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Abbeywood Community School Support Children In Need

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Students and Staff from Abbeywood Community School took part in a wide range of activities during Children In Need Day to raise money for the popular charity.

A huge Pudsey Bear was covered with coins and students worked really hard to fill him up.  A cake sale with delicious treats took place in the atrium during break and lunch time, 6th formers volunteered to do face painting in the atrium while the P.E department helped to organised a basketball game staff versus students.  A great day was had by all, and a fantastic combined effort resulted in over £460 being raised for the charity. Well done to everyone from us here at Bradley Stoke & Little Stoke Gifford Matters!

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Community Welcomed to School Christmas Fundraisers

Monday, October 24th, 2011

Local schools are inviting members of the community to go along along and enjoy some festive spirit at their annual Christmas social events.

The Friends of Abbeywood Community School have announced their ‘Christmas Shopping and Pamper Night’ on Friday 25th November and Baileys Court PTA have given us the date of their Christmas Fair – Saturday 26th November – which this year will be held in the main hall at Bradley Stoke Community School. Information about stalls at the Saturday event is available by emailing friendsofbaileyscourtschool@gmail.com

Friends Groups and PTA’s raise valuable funds throughout the year, with their Christmas fundraisers often providing a significant proportion of their total fundraising. So please do make a note on your calendar and go along to support these great social events! Further details of each event can be found on our what’s on section.

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Arena Arts Festival Success

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Congratulations to the volunteers from the Arena Arts Festival group, who organised a fabulous free Arts Festival at Abbeywood Community School on Saturday 30th April.

Supported by Matters Magazines and with financial assistance from South Gloucestershire Council, Bradley Stoke Town Council and Stoke Gifford Parish Council, the event proved popular with children and adults alike. Many of the workshops proved extremely popular and were fully booked. Visitors enjoyed dance and drama sessions, performances and workshops in orchestra and colourguard as well as street dance and guitar. A Rock ‘n’ Roll workshop gave participants an understanding of the history of Rock and and puppet workshop showed even the youngest children how realistic puppets can be made from scrap materials. The whole event, which ran from 10am to 4pm, provided a great opportunity for adults and children to sample something new, and to gain a greater appreciation of different forms of the Performing Arts.

We look forward to seeing this event repeated next year and we will once again be happy to give our support!

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Free Arts Festival

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Matters Magazines is delighted to be supporting a first-of-its-kind free Arts Festival taking place at the end of April.

The event has been organised by local Arts Development Group, Arena – which was set up to promote the arts in Stoke Gifford, Bradley Stoke, Patchway and Filton. Thanks to funding from South Gloucestershire Council, Bradley SToke Town Council, Stoke Gifford Parish Council, Rolls Royce and John Lewis, there will be some fantastic workshops provided free of charge to all participants.

The workshops are diverse, with a classical concert orchestra sharing the same platform as a rock ‘n’ roll group, pre-school drama and puppet workshops. The aim of the day is to give people a broader understanding of the performing arts, and to be encouraged to take up an instrument or to join a dance group. All the workshops are being provided by local people who are professionally qualified musicians, dancers and teachers.

Advance booking is strongly advised. See here for full details.

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Good & Bad News on Local Job Front: Jack Lopresti MP Fighting Our Corner

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

Local MP, Jack Lopresti has met with the Secretary of State for Defence to discuss the effects on constituents following the Strategic Defence and Security Review announced by the Prime Minister on Tuesday.

Jack secured a private meeting with the Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox to discuss how the review would directly affect his constituents. Tuesday’s announcement did have good news for the residents of Filton and Bradley Stoke; the Prime Minister confirmed that the A400M programme, built by Airbus in Filton, would go ahead seeing 22 of the transport aircraft ordered and the news that 14 specially converted Airbus A330 strategic transport and tanker aircraft will replace the ageing TriStar fleets.

However the Government did announce cuts to civilian workers within the Ministry of Defence, and it is expected that a portion of these could come from the MoD procurement centre at Abbey Wood. On Tuesday Jack expressed his “deep concern” about the impact of the reduction of MoD staff and how it would affect the procurement centre, promising to meet with Dr Fox to gain clarification on any impact.

Following the meeting on Wednesday morning at the MOD Headquarters in Whitehall, the Secretary of State wrote to the MP in response to the concerns that were raised. The Secretary of State said that “the MOD is committed to make staff reductions by any means possible before recourse to compulsory redundancy.”

Referring to the representations that Mr Lopresti made during the SDSR process Dr Fox said: “I appreciate the energy with which you have represented the interests of your constituents”

Jack said: “I am very grateful that the Secretary of State took the time to meet with me to discuss this important issue. Whilst I am delighted that the A400M programme is going ahead securing hundreds of jobs, I have expressed my concern over the reductions to MOD staff and how this could affect Abbey Wood. I am hopeful that the review process will be able to make the required savings through natural wastage and a recruitment freeze. We will know more detail in due course and I will be representing Abbey Wood throughout the process.”

The MP and the Secretary of State are in the process of arranging a site visit to the MOD centre at Abbey Wood to discuss the concerns directly with staff.

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