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The building of the new park equipment on the Newtoft playing field starts at the end of February. The kids chose the exciting new play equipment themselves and plans and pictures are up in the Newtoft Clubhouse if anyone wants to see them. It should all be complete by early April. Have fun.
The postal address of ‘Doglands' at Newtoft has now been changed to ‘ Masovian Lane ' as a tribute to the Polish Masovian squadron based nearby during the war. As the residents have been given four different postcodes over the past 15 years the name change is supposed to help provide a definitive postcode. Though as yet even this has not been recognised. A new road sign is due to go up soon. We'll keep you posted!
As a fundraising event for the new building, there will be a Virgin Vie party at the Newtoft Clubhouse on Friday 5th February at 7pm. This is household furnishings, make up, jewellery etc. All the commission goes to the new building fund.
There will be a family bingo night with food on Saturday 20th February at the Newtoft Clubhouse. Doors open at 6pm and eyes down at 6.30pm.
We are having an "anti-valentines" over 18s disco on Saturday 13th Feb, 8pm till late, cheap drinks all night. It's for anyone who really doesn't fancy a sloppy, romantic night. Just a bit of fun really!
Pups drew 2-2 away to Louth on Sunday 17 th January and are playing at home on Sunday 31 st January & Sunday 2 nd February at the Newtoft Football field 2.15pm KO.
Come on you Pups!
The enforced winter break because of the bad weather meant that the several players who had injuries are now fully recovered. At an exciting cup match on 17 th January away to North Lindum Hawks the Terriers were drawing 2–2 after extra time but sadly lost 5-4 on penalties. Encouraging performance though following injury ravaged results earlier in the season. As a fundraiser The Terriers are having a Fifa '10 XBox tournament in March so if anyone is interested put your name on the list in the Newtoft clubhouse.
Congratulations to Dougie Orr and his duck ‘Haggis' on winning the £100 first prize in the Middle Rasen Duck Race. Not one normally disposed to gambling, Dougie was then persuaded to have a go on the bonus ball at the Newtoft Club and promptly won £107.
Thanks to a grant from the Youth Opportunities Fund the senior youth club had a very successful team building adventure at Caythorpe for PGL in October. We climbed telegraph poles, went on a giant swing, made a raft and got extremely wet, did some archery, climbed Jacob's ladder to name a few! Everyone worked well together and some managed to overcome their fears and achieve new personal bests which was great and the whole point of going. Even Amanda, Joanne and Lisa joined in! We are now on the way to trying to establish ourselves as a "proper" youth club with the help from LCVYS (Lincolnshire Council for Voluntary Youth Services). We are at present involved in talks with the Parish Council and Children's Links to choose new play equipment for the park aimed at 8-13 year olds. Hopefully this will be finalised by middle of Dec and new equipment up by end of March. Contact Lisa Westwick for info.
Congratulations to Rex
Finally, congratulations go to Mr Rex Clarke who has recently been appointed to the NHS Trust Board.
Faldingworth School News from Sue Pottinger
Fun For Charity
Just before the half-term holiday we held a “Wear it pink” day. Everyone came dressed in pink non-uniform and a pink collage was made, thanks to everyone's efforts a grand total of £78 was raised for the Breast Cancer charity. We also supported ‘Children in Need', everyone was invited to come in non-uniform. They made dotty bandanas/headbands, sang our own special Pudsey bear song, and bought Pudsey bear cakes from our weekly tuck shop.
Howard Goodall comes to school
Our school is very honoured to be selected to receive a visit from Howard Goodall from London who is the national ambassador for singing for the sing up campaign. Pupils and staff will be performing a variety of songs for his visit.
Friends of School Events
Friends of the School held a successful race night recently, which raised £278. They have organised a Christmas Lunch to be held in the memorial hall on Friday 11 th December – for further details please contact school. Wednesday 16 th December FOFS will be providing a party lunch, followed by a visit from Father Christmas when every child will receive a gift.
Christmas Fun, Fayre, Food & Carols
We are now very busy getting ready for all the exciting events that will take place in the run up to Christmas. The Christmas production will be performed on Wednesday 9 th December at 2.00pm – everyone very welcome to attend. Our Carol Service, which is open to all, is going to be held in the Parish Church on Monday 14 th December at 2.00pm. Afterwards tea, coffee & mince pies will be served in the School Hall. On Tuesday 15 th December our caterer will be providing children and staff with her usual delicious Christmas lunch.
Both pupils and staff would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Please contact the school to arrange a visit or request a schoolWW2 MEMORIAL DAY AT FALDINGWORTH
Seventy years ago this month many Polish men & women had to leave Poland to work and fight “For Our and Your Freedom”. Later, they were followed by many more, some of whom had been incarcerated by the USSR . Some of these exiles came to RAF Faldingworth in 1944, to became part of RAF 300 (POLISH) Squadron & 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit which flew from Faldingworth airfield during WW2. Some of their crews lost their lives yet were not honoured as those who died in battle. In some cases the aircrew members had already been on many operations over Germany and were simply converting to the larger four engined aircraft.
On Saturday 26 th September there will be a special service to place some parts of three old Lancaster bombers and a Halifax, which were crewed by Polish aircrew, inside the Faldingworth memorial as we pay homage to them and their sacrifice. The service will be held at All Saints Church Faldingworth at 2pm and later on the airfield. The church and memorial hall will be open from 11am serving tea & coffee and displaying some of the photographs and memorabilia. Weather permitting there will be flypast of an RAF BBMF Dakota at 1.30pm. This aircraft currently carries the markings of 267 squadron and flew at least three sorties into occupied Poland including one to pick up V2 parts captured by the Polish Home Army. After the memorial service refreshments will be served to end the day at Faldingworth School at 4.30pm. Please do come along and take part in the day.
We are proud of our links with the Polish Air Force and the church has a window in honour of this historic link. For more information please contact Colin Mitchell-Smith (01673 885384) or Kevin Troop (07703 330106). Contributions to the ‘Faldingworth Memorial Fund' can be sent to Colin at Chestnut Lodge, Spridlington Road , Faldingworth, Lincs , LN8 3SQ .
The ‘Holiday at Home' for Older People, held at Faldingworth Primary School during the October half term, was a great success. All the ‘holiday makers' from both Newtoft, Faldingworth and further a field were full of enthusiasm and said they wanted their friends to know how good it had been. So hopefully, there will be one next year. T he highlights of this year's Holiday at Home were:
• People enjoyed the friendly, peaceful and relaxed atmosphere
• New friendships were made, and promises to keep in touch afterwards.
• Newtoft children are to be invited to the Christmas party for those from Faldingworth.
• Activity leaders and helpers were able to join in the fun and had a ‘whale of a time' themselves.
• People were able to explore the possibilities of finding their own family history, sit and listen to jazz records, and take part in various workshops such as art oils, beading, card crafts, embroidery, iris folding and music.
• Many of the activities were provided by members of West Wolds U3A, and it was a delight to find that at the following monthly meeting of that organisation a few of the ‘holiday makers' went along with a view to joining.
• Thanks to funding from ‘PIP Fund' (Healthy Communities, organised by the County Council and the NHS), from the Anglican and Methodist churches, and from the share of proceeds from the choral performances of ‘Pharaoh to Freedom', there is a good balance in hand to go well on the way to meeting the costs of a follow-on.
We will keep readers posted about next years Holiday at Home. As plans are set in motion, and with the value of what we have learned this time, we hope to make it better still! Don't miss out next year on what everybody felt was a really good time. Wish you were…
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