Summer Holidays 2014

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Issue 54
Summer Holidays 2014
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Local Information for parents,
teachers and carers of children
Saffron Walden, Bishop’s Stortford
Great Dunmow & Villages
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Dame Bradbury’s School
A Stephen Perse Foundation School
01799 522348 | damebradburys.com
in this issue 1
T: 01763 838687 E: [email protected]
Welcome
school until they are five. Unfortunately
though, despite guidance from the
Department of Education (Summer-
born children: school admission - 26
July 2013, updated 7th May 2014), it is
At last it’s the summer and soon, whatever
the weather, there’s time for relaxation,
and to push thoughts of school away, and
even if you’re still working, life takes on a
less hectic routine.
I’ve read recently that children who are
young for their year typically do not do
as well at GCSEs and are less likely to
go to University (I do not have figures
to support this and I’m sure there are
plenty who do very well indeed despite
their birth month).
However, if you have a summer born baby
or toddler (April - August) and you feel that
he or she might struggle compared to
their older classmates if they go to school
when they’ve only just turned 4, you now
no longer have to enrol him or her into
reported that local councils and schools
are not always as accommodating as
they could be, and you might even feel
at risk of losing a place altogether at your
chosen school if you attempt to delay
entry. In addition, your child might have to
start off in Year 1 - thus missing an entire
year of education.
If you’re caught up in this dilemma
and would like to find out more about
the subject, or get help with your own
situation, there are websites, blogs and
even a Facebook page you can look at
online. Just enter ‘summer-born children’.
This issue is just bursting with things to
do so without any more from me - start
planning and booking now! Watch out for
the special offers for Salad Days readers
in two of the advertisements!
Have a fabulous summer!
Harriet
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Contents:
Advertisers’ Index......................... 48
Articles & Features
More about Farnham Primary...2
Killing that mockingbird..............6
Animal Magic - book review.... 10
Budgeting for summer
holidays.................................. 12
“Summer is Icumen In”............. 12
Summer sports injuries............. 13
Barbeque - cleaning!................ 13
Picnic time - Italian
picnic bread........................... 14
Garden carnival........................ 15
Summer reading challenge..... 16
Story times at libraries.............. 16
The way, the truth and the life.. 16
Talent contest............................ 16
Fun with a fizzy drink.................17
Day at Carver Barracks.............24
Photographing babies..............30
Education
Primary schools......................2–4
Tuition......................................6–7
Secondary schools......................8
Events
Diary dates June-August... 24–29
Cinema of Childhood................24
Films at Saffron Screen.............25
Diary dates September.............40
Antenatal; postnatal
MamaBliss................................46
Health Visitors and Clinics........48
Out of School
Youth and social clubs................8
Before & after school..................9
Uniform groups.........................23
Performing Arts
Dance, drama and
theatre Schools................ 31–33
Music................................. 34–35
Pre-School
Nurseries, pre-schools and
playgroups......................... 36–39
Toddler groups....................40–47
Buffy Bus summer timetable....40
Sure Start Centres..................... 41
Little Gym holiday camps.........43
Sport
Sport & martial arts clubs... 18–23
To advertise in the next Salad Days, or include activities, clubs and events,
or to contribute articles on your speciality subject contact Harriet on 01763 838687
(new number) or [email protected]
Thanks go to Claire Moir for the image on the front cover. See pages 15 and 30
www.clairemoir.com and www.purebabyphotography.co.uk
Girl in sunhat; Claire Moir ©
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A remarkable place of learning, only 1 mile from Bishop’s Stortford CM23 1HR
Primary schools
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Bishop’s Stortford
All Saints’ JMI School & Nursery
Parsonage Lane, CM23 5BE
T: 01279 836006 W: allsaints.herts.sch.uk
Bishop’s Stortford College
10 Maze Green Road, CM23 2PJ
T: 01279 838575 See right
Farnham C of E Primary See above
Farnham, CM23 1RH; T: 01279 771339
E: [email protected]
W: farnham.essex.sch.uk
Hillmead Primary School
Woburn Avenue, CM23 4PW
T: 01279 656876
Farnham CE Primary School
...
is a remarkable place of learning in a beautiful setting only a mile
from Bishop’s Stortford.
We are a happy school offering opportunities and challenges with a
strong caring ethos. Small class sizes, with a high quality teaching
ratio of 1:8, ensure a rich, varied learning environment focussing on
personal learning and achievement. All the benefits of an independent
school without the fees!
Gillian Napier, Headteacher of Farnham and Rickling Federation said,
“we accept children from Essex and Herts and have places available
in different year groups. Please contact us for a visit.
We are a hidden gem!”
Howe Green House School - See Page 5
Great Hallingbury, CM22 7UF
T: 01279 657706
W: howegreenhouseschool.co.uk
Manor Fields Primary School
Penningtons, CM23 4LE
T: 01279 757193
Northgate School & Nursery
Cricketfield Lane, CM23 2RL
T: 01279 652376
Spellbrook Primary Sch & Nursery
London Road, CM23 4BA
T: 01279 723204
W: spellbrook.herts.sch.uk
St Joseph’s Catholic JMI
School & Pre-school
Great Hadham Road, CM23 2NL
T: 01279 652576
St Michael’s Primary & Nursery School
Apton Road, CM23 3SN
T: 01279 652607
Summercroft Primary
School & Nursery
Plaw Hatch Close, CM23 5BJ
T: 01279 307477
The Richard Whittington Primary Sch
Thornbera Gardens, CM23 3NP
T: 01279 657778
Thorley Hill Primary School
Park Lane, CM23 3NH
T: 01279 654496
Thorn Grove Primary School
Thorn Grove, CM23 5LD
T: 01279 653002
Windhill Primary & Nursery School
Windhill, CM23 2NE
T: 01279 696850
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Great Dunmow
Dunmow St Mary’s Primary School
High Stile, CM6 1EB
T: 01371 872340
Continued on P4
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The next step to achieving extraordinary things
Open Morning
Saturday 20th September 2014
9.30am – 1.00pm
From the very first moment they join the College,
children are surrounded by inspiring role models
who enable them to develop the same confidence
and ability to transform the ordinary into
the extraordinary.
For more information contact t. 01279 838575
e. [email protected]
www.bishopsstortfordcollege.org
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Continued from P2
Great Dunmow Primary School
Walnut Walk, Woodlands Park Drive
CM6 1ZR; T: 01371 873184
The Flitch Green Academy
Tanton Road, Little Dunmow, CM6 3GG
T: 01371 822330
W: theflitchgreenacademy.co.uk
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Saffron Walden
See Inside Front Cover and Page 39
Ashdon Road, CB10 2AL
T: 01799 522348
W: damebradburys.com
Friends’ Junior School
See inside back cover
65 Debden Road, CB11 4AL
W: friendsjunior.org.uk
Katherine Semar County
Infants School
Ross Close, CB11 4DU; Ages: 4–7
T: 01799 521720
W: katherinesemar-inf.essex.sch.uk
Katherine Semar Junior School
Ross Close, CB11 4DU; Ages: 7–11
T: 01799 521120
W: katherinesemar-jun.essex.sch.uk
R A Butler Junior & Infant School
South Road, CB11 3DG; T: 01799 523651
W: rabutleracademy.org.uk
St Mary’s C of E Primary School
Castle Street, CB10 1BQ; T: 01799 523384
W: www.stmaryssw.org.uk
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St Thomas More RC Primary School
South Road, CB11 3DW
T: 01799 523248
E: [email protected] sch.uk
W: st-thomasmore.essex sch.uk
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Stansted Mountfitchet
Bentfield Primary School
Rainsford Road, CM24 8DX
T: 01279 813626
St. Mary’s C of E Primary School
Hampton Road, Forest Hall Park
T: 01279 812212
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Villages
Albury C of E Primary School
Debden C of E Primary
Debden, CB11 3LE; T: 01799 540302
W: debden.essex.sch.uk
Elsenham C of E Primary
Elsenham, CM22 6DD; T: 01279 813198
W: elsenham.essex.sch.uk
Farnham - See under Bishop’s Stortford P2
Furneux Pelham C of E School
Herts SG9 0LH; T: 01279 777344
W: www.furneuxp.herts.sch.uk
Gt Chesterford Primary Academy
School Street, CB10 1NN
T: 01799 530292
W: greatchesterford.essex.sch.uk
Manuden Primary School
& Pre-School Playgroup
The Street, CM23 1DE
T: 01279 813370
Newport Primary School
Frambury Lane, Newport, CB11 3PU
T: 01799 540055
W: newport.essex.sch.uk
Radwinter C of E Primary
Water Lane, Radwinter, CB10 2TX
T: 01799 599248
W: radwinter.essex.sch.uk
Rickling C of E Primary
Snow Hill, CM6 2DR; T: 01371 870219
Rickling, Saffron Walden, CB11 3YG
T: 01799 543274
W: rickling.essex.sch.uk
Ashdon County Primary School
Great Sampford Primary
Takeley; The Christian School
Ashdon, Essex, CB10 2HB
T: 01799 584219
W: ashdon.essex.sch.uk
Finchingfield Road, CB10 2RL
T: 01799 586280
W: greatsampford.essex.sch.uk
Brewers End, CM22 6QH; Ages 4–16
T: 01279 871182
W: tcst.org.uk
Birchanger Primary School & Nursery
Henham & Ugley Primary
& Nursery School
Takeley Primary School
Church End, SG11 2JQ
T: 01279 771253
W: albury.herts.sch.uk
Birchwood, CM23 5QL
T: 01279 812362
Chrishall Holy Trinity C of E School
Palmers Lane, SG8 8QW
T: 01763 838592
W: chrishall.essex.sch.uk
Clavering County Primary School
Stortford Road, CB11 4PE
T: 01799 550300
W: clavering.essex.sch.uk
Great Easton Primary
School Lane, Henham, Herts. CM22 6BP
T: 01279 850213
W: henhamugley.essex.sch.uk
Bennet Canfield, Little Canfield
Dunmow, CM6 1YE
T: 01279 870541
Thaxted Primary School
Little Hadham Primary
Stortford Road, SG11 2DX
T: 01279 771285
Bardfield Road, CM6 2LW
T: 01371 830240
W: thaxted.essex.sch.uk
Little Hallingbury C of E (VA) Primary Sch
Wimbish Primary School
Wright’s Green Lane, CM22 7RE
T: 01279 723382
Tye Green, CB10 2XE; T: 01799 599245
W: wimbish.essex.sch.u
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• All ages, all subjects, all levels
• Over 150 specialist tutors that come
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• FREE consultation to build
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• Over 800 students tutored in the
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Killing that mockingbird
From September 2014, the National Curriculum starts on its journey for a
pretty radical shake-up as the government seeks to increase the standards
our children achieve against the international market where countries such as
Finland, Hong Kong and Singapore are said to be leaving us behind. When it
was first presented last year, Prime Minister David Cameron said this “revolution
in education” is vital for the country’s economic prosperity.
The world keeps changing. According to a survey of 2,000 British children
and parents conducted by Nielsen Book last year, 50% of family households
now own at least one tablet, up from 24% the previous year. We should all
welcome and embrace the benefits of new technologies which offer so
much information, enjoyment and education, but according to the survey, the
presence of these gadgets in the home is indeed impacting the way children
are reading – for fun and for information. The good news is that 32% of children
still read books for pleasure on a daily basis, but the number of “non-readers”
is significantly increasing year on year. “What we’re seeing is that non-readers
have risen from 22% to 28% of all children,” said Nielsen Book, from their survey,
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comparing 2013 to 2012. It’s not just reading that is suffering from the growth
in apps and YouTube use: activities including going out, hobbies and art are
also being dropped. The standout statistic for me is that Nielsen’s data shows
that among 11-17 year-olds, non-readers grew from 13% to 27% between
2012 and 2013. Wow.
Mindful of this, I was interested to see how some of the “old favourite” books
that our children are reading for their GCSE English are under review as per the
new curriculum. Simplistically, Mr Gove has suggested that children are simply
reading too few books. It’s 28 years since I took my O-level English and the texts
studied then: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, ‘Lord of the Flies’, ‘1984 and ‘Of Mice and
Men’ remain just as well used today (I’ve avoided using the word “popular”).
After 4 years running a tutoring business and having worked with over 900
students, there are some very consistent patterns for what we do. Part of our
service is to go and visit the children and talk about how they’re getting on,
how we can help and getting the necessary detail so that we can assign the
right kind of tutor to the family. Yes, the schools have the books and the lesson
plans, but I’ve always been surprised, and I think a little disappointed, by the
limited range of books being read in schools. Quite staggeringly, ‘Of Mice and
Men’ is being taught in 90% of English schools.
Absolutely I can appreciate why it’s so popular: it’s considered to be
both accessible (it’s only 6 chapters long) and thought provoking in the
characterisation and as such offers a good context for students to improve their
literacy skills, but I remain hopeful that alternative texts may better enthuse
today’s 15 and 16-year olds who could very well respond more positively to
something more of the day.
So, interesting times ahead. In a time where you may consider the premise of
reading being under attack, there are likely to be some
new things going on in the classroom and I
can’t help but hope it’ll all be for the better.
Rob Kerrison
Tutor Doctor – Cambridge
www.tutordoctor-cambridge.co.uk
01799 525005
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Tuition
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Academic
Anna Clarke BA(Ed) Hons
Primary Literacy & Maths + GCSE Maths
SATs preparation and confidence-building
English to GCSE; T: 01799 526134
Caitriona McKnight BSc Physics Maths
Private tuition in Physics to A Level and
Science to GCSE
T: 01799 500494 M: 07754 808694
Frank Speight
Private English Tutor; GCSE, AS & A2
M: 07876 562144
Gail Ashton, Private Tutoring
Preschool literacy
KS1 & 2 literacy and numeracy skills
Bishops Stortford. DBS.
T: 07899 954737
W: gailashton.moonfruit.com
Kumon Bishop’s Stortford
Contact: Nicola Norbury
T: 01920 461457
Kumon Linton
Contact: Karen Tumber; T: 01223 893578
Lucy Chapman BSc
Maths GCSE and A Level
T: 01799 543864
Dr Peter Finlay
Maths, Science & IT, KS2, KS3
T: 01371 856 870; M: 07711 00 8765
Private Tutor
All subjects at primary level
T: 01279 417037
Sue Herd B.Ed (Hons)
Experienced primary school teacher in
Maths and Literacy
T: 01799 510995
The Learning Centres – TLC See Right
online tutoring experts
Maths, English, Reading, Spelling
& Exam Preparation
Contact: Simon Barnes
T: 01279 755540
The Learning Laboratory
Private tuition in Science (KS3 and GCSE)
Biology (to ‘A’ level) and Maths (KS3)
T: 07944 164983/01799 522665
W: learninglaboratory.co.uk
Tutor Doctor See left page
1–2–1 in home tutoring
Ages: all ages, levels and subjects
T: 01799 525005
W: tutordoctor-cambridge.co.uk
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Languages
Isabel Peralta
Spanish Lessons and French Lessons
Ages: 5+; T: 01376 329 969
La Jolie Ronde
French
Ages: 3–11 grouped according to age
Contact: Nadia Eliot
T: 01799 520405/07534 048018
W: lajolieronde.co.uk
Planet Lingo: Italian for All
Fun Italian Classes for children and parents
Ages: 0–7 yrs (Opt & parents)
T: 07879 446459
W: planetlingo.co.uk
Maths
English
We help children catch up, keep up, and
get ahead at school. Whether your child is
gifted and talented, struggling or somewhere
in between we can help them maximise
their learning potential.
If you cannot get your child to our centre
in Bishop’s Stortford, why not try our online
tutoring where we can also teach science.
For all your tutoring requirements for children
from year 2 to year 11.
Call 01279 755540
or visit www.tlclive.com
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NEWPORT YOUTH CLUB
Frambury Lane, Newport
Activities from Art to Football
Thursday 9 - 12 yrs; Fri 11+ yrs
Call Andrew on
07714 708815 for details
Great venue for parties - ring
Sharon on 07770 766380
The Contender Gym, Newport
& Saffron Walden’s Boxing Club
For children, young adults and adults
Saturdays at 2.30pm / Mondays at 6.30pm
Ring Tony Kamau on
07944 572408 for info
Newport Youth Club, Frambury Lane, Newport
Youth & social
Accuro Saturday Playclub
for children with disabilities,
at Dame Bradbury’s School, (SW)
10.00–14.00, (42 x Sat a year)
Ages: Rising 6–16
Contact: Cath Read; T: 07811 252917
(See info re Accuro Jazz Picnic P 14)
Aftershock
Parish Rooms
St Mary’s Church SW
19.30–20.30 Sun
Meet new friends, fun socials and food.
Explore faith and find out what it means to
be a Christian.
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Felsted Youth Club
Felsted Memorial Hall
Contact: Christine Mabb
or Keir Johnston
T: 01371 821389 or 820072
Goldie Youth Club
Golden Acre Community Centre (SW)
Ages 10–13 17.45–19.45 Thurs;
Ages 13+ 20.00–22.00 Thurs
Contact: Mike Hibbs; T: 01799 525205
Volunteers: Jiff Godfrey 01799 524645
Much Hadham Youth Club
Village Hall, Much Hadham
18.30–20.30 Wed
Ages: Year 6+
Contact: Annica Forley
T: 01279 841481
Newport Youth Club - See above left
Newport Recreation Ground
Contact: Andrew Yarwood
T: 07714708815
Thursdays 18.30 to 20.30pm ages 9 to 12
Fridays 19.00 - 21.30 ages 11 and above
Newport Youth Club Box-Fit
Newport Recreation Ground
Mondays and Saturdays 18.30 to 19.30
Contact Tony Kamau
T: 07952037042 - See above left
Secondary schools
Birchwood High School, Bishop’s Stortford
01279 655936, www.birchwoodonline.co.uk
Sawston Village College,
01223 712777; www.sawstonvc.org
Bishop’s Stortford College (Ind) See Page 3
01279 838575
www.bishops-stortford-college.herts.sch.uk
Stephen Perse Foundation, Camb (Ind)
01223 454700; www.stephenperse.com
Bishop’s Stortford High School
01279 868686; www.tbshs.org
Felsted School, Felsted (Ind)
01371 822600
www.felsted.org
Friends’ School, Saffron Walden (Ind)
01799 525351; www,friends.org.uk
See inside back cover
Helena Romanes School
01371 872560
www.helena-romanes.essex.sch.uk
Hockerill Anglo-European College
01279 658451; www.hockerill.herts.sch.uk
King’s School Ely (Ind)
01353 660700; www.kingsely.org
Leventhorpe School, Sawbridgeworth
01279 836633
www.leventhorpe.herts.sch.uk
Linton Village College,
01223 891233; www.lvc.org
St Mary’s Catholic School,
01279 654901; www.stmarys.net
St Mary’s School, Cambridge (Ind)
01223 353253
www.stmaryscambridge.co.uk
St Nicholas School, Old Harlow (Ind)
01279 429910
www.saintnicholasschool.net
See page 37
The Christian School, Takeley
01279 871182; www.tcst.org.uk
The Greneway School Royston
01763 243650; www.greneway.herts.sch.uk
The Hertfordshire & Essex High School
01279 654127
www.hertsandessex.herts.sch.uk
The Leys School, Cambridge (Ind)
01223 508900; www.theleys.net
Melbourn Village College,
01763 223400; www. mvc.org.uk
The Meridian School Royston
01763 242236; www.meridian.herts.sch.uk
Newport Free Grammar School, Newport
01799 540237; www.nfgs.essex.sch.uk
Roysia Middle School, Royston
01763 241555; www.roysia.herts.sch.uk
The Mountfitchet Mathematics and
Computing College, Stansted,
01279 813384
www.mountfitchet.essex.sch.uk
Saffron Walden County High School
01799 513030; www.swchs.net
The Perse School, Cambridge (Ind)
01223 403800; www.perse.co.uk
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Before & after
school
Happy Hippos OOS
& Holiday Club (BS)
Ages: 3–12 Contact: Janet Clark
T: 01799 520356
W: acekidsclub.org
‘Joyful Noise’ See page 34
Ace Kids Club (SW)
Ashdon Kids Club
Ages: 4–11
Manager: Mrs Lisa Swan
T: 01799 584219/Option 3
M: 07757 413 074
W: ashdonkidsclub.moonfruit.com
Barn Kids After School (Thaxted)
Ages: 4–11 (See page 44)
Contact: Fiona
T: 01371 831296
W: thebarnkids.co.uk
Buds Special Needs Play Scheme
(Finchingfield) Respite scheme - main
school holidays. Ages: 4–13
Contact: Linda Turner
T: 01371 810542
Early Birds & Night Owls
4 schools in Bishop’s Stortford
Contact: Hayley Lynskey
T: 07745 262676
Funzone OOS & Holiday Club (BS)
Contact: Sabina Khetani
Ages: 4–1
T: 01279 321658/07762 138756
Contact: Sabina Khetani
Ages: 4–11 T: 01279 321658/07762 138756
Contact: Kate Beare
Ages: 6–8
St Mary’s Parish Rooms, Saffron Walden
15.45–16.30 Fridays; T: 01799 523591
Learn to sing all types and styles of music
Newport St Mary’s Church Sunday Club
(church for children & young people)
most Sundays alongside the 11.00 service.
All-age service 2nd Sunday of each month
Messy Church 15.30 4th Sunday of month
involves crafts & activities
Contact: Rev. Neil McLeod
T: 01799 540339
Olivers Lodge
saffron walden
chiropractic clinic
Saffron Walden Chiropractic Clinic has
chiropractors who specialise in treating babies,
children and pregnant ladies.
After spinal and cranial assessment and treatment
many parents describe their babies as much more
settled, sleeping better and crying less.
Offering postural and spinal assessments,
treatment and advice for children of all ages to
help treat and prevent musculo-skeletal pain.
Also offering expert treatment and advice for
pregnant ladies to prepare your body for labour
and a comfortable and active pregnancy.
(Newport, Saffron Walden, Stansted,
Steeple Bumpstead); Ages: 4–12
Manager: Alex Suffolk
T: 01799 540709
RAB Late Play Club (SW)
Ages: 4–11; Manager: Mrs Erica Peck
T: 01799 528607 (during sessions)
W: rabutlerschool.co.uk
St Michael’s Church
After School KidzKlub
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17.00–18.30 Fridays TT (£1.00)
Ages: School years 1–6
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Animal Magic
by Jo Burch
Words in Walden Festival Director
In the last issue of Salad Days I promised
that I would review the crop of children’s
books being published to commemorate
the centenary of the outbreak of WW1.
However, most of the books I’ve spotted
aren’t out yet so I will delay that review
until they’re all available. Meanwhile I
have some fabulous alternative reading
material for you.
Apart from Watership Down and
Animal Farm I can’t think of many
other books for adults in which the
protagonists are not human. Yet a huge
proportion of children’s books bulge with
some of the most vivid animal characters
in literature. The glory of using animals
as central figures is that they are ‘clean’ they don’t have to trail the ambivalences
and contradictions, the shades of grey,
which human characters tend to need to
be believable. With animals at the centre
of their stories, authors can focus on
specific characteristics, themes or ideas
without getting distracted - and they can
send important messages about the
human condition. All the books in this
review have animals at their centre and
their authors make brilliant use of the
opportunities this offers.
Quentin Blake has been busy again, this
time working with author John Yeoman to
produce Up With Birds, a story which
provides a delightfully dotty explanation
as to why birds and not humans took to
the air (all except
the penguin, of
course, “who had
second thoughts
and went back
indoors”). It takes
frustration,
bicycles, balloons, the ingenious Mr Fflyte
and an over-excited sparrow.
The story describes how difficult life was in
the days when birds walked everywhere.
For example, “it took Mrs Fflyte hours to
run the vacuum cleaner over the carpets,
because she had to keep switching it off
to remove small birds from the nozzle.” Mr
Fflyte, who “fancied himself as something of
an inventor” comes up with a solution but
is overtaken by events.
This is probably a book to read to young
children as some of the vocabulary is
rather advanced - but both story and
illustrations are so full of irresistibly quirky
detail that no-one will mind reading it
again and again.
If Up With Birds follows in the footsteps
of the Just So stories, David Almond’s
highly imaginative graphic novel Mouse
Bird Snake Wolf is very much in the
tradition of the Aboriginal creation myths.
The gods, having made most of the
world, get lazy and don’t finish the job.
They lounge about, nibble cake and take
long naps in the clouds. Three children
decide that there are empty niches and
do some creating of their own while the
gods doze. Without too much difficulty
they make a mouse, a bird and a snake
but when they create a wolf they discover,
just as the Sorcerer’s Apprentice does,
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that “This is a job for the gods! Not for silly
children like you!”.
Mouse
Bird
Snake Wolf is
a powerful book
with strong images
from
illustrator
Dave
McKean,
probably for the
8+ age group. It is
wonderfully thought
- and imagination
- provoking. What gaps in the animal
world can you think of? What are the
implications of adding a new creature into
an existing habitat? Which animals would
you prefer not to have been created?
Equally, it could lead to an exploration of
the Aboriginal creation myths or those of
other cultures - or act as an introduction
to the interaction of gods and men in the
Roman and Greek myths (and, for older
children it could lead to reading There is
No Dog by Meg Rosoff, which is a hugely
entertaining and clever imagining of what
the world might be like if it was presided
over by a god with all the attributes and
priorities of a teenage boy...). As always,
David Almond opens the door to a huge
new world.
I want to tell you about two books which
at the time of writing aren’t yet published
but whose advance reviews intrigued me.
Chicken Clicking by smash-hit duo
Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross is about the
perils of misusing the internet (the review
describes it as Little Red Riding Hood for the
internet age). A brilliant and much-needed
object lesson giving children an early
understanding of the need to keep safe
online - at an age when they won’t just
turn round and sneer at their apparently
over-protective parents.
The other sounds just gloriously
ridiculous. The Lazy Friend by Ronan
Badel is described as “a wordless picture
book proving that a sloth can do absolutely
nothing and still cause absolute mayhem.”
It conjures the most entertaining
possibilities in my mind and will, I think,
tickle the fancies of small children
usually accused of causing chaos for the
opposite reasons.
My final choice, The Hen Who
Dreamed She Could Fly by
Sun-Mi Hwang, is utterly beautiful,
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description from one reviewer who says it
is “an anthem for freedom, individuality and
motherhood, love and longing”.
This small novel (134 pages) has already
captivated millions of readers in the
author’s native Korea. Sprout the hen is
the essence of what it is to be a mother.
Every mother should read her story. No
mother will ever forget it.
powerful and deeply moving. I read it
during a train journey and sat, to the
surprise of my fellow travellers, unable to
control the flow of tears down my cheeks.
Difficult to classify, other reviewers
have likened it to Charlotte’s Web,
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull and
Animal Farm. It combines fable, naturewriting and a meditation on humanity.
The book tells the story of a battery hen
called Sprout who glimpses a different
future for herself every morning through
the barn doors where she can see other
animals roaming free. She eventually
escapes into the wild in the hope of
fulfilling her dream to hatch an egg of
her own. At face value, which is probably
how children would read it, this is a
simple, lovely, moving story. Delve more
deeply and it is an intensely personal
meditation on living courageously
and facing mortality - I can’t better the
Do come and visit us in the Harts Book
Room at the top of Shire Hill. You can
browse copies of the books mentioned
and discuss your particular needs with
Ann and Donna. In addition, all the books
reviewed here are currently featured on
our website at www.hartsbooks.co.uk at
15% discount or you can order by phone
on 01799 523456. Harts Book Room is
open Monday to Friday, 9-5, and we look
forward to seeing you.
By the time you read this, the programme
for the Autumn Words in Walden Festival
will be published - look out for details of
our wonderful concert for children with
James Mayhew and the Uttlesforde
Orchestra; Cosmopolitan magazine’s
famous agony aunt, Irma Kurtz, will be
here; Baroness Shirley Williams will talk
about her mother, Vera Brittain, pacifist,
feminist and author of the most searing
and enduring account of the impact of
WW1; best-selling author Will Self talks
about his new novel based on a true
incident from WW2; journalist and former
hostage John McCarthy talks about
what he learnt from his time in captivity,
and there will be many others. Check
our festival website for full details at
www.hartsevents.co.uk.
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maternity through nursing
and our aim is to help
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We stock the most
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At Beauty Bump & Baby
you will be sure to find the
perfect gift for that
precious new arrival as well
as the mother to be.
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Budgeting for the summer holidays
A little planning can only add to the fun
of having the kids around for six weeks
and could help take away some of the
stresses. Picnics and trips to the park
are always free but if you want some
days out try working out beforehand
how much money you want to lay
aside so that there’s no danger of
overspending.
Think ahead to take advantage of
special offers to cut costs: Cineworld
has bargain Tuesdays, Kellogg’s
cereal packets have ‘adult goes free’
vouchers to many popular attractions
and Tescos vouchers can be converted
to rewards which will help you get
discounts.
Why not put in a visit to your invaluable
Tourist Information Office to see what’s
available locally? Also do check out
money saving expert’s incredibly
comprehensive and useful 100 tips
for cheap summer holiday family fun
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
travel/school-holiday-deals.
Remember that involving the children in
the planning could help them become
aware of how much things cost too.
If you would like some help setting a
budget contact Uttlesford CAB’s Money
Doctor service on 01799 618840 and if
you have good ideas for free or cheap
things to do with children in Uttlesford
then tweet them to us https://twitter.
com/UttlesfordCAB or get in touch
via facebook and we will share them.
Enjoy!
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offers a free, impartial and independent
service, with a wide range of support
available from general advice to
specialist help dealing with serious
debt problems, employment disputes,
housing and family issues. You can
call or email to make an appointment
to speak to an experienced and
friendly adviser in Saffron Walden,
Great Dunmow, Thaxted, Stansted
Mountfitchet, or Takeley via video-link.
Saffron Walden 9.30 to 3.30 M. T. W. Th. F. Great Dunmow 9.30 to 3.30 T. W. Th.
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Stansted Mountfitchet 9.30 to 12.30 Thursday (weekly - appointments only)
Wimbish (soldiers and families only, fortnightly - appointments only)
Takeley Thu/Fri via webcam
“Summer Is Icumen In”
Well, if you say it often enough, one day it will be true and you’ll need your sun
defenses ready. As far as sunburn is concerned prevention is definitely better
than cure.
The skin is the largest organ of the body and needs special care during the
summer. Forecasters are predicting 120 days of hot sunshine, making it the longest
summer since 1910, so be sure you have a plentiful supply of essential protection
on hand.
Forever Living Products Aloe Sunscreen and Aloe Sunscreen Spray (both SPF 30) are
suitable for both adults and children and protect skin against the sun and wind as
well as nourishing and conditioning it. Its water resistant formula keeps you safe
for up to 40 minutes and also doubles up as an after sun lotion.
For those who want to get a head start on their holiday tan or simply wish to get a
good tan “look” without risking too much exposure to the sun, the Sunless Tanning
Lotion provides a streak free tan that won’t rub off onto clothes.
Finally, don’t forget Aloe Lips to soothe and moisturize dry lips and protect them
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Summer sports injuries
Summer sports injuries - how to activiate
and accelerate recovery.
Whether we are regular fitness fanatics,
newcomers to sport, or just thinking about
adding exercise to our lives, summer weather
and the prospect of an exciting season of
sporting events should undoubtedly get us
reaching for our trainers and living in lycra!
Alongside the many health benefits of regular
sport and exercise there is always a risk of
injury - and it may surprise you to know that
many top athletes and sports stars opt for
homeopathic remedies to help them, both to
prevent injury and support recovery.
James Ellington, Team GB sprinter, is among
the ten million people using homeopathy in
the UK, and swears by its use saying that,
“Homeopathy offers me a positive and natural
way to treat sporting ailments … without any
residual effects on my performance.”
Like conventional treatments, homeopathic
remedies have anti-inflammatory and
analgesic capabilities, without the risks
of “doping”. Dr J.M. Ferer, doctor to the
French World Cup winning squad, makes
homeopathic remedies his treatment of choice,
simply asserting that, “Homeopathy can
provide a preventative and curative action,...
and speeds up recovery. I can use it on the
soccer field, within seconds of the trauma,
and note the results almost immediately”.
So if it’s good enough for the likes of Olympic
athletes such as James, tennis stars such as
Boris Becker, the 2014 German World Cup
Football Squad and David Beckham, it’s good
enough for us!
Here is a basic guide to possible remedy
options for the following injuries, and enjoy
a summer packed with sport. For more
information on using homeopathy for health
visit www.danielakarsten.co.uk
ACHES, STRAINS & SPRAINS (incl. after
strenuous exercise)
•
Muscular –bruised pain, sensitivity: ARNICA
•
Tendons and Ligaments – bruised pain,
soreness, stiffness: RHUS TOX or RUTA
•
Black eyes, bruising to eye socket or trauma to
eyeball: ARNICA or LEDUM
•
Bruising - general superficial fruising from
blunt trauma: ARNICA
•
Bruising of deeper tissues: BELLIS PERENNIS
•
Concussion from blunt trauma (and shock)
ARNICA
•
Effects of repeated concussion: NATRUM CARB
Seek professional help if the patient loses
consciousness
•
Fractures simple or compound: ARNICA or
CALC PHOS
•
Fracture which is aligned but slow to heal:
SYMPHYTUM
•
Nerve injuries to areas rich in nerves (fingers/
soldes) and to coccyx: HYPERICUM
It is always advisable to consult your registered
homeopath before administering remedies
Daniela Karsten, Registered Homeopath.
RS Hom., Dip. Hom. ACH.
Tel: 07715 538501
www.danielakarsten.co.uk
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BARBEQUE!
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An important summer job, cleaning the
Remove all the racks and clean them
thoroughly in hot soapy water. Use white vinegar
or a special cleaning detergent recommended by the
manufacturer to remove all the grease left on the
grill’s surfaces from last summer. Wipe down the
inside of the barbeque. To keep on top of the task,
use a stiff bristle brush to simply give the rack a
thorough scrubbing before and after each use.
The only thing that is left to do is enjoy your
summer parties!
barbeque!
Daisy Mae Cleaning, 01799 550358,
www.daisymaecleaning.co.uk
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Picnic time
round the grounds, or take an impromptu
picnic for a summer’s evening tea on the
lawns. Nothing beats a picnic when the sun
is out, with blankets, a few Frisbees and a
coolbox or hamper full of delicious treats to
dip into.
We are very lucky to be blessed with the
stunning Audley End House and Gardens
locally, where many parents finish the school
day with a trip to run off spare child energy
One of my favourite recipes is my Italian
Picnic Bread, which I often teach on the Junior
Masterchef courses and it’s fun to make as
well as being really tasty and perfect to share.
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Italian Picnic Bread
For the dough:
450g strong white flour
50g semolina
1 x 7oz sachet fast-action dried yeast
1 tsp flaked sea salt
2 tbsp olive oil
325ml/11fl oz warm water
For the filling:
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tomato passata
slices of prosciutto, ham or salami
bag of mozzarella
fresh herbs or some roasted peppers,
onions, sundried tomatoes etc
Make the dough by sifting the flour into a
bowl and add the yeast, salt and olive oil.
Add the water and stir into the flour, a bit at
a time, until the dough forms a soft, spongy
ball. On a lightly floured surface, knead for
5–10 minutes until smooth. Pop into a bowl,
cover with lightly oiled cling
film and leave for an hour in a warm place
or until doubled in size. Or even leave
overnight!
When risen, preheat the oven to 200C/400F/
Gas 6.
Roll dough out on lightly floured surface
into a rectangle (about 40cm x 30cm)
Spread Passata over the dough, avoiding
the edge. Lay the meats in a layer over the
sauce, then scatter torn up mozzarella or
grated cheddar, followed by some herbs
and anything else you fancy. Fold over the
two short ends and roll up firmly to enclose
the filling. Place the large sausage-shape
bread seam-side down on a greased
baking sheet, brush with olive oil, sprinkle
with sea-salt and bake for 25–30 minutes
until risen and golden.
When cooked wrap in foil, ready to tear
and share for wherever your adventure is.
Happy Summer everyone!
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Garden carnival!
Any sunny day this summer is the perfect day
for a garden carnival, but the trouble with
planning anything like this is that the weather
is likely to have its own ideas. Plan something
for a set date and it’s as likely as not to be
rained off. So a last minute scramble when
the forecast is good is probably going to be
key. To make that possible it helps to have
thought about it all before hand – have a
plan of action and everyone primed and
ready to go as that sun comes out. Practically
that means delegating duties, getting in
supplies and knowing where things like
old sheets can be found. It is hard work, but
fun, and you will make a magical day that
you children will remember forever.
There are five areas to think about and it
really helps if you can call on other adults to
be in charge of these.
Location and decoration
First off you need a biggish garden and loads
and loads of bunting. Hopefully someone
can provide the former and the latter can
be got online pretty cheaply (something to
buy in advance). If you think it’s going to go
on into the evening bring out the fairy lights
from Christmas.
Food and drink
Asking people to bring supplies really helps
spread the load rather than one person
providing everything. It also helps if people
bring their own chairs (and tables).
Music
An extension lead and a boogie box will do,
but you’ll need someone to make sure the
music keeps going.
Games
There are lots of games you can prepare in
advance for example:
•
Frisbee noughts and crosses. This uses
a shower curtain, tape, and frisbees to
throw into position.
•
Crate tug of war. You need two crates
and a rope. One child stands on
each crate holding the rope between
them, whoever pulls the other off the
crate wins.
•
There are lots of old favourites like sack
races, egg and spoon races, hoopla,
lucky dips and bobbing for apples.
Parlours
To get the real carnival feel you need booths
and parlours. These can be made by
attaching washing lines to trees and fences
and then hanging old sheets, curtains or
blankets over them. Try a tattoo parlour, face
painting, photo booth (with a few silly hats
and wigs) and fortune telling.
So announce that it’s going to happen and
ask for help, and then wait for that elusive,
sunny weekend day….
Caroline Tilston
Essex Libraries
Summer Reading Challenge
‘Mythical Maze’ and ‘ImagiNation’
Essex Libraries Summer Reading Challenge ‘Mythical Maze’ will invite children to
venture into an intricate labyrinth where they will discover a series of mythological
creatures including the Yeti; a mermaid; a dragon; the Garuda Bird; Medusa and
a unicorn.
The activity this year has been designed by Sarah McIntyre, children’s book illustrator,
known for titles such as “There’s a shark in the bath”.
Children will be encouraged to read any six books of their choice to collect stickers
and a medal. In each library children will be able to hunt for the mythological
creatures, scan them on smart phones or other devices and then watch as the
characters come to life through augmented reality. ‘Mythical Maze’ is aimed at
children aged 3-12 with a special early years version for babies and toddlers.
For those aged 11 or about to start secondary school, there will be a special activity
called ‘ImagiNation’ which has been designed by a group of young people in the
region working with a local artist and will involve reading and arts activities.
19th July to 3rd September
Story Times @ Libraries
Come along to your local library
for a free story and rhyme-time
(Term Time only)
Bishop’s Stortford Library
T: 0300 1234049; Tue 14.15
Dunmow Library
T: 01371 873447; Tue Wed 11.00–11.30
Daddy Cool: (for dads & families)
Sat weekly: 11.00–11.30
Linton Library
Tue 14.00–14.30
Saffron Walden Library
T: 01799 523178
Babytime (up to 2 yrs approx) Wed 09.30
Toddlers (age 2–4 approx):
Tues 09.30–10.00am.
Daddy Cool: (for dads & families)
Sat weekly: 10.00–10.30
Stansted Library
T: 01279 815149
Tues 11.00–11.30
Thur 14.00–14.30
Thaxted Library
T: 01371 831070
Open hours: 15.00–18.00 T and Th
09.30–15.30 F; 09.30–12.30 Sat
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The way, the truth
and the life
In the week that I am writing this, the
prescribed reading in churches all
over the world is the famous passage
so often read at funerals, John 14:ff. It
contains the beautiful and sonorous
imagery of Jesus going to “my father’s
house to prepare a room”. It also
contains Thomas’ incredulous reply
“How can we know the way if we do
not know where we are going” and
Jesus’ reply “I am the way, the truth
and the life”.
It seems to me that this is much
misunderstood. People imagine that
for Christians the whole point of the
observance and practice of the ‘religion’
is to secure a place in heaven . Jesus, in
this passage, refuses to give away any
details about what heaven might be, he
does not answer Thomas’s question, he
just addresses his doubt.
The reason is, from my perspective, that
the destination remains shrouded in
unknowing and that Jesus calls us just
to trust him and follow him. The whole
point of the observance becomes to
serve the purposes of love in this world
and not to concern ourselves with what
the reward might be but merely to trust
in the steadfastness of Jesus’ greater
love. Of course it must be so really… if
our service in this world were to earn a
reward in the next we would have sullied
the motive behind the purpose and
turned love back into selfishness.
This also helps us to make sense of the
apparent and much abused exclusivity
of Jesus saying that only he is the way,
the truth and the life. As Christians
we are called to follow, walk his way
and practice his truth but should our
following become a cause for pride or
condemnation of others then we have by
definition fallen off the way. Our reasons
for following and our certainty in the
hope must remain grounded in humility.
Rev’d Tim Hardingham
Talented?
Saffron Walden Arts Trust. In conjunction with the Ladies’ Circle and Saffron Walden
Round Table are organising a Talent Competition as part of the Saffron Walden
Carnival. This will be held in the Town Hall on Friday 11th July. Entry to the competition
is free and the first prize is £200 and £50 each to the two runners up. It is opened to
local non-professional performers. Entry forms are available from Saffron Walden’s
Tourist Information Office or online at www.saffronwaldenartstrust.co.uk
July 11th 2014, Town Hall Saffron Walden from 7pm. Free to enter. Entry forms
available at Saffron Walden Tourist Information Centre or at
www.saffronwaldenartstrust.co.uk
and flavours, which is
best? Don’t waste your
money on expensive
drinks, I’ve had great
results with the cheapest
supermarket brands.
It’s time to get messy! Here
is one you definitely don’t
want to do in your kitchen.
Make the most of the
summer and get outdoors.
You may have already seen
or heard about the Coke and
Mentos experiment. Basically
you drop some Mentos in a
bottle of Diet Coke and stand
well back as it makes a big
fizzy mess!
First, you need to know what is going on. Fizzy
drinks are just flavoured drinks that have a
whole load of carbon dioxide gas dissolved
into them. The gas stays trapped inside for as
long as the lid is screwed on tight, when you
take the lid off it will slowly come out as small
bubbles. This is what makes the drink ‘fizzy’.
If you’re a very patient person who really likes
watching bubbles, you could sit and watch
it for a couple of days while each bubble
gradually makes its way out. I’m guessing
that you would like something a bit more
dramatic! By dropping things into the bottle,
you can get all those bubbles to form at once
and rush out of the bottle in a big fountain.
The most famous example is the Mento
but it is not the only contender for best fizzproducer. You can try out other sweets, salt,
sugar, cake sprinkles…whatever you have
in the cupboard. Try different drink brands
Two very important things
that you need to know:
(1) This is an OUTDOOR
experiment!!! It makes
a big mess so make
sure it is on the grass or
somewhere that spillage
doesn’t matter.
(2) Only use sugar-free
drinks, they simply
work better (and don’t
leave a horrid sticky
mess that will attract every ant in the world
to your garden).
You might like to make a cardboard tube
‘launcher’ so you can drop several sweets in
at once. Be warned it ‘erupts’ pretty quickly
so stand back!
As always, chldren should be supervised
and do this outdoors.
Fab Science holiday workshops
July 28th to August 8th
Fantastic Forces, Animal Antics and
Brilliant Bodies
Venues in Saffron Walden, Bishop’s
Stortford and Old Harlow
Emma Ranade
runs Fab Science, specialising in
science parties and holiday clubs
www.fabscience.co.uk
07799 624777
Come and see
what’s new at
The Toy Box
5 Market Row,
Saffron Walden
T: 01799 525510
www.toyboxsaffronwalden.co.uk
Now doing
decoupage parties
as well as pottery
painting parties
07746 945662
www.crazyceramics.co.uk
18 sport
Now in Saffron Walden,
call 01763 878598
For lessons in
Fulbourn and Linton
call 01799 500142
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• CRB checked friendly
and experienced
teachers
• Lessons from age
4 onwards
• Fun and progressive
• Small classes
www.sas-swimming.co.uk
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Sports clubs
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Archery
Stortford Archery Club
Ages: 10+
W: stortfordarchers.org.uk
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Badminton
Bishop’s Stortford Badminton Club
Ages: 12+
Contact: Phil Barton
T: 01279 654464
W: stortfordbadminton.net
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Bowls
Turpins Indoor Bowls Club
Ages: 10+ accompanied
T: 01799 525959
Wimbish Carpet Bowls
Ages: 10 yrs +
Contact: D Vettewinkel
T: 01799 599514
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Canoeing
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Cricket
Bishop’s Stortford Cricket Club
Jnr Section; Ages: 8+
Contact: David Reynolds
T: 01279 831091
Dunmow Cricket Club
Ages: 5–16
Contact: Nick Down
T: 01371 875009
Eastons’ Cricket Club
Contact: Chris Mimmac
T: 01371 870643
Newport Cricket Club–Kwik Cricket
Ages: 7–15
Contact: Alan Williams
T: 01799 541933
SW Cricket Club
Ages: All Ages
Contact: David Barrs
T: 07760 484390
Stansted Cricket Club
Ages 8–15; Contact: Keith Ayres
T: 01279 814471
W: stanstedcc.hitscricket.com
Bishop’s Stortford Canoe Club
Stansted Hall Cricket Club
Ages: 8+ by discretion
Contact: Angela Aldam
T: 01279 755089
W: stortfordcanoe.org.uk
Thorley Cricket Club Bishop’s Stortford
Whoosh Explore
Contact: Peter Nash
T: 01279 817453 (evenings)
W: whooshexplore.co.uk
Ages: 8+
Contact: Mike Johnstone
T: 01279 833669
Ages: 8–13
Contact: John Davies T: 01279 504483
W: thorleycc.net
Wenden Kwik Cricket
Ages: 4–11
Contact: Iain Morgan
T: 01799 540247
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Croquet
Newport Croquet Club
Ages: 8+
Contact: John Gordon
T: 01799 540293
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Disability MultiSports
Saffron Walden
Ages: 8–15
Contact: Gaynor Bradley UDC
T: 01799 510348
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Dodge ball
Chesterfords Community Centre
Fridays 4.30–5.30 (try it out for free)
T: 07772 351770
E:[email protected]
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Fencing
Saffron Walden Swords
Ages: 5–adult
Contact: Fiona Turnbull; T: 01799 516737
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Football
Barnston Assoc Football Club
Great Dunmow
Ages: 6+
T: 01371 872017
Bishop’s Stortford FC
Ages: 8+
Contact: John Turner
T: 01279 306456
sport 19
Bishop’s Stortford Youth FC
Ages: 7–18 Boys and Girls
Contact: Kevan Miles
T: 01279 658252
M: 07834 724595
Dunmow Rhodes Youth FC
Ages: 6+ Boys & Girls
Contact: Ricky Valks
T: 07876 172306
W: dunmowrhodes.co.uk
Dunmow United Football Club
Ages: 7+
Secretary: Julie Gray
T: 07913 021 102
W: dunmowunited.com
Elsenham Youth Football Club
Ages: 4–18
Contact: Paul Jarvis
T: 01279 814434 W: eyfc.org
Little Tots Football
Indoor football for Toddlers and
pre-schoolers
T: 07833433154
Plantation Youth Football Club
Saffron Walden; Ages: 4–16
Contact: Paul Broughall
T: 01799 500 821
M: 07966695286
PSG FC Girls only
Herbert’s Farm Saffron Walden
Ages: 4 upwards
T: 01763 836298/07775 944664
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CLASSES ON, Saturday and
Sunday mornings in Harlow,
Bishop’s Stortford, Saffron Walden,
Braintree and many more.
20 sport
salad days
Continued from P19
Saffron Hawks
Contact: Ttandi Haralambous
T: 07739 309769
Saffron Walden Town FC
Saturday Soccer School
Do you love to swim?
Would you enjoy formal but fun training?
Ages: 4–16
T: 01799 520980
FB: Saffron Walden Town FC (Youth)
Would you like to swim to get fit or to race?
Spartak ’78 YSC Youth Football (SW)
If you are 8 years or older, can you swim a minimum of 50 metres in each of the
following: Front crawl / Backstroke and Breaststroke …
If the answer is YES we would like to hear from you!
Please email Gill Sarginson first on [email protected] for more
information about our friendly and competitive swimming club (01799 501571)
Ages: 4–12
W: spartak78.com
Stansted Football Club
T: 07921 403842
W: pitchero.com/clubs/stanstedfc2011
Thaxted Rangers Yth FC
EPPING FOREST
GYMNASTICS
GYMNASTICS CLASSES FOR ALL AGE GROUPS AND ABILITIES
HOLIDAY
COURSES
for ages 4-12yrs, £20 per day, 10.00 - 4.00pm
Thurs 24th July, Tues 29th July, Thurs 31st July,
Tues 2nd September, Thurs 4th September
Gym Tots Gymnastics
Saturday 12 -1pm and 1-2pm
£4.50 per hour
Birthday
Parties
Bring your children to the gym where they can try out new and fun skills.
For details Tel: 07767 167512
Email: [email protected]
www.eppingforestgymclub.com
Siskin Way, North Weald Airfield, Essex CM16 6AA
Ages: 6–14
Contact: Janine Corbey
T: 01371 820715
W: thaxtedrangers.co.uk
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Golf
Bishop’s Stortford Golf Club
Ages 5+
Pro: Simon Sheppard
T: 01279 651324
W: bsgc.co.uk
Elsenham Golf & Leisure Centre
Saffron Walden Golf Club
Aes: 5+
Pro: Philip Davis
T: 01799 527728
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Gymnastics
Dynamics Gymnastics
Saffron Walden
Ages: 5+
Contact: Viktoria Markovics
T: 07775 428820
W: dynamicsgymnastics.co.uk
Epping Forest Gymnastics Club
Siskin Way, North Weald see left of page
Contact: Ms Buba Jeliazkova
T: 01992 523304
W: eppingforestgymclub.com
The Little Gym See Back cover
See page 43 for summer workshops
Ages: 4 mths–12 years
Contact: Wendy Welch-Smith
T: 01279 652017
W: thelittlegym.co.uk
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Hockey
Saffron Walden Jnr Hockey Club
Ages: 7–15
Contact: Andy MacIntosh
T: 01799 550878
W: saffronwaldenhockey.co.uk
Martial Arts
Contact: Colin Pharaoh
T: 01279 812865
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Great Hadham Golf & Country Club
Saffron Walden
Ages: 5+
Contact: Ian Warren
T: 07917 208916
Ages: 4+ Pros: K Lunt/P Hetherington
T: 01279 826533
W: ghgcc.co.uk
All Anglia Karate Assoc
sport 21
Associated Karate Schools
Ages: 4+
Contact: Anthony Barrett 5th Dan
T: 07929 100612
W: karateschools.co.uk
Bishop’s Stortford Judokwai
Ages: 5+
Coach: Nicole Nunn
T: 07814 556591
W: bishopsstortfordjudo.com
B.L.Tae Kwon-Do Schools
Saffron Walden
Contact: Bruce Lapthorn
T: 01954 200587/07816 032265
W: bl-taekwondo-schools.co.uk
Budo Taijutsu, Saffron Walden
T: 01799 516709
W: bujinkanbudotaijutsu.co.uk
Capoeira, Saffron Walden
Ages 5–Adult
Contact: Matthew Fagg
T: 07941 810621
W: capoeiracambridge.co.uk
Dunmow Shotokan Karate Club
Instructor: Garry Hutton
T: 07770 854154
W: eska.org.uk
Judo, Ickleton and Sawston
Ages 6+
Contact: Richard Drage
T: 01223 476685
Ju-Jitsu, Ickleton
Ages 8+ (details as previous entry)
Martial Art
Wednesdays 16.00–17.00
Contact: Darren
T: 07412 546642
SW Judo Club Ages: 7+
Contact: Alan Harbridge
T: 07713 698277
SW Shotokan
Ages: 5+
Contact: Gill Payne
T: 01440 708365
Shotokan Karate Club
BS & Stansted
Ages: 4+
Contact: Sensei Donna Ring
T: 01279 731 752
W: skr.org.uk
Tai Chi & Qi Gong
Saffron Walden & Bishop’s Stortford
Retreats, Workshops, Classes & Therapies
Ages: 16+
Contact: Leena de Silva
T: 07984 665331
W: tranquil-retreats.com
Tri Style Martial Arts Academy
Saffron Walden
Ages 5+
Kids Kick Boxing Summer camp,
Tu & Th 10.00–12.00
T: 07866 794144
W: swufc.co.uk
UKA Karate; Thaxted
Contact: Barry Healey
T: 07522 067436
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22 sport
Comprehensive
coaching for
juniors & adults
of any ability
Weekdays and Saturday Mornings
Paul Harms 07970 701068
LTA Licensed Senior Performance Coach
[email protected]
www.lintontennisacademy.co.uk
Continued from P21
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Multi-Sports
Fit For Sport, Great Dunmow
(eg handball, dodgeball, hockey,
swimming, art/crafts)
T: 0845 456 3233
W: fitforsport.co.uk
Saturday club
Lord Butler Fitness & Leisure Centre
10.15am–11.45 specially for children
and young adults with a disability.
Activities include trampoline, bouncy
castle, badminton, football, athletics
and basketball. £3.50 per session
Disability Multi-Sports - see P19
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Netball
Saffron Hawks
Ages: 9+
Contact: Ttandi Haralambous
T: 07739 309769
SW Netball Club
Ages: School yrs 7–9 and Year
10–adults
Contact: Lorraine Brewer
T: 07714 250974
W: swnc.net
salad days
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Rugby Football
BS Rugby FC & Boxfit
Ages: 6+
T: 01279 652092
W: bsrufc.co.uk
Ruggerbugs See page 19
S Walden, B Stortford Braintree
Ages: 18 mths–5 yrs
T: 08456 432462
W: ruggerbugs.co.uk
SW Youth Rugby Henham
Ages: 6–16
Contact: Ed Normal
T: 07969 955489
W: swrfc.co.uk
Wendens Ambo Mini Rugby
Ages: 5–12
Contact: Iain Keys
T: 01799 516017
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Running
BS Running Club
Ages: 11–16
Contact: Ian McClymont
T: 01279 723786; W: bsrc.org.uk
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Sports field
Great Chesterford
Contact: Alan Cattley
T: 01799 531265
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Squash
SW Squash Club
Ages: 8–adult
Contact: George Atterbury
T: 01799 530695 M: 07831 285530
BS Squash Club Juniors
Ages: 5 years+
Contact: Andrew Mulvey; T: 01279 652897
W: stortfordsquash.co.uk
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Swimming
BS Swimming Club
Ages: 3+; Contact: Graham Spratt
T: 01279 506077
W: bsswimclub.org.uk
Cambridge Dive Team
Ages: 5–14; Contact: William Ing
T: 07568 351654;
W: cambridgediving.org.uk
Dolphin Baby Swim School BS
Swimming with Steve
(Hauxton or will travel) Ages: 4–adult
Contact: Steve Kidman
M: 07810 890909
W: swimmingwithsteve.co.uk
Swim SchoolSee Page 21 for full info
Lord Butler & Great Dunmow Leisure Centres
T: 01799 522777 or 01371 878690
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Table Tennis
Water Lane Table Tennis Club
Bishop’s Stortford (Tues 6pm from Sept)
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Tennis
BS Lawn Tennis Club
Ages: mini – performance
Contact: Monica Sutherland
E: [email protected]; W: bsltc.co.uk
Contact: Amanda Gawthrope
T: 07825 812920
W: dolphinbabyswim.com
Castle Hill Tennis Club
The Potteries Swim School Newport
All ages standards
Contact: Roger Forster; T: 01799 541409
Ages: from 9 months; T: 01799 541591
SAS Swimming See P18
Contact: Sue Ruggles T: 01799 500142
(Linton & Fulbourne classes)
T: 01763 878598 (Saffron Walden classes)
W: sas-swimming.co.uk
SW Amateur Swim Club See page 20
Ages: 8–16
Contact: Gill Sarginson
T: 01799 501571
W: saffronseals.org.uk
Saffron Walden Ages: 7+
Contact: Madeleine Heal; T: 07721 996213
Debden Tennis Club
Grove Lawn Tennis Club SW
T: 01799 525573/079176 52014
W: grovetennis.org.uk and Mini Tennis
Ages: 5–10 yrs Contact: Ollie Toms
Linton Tennis Academy See top left
Linton Village College
Ages: all ages and abilities
Contact: Paul Harms; T: 07970 701068
W: lintontennisacademy.co.uk
Mike’s Tennis Juniors
Great Chesterford
T: 05600 465344 W: mikestennis.com
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Newport Village Tennis Club
Ages: All Ages
Contact: Sean Murphy T: 01799 541089
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Trampolining
Trampolining Leisure Centre SW
Ages: 3 upwards (+ special needs)
Contact: Debbie Burlingham
T: 01799 525109
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Triathlon
Walden Triathlon Club Jun. Ages: 8–15
W: waldentri.co.uk Contact via website
Uniform groups
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Girl Guiding UK
Girlguiding UK is over 100 years old and
has many groups in the area. Rainbows are
for 5-6 year olds, Brownies are for 7-10 year
olds, Guides are for 10-14 year olds and
Senior Section is for 14-26 year olds. These
groups are all very popular so register your
interest as soon as possible. Activities
include camping, pack holidays, cooking,
crafts, singing, first aid and much much
more. We always need leaders for these
groups so if you are 14+ and would like to
volunteer please also register online.
W: www.girlguiding.org.uk/get_involved/
volunteer/register_your_interest.aspx
T: 0800 1 69 59 01 if no internet
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Scout Association
Saffron Walden District Scouts
Beavers (6–8 yrs), Cubs (8–10½ yrs)
Scouts (10½–14 yrs), Explorers (14–18 yrs)
and Network (18–25 yrs)
www.scouts.org.uk/join
Acting District Commissioner: Helen Howett
1st Newport Scout Group
Beavers, Cubs and Scouts
Beaver contact: Claire Denyer
T: 01799 551202; E: [email protected]
Cub and Scout contact: Helen Howett
T: 07432 080441
E: newport@saffronwaldenessexscouts.
org.uk
1st Saffron Walden Scout Group
Beaver Leader: Jean Rule
Cub Leader: Nicola Elven
Scout Leader and membership enquiries:
Kevin Rule, E: [email protected]
T: 01799 501462
5th Saffron Walden Scout Group
Beaver Leader: Lorraine Brewer
Cub Leaders: Bernice Benfold and
Nigel Bailey; Group Scout Leader and
membership enquiries: Mark Benfold
T: 01799 524021
W: 5thsaffronwaldenscouts.org.uk
1st Thaxted Scout Group
Beaver Leader: Melanie Burnip
Cub Leader: Rowan Townsend
Scout Leader: Danny Yehezkel
Group Scout Leader and membership
enquiries: Ashley Townsend;
T: 01371 830492
E: Thaxted@saffronwaldenessexscouts.
org.uk
1st Clavering Scout Group
Cubs and Scouts
Group Scout Leader and membership
enquiries: Gordon Benson; T: 07949 339208
E: clavering@saffronwaldenessexscouts.
org.uk
1st Radwinter Scout Group
Cub Pack only
Cub Leader and membership enquiries:
Julie Pledger; T: 01799 599493
1st Chesterford Scout Group
Beaver Colony
Company Section
Contact: Andrew Turner
Ages: 11–18
T: 07981 977770
W: 1saffronwaldenbb.blogspot.com
1st SW Girls Brigade Ages: 5–18
Acting Group Scout Leader: Mark Benfold
T: 01799 524021
Contact: Julia Attwood (see article below)
T: 01799 520870
W: [email protected]
Saffron Walden District Explorers
Osiris Scout Network
1st BS Company Boys Brigade
E: chesterford@saffronwaldenessexscouts.
org.uk
Explorer Units in Saffron Walden, Newport,
Thaxted and Clavering
District Explorer Scout Commissioner:
Deirdre Hickey
T: 01799 501111
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Scouts in Herts
Contact: David Hughes
T: 01279 657868
1st BS Company Girls Brigade
T: 01279 659419
Did you know that
... the 1st Saffron Walden
Girls Brigade ...
1st Bishop Stortford & Hockerill
has been active in the town for over
30 years?
1st Sawbridgeworth Scout Group
We meet on Monday nights and are a
lively and friendly organisation.
T: 01279 860406
Beavers, Cubs & Scouts:
Contact: David Mead; T: 01279 724503
Contact: Helen Gardiner
Ages: 5–8; T: 01799 523664
We enjoy activities including cooking,
drama, games, discussions and trips
out in the summer. We work towards
various badges in groups according
to age, but we also do activities all
together, and our members enjoy being
part of a diverse age group.
Junior Section
Contact: Lee Kitchener
Ages: 8–11; T: 01799 501216
W: boys-brigade.org.uk
If you have a daughter aged between 5
and 18 who would like to join a Christian
uniformed group, please contact
Julia Attwood on 01799 520870.
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Brigades
1st SW Boys Brigade
Anchor Boys
24 events
Dates are always subject to change - check!
CARVER BARRACKS
Open Day
26th July 2014 11.30 am - 4.00 pm (doors open at 11 am)
Free Entry. Parking all day with complimentary programme £3
All profits to SSAFA (Lifelong Support to Our Soldiers and Their Families)
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Cinema of Childhood
The King of Masks (PG)
Films about childhood take us on fantastic
voyages: ‘E.T.’ is a magical bike ride, The Jungle
Book shows us the bare necessities, and
Miyazaki’s films are animated dreamscapes.
Beyond these classics, there’s a world of great
cinema about children which is hardly known,
but just as brilliant. Welcome to that world!
A beautiful and emotional
film about a child who
wants to be loved and an
old man who learns how to
open his heart. (China)
During August we will present four of the
best films about childhood – from Iran,
China, Sweden and America – as well as
Mark Cousins’ documentary ‘A Story of
Children and Film’ which features these and
many other wonderful films. Many have
rarely, if ever, been shown in UK cinemas.
This is your once-in-a-lifetime chance to
enjoy them. Feel young again; see the world
through the eyes of a child.
Car boot 10 am until 4.00 pm (for booking 01223 203662)
Stunt plane air show
The Band of The Corps of Royal Engineers
Military Working Dogs display
Military Bridging competition
Drive a digger
Military dive stand
Carver Barracks Vs Saffron Walden
(rugby and football)
Climbing wall
Weapons stand
Military demonstration
Fast roping display
Remote Control Vehicle maze
Find the Sniper
St John’s Ambulance
Fire service
Bouncy castles
Paint ball
Live music
The Army Reserve
Interactive mine detector stand
Busy Bees play bus
Children’s assault course
Licensed bar
A selection of local hot and cold
foods stalls
Although they are not predominantly aimed
at children, all the films are suitable for
youngsters and, in the words of one critic,
“if you know the right child, this is the right
film”. An enquiring child over eight should
enjoy any of the fiction films, and this could
be a wonderful voyage of discovery for the
whole family.
We have watched all four films and they have
made us laugh and cry and have touched us
– we thoroughly recommend stepping into
the world of childhood in August.
A Story of Children and Film (PG)
Thursday 7th August 7pm
Bag of Rice (U)
… Plus many other interactive stands and local businesses!
Wimbish Station Support Unit (WSSU).
Carver Barracks, Wimbish Station, Wimbish, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB10 2YA
ADR003550
101 (City of London) Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal),
33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) and
salad days
A truly delightful film following
a little girl and a partiallyblind old lady as they travel
across Tehran to buy a sack
of rice. (Iran)
Thursday 21st August 7pm
Hugo and Josephine (PG)
A sun-filled enchantment
about a lonely girl who
befriends a wild boy living in
the woods – the epitome of
an innocent summer. (Sweden)
Little Fugitive (U)
Sunday 31st August 4pm
Seven-year-old Joey runs
away to the funfair at Coney
Island, losing himself in
the rides and spectacle. A
glorious slice of ‘50s America. (USA)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (U)
Sun 6th July midday – in the Carnival Tent on
the Common (free screening as part of the
Carnival)
Free screening in the Carnival marquee on the
Common of this classic film of a lonely boy and
an alien trying to get home. We celebrate the
Tour de France with the most magical cycling
scene.
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (U)
Sun 6th July 3pm
Screened with Children
of the Hobbit, a local
film made by youngsters
from R A Butler School
When Pee-wee Herman’s beloved bike is stolen,
he sets out across America on the adventure of
a lifetime.
Cinema for Tinies
Enjoy this classic
animation without
worrying
about
noise or wriggling.
Sat 12th & Sun 13th July 3pm;
Sun 27th July 4pm
Everyone’s favourite postie
makes it to the big screen –
with a great voice cast and
a fast-paced and funny plot involving a talent
show and robot-postmen.
Sun 20th July
4pm; Thurs
24th July 3pm
This animated
version of the
Tarzan story
swings along at a brisk pace! Young JJ Greystoke
is raised by gorillas to become the legendary
jungle-swinger.
X-Men:
Days of
Future
Past (12A)
Fri 25th &
Sat 26th
July 4pm
Wolverine
is sent back in time to change the course of
history in order to save mutants and humans. A
superior action movie – and great fun too.
Legends of
Oz: Dorothy’s
Return (U)
Sun 3rd Aug
4pm; Thurs
7th Aug 3pm
An animated
musical
in
which Dorothy is whisked back to Oz to save her
old friends Scarecrow, Lion and Tin Man from an
evil sprite, The Jester.
101 Dalmatians (U)
Sun 10th Aug 11am
Postman Pat:
The Movie (U)
Tarzan (PG)
events 25
Maleficent (PG)
Sun 10th Aug 4pm;
Thurs 13th & Thurs 21st
Aug 3pm
POSTMAN PAT: (U)
THE MOVIE
This film tells how the
Bad Fairy from Sleeping
Beauty became so furious
with the world, but later
she finds Princess Aurora
might bring balance to the kingdoms.
summer holiday
The Fault In Our
Stars (12A)
SEE OUR WEBSITE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Sat 16th & Sun 17th
Aug 4pm
Based on the best-selling
novel, this is the story of
two teenagers who share
wit, a zest for life, love –
and cancer. A romantic
tearjerker.
films for kids
TARZAN (PG)
HOW TO TRAIN2 (PG)
YOUR DRAGON
How To Train Your Dragon 2 (PG)
Sat 23rd & Sun 24th Aug 4pm; Thurs 28th Aug
3pm; Sat 30th Aug 4pm
Hiccup and his dragon Toothless are now
growing up in their Viking world – but must take
onwicked Drago who is building an army of
dragons.
MALEFICIENT (PG
)
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Diary Dates
June
12 June - 13 July
2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil
23 June - 6 July
2014 Wimbledon Championships
Most Fridays 27 June–15 Aug Newmarket
Races with concerts including James
Blunt, The Beach Boys, UB40, Tom
Jones, Dizzee Rascal, Wet Wet Wet
28 Clavering Fete See advert opposite page
•Armed Forces Day, Windhill, Bishop’s
Stortford. 12.00-23.00; March starts
at 14.30 from Basbow Lane to Royal
British Legion. T: 01279 655591
28–29
Children’s World, Sworders Field,
Bishop’s Stortford. T: 07976 270697;
[email protected]
29 Richard Whittington Primary BS.12.00–
15.00 with a Tour de France theme.
“Best Dressed Bike” competition, BBQ,
bar, refreshments plus bouncy castles,
ice creams and plenty of fun games
and stalls
July
2 IPSEA (Independent Parental Special
Education Advice) Free Advice
sessions for parents or carers of
children with special educational
needs and/or a disability concerning
education matters, at the offices of
the CAB, Saffron Walden on the first
Wednesday of every month.
Please ring for an appointment on
01799 582030 www.ipsea.org.uk
4 American Independance Day
salad days
4–6 Santander British Grand Prix at
Silverstone
4–128 Day Weekend! SW Carnival 3 yearly event run by the Round
Table. Starring Matt Cardle (who
will also be crowning the Carnival
Queen), Bjorn Again, The Soap Box
Derby, Bavarian Night, Carnival
Procession and loads more.
www.8dayweekend.co.uk (See
advertistement left)
6 Jazz picnic - see page 14
•Little Hadham Primary School fete
12.00–15.00.
6 •Blues Pre-School Nursery Summer Fair
13.00–16.00. Games, stalls, a raffle
and face painting
•Summercroft Primary School, BS;
12.00–15.00, PTA Summer Fair. Join
us for a family fun day where parents
and children can team up to race each
other in our sports day, try out archery
and orienteering, win some great
prizes in our Tombaffle! Food, fun and
hopefully sun is the call for the day.
We look forward to seeing you there.
For more details contact
[email protected]
7 Tour De France Stage 3 route.
Cambridge, Trumpington, Great
Shelford, Hinxton, Great Chesterford,
Saffron Walden, Radwinter, Great
Sampford, Finchingfield and onto
London via Braintree and Chelmsford
•Tour de France in Felsted; Bikes, bars,
burgers, BIG screen, booty!
Be involved!
Find out what
it means to
be a Felsted
Stagemaker!
7-11 The Saffron Walden Ladies Circle
and Diamonds are pleased to
announce the entertainment
located at the Town Hall in
support of the 8 day weekend.
Fun for all the family
7th - Race Night – hosted by ‘The
Diamonds’. Place your bets please!
An entertaining night out with live
compere and on screen action!
Over 18’s only
8th-10th Hyperfusion perform
‘Unplugged’ - hosted by SW
Ladies Circle. Hyperfusion are an
award-winning theatre company,
who specialise in theatre-ineducation and bringing live theatre
experiences to the community.
Performances will run for three
nights and are open to all ages.
11th July: SW Arts Trust presents
‘Saffron Walden’s Got Carnival
Talent’ – hosted by SW Ladies
Circle. Watch local talent or take
part and show case your own
talent! The competition is open to
non-professional performers of all
ages, who live in and around the
Uttlesford District. Entry is free, and
there will be a prize of £200 for the
winner, and £50 each for the two
runners-up! For more details about
entering please contact Miranda
Pender on 07896 354616 or email
[email protected].
Fun for all the family!
For more information and to buy
tickets check out the website:
http://www.8dayweekend.co.uk,
the carnival programme and look
out for our posters around town!
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Prices from just £ 153 per child, per week*
fete 2014
th
Saturday 28 June
1pm-4pm
*Beer Tent* *Pimms Bar*
*Bouncy Castle* *Tug of War*
*Classic Car Display* *Local Real Ale*
*Exotic Animals* *Wet Stocks*
*Toss the bale* *Maggot Racing*
*Live Band* **Battlefield Live
and much much more….
Film Thursday
A free morning of fun for all
children in Y1 – 6 will be running
Thursday mornings:
24th & 31st July
7th & 14th August
(10.00–11.30) at Henham Church.
Episodes from ‘Friends and Heroes’
will be shown followed by fun craft
activities. Children to be accompanied
by an adult. For more information,
contact the Church Office
(09.00–13.00 (Mon -Fri) on
01279 850805
school holiday camps at
Dame Bradbury's School
The Academies are found in the finest venues with
the finest teachers, open from 8am to 6pm Monday
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For more information or to book call
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STANSTED 10K
FUN RUN
Sunday 13th July, 11am
Bentfield Green,
Stansted
ENTRIES
ON THE
DAY FROM
9.30AM
Entry Fees:
Adult - Registration
costs £12 / £15
on the day.
Children under
16 years are £5 both
in advance and on
the day.
Sponsored by
Registration form on back – you can also
register online www.stclarehospice.org.uk/
stansted10krun.html
George Cooper Physiotherapy
Tel: 01279 813253
Medal ribbons sponsored by
Lever & Co. Solicitors
10 The Prince and the Pauper based on Mark
Twain’s novel, adapted as a Tudor musical
play using music of the period. Premiere
by Thaxted Primary School at the Thaxted
Festival at 19.00 in Thaxted Church. Tickets
from Festival Office or at the door.
12 Henham & Ugley School present
“Dragonfest” Music Festival. 14.00–21.00
Family Fun Event. Live bands, bouncy
castles, BBQ, picnics allows.
Tickets: www.dragonfest.uk.com or
[email protected]
•The Sampfords’ Flower Show and Fete
14.00 at Great Sampford Primary School
13 Bishop’s Stortford College Playing Fields.
11.30; 5km run with a difference. End up
multicoloured after visiting each “colour
paint station”. Min age 12 yrs. T: 01707
382500; [email protected].
www.isabelhospice.org.uk
13 See left - Stansted 10K Fun Run
•Messy Church St Mary’s Newport; 11.00am
A range of art and craft activities for
pre-schoolers and primary aged children
and their parents or grandparents. Please
bring a plate of food for a shared picnic.
Contact Neil for more details
01799 540339
15 St Swithin’s Day. 40 days more of whatever
the weather is today!
•Furneux Pelham Primary School 14.00–
16.00 Open Afternoon and Celebration of
the anniversary of the school building’s
40th year
17–19Seussical the Musical - see page 33
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19 & 20
The Storytellers 14.00 and 18.00 on Sat
and 24.00 Sun; The Monastery Gardens,
Windhhill, Bishop’s Stortford.
www.waterlanetheatrecompany.co.uk
T: 01279 504012; [email protected]
20 The Pantaloons at Bridge End Gardens
Saffron Walden. Popular family-friendly
fun production in the open air. Bring a rug
and/or chairs and a picnic!
www.thepantaloons.co.uk
22 School Holidays Start (mostly!).
23 July–3 August
Commonwealth Games held every 4
years. This year it’s in Glasgow
www. glasgow2014.com
26 11.00–16.30: CARVER BARRACKS is
once again opening it’s doors for a
dynamic family day with lots of fun for
all ages. The spectacular show piece
will be a stunt plane air show along with
interactive military stands, military band,
top quality food and drink and a car
boot sale! All profits from the day to go
to SSAFA!” See Page 24 Advertisement Feature
•Audley End Concert, Paul Weller
27 St Mary’s Church SW, 4th@4 (all age)
service
28 July–1 August
Summer musical theatre workshops at
Victoria Hall Theatre, Bury Road, Old
Harlow. Ages 7–Adult www.tinytempos.
co.uk; 07956 211909
28 July–8 August
Fab Science holiday workshops;
Fantastic Forces, Animal Antics and
Brilliant Bodies. Venues in Saffron
Walden, Bishop’s Stortford and Old
Harlow. Details and booking at
www.fabscience.co.uk
30 Saffron Walden Museum: Summer Holiday
Activities 30th July, 6th and 13th August
Get hands on with history this summer
and join us for 3 different craft activities
inspired by our archaeology, local history
and natural history collections. Drop in
sessions, 11am – 1pm and 2pm – 4pm.
Children MUST bring an adult. Normal
entry charges apply.
August
2 Audley End Concert - The greatest 80’s
Party...ever
2 Aug - 1 February 2015
Saffron Walden Museum exhibition
showing how both the First and Second
World Wars affected the people of North
West Essex.
3 Audley End Concert - Last Night of the
Audley End Proms, including The Grace
Spitfire and Fireworks!
4–8 Kids Act summer drama club - See page
32 for full details
•Bishop’s Stortford Holiday Bible Week
•Audley End House - Small game hunters
wanted. Grab a magnifying glass and
join our big hunt for some mini beasts.
We’ll peer into the parterre, and encounter
gruesome bugs.
www.english-heritage.org.uk/audley
6 Aug and 3 September
IPSEA (Independent Parental Special
Education Advice) Free Advice sessions
for parents or carers of children with
special educational needs and/or a
disability concerning education matters,
at the offices of the CAB, Saffron Walden
on the first Wednesday of every month.
Please ring for an appointment on
01799 582030 www.ipsea.org.uk
6 Saffron Walden Museum Summer Holiday
Activity - see July 30
11–15Audley End House: Ghastly gallows,
horrific hangmen and terrifying torture
12 International Youth Day
13 International Lefthanders Day
•Saffron Walden Museum Summer Holiday
Activity - see July 30
17 Static display of classic, vintage and
performance cars, bikes and trucks on
Saffron Walden Common
www.saffronwaldenmotorshow.co.uk
18–22
Audley End House: Get your hands dirty
as you become a daring archaeologist on
our mini dig for the day. www.englishheritage.org.uk/audley
24 St Mary’s Church SW, 4th@4 (all age)
service
26–29
Audley End House: Discover Audley End’s
secret wartime past.
26–30
Summer musical theatre workshops at
Saffron Walden Town Hall, Ages 3–16.
www.tinytempos.co.uk; 07956 211909
29 The Pantaloons at Bridge End Gardens.
Popular family-friendly fun production in
the open air. Bring a rug and/or chairs
and a picnic! Please see website for more
information.
www.thepantaloons.co.uk
29 Aug–7 September
Fun Fair – Bishop’s Stortford Sworders Field.
Autumn dates - See P40
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30
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Photographing your baby 0-1
Hi everyone! I have been photographing
babies for many years and as my
own babies get older I sometimes find
myself wishing that I had been better at
documenting the various stages of their life
more consistently! I hope the following tips
for creating special memories of your babies
are helpful. Please do stop by my website
and say hello.
floor on a rug or blanket with elbows and
hands making a comfortable and supportive
triangle underneath his chest – snap away
and capture some great expressions. If your
baby does not go on his tummy much or
doesn’t really enjoy it, place him on his back
and photograph him from above and from
the side as he kicks his legs up and grabs
hold of his feet.
Newborn
The key to recording a baby’s first few weeks
of life is to keep it natural, simple and safe.
Wrap your baby in a receiving blanket and
lay him on a rug or folded blanket on the
floor near the window where daylight is
coming in but not direct sunlight. Make sure
your camera strap is around your neck or
wrist if you are shooting down and snap
away to get some either awake or asleep
shots. Zoom in close to capture any detail
that is special to you – a wisp of hair or tiny
toes – you know what I’m talking about!
6-8 months
If your baby can now sit for a good period of
time without support, this is a wonderful time
to capture his developing personality. Socksoff are a must to get those chubby feet and
hands in shot and you might get lucky and
be able to capture hands grabbing at feet so
be ready to zoom in for a close up.
3-4 months
This is a great time to capture shots of
baby with mum or dad or a grandparent
with baby held up at the shoulder, either
peeping over the shoulder with parent’s
back turned from the camera or from the
side so both baby and parent are side on to
the camera. Convert to black and white for
a timeless classic.
5 months
If your baby is now enjoying a bit of rolling
or tummy time, warm up the room and strip
him down to his nappy then lay him on the
1 year
The one year landmark photos will become
some of your most treasured as you look
back through your family photos. Including
something to mark the occasion like a
number one balloon or a cake with one
candle in the shot can help tell the story.
Don’t forget the obligatory cake around the
face shot or sit your baby on a washable
surface on the floor in just a nappy and go
for a full on cake smash.
For information about baby portrait sessions
visit www.purebabyphotography.co.uk
Claire Moir,
Pure Baby Photography
From West End to Broadway
Monday 11th –
Friday 15th August,
10am – 4pm
All aged 5-16 welcome
£150 (sibling discounts apply)
Contact Laura on 01799 588246
[email protected]
www.stagecoach.co.uk/saffronwalden
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Dance
Apton Dance Studio
Bishop’s Stortford, Saffron Walden
and Birchanger Ages: 3+
Ages: 3–10+; Contact: Maureen Gypps
T: 01799 521970
See advertisement on page 34
Contact: Maxine Stock (BS)
JCL School of Dance Bishop’s Stortford
Contact: Grahame Mizen (SW)
Ages: 3–18; Contact: Julia Last
W: jclschooldance.webeden.co.uk
W: aptondancestudio.com
Summer Drama
Club 2014
Happy Feet Dance Saffron Walden
Candy’s Street Crew
Hatfield HeathAges: 4+
Contact: Candy Scott T: 0845 5192692
Dance at Dunmow Arts Centre
Karen Howarth School of Dance
Debden; Ages: 3+
Principal: Karen Howarth; T: 01279 651535
Kate Plummer School of Dance
For children aged 5 to 12
Ages: 5 upwards
Saffron Walden
Ages: 3+; Contact: Kate Plummer
T: 07832 212493
Monday 4th August to
Friday 8th August 2014
W: theartscentredunmow.co.uk
Pure Rhythm Jazz Classes
Friends’ Junior School
Mount Pleasant Road, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB11 3EB
For more information or to book:
tel:
07793 434 811
email: [email protected]
web:
www.teacheract.co.uk
Cost: £135 per student
Additional siblings: £115 each.
Bishop’s Stortford & Stansted
Ages: 18 months–4 yrs; T: 07835 533894
E: louisecoates@danceservicesfor
schools.com; W: disco-duck.co.uk
Footlights Theatre Dance School
10am to 4pm
Each day. Before and after
school care available
Disco Duck Pre-Sch Dance Classes
Activities include:
Drama games
Singing, Dance,
Costume making,
Improvisation,
End of week show.
Ugley Village Hall; Ages: 3+
Principal: Emma Brookes
T: 01279 451017/07921 350468
W: footlightstheatredance.co.uk
Graham School of Dance B.Stortford
(also drama, voice & musical theatre)
Ages: 3+; Contact: Aileen Graham
T: 01279 654423
W: grahamschoolofdance.co.uk
Saffron Walden
Ages: 8–17
Contact: Sue Raven
T: 01799 501579
Saffron School of Dance
Ages: 18 months–adult
Contact: Kelly Balaam; T: 01799 516982
Mrs R Taylor-Greene Street v. Strictly
Saffron Walden, Ugley
Ages: 4½–18; T: 01279 850142
Tracey Walker School of Dancing
Hallingburys, Bishop’s Stortford
Ages: Children 3+
Contact: Tracey Walker
T: 01279 501532
W: traceywalkerschoolofdancing.co.uk
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Drama
Jacqui Ison School of Dance
& Theatre Arts
Dramawise Sawston
Contact: Frances Brownlie
T: 01223 832288
Ages: 0–adult
T: 01279 321283
LAMDA Speech & Drama Training
The Pauline Quirke Academy
Furneux Pelham; Ages: 7–14
Contact: Anna Davies
T: 07545 788433
W: brilliantmusicaltheatre.co.uk
Public Arena Saffron Walden
See Drama Works P35
Ages: 8–18
Contact: Chris McKay
T: 07590 622831
StageAbility Stage School
Braintree
Ages: 5–18
Contact: Ann Sullivan
T: 01376 567677
Theatre schools
Bedazzle Performing Arts
LAMDA exams Ages: 6–18
Contact: Diane Janssen
T: 07841 990611
W: bedazzlearts.com
Cast - Theatre for young people
Ages 4–18;
Contact: Lee Ellaway
T: 07540 994957
W. pqacademy.com
Pure Rhythm School of Performing Arts
Saffron Walden - see right
Ages: 5–15
Contact Sue Raven
T: 01799 501579
Scene II Theatre School
Great Dunmow
Ages: 3–16
T: 01371 878020
Stagecoach Theatre Arts See Page 31
Saffron Walden
Dance, Drama and Singing for 4-16 yrs.
Contact: Laura Blackmore
T: 01799 588246
E:[email protected]
W: www.stagecoach.co.uk/saffronwalden
T: 01376 567677
SW Musical Theatre Co
Hyperfusion Theatre Co
Youth Group Section Sept–May
Ages: 11–18
Contact: Fiona Wilson Waterworth
T: 01440 788955
Saffron Walden; Ages: 5–18
Artistic Director: Sarah Ellis
Singing,
acting,
dancing
summer
school
Bugsy Malone
week of
28th July
BOOK NOW
Performing Arts
School:
Age 5–15 yrs
Saturday 10–1pm
Make sure you
have tickets for
Seussical jr Musical
17th-19th July
Jazz dance classes
in the week – all ages
(Check lists section
Salad Days for all class details)
Contact: Sue Raven
0795 299 3288 / 01799 501579
[email protected]
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Music
Happy Feet Dance
with Maureen Gypps (Assoc. IDTA, CRB checked)
Tuesday’s at Li�lebury Village Hall
mgypps@b�nternet.com
T:01799 521970
M:07710 287248
4.15 - 4.55 pm ages 3+
5.05 - 5.50 pm ages 7+
6.00 - 6.45 pm ages 11+
Fee discount for siblings
St Mary’s Church,
Saffron Walden
welcomes you to join
our youngest singing
group…..
Do you love singing?
Would you like to have fun and make
new friends?
Come and join our singing group,
‘Joyful Noise’, at the Parish Rooms,
St Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden.
Sing action songs, play musical
games, sing part-songs and rounds,
and songs from around the world.
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Choirs & Orchestras
Cantate Youth Choir Bishop’s Stortford
Ages: 8–20
Contact: Pascale Bozzi; T: 07710 996297
E: [email protected] W: cantate.co.uk
Joyful Noise Saffron Walden
Ages: 6–8; Contact Kate Beare
T: 01799 523591
Read more at left
Saffron Walden Children’s Orchestra
See advertisement right page
Daniella Ganeva
St. Mary’s Church Junior Choir
Saffron Walden
Ages: 8–14; Contact: Bron Ferland
T: 01799 521497
Music Tutors
Creative Music Limited
Group based sessions
Ages: 4–7 & 8–Adult
T: 01279 310975
W: creativemusicltd.co.uk
Saxophone, clarinet, guitar and flute
Ages: All ages (Saffron Walden)
T: 07818 334592
Janet E. McCallum LRSM
Violin; Ages: All ages and levels
Theory to Grade 5; T: 01799 502260
Jessica Roberts
Piano, Percussion & Theory
Ages: All Ages and Levels
T: 07796 262 715
MA, BA(Hons), QTS, CTABRSM, ALCM
Flute Specialist - beginner to post
Grade 8; Grade 5 theory lessons
T: 07966 512153/01799 530701
Elizabeth De Vile GRSM ARCM ARCO PGCE
Kate Goatman MMus, GRNCM, PPRNCM
(See advertisement on right)
Eva’s Dream Guitar
Saffron Walden Youth Choir
Ages: 8–18; Contact: Steph Green
T: 01799 521614
W: signuptosing.org
Tuesdays at SWCHS
James Free BA (Hons) Music
(Professor Royal College of Music)
SignuptoSing See right page
Year 1 –Year 4) Fridays 15.45-16.30.
[email protected]
Guitar & Bass guitar
All styles inc.classical
Ages: Children and beginners
T: 01799 500101
M: 07862 278404
Experienced Piano tuition
ABRSM exams incl Theory
Aural training. Accompaniment.

01799 523 591
Dan Ketteridge BA(hons) Mus.
Contact: Kate Goatman
T: 07597 754671
W: uttlesforde.net
For children aged 6-8 (or Primary
Contact Kate Beare on
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Ages: guitar for all ages
T: 01799 520157
M: 07939 890269
W: paulwoodguitar.co.uk
Frances Howard BA(hons) ALCM CTABRSM
Singing and piano lessons
Ages: All ages, levels and styles.
T: 01223 892001; M: 07837 265013
Gail Ford, Pianist/Accompanist
Events & functions, accompaniment for
exams, concerts, etc.
W: www.gailford.co.uk
Jackie Cairnduff CT ABRSM; ALCM
Piano. Theory G5, Aural G8
Ages: 6–adult; T: 01223 842912
Trumpet and cornet from beginner to
advanced level; T: 07527 754671
Kristina Coleman ARCM
Piano; Ages: Children (7+) and Adults
T: 01799 526977
Laura Thomas BA (Hons) Music
Musical Theatre singing & performance
technique, audition prep, vocal confidence.
All ages 10+; plus Singing for Fun Ages 8–10
T: 01799 513311
Livewire Rock Academy
Guitar, drums, bass, keyboards
Ages: 7–17; Contact: Simon Baker
T: 07941 670575
W: livewirerockacademy.com
Louise Turner CTABRSM
Clarinet & music theory G1–5
ABRSM exams
Ages: Ages 8–Adult
T: 01799 505012;
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Quintus Benziger
ARCO, GRSM, LRAM, MTC, ARAM (Hon.)
Piano and Organ
Ages: All ages & levels
T: 01799 586269
Richard Partridge BMus, MM
Violin, viola, double bass, ukulele,
mandolin, theory G8
Ages: 6–retirees
T: 01440 731936
W: musicteacherhaverhill.co.uk
Saffron Choral Prompt
Tutorial CDs & tapes to help learn
individual parts. Recordings to order
Contact: Quintus Benziger
T: 01799 586269
W: saffronchoralprompt.co.uk
Sophie Faith Dip ABRSM
Piano, Singing (musical theatre
and classical) Theory (including fast
track Grade 5)
T: 01799 513815
Svetlana Boutwood
Piano and Theory of Music
T: 07909 838593

Music Therapy
Amy Ellice State Registered Music Therapist
Music Therapy seeks to enable
communication and expression
when words are hard to find
T: 07526 749402
Elizabeth De Vile
GRSM ARCM ARCO PGCE
Vacancies for
Piano/Theory/
Aural pupils
Beginner to Advanced –
Very Experienced
T: 01799 500111
M: 0797 5904591
Saffron Walden based
DRAMA
Public Arena, Drama Works
Saturday workshops
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For more information contact
Chris on T: 07590 622831 or
www.publicarena-saffronwalden.co.uk
Summer Course
Our popular and fun orchestral
course for young people is
back for the summer holidays!
We are welcoming all young
orchestral instrumentalists
who will have passed
their Grade 1 or higher by
the summer.
Saff ron Walden
Childrenʼs Orchestra
When: 29th, 30th, and 31st July 2014
Time: 9.30am to 12.30pm
Where: Saffron Walden County High School
The cost for three mornings
is £45 for one child.
There are discounts for
additional siblings.
Other: More information about the course and
booking forms are available from the
Uttlesforde Orchestra’s website
www.saffronsymphony.org or contact
Kate Goatman on 07527 754671
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• We are a small, friendly pre-school,
welcoming children aged 2 – 5
Nurseries
• Morning, afternoon, and ‘school-day’
sessions offered
Many primary schools also
have nurseries (pages 2 to 4)
• Excellent, child-focused teaching,
and stimulating environment
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Albury Acorns; Ages: 2–5;
• Our children go on to
attend a number of local
primary schools in Saffron
Walden and surrounding villages
For more information,
or to arrange a visit
with your child, please
visit our website or
contact 07543 651343
Albury
T: 07826 303560
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www.wendensambopreschool.co.uk
Registered Charity Number: 1080574
Ashdon
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Acorns Nursery - See page 5
Howe Green House School; Ages 2–3
Contact: Julie Sellears
T: 01279 657706
W: howegreenhousseschool.co.uk
Appletree Pre-School
Holy Trinity Parish Church, South Street
Ages: 2–5
Head: Naomi Ellis
T: 01279 655013
Ashdon Childrens Nursery
Bishop’s Park Playschool
Ages: 3mths–5yrs
Contact: Annette Bel
T: 01799 584848
W: ashdonchildrensnursery.com
Blues Pre-School Nursery
Ashdon Forest School
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Ages: 2–5
Head: Sue Cowling
T: 07554 356528
W: ashdonpreschool.co.uk
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Bartlow
Little Hands Nursery
Ages: 2–4
Head: Marion Kelly
T: 01223 897945
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Birchanger
Birchanger Nursery (at the Primary Sch)
Ages: 2½–5
Admissions: Sam
T: 01279 810800
Bishop’s Park Community Centre
Ages: Over 2–4
Contact: Sue Davies
T: 01279 843441
Bishop’s Stortford High Sch; Ages: 2–5
Contact: Kim Craythorne
T: 01279 755422
W: bluespreschool.co.uk
Spaces available for September term
Busy Bees Thorley Park
16 The Thorley Centre
Contact: Ms Karen Pogonowski
T: 01279 654830
Busy Bees Nursery
St Michael’s Mead; Ages: 0–5
Contact: Mandy Caslake
T: 01279 755522
Doodle Do Day Nursery
The Old Church Hall, Portland Road
Ages: Babies–5
Contact: Helen Fletcher
T: 01279 653318
W: doodledo.org.uk
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The Pre-school will be open term time and we will be offering full and part time places. Morning and afternoon
sessions will be offered separately and there will also be a breakfast club from 7:30 am and after-school club until
6:00 pm.
Hobbs Cross Road Old Harlow
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CM17 0NJ
01279 429910
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Nurseries continued from P36
Grove Cottage (Special needs)
141 London Road
Ages: Birth–5
Contact: Andrea Charity
T: 01279 656085
High House Montessori Nursery
Takeley Rd, Herts CM22 6PL
Ages: 0–5
Contact: Vanessa Callan
T: 01279 870898
W: highhousenursery.co.uk
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Clavering
Children’s Cottage Day Nursery
Ages: 0–5
T: 01799 550469
Clavering & Arkesden Preschool
Head: Donna Palmer
Ages: 2½–5
T: 01799 550380
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Debden
Debden Pre-School
Ages: 2–4
Head: Hayley Lynskey
T: 07745 262676
Ages: 2½–5
Head: Laura Woodman
T: 07845 101809
W: debdenpreschool.com
Thorley Pre-School
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Little Ladybirds, All Saints School
Thorley Christian Centre
T: 01279 503895
W: thorleypreschool.co.uk
Thorn Grove Little Acorns
Thorn Grove School
Ages: 2–5
Contact: Sam Stedman
T: 01279 653233
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Chrishall
Chrishall Pre-School
Admissions: Angela Everett
Ages: 2–5
T: 01763 220816
W: chrishallpreschool.org.uk
Great Chesterford
The Chesterfords Pre-School
Ages: 2½–5 yrs
Manager: Debbie Allard
T: 07840 341551
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Great Chishill
Great Chishill Nursery School
Gt Chishill Cricket Pavillion
Ages: 2–5
Head: Anita Street
T: 01763 836968
W: chishillnursery.co.uk
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Great Dunmow
Flopsy Bunnies
Oakwood Park
Head: Loraine Porter; T: 01371 823192
Freedom Daycare Nursery
Contacts: Joules Abraham & Kath Gibson
T: 01371 873663
Little Learners with Creative Minds
Ages: 2–5 years
Contacts: Rikki Farnsworth & Zoe Costerd
T: 01371 238007
E:[email protected]
W: llcmpreschool.co.uk
Maynard Montessori Pre-School
Head: Michelle Wisbey
T: 01371 831478
Puffin Preschool
Head: Carolin Dodkins; T: 07712 858878
Wrens Pre-School
Quaker Meeting House
Proprietor: Sally George
T: 07739 629548
W: wrenspreschool.co.uk
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Great Sampford
Little Learners
Ages: 2½–5
Head: Rachel Whippy
T: 07855 159357
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Hempstead
Radwinter Pre-School
Ages: 2–5
Manager: Claire Norris
T: 01799 599797 pre-school hours
Admissions: 07899 953167
W: radwinterpreschool.co.uk
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Henham
Henham & Ugley Nursery School
Ages: 3–5; Head: Mrs Sue Giles
T: 01279 850213
Saplings Nursery
Mgr: Michelle Barker; T: 01279 851998
W: saplingsnursery.co.uk
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Linton
Chestnut Playgroup
Admissions: Kerrie Mortlock
Ages 2–5
T: 07817 069696
W: chestnutplaygroup.btck.co.uk
Linton Granta Playgroup
Admissions: Helen Boffey
Ages 2-4
T: 07806 744864
W: intongrantaplaygroup.org.uk/
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Little hallingbury
Little Hallingbury Playgroup
Village Hall, CM22 7RD
Ages: 2½–5
Contact: Debbie Roberts
T: 01279 834559
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Manuden
Manuden Pre-School Playgroup
Manuden School, CM23 1DE
Ages: 2½–5
Contact: Anne Brown; T: 01279 813153
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Newport
Olivers Lodge
Ages: 2–4
Head: Alex Suffolk
T: 01799 540709
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Saffron Walden
Saffron Walden Nursery School
Steeple Bumpstead Pre-School
Ages: 2–5
Head: Kirsty Curtis
T: 01799 522108
W: swns.org.uk
Ages: 2½–5
Manager: Carol Bradley
T: 07805 061169
W: sbpsp.co.uk
St Mary’s Church Pre-School
Ages: 0–5
Head: Jenny Rivers/Glenys Goodwin
T: 01799 528051
Ages: 2–5
Head: Faye Jeff
T: 01799 520358
W: stmaryschurchpreschool.co.uk
Coote Daycare Centre
St Thomas More Montessori
Crocus Early Yrs Centre
South Road, CB11 3DW
T: 01371 831902
E: stmmontessori@st-thomasmore.
essex.sch.uk
Bell Day Nursery
Ages: 0–12
Head: Elaine Coote
T: 01799 501651
Manager: Anne Hunt
T: 01799 522522
W: brighthorizons.com
Dame Bradbury’s School Nursery
Ages: 3–4 See right
T: 01799 522348
W: damebradburys.com
Friends’ School Nursery
Ages: 3–4 See inside back cover
T: 01799 525351
W: friendsjunior.org.uk
Meadow Montessori Nursery
Ages: 2–5
Head: Colette May
T: 01799 513858
W: montessorimeadows.co.uk
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Stansted
Rainbow Preschool
Ages: 2½–5
Administrator: Gill
T: 01279 814242
W: rainbowpreschool-stansted.co.uk
Ugley Duckling Pre-School
Ages: 2½–5
Head: Caroline Dawson
T: 01279 812621
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Steeple Bumpstead
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Strethall
Pip’s Nursery See page 36
Head: Pippa Doherty
T: 01799 522782
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Thaxted
Barn Nursery, Barn Kids
Head: Vicky Ledgerton
T: 01371 831262 - see page 44
Westwood Montessori
T: 01371 831902
Windmill Pre-School
Ages: 2½–5; Contact: Sue Rosenthal
T: 01799 218320
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Wendens Ambo
Wendens Ambo Pre-School
See page 36
Ages: 2–5; Head: Dawn Wagstaff
T: 07543 651343
W: wendensambopreschool.co.uk
Wimbish
Blois Meadow Day Nursery
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Ages: Birth–5 years
T: 01440 730520
W: bloismeadowdaynursery.com
Busy Bee Childcare Centre
Ages: 2–school
Contact: Manager; T: 01799 523542
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Diary dates
salad days
September
Summer Timetable
3 IPSEA (Independent Parental
Special Education Advice) Free
Advice sessions for parents or
carers of children with special
educational needs and/or a
disability concerning education
matters, at the offices of the
CAB, Saffron Walden on the first
Wednesday of every month.
Please ring for an appointment
on 01799 582030
www.ipsea.org.uk
Saturday 28th June
Friends School Fete 13.00–16.00
1 Back to School (mostly!)
2–5SALAD DAYS ISSUE 55 PUBLISHED
Saturday 5th July
Saffron Walden Carnival - See page 26
Friday 18th July
END OF TERM ON BUFFY, THEN AT:
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Friday 25th July
Hatfield Forest; 11.00–15.00
•
Saturday 26th July
Carver Barracks Fun day
12.00–16.00 (See page 24)
•
8 International Literacy Day
13 Model Railway Exhibition 10.3016.30 at Birchood High School. BS.
T: 01279 503511
14 St Mary’s Motor Show, Windhill.
11.00-16.00 T: 07776 412238
20 Bishop’s Stortford College Open
Morning see page 3
•Michaelmas Fair on Saffron
Walden Common
October
18 Dame Bradnbury’s School Open
Morning 09.30–12.00
Wednesday 23rd July
Audley End Mini Railway
12.00–16.00
Wednesday 30th July
Haverhill Big day Out
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Tuesday 12th August
Homestart Day at Audley End
Mini Railway 11.00–16.00
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Wednesday 27th August
Audley End Mini Railway
12.00–16.00
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Friday 29th August
Hatfield Forest 11.00–15.00
•
Wednesday 3rd September
AUTUMN TERM STARTS
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Saturday 6th September
Newton Green, Great Dunmow
Fun Day 12.00–16.00
•
Saturday 20th September
Dunmow Carnival
Open: Term Time & Half
Term Breaks
Monday
09.15–10.30
11.00–12.15
13.30–15.00
SW, Cromwell Road
Gt Chesterford,
Jacksons Lane
Carver Barracks
Sure Start
Centres
Conkers Children’s Centre
Cathodeon Centre, High Street, Linton
T 01223 893594/07768 008919
Tuesday
09.30–11.00 Hatfield Heath
11.30–12.30 Takeley, Station House
13.45–15.00 Thaxted, Bardfield Road
Fairycroft Children’s Centre
Wednesday
09.15–10.30 11.00–12.30 13.30–15.00
W: essexcentre.info/fairycroft
Newport, Cherry Gdn Lane
Stansted, Walson Way
Elsenham, de Mandeville Road
Thursday
09.15–10.45
11.00–12.30
13.45–15.00
Lt Dunmow, Baynard Ave
Layby nr Gt Dunmow
Primary
Little Canfield, Warwick Road
Friday
09.20–10.30
11.15–12.30
13.30–15.00
The Green Little Walden Rd. SW
Ashdon, Church Fields
Wendens Ambo, The Bell Inn
37 Fairycroft Road, Saffron Walden
T: 01799 521602
Little Goslings Children’s Centre
North Street, Great Dunmow,
Essex CM6 1AZ
T: 01371 878494
W:essexcentre.info/littlegoslings
Seedlings Children’s Centre
Bellbird School, Link Road, Sawston.
Spangles Children’s Centre
Lower Street, Stansted Mountfitchet,
Essex CM24 8LR
Donations suggested of £2.00 for one
child, or £3.00 for a family (per session)
Rosie Juhl Project Mgr: 01799 522130
T: 01279 812348
E: [email protected];
W: essexcentre.info/spangles
Windhill Children’s Centre Network
(Buttercups, Little Squirrels and Windhill)
Bishop’s Stortford, Herts CM23 2NE
T: 01279 696853
W: windhillchildrenscentres.org.uk
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Only £18 (£14 for under 3’s) per child for unlimited entry over the summer!!
Offer is valid from 14/07/14 until 07/09/14
Units 12 C & D, The Grip Industrial Estate, LINTON, CB21 4XN. Tel: 01223 892226 / www.spottedgiraffe.co.uk
Opening Hours: 1-6pm Monday, 10-6pm Tuesday-Friday, 10-4pm Saturday & Sunday
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Toddler groups
Many of these only run in termtimes - please check if in doubt
Diddidance
Classes across North Essex and Cambridge.
Ages: 1½–4 Contact Rachel
T: 07815 197189
W: diddidance.com
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Monday
Birchanger Buddies
Birchanger Village Hall
10.00–11.30. T: 01279 812348
Boogie Woogies (Music & Movement)
URC Hall Saffron Walden
09.30–10.15 (Toddlers–5)
& 10.30–11.15 (3–18 mths) TT only
Contact: Sarah JonesT: 07837 176823
Bosom Buddies
Little Goslings Children’s Ctr, Dunmow
12.00–13.30 Drop In; T: 01371 878494
Bumps, Babies & Beyond (BS &
Sawbridgeworth NCT) Great Hallingbury
Village Hall 09.30–11.30 (not BH)
Ages: Bumps–5 yrs
Bumps Babes & Toddlers NCT
The Dourdan Pavillion Gt Dunmow
10.00–12.00
Group Leader: Laura Gray
T: 07584 868088
Chestnut Parents & Toddlers
Cathodeon Centre, Linton; 09.30–11.30
Ages: Birth–4 yrs
Contact: Kerrie Mortlock; T: 0781 7069696
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Childminders’ Group
Fairycroft Children’s Centre, Saffron Walden
09.30–11.00 Drop-in
T: 01799 521602
Flitch Green Bumps Babes & Toddlers
Community Centre, Hallett Road.
10.00–12.00
Group Leader: Natalie Hilton
T: 07972 719885
Fun With Under Ones
Little Goslings Children’s Centre
Great Dunmow Every week 13.30–15.00
T: 01371 878494
Ickleton Froglets
Ickleton Village Hall; 09.30–11.30
Ages: 0–5 yrs
Contact: Jess Bloomfield
T: 01799 530300
Majellans
Windhill Churches Centre, BS
09.30–11.30 term time; Ages 0–4 yrs
Melody Bear
The Maltings, BS; 13.30–14.00
Stansted 15.15–15.45
Booking necessary
Ages: 2–4 yrs
T: 01279 654423
Newport Toddler Group
Village Hall, 09.30–11.30 (Not BH)
Ages: 0–5 yrs
Contact: Gill Barker
T: 01799 543339
M: 07789 837467
Mucky Pups
Thorley Comm Centre, BS; 10.00–11.00
Ages: 18 mths +
Contact: Caroline
T: 01279 505382
M: 07754 468003
Parsonage Lane Toddlers
Parsonage Lane Com Hall, BS.
09.30–11.30; Contact: A. Robertson
T: 01279 652394
Sunnyside Playgroup
St John’s Church Hall, Stansted
09.30–11.00 Ages: Birth–4 yrs
Contact: Rachel
T: 07818 213723
Teddies Toy Library
New Life Pentecostal Church
Saffron Walden. Check for dates
10.00–12.00 Ages: 0–7 yrs
Contact: Jenny Tobitt
T: 01799 521780
W: teddiestoylibrary.org
We hire out a wide range of toys and DVDs
aged up to five years. ‘Stay and Play’.
Time Together
Spangles Children’s Centre, Stansted
09.30–11.30
For families needing advice and support
T: 01279 812348
Tiny Tempos
BS Rugby Club (Stoke Room)
09.45–10.30 and 10.45–11.30 (Slots x age)
T: 01799 500503
M: 07956 211909
W: tinytempos.co.uk
Tumbledowns
All ages 09.30–11.30 £2
Tumble Tots
Foakes Fall, Great Dunmow
T: 07824 537683

Tuesday
Armadillos
Rickling School Hall 09.00–11.00
Ages 0–5 Contact: Maria Osborn
T: 01799 732202
Ashdon Baptist Church Toddler Club
Baptist Church Hall. 09.30–11.30
Ages 0–5; T: 01799 585086
W: ashdonbaptistchurch.com
Bumps, Babes & Toddlers NCT
Black Notley Community Centre, Braintree
12.45–14.45
Group Leaders: Tamsin Haylock
& Tracy Jane; T: 07837 583746
Clangers Music Group
The Chapel, Carmel Street
Great Chesterford
09.30–10.15 (term time)
Ages: 0–5 years
Contact: Annabel Fernall
T: 01799 531307
Clavering Baby and Toddler Group
Clavering Village Hall
09.30–11.30 (Term Time)
Ages: 0–5 yrs; Contact: Lucy Wyatt
T: 07775 617792
ISS
Second, Third & Fourth Tuesday
10.00–12.00 Drop In
T: 01279 812 348
Much Hadham Toddlers
Village Hall 9.30–11.30
Ages: 0–5 yrs
T: 07951 743149
Continued on P44
Summer holiday camps at
The Little Gym where the
giggles and the growing
keep on going.
Are you looking for activities for your child
during the school holidays?
School breaks should be fun, with plenty
of opportunities for youngsters to let off
steam, continue to fuel their minds and
grow their imaginations – but keeping their
momentum going and juggling home and
work responsibilities can be difficult.
That’s why camps at The Little Gym®
Bishop’s Stortford are such a delight. They
give your child the chance to stay on their
developmental toes, keep in touch with
the friends they’ve made and have heaps
of FUN!
All of our camps follow exciting themes
which add a dash of imagination to their
play. Each 3 hour session camp is £25 for
members or £30 for non-members. There
is an option to purchase a block of 6 camps
for the price of 5.
Our expert instructors fill each session with
fitness and fun. Obstacle courses challenge
them. Arts and crafts engage them. And
group activities, snack time and special
events give them time to interact and
build their social skills – all in a safe, noncompetitive, nurturing environment.
pre-school 43
Book one session, a few days, or several
sessions. You can choose half days or go
for full days where you supply a packed
lunch for your child and we supervise. You
can book your child’s camp days to fit your
schedule. But they’re very popular, so call
early to reserve your child’s spot.
Dates:
Children’s Indoor Play & Party Centre
Mon 21st July 9.30-12.30
Tues 22nd July 9.30-12.30, 13.30-16.30
Wed 23rd July 9.30-12.30, 13.30-16.30
Children aged 0 to 10 can enjoy a dedicated Baby/Toddler soft play area,
a two level Toddler adventure frame and an over 4’s three level adventure
frame including many slides, rope bridges, ball pools & tunnel.
Mon 28th July 9.30-12.30
Tues 29th July 9.30-12.30, 13.30-16.30
Wed 30th July 9.30-12.30, 13.30-16.30
Mon 4th Aug 9.30-12.30
Tues 5th Aug 9.30-12.30, 13.30-16.30
Wed 6th Aug 9.30-12.30, 13.30-16.30
Mon 11th Aug 9.30-12.30
Tues 12th Aug 9.30-12.30, 13.30-16.30
Wed 13th Aug 9.30-12.30, 13.30-16.30
Mon 18th Aug 9.30-12.30
Tues 19th Aug 9.30-12.30, 13.30-16.30
Wed 20th Aug 9.30-12.30, 13.30-16.30
Mon 25th Aug 9.30-12.30
Tues 26th Aug 9.30-12.30, 13.30-16.30
Wed 27th Aug 9.30-12.30, 13.30-16.30
Parents and children alike can enjoy a selection of hot and
cold meals, snacks and drinks from our cafe.
BOOK YOUR PARTY NOW!
Great venue, great food, we’ll make your childs special day the best ever!
Let us do all the hard work for you – we can provide and
cater for every detail!
Please call us for more details
Open 7 days a week
Monday 10.00am – 6.00pm
Tuesday-Saturday 9.30am – 6.00pm
Sunday 10.00am – 4.00pm
See www.coconutsplay.co.uk
for offers and special activities
or email [email protected]
Come & Join in the Fun
Tel: 01371 874111
Braintree Road • Great Dunmow - Ample Parking Available
44 pre-school
salad days
Toddler groups continued from P42
Refreshments, free wifi,
parties and more …
Baptist Church Centre, Twyford Road, BS
10.00–11.30 TT; Ages: 0–3 yrs
Contact: Sarah Davidson
T: 01279 836695
Steeple Bumpstead M&Ts TT
Toddler Yoga Class
Village Hall; 10.00–12.00
T: 07805 061169
W: steeplebumpsteadpreschool.co.uk
Ask our friendly staff
about discounts, special
offers and loyalty cards!
St Mary’s Tinies
Shirehill, Saffron Walden,
Essex CDII 3AQ
OPEN:
Monday-Saturday
09:30-18:00
Sunday: 10:00-16:00
01799 522843
[email protected]
A holiday club with
a BIG difference!
We run a holiday scheme EVERY school holiday and
non-pupil day when there’s always time for ‘messing about down the river!’
Be an adventurer... Be a farmer...
Explore our ancient
woodland, make a den
and hunt for bugs
St Mary’s Parish Church and Rooms, SW
14.00–15.00 (TT only)
Ages: pre-school
T: 01799 506024 (Parish Office)
Saffron Walden Playgroup
Friends’ Meeting House; 10.00
Ages: 0–4
Contact: Gemma Evans
M: 07578 198056
Tiny Tempos
ildren
For ch 14.
4–
Try something new...
Have a go at wood
Walk the goats, feed the chickens
carving, den building
and pick home grown vegetables
for a picnic tea out on the meadow and bushcraft
Buckinghams Farm Stanbrook Thaxted Essex CM6 2NJ
http://thebarnnursery.co.uk [email protected]
Tel: 01371 831296
Toddlers and Co
Little Goslings Children’s Centre, Dunmow
09.30–11.30 Drop In
T: 01371 878 494
Stay & Play
Barnabas Centre Thorley
09.45–10.30 and 10.45–11.30
(Slots x age)
T: 01799 500503
M: 07956 211909
W: tinytempos.co.uk
Thorley Manor M & Ts
Thorley Community Centre, B Stortford
09.45–11.15 (Not BH)
Contact: Angela Kenny
M: 07852 952034
Tiny Talk Baby Signing
St John’s Ch Hall Stansted 10.00–11.00
St Mary’s Room Gt Dunmow 12.45–13.45
Ages 0–18 months
Contact: Christina Page
T: 07974 210218E: [email protected]
with Emma Stevens See Page 47
10.00–11.00; Pre booking essential.
Yoga, parachute games, flying balls!
Songs and stories
Treasure Chest
The Charis Centre,BS
10.00–11.30 TT; Ages: 0+
Contact: Claire PearceT: 01279 461231

Wednesday
Baby Clinic
Stansted Mountfitchet; 13.30–15.15
Baby weighing and advice
T: 01279 812348
Bosom Buddies
10.30–12.00. Drop-in
SW Children’s Centre Fairycroft
Bumps Babes & Toddlers NCT
Canx till new venue found
Group Leaders: Tara Gardiner Fretwell
& Leanne Evans: T: 07758 270728
Elsenham Babes
Memorial Hall
09.30–11.45
Ages: 0–school
Head: Trudi Marsh
T: 01279 899864
pre-school 45
First Friends Baby Group
Opportunity Playgroup
Hafield Broad Oak Village Hall
10.00–11.30
Ages: 0–12 months
Contact: Spangles Children’s Centre
T: 01279 812 348
URC Saffron Walden - Special Needs
10.00; Ages: 0–5 yrs
Contact: Sally James
T: 07748 918289
W: swoplaygroup.org.uk
First Time Around
Parent & Toddler Group
10.00–11.00
5 week programme
T: 01279 812348
Great Sampford Baptist Church
10.00–12.00; also craft and
coffee sessions
Thursday afternoons 13.00–15.00
Contact: Rev Sue Johnston;
T: 01799 586164
Jo Jingles
Fairycroft Children’s Centre,
Saffron Walden
10.00 – 10.45
Drop In £4.00 per family
T: 01799 521 602
Jo Jingles
14.00–14.45
Drop In £4.00 per family
T: 01371 878494
NCT Outdoor Playgroup
Holidays included! Sewards End Hall
10.00–12.00
Ages: 0–5 yrs
Contact: Lindsey Collecott
T: 01799 513507
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Pregnancy Yoga See page 47
Saffron Walden County High
19.00–20.00; from 13 weeks of birth.
Contact: Emma Stevens
T: 07970 807389
Sampford Babies & Toddlers
Baptist Church Hall, 10.00–12.00; Ages: 0–5
Contact: Sandra Mikkides
T: 01799 586203
Stay & Play at Goldenacre Community
Centre, Saffron Walden; 9.30–11.30
Drop In T: 01799 521602
Stay and Play
13.30–15.00 Drop In; T: 01799 521 602
Toddlers and Co
Havers Comm. Ctr, Waytemore Rd, BS. 09.30–
11.30 TT; Ages: 0–3 yrs
Contact: Sarah Davidson
T: 01279 836695
Saffron Walden, Location varies. 10.00
(weather permitting)
Contact Helen Jackson
M: 07988 236140
SW Salvation Army Hall, 13.45–14.45 TT
Contact: Kathryne Gill; T: 01799 522990
NCT Bumps and Babies
Tumble Downs - See top left
New Life Church, Shire Hill, S Walden
2nd & 4th Wed; 10.00–11.30
Contact Sophie Lawman
Flexible nanny
service for
all occasions
We specialise in providing experienced nannies for as little as three
hours at a time. All our nannies are fully trained and can be booked in
advance or at short notice.
For more information or to book one of our nannies, please call us on
01799 578234 or email us at [email protected]
Toddler Song
Toddler singing mornings 09.30 for 11.00;
T: 01799 522843
www.nannyforaday.co.uk
Continued on P46
46 pre-school
NUTKIN NANNIES ESSEX
Professionals With The Personal Touch
Nanny Agency run by Norland Nannies
Completely flexible to meet your needs
t: 01376 529795 m: 07938 142876
[email protected]
www.nutkinnannies.co.uk
salad days
Continued from P45
Tumble Tots
St. Mary’s Church Hall, Bocking, Braintree
Ages: 8 months–5 years
T: 07824 537683

Thursday
Abbey Lane Playgroup
MamaBliss
MamaBliss is a Pregnancy Massage
service provided by Nicola. Having
experienced two pregnancies herself,
Nicola appreciates what a physically
and emotionally challenging time this
can be and wanted to utilise her skills to
help support other women through this
process.
She is a qualified Pregnancy Massage
Practitioner and can help you to achieve
a sense of bliss through this wonderful
therapy.
The health benefits are
amazing and include soothing tension
and tightness in muscles, improvement
of swelling in ankles and legs, increased
blood circulation and oxygen to Mother
and baby, as well as relaxing Mother
and baby which increases personal wellbeing and helps to stabilise hormone
levels, which in turn helps you to sleep
better at night.
Nicola is mobile and can visit you at
your home. Treatments cost £30 for
a 1 hour massage and £20 for 30
minutes. She can be contacted on
07990 556 559.
fun playgroup for all pre-schoolers
10.00–11.30, URC Hall, Saffron Walden
Contact Helen Jackson
T: 07988 236140
E: [email protected]) or turn up
Blues Preschool Stay & Play
BS High School; 13.00–14.30
Contact: Kim Craythorne
T: 01279 755422
W: bluespreschool.co.uk
Bumps, Babies & Toddlers NCT
Rayne Village Hall, CM77 6TX
Group leaders: Lisa-Jane Taylor &
Heidi Kear
T: 07974 317422
Chestertots
Congregational Chapel, Gt Chesterford
09.15–11.15; Ages: Bumps–preschool
Contact Emily T: 01799 532044 or
Tiffany T 07946 354883
(Health Visitor 3rd Thurs)
Childminders’ Group
09.30–11.30 Drop In; T: 01371 878 494
Debden Church Mice
Once a month
Hilary Davey; T: 01799 522616
Debden Toddler Group
Debden Village Hall; 09.00–11.00
Contact: Sarah or Clare
07734 105178/07879 993194
(FBk: Debden Toddler Group)
Farnham M&T Group
Farnham CE Primary School 09.30–11.15
Contact: Emma Smith c/o Farnham School
T: 01279 771339
W: www.farnham.essex.sch.uk
FoLP Toddler Group
Littlebury Village Hall Most Thursday
Ages: Toddlers (no limits); 14.00–16.30
Contact: Hana Begley
T: 07849 410589
Henham Little Fishes
Henham Church Hall; 10.15–11.30
Ages: Pre-school
Contact: Vanessa Gibbons
T: 01279 851187
Hokey Cokey Baby & Toddler Group
Little Acorns Parent, Baby
& Toddler Group
The Bayford Hall at Howe Green House
School - See page 5
08.45–10.30; Ages: 0–3yrs; £2.00
Contact: Julie Sellears T: 01279 657706
Little Buddies Toddler Group
Thorn Grove Primary School
13.30–15.00; Ages: 18 mths–4 yrs
Contact: Lisa Camp
T: 01279 653002
Little Fishes Henham
Church Hall, Henham 10.15 (TT only)
Bible stories, singing, play & refreshments
Little Friends
Hatfield Heath Village Hall
9.45–11.30 (TT only); T: 01279 812348
MuckyPups
Thorley Comm Centre, BS
10.00–11.00; Ages: 18 mths +
Contact: Caroline
T: 01279 505382; M: 07754 468003
Farnham School Hall; 09.15–11.15
£2.50 per family
Contact: Spangles Children’s Centre
T: 01279 812 348
Stay & Play
Jo Jingles Pre-School Music
Stay & Play at Carver Barracks
Sewards End Village Hall; 09.30–13.30 TT
Contact: Carole Newall T: 01440 730039
W: jojingles.com/westsuffolk
09.30–11.30 Drop In. For military Ages 0–5
Contact: Fairycroft Children’s Centre
T: 01799 521602
Jo Jingles
Markwell Pavilion BS 10.00–11.00
Ages 0–18 months; Contact: Christina Page
T: 07974 210218
14.00–14.45 Drop In £4.00 per family
T: 01279 812348
Spangles Children’s Centre Stansted
Mountfitchet; 10.00–11.30; Ages: Birth –5 yrs
T: 01279 812348
TinyTalk baby signing/music
pre-school 47
Tiny Tempos & Musical Theatre
SW Town Hall; Ages: 5mths–6years
09.45–16.45 (3/4 hour slots age related)
Contact: Becky Oliver
T: 01799 500503 M: 07956 211909
W: tinytempos.co.uk
Toddlers and Co
Baptist Church Centre, Twyford Road,
BS 10.00–11.30 TT; Ages: 0–3 yrs
Contact: Sarah Davidson; T: 01279 836695
Tumble Downs (see P44)
Story and Craft (fortnightly)
09.30 for 10.45; T: 01799 522843
Tumble Tots
Parsonage Lane Bishop’s Stortford
T: 07824 537683

Friday
Baby Sensory Classes
Golden Acre Community Centre
10.00 (7-13 mths) & 11.15 (0-7 mths)
W: babysensory.com
Booking essential
Bishop’s Park B & T’s
Bishop’s Park Com Centre, BS
09.45–11.15 Ages: 0–3 yrs
Contact: Sue Davies T: 01279 843441
Boogie Woogies (Music & Movement)
Fun with Under Ones
Fairycroft Children’s Centre Saffron Walden
10.30–12.00 Drop In; T: 01799 521602
Fun with Under Ones
Stansted Mountfitchet; 10.00–11.30
Playgroup for 0–6 months; T: 01279 812348
Joyful Noise See page 34
St Mary’s Parish Rooms Saffron Walden.
15.45–16.30; Ages: 6–8
Contact Kate Beare
T: 01799 523591 (Free - donations welcome)
Kindermusik with Juliet
Byrds Farm Lane, Saffron Walden
14.15 Term Time; Ages 1–4 yrs
T: 01799 500855; M: 07990 690546
Little Fishes Elsenham
Memorial Hall Elsenham 10.00 TT only. Bible
stories, singing, play and refreshments
Newport Toddler Group
Newport Village Hall 09.30–11.30 (not BH)
Ages: 0–5 yrs
Contact: Jessica Bowen; T: 01799 540198
Parent4Parent (1st Fri of month TT)
Gt Dunmow Yth Centre; Support for
parents/carers of 0–25 children and young
people who have difficulty coping with the
social world 10.00–12.00; T: 01279 781612
W: parent4parentmoonfruit.co.uk
Toddler–4 Walk in music and movement
group at the URC Hall, Saffron Walden
10.00–10.45
Parsonage Lane Toddlers
Elsenham Little Fishes
NCT Open House (venue varies)
Elsenham Memorial Hall 10.00–11.00
Ages: Pre-school
Contact: Jackie Stevens; T: 01279 813508
Parsonage Lane Community Hall, BS
09.30–11.30
For all parents/carers of pre-school children
10.00–12.00
Owlets Baby & Toddler Group
(Berden & Manuden), Berden Village Hall
09.15–11.15 (Term Time); Ages 0-4 yrs
Contact: Clare Wheeler
Stay and Play
Priors Green Community Centre;
13.30–15.00 Drop In
Contact: Little Goslings Children’s Centre
T: 01371 878 494
Tiny Tempos
SW Town Hall Committee Room
09.45–11.30 (slots x age)
T: 01799 500503 M: 07956 211909
W: tinytempos.co.uk
Town Toddlers; Methodist Church, BS
09.45–11.30; Ages: 0–pre-school
Contact: Fiona; T: 07866 691687
Toy Library
First Friday of every month
9.30–11.30 Drop In T: 01371 878 494
Thorley Manor M & T Group
Thorley Community Centre 09.45–11.15
Contact: Angela Kenny; M: 07852 952034
Thornbera Tots
The Richard Whittington School; 09.15–11.00
Contact School Office T: 01279 657778
Twins & More
2nd May & 6th June; 13.30–15.00 Drop In
T: 01799 521 602

Saturday
Tiny Tempos Ballet, tap, & musical theatre
SW Golden Acre Comm Centre
09.30–13.00 (slots x age 3–10 yrs)
T: 01799 500503 M: 07956 211909
W: tinytempos.co.uk
48 health
Antenatal &
Postnatal
Health Visitors are:
Registered Nurses with specialist
training. They may also have
training in:
• Midwifery
• Obstetrics
• Children’s Nursing
 Parents
salad days
 Uttlesford
 Bishop’s Stortford
Mallard Wing, SW Community
Hospital, Radwinter Road
Saffron Walden, CB11 3HY
T: 01799 562928
Child Health Department
Herts & Essex Hospital,
Cavell Drive, off Haymeads Lane,
Bishop’s Stortford. CM23 5JH
T: 01279 827311
 Clinics
Tuesday
•
•
•
 Clinics
Monday
Carver Barracks 2nd & 4th. •
Tuesdays 12.30–14.00
Clavering Village Hall •
please ring for details
Steeple Bumpstead Toddlers
2nd Tuesday 10.30–11.30 TT
Much Hadham Pavillion
(in the recreational Ground)
Tower Hill. 13.00–14.30
Windhill and Little Squirrels
Children’s Centre (Ring for
details) 10.00–11.30.
First parenting Group
(not a clinic).
Ante-natal/Relaxation; Post-natal
Wednesday
Groups; Support for: The stresses
•
Golden Acre – SW. 1st & 3rd
of early parenthood; Post-Natal
Tuesday
Wed 13.00–14.30; everyone
•
Child Health Dept. Herts &
depression; Single Parents;
welcome a good place to
Essex Hospital 10.30–12.00.
Parents of Special Needs Children;
meet others with similar
Breastfeeding drop-in
contact with helping agencies/
aged children in a friendly,
12.30–14.00
other services.
caring environment
Wednesday
•
Charis Centre, Water Lane,
 Toddlers & Under 1’s • Stansted Mountfitchet
Spangles 13.30–15.30
09.30–11.00; Breastfeeding
Toddler taming; Sleep problems;
drop-in 10.45–11.15
Thursday
•
Thorley Community Centre
Temper tantrums; Toilet training;
•
Saffron Walden Hospital
Baby Clinic 13.30–15.00
Eating difficulties; Parenting Group
09.30–11.45
•
Introducing Solids - Little
Child development screening at
•
Thaxted – GP’s Surgery 2nd
Squirrels 13.00–14.30 monthly
& 4th Thursdays 13.00–14.30
8 & 24 months.
(ring CC to book place)
•
Great Dunmow Clinic
Thursday
 Babies
09.30–11.30
•
Duckling Green CC, 2b The
•
Chestertots Great
Home visit following birth;
Square, Sawbridgeworth,
Chesterford, 3rd Th.
Breastfeeding drop-in
Feeding and weaning advice;
09.15–11.15 Drop in. (TT)
13.00–14.00
Immunisation advice; Well-baby
Friday
Friday
clinics; Help, advice and support
•
Newport Village Hall •
Duckling Green CC Clinic
with crying babies, baby blues,
please ring for details.
09.00–11.00
accident prevention; Baby
Some clinics may not be running in the summer holidays.
massage groups.
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A Perfect Nanny................... 36
Academies (The).................. 27
Audley End Miniature
Railway............................... 29
Barn Kids.............................. 44
Beauty Bump & Baby............11
Bishop’s Stortford College..... 3
Carver Barracks................... 24
Chiropractic Clinic.................. 9
Clair Moir...............................15
Clavering Fete...................... 27
Coconuts Play...................... 43
Crazy Ceramics.................... 17
Dame Bradbury’s Nursery
..................................... 39
Dame Bradbury’s School.........
...........Inside Front Cover
Elizabeth de Vile
Piano & Music.................... 35
Epping Forest
Gymnastics Club................ 20
Farnham C of E
Primary School..................... 2
Forever Living Products........13
Friends’ School
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Happy Feet Dance............... 34
Howe Green House
School................................... 5
Jan Menell............................ 47
Kids Act................................. 32
Linton Tennis Academy....... 22
Little Gym.. Outside Back Cover
Lord Butler Swim School.......21
Nanny For A Day.................. 45
Newport Youth Club &
Box Fit.................................... 8
Nutkin Nannies.................... 46
Pip’s Nursery........................ 36
Pregnancy Yogacise
Classes................................. 47
Public Arena –
Drama Works..................... 35
Pure Baby............................. 30
Pure Rhythm......................... 33
Rocking Horse Country
Toy Shop.............................. 17
Ruggerbugs......................... 19
Saffron Apparel & Allkits......18
Saffron Screen...................... 25
Saffron Walden Amateur
Swim Club.......................... 20
Saffron Walden Carnival..... 26
Saffron Walden Orchestra.. 35
Saint Nicholas Nursery........ 37
SAS Swimming......................18
SignuptoSing........................ 35
Spotted Giraffe......................41
Stagecoach Theatre
Arts School..........................31
Stansted 10K Fun Run.......... 28
TLC Education Group..............7
Toy Box (The).......................... 17
Tumble Downs..................... 44
Tutor Doctor............................ 6
Wendens Ambo Preschool
..................................... 36
events 49
Meet Charlotte.
She wants to be an artist.
We’re going to help her get there.
Friends’ School SaffronWalden
“Calm, caring place for individuals who benefit from
bespoke push, stretch and support”
The Good Schools Guide 2014
www.friends.org.uk [email protected] 01799 525351
SERIOUS FUN in Bishop’s Stortford
Building self-confidence for a lifetime of success
The Little Gym Bishop’s Stortford offers a wide variety of gymnastics - based
classes that help children aged 4 months to 12 years reach their greatest
potential. Structured lessons, weekly themes and a nurturing, OFSTED-registered
environment build confidence during each stage of your child’s development.
www.thelittlegym.co.uk
That’s what we call SERIOUS FUN!
Parent/child
classes
Preschool/kindergarten
gymnastics
Primary school
gymnastics
Holiday camps
Birthday parties

Summer Holidays 2014

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