the community as a whole, not just the Parish Council:
This is the only competition of its kind in Essex that focuses on the whole community rather than on the work of the Parish Council or one particular organisation or amenity. We will be looking to reward villages of all sizes that are doing most to enhance the quality of life for their inhabitants.
RCCE Website
The Queen’s 90th Birthday CelebrationOn Thursday 21st April the Parish Council have organised an evening of festivities & fun at the Orpen Memorial Hall to celebrate the Queen’s 90th Birthday. Kicking off at 3:30pm with a birthday tea, the evening culminates in the lighting of the Queen’s Beacon and a Firework Display.
If the weather’s good why not bring your own Picnic Blanket & Deckchairs! Red, White & Blue clothing is encouraged with a Prize for the Best Fancy Dress.
The full schedule is:
Free of charge admission tickets for the birthday tea are available from Heathlands School, Bluebells Pre-School, the Co‑op & West Bergholt Pharmacy. Please contact the Heathlands PTA directly for tickets for the Balloon Race.
For more details please contact the Parish Clerk on 07726 424419.
St Mary’s are hosting 2 exhibitions in the coming month, one of art by local artists and another staged by the local History Group.
Currently being exhibited, are some large paintings which were painted by village resident, John Newman. They were displayed in St. Mary’s Church in New Church Road during West Bergholt’s Open Gardens weekend. The paintings feature gardens that were mentioned in the Bible including the Garden of Eden and the Garden of Gethsemane. Appropriate verses from the Bible and information about these gardens are displayed alongside the paintings.
There is also some art work created by the children at Bluebells Pre-School. This exhibition will be displayed in the church for the next two weeks.
The second exhibition is being staged by the West Bergholt History Group to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the start of WW1. This will be a small display from 2nd – 9th August.
That was the conclusion of Ofsted recently when they made their first inspection visit of the ‘Early Years’ provider. Ofsted awarded the highest accolade of “outstanding” quoting “the quality of teaching is exemplary”, “the practitioners use their expertise to provide children with an educational programme that is extremely challenging, exciting and worthy of disseminating to others”. One excerpt from the report tells a story all of itself:
Practitioners are exceptionally skilful at following children’s interests and use well-considered questions to extend children’s thinking. For example, children see a spider crawling across the pre-school floor. They draw a practitioner’s attention to the spider, who quickly and efficiently uses this spontaneous incident as a learning aide. She confidently finds a small pot to contain the spider and asks a child if they would like to find a magnifying glass to explore the spider in more detail. The child quickly returns with a magnifying glass. The practitioner enables the now, larger group of children who have come to see what is happening to view the spider in more detail. This creates a lively discussion about how many legs the spider has, what colour it is and where children think it might live. The discussion concludes with children telling the practitioner that they think the spider should be taken outside and placed on a tree so that it won’t be trodden on. The practitioner helps children take it outside and settles it into its new environment. Children excitedly rush back into the room to find the plastic spider living in one of the story/rhyme sacks. They each take it in turns to look at the plastic one and break out into songs about spiders. Throughout this activity, the practitioner’s input superbly guides children’s thoughts and challenges their thinking, while allowing them ample time to consider their own knowledge.
Well done to Jackie Leach & all her team. Details of Bluebells, and other Education Providers supporting West Bergholt, are available on this website.
Click this link to download the full Ofsted report which is in PDF format.
