Families are being invited to take part in two special mosaic workshops to help decorate a model spitfire.
The workshops are being held ahead of the launch of a trail of the famous planes which will be on display throughout the town from next month until September. 42 F King’s Lynn Squadron Air Training Corps is organising the trail as the squadron gears up to exercise their Freedom of the Borough for the first time on July 18. The squadron will parade along South Quay to King Staithe square at 12 noon, before a flypast by a Grace Spitfire at 1pm. The workshops to decorate one of the two spitfires sponsored by the Vancouver Quarter will take place between 11am and 4pm on Saturday 20 June and Saturday 4 July next to Costa Coffee and opposite Wilkinson on New Conduit Street. A third date, yet to be confirmed, will be announced in due course. Abbie Panks, centre manager said: “There are places available for 30 minute sessions throughout both days. As well as encouraging both adults and children over 5 to help decorate the spitfire, people will also be able to watch the other spitfire come to life with our appointed artist also working in situ at the same time. “The artist behind our spitfire designs, Carolyn Ash, is a well-respected local artist and has also just completed one of this year's GoGo Dragons (GoGo Mosaic) for Norwich which launches in June.” To reserve places at one of these workshops for your family, www.spitfire-workshops.eventbrite.co.uk
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Year Two pupils at Hillcroft Primary School who are reluctant to go to bed when they are told can claim they are staying up late in the name of their education following a close encounter with some lively nocturnal creatures.
Youngsters at the Caterham school had already been studying the subject of animal nightlife before they received a visit from the travelling Zoolab menagerie, but it gave them a chance to get up close and personal and get their hands on a selection of night-time creatures such as the giant African land snail, a Madagascan hissing cockroach and a corn snake. “Zoolab’s visit was fantastic for the children,” said Hillcroft’s assistant head teacher Louise Summers. “They discussed environmental awareness and conservation issues, before the animal handlers got the creatures out, and anyone who wanted to got the chance to hold them. When you see what some of those creatures were, you realise how different it was from an average day in the classroom, and how memorable it will be for them all!”. The impact of the visit lasted beyond the time that the animals and their handlers were at the school, as Ms Summers explained. “As well as the practical side of the day, we used its theme as the inspiration for other work, like creative writing, painting and science, and in IT we even got them to design and print off their own mini-beasts. This term’s topic is ‘In My Garden’, so we’re keeping the theme going with follow-up activities on things like bees, which they can come across every day. But if they see anything like the giant African land snail in their garden, I think it’ll be time to call in Zoolab again!” Pupils at Springfield School in Sunbury discovered a whole new way of learning history recently when members of the school choir were invited to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in a specially-written opera to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta at nearby Runnymede.
The piece, entitled ‘Magna Carta: The Freedom Game’, was written by Sir Richard Stilgoe and Hannah Conway, and 24 children from Springfield were invited by Surrey Arts to be part of a massed choir, also featuring pupils from other local schools, for the performance at the prestigious west London venue. “It was a huge undertaking by the children and they put in loads of effort, so they really deserved their moment in the spotlight,” said Springfield music teacher Hannah Gregson. “We rehearsed it every Tuesday from February to the end of May, then they had two full days rehearsing with the larger choir and an additional two Sundays with the orchestra and the rest of the cast before they were ready to perform." It was not just those pupils taking part who benefitted from the experience, however. “Year Three history classes looked at Magna Carta, and what actually happened, and the themes of the piece – about rights and responsibilities – were used as discussion topics in other classes too,” Ms Gregson explained. “Whilst the whole experience of being involved was great for those who were part of the performance, it was also really good for the rest of the school that they got to benefit from the experience as well. It made the whole topic really come alive for the children – and the fact that the key events all took place so close to where they live made it all the more meaningful to them.” Neighbours have described hearing a pensioner screaming “get it off me” when she was discovered trapped under her own car after her husband had run her over and dragged her through a fence before crashing into a shed.
Maureen Maycroft died almost a week after being run over by her grey Peugeot 307 by husband Thomas Maycroft in a cul-de-sac in rural Norfolk. The couple had only been married for two years but were said to have been “very happy” together by residents of Sutton’s Close, in Outwell, near Wisbech. |
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