Local resident Lynn Booth is looking to start a new Ocarina group for Key Stage 1 children in and around the Bradley Stoke area in the New Year. This is a very easy-to-play, child friendly, wind instrument that plays a scale of D major. Lynn is looking for enthusiastic and willing children to learn this instrument, learning several songs, basic music and eventually perform in front of a small audience.
Lynn is looking to give lessons in the instrument at her house in Bradley Stoke on Tuesday and Thursdays from 4-5pm in term time only. She currently works in a local primary school already teaching music and this instrument.
Lynn has set up a website http://www.bs-oc-group.webs.com and can be contacted at minehead151@hotmail.co.uk or mobile no. 07929 013 484
Lynn is keen to get this group up and running so please give her a call if you have a child who may be interested!
The Bristol Construction Academy at Filton College is opening its doors to the construction trades with its first Construction Apprenticeship Open Event. On Thursday 3rd November from 7.30am-10am the Academy, based at Filton College’s Main campus, is holding this exciting new event which aims to bring together apprentices and employers.
On Friday (28th October) the Stoke Gifford Branch of The Royal British Legion (TRBL) launched their Poppy Appeal locally at Bristol Parkway Station.
In a bid to raise funds for next month’s Children In Need Appeal, ambitious teens from Little Stoke took part in their first ever sponsored ‘Stay Awake’ last night.
Congratulations to local entrepreneur, Dee Woodward from JDS Design, who was named ‘Entrepreneur of the Month, October 2011′ for ‘making stuff happen’.
Local schools are inviting members of the community to go along along and enjoy some festive spirit at their annual Christmas social events.
Following on from the successes of their younger club-mates at the British Judo Championships in Nottingham when Bradley Stoke Judo Club topped the medal table, last weekend it was the turn of the 12-19 year olds. Thirteen youngsters from BSJC attended the competition in Sheffield held over the weekend of the 15th and 16th of October and a further 4 British medals were achieved..Pete Miles won gold, Toby Attwood and Steph. Walker silvers and Hannah Pitt bronze. A handful of other young fighters narrowly missed out on medals to come in fifth place. Head Coach Pete Douglas said he was delighted with the performance and was especially proud of how all the youngsters conducted themselves both on and off the mat.
The Friends of Jubilee Green are appealing for local people’s help, following the announcement that Bradley Stoke Town Council has registered Jubilee Green in a new ‘Fields in Trust’ initiative that could see the green protected for the community to enjoy forever more.
Can you help local learning disability charity Brandon Trust, with their big bag packing event at Tesco’s in Bradley Stoke on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th November?
Everyone had great fun on the Stokes Cycling Club’s first mountain bike ride last month and, after requests for more, they are running another on Saturday 22nd October at 1400 from the Bradley Stoke Leisure centre.
Whilst touring Europe, Flossie Flinch and her daughter Sally stop off for the annual Beer Festival in the sleepy village of Nockembach. Nearby in the notorious Castle Frankenstein, the barmy Baron is busy in his body shop, cobbling together his latest creature creation. You’ll rock with laughter when the muddled monster he makes absconds and ambles around the Alps. Very soon, the hills are alive with the sound of alarm bells, which creates a bit of a ding-dong. The classic tale of terror it ain’t… but it’s certainly a silly, side-splitting send-up that will have you in stitches.
With over 1,000 signatures already backing the local petition for a range of additional safety measures on Bradley Stoke Way in Bradley Stoke, volunteers were out in force at the Willow Brook Centre this morning to gain even more support.
The British Judo Association’s National Championships for under-12’s was held in Nottingham on October 9th, and became the setting for the latest triumph for Bradley Stoke Judo Club. Around 150 young players – all aspiring champions – came from across Britain to fight for the title of “British Champion 2011”.
Staff from the social enterprise trust that runs South Gloucestershire’s leisure centres are undertaking an all-day “spin-a-thon” to raise money for the British Heart Foundation in honour of a colleague who suddenly passed away in August.