Parish

MAY - JULY 2009

LOCKING FEAST WEEK - Saturday 11th July - 19th July
Please keep the dates in your diary and bear in mind that this is a chance to raise some funds for your Club or Charity. The actual Fete will be on Saturday 18 July.

PARENTS AND TODDLERS GROUP
The Toddlers' Group meets on a Thursday morning in the Village Hall from 10.00am - 12 noon during school term times. The Baby Clinic is held on the first Thursday of the month and should this fall on a school holiday time, then it is held in the Nurse Thomas Room (at the Doctor's Surgery). The youngsters have made Mother's Day Cards and Mums were given some daffodils. We have seen some new babies lately and we send Congratulations to all the families. The Group has a lovely variety of toys and activities for the children to experiment with and they all enjoy different play things.
Why not pop into the Hall on a Thursday morning and have a cuppa with us. See you.

LOCKING PRE SCHOOL PLAYGROUP
The children have had a busy Spring Term during which they celebrated the usual 'special days'. They wore daffodils on St David's Day, made flower vases for Mums for Mother's Day and on Red Nose Day they dressed up in red and made funny-faced biscuits.
The Spring Fun Day is to be held on Saturday 4 April from
2.00 - 4.00 pm when the children carry out their sponsored trike ride. There will be a cake stall, toys, books and a bric-a-brac stall and a bouncy castle if the weather permits! Please come along and support your local Playgroup!
Our Photographer will visit us on Monday morning, 18 May and welcomes families and playgroup children from 9.00 am - 12 noon, to have their photos taken.
We are now taking bookings on our waiting list for children born in the year 2008 and have some vacancies for the coming academic year, 2009 -10.
Please contact Playgroup during the session times on 07760 482092 or Karen on 823174.

LOCKING PRIMARY SCHOOL
As always, life at Locking Primary School is incredibly busy.
Christmas is always a very special time for us with plays, performances, singing in and around the community, parties and much, much more. Staff and pupils went home for the Christmas holidays happy but exhausted.
During early January Locking School immersed itself in a 'Maths week'. Wow! What challenges, prizes and fun we had!
We were joined by professional mathematicians who not only helped the children, but also the staff and parents. We now consider ourselves'maths experts' at Locking School.
February, amongst other things, brought our annual Partners Project with Worle School. The schools get together to put on a performance which is written, sung and acted by themselves. As always we were amazed by the talents of our young people.
March saw the launch of our Smoothie Bar and 'let's go cook' activities. As a healthy school we are always looking for exciting ideas to encourage the children to eat and act healthily. The Smoothie Bar and Tuck Shop have proved to be great hit!

Friends of Locking School were busy raising money through a Quiz Night and a Film night to help fund the improvements to our computer suite. We are really grateful for their support and hard work.

Future events:
April 3rd at 2pm - our School Council has decided that the money raised through our Easter Parade should be donated to the Parish Council to help them to improve the Village Park. Did you see us as we paraded around the Village and the Park in our Easter bonnets and masks?
May 15th at 6:30pm - join us for our Auction of Promises. Why not donate a promise yourselves? All monies will be used towards purchases to up-grade our Computer Suite.
Friday 19th June at 3pm - join us for our annual Summer Fair. We are hoping for a sunny day!

OVER 60's LUCHEON - This has been booked for Tuesday 28 July in the Village Hall at 12.30 pm. at a cost of only £3 per head and is open to anyone in the village who is 60+.
To book your place in advance please telephone Dave Wallace on 823312

LOCKING GARDENING CLUB
The Gardening Club meets at 7.45pm on the first Monday of each month in the Village Hall (except during Jauary, July and August). New members are always welcome and you don't need to be an expert gardener - just interested! Membership costs £5 per year plus £l per meeting. Visitors £2 per meeting.

We have an interesting and varied programme for the rest of 2009, including:
Mon 6 April - Gardening Quiz - not to be missed
Mon 11 May - Evening visit to Middlecombe Nurseries, Congresbury
Mon 1 June - Spring plant sale
Sat 27 June - Club coach trip to National Botanic Garden of Wales
Sat 22 August - Coach trip to RHS Rosemoor, Devon
Mon 7 September - Talk - speaker and subject to be confirmed
Mon 5 October - Autumn plant sale inc talk about the plants on offer
Mon 2 November - Talk - speaker and subject to be confirmed
Mon 7 December - AGM and social

A date for your diaries:- Open Gardens weekend will be 11th /12th July. Programmes will be available from early July. If you would like any further information please contact Steve Palmer (Sec) on 820719 or Les Parsons (Tress) on 823210.

STEEP HOLM SHIRKERS
The sailing schedule times are now available for information. We have handed over £3000 to The Trust for the Island over the last year and are now starting our fund-raising efforts once again. There will be a stall at the April Table Top day and also a pub social at The Hunters Lodge Inn on Friday 27th May.

FRIENDS OF THE HELI MUSEUM
We are seeking three more committee members to help raise funds for projects at the museum. We recently donated £500 towards a new catering stove in the cafe, and £1000 towards the new educational centre recently built and now being fitted out. Further details from Dave Wallace 823312. The Friends are an independent group at the museum albeit the Chairman is a museum trustee.