Longridge News

Winning Entries

Design a Party Invite

William Nugent Year 4

Sam Nugent Year 6

Two very talented brothers, Williams entries show huge potential for him in the future as a graphic artist, with amazing attention to balance and colour. Sam's designs are more functional but no less beautiful and demonstrated that he had thought through what was needed on an invitation - so perhaps a future Saatchi and Saatchi type collaboration here? We will be loading the invitations onto our website for everybody to use later this week.

Design our Flag

Festina Tusha, Abbie Wiliams & Beth Wilson

Wye Valley School - Form 8CA

Wye Valley School - Form 8SE

It proved impossible to choose between these two colourful interrpretations of the flag brief. Therefore we are giving both ideas to our designer to create a hybrid design that will flutter on our new carpark flagpole - when the flagpole is erected Spring next year.

Well done and thank you to everybody that entered.

Activity Days in September

We want to make the best of the weather and fill the last few available days, so are offering £8.50 per pupil Activity Days during September on the following days. You wont get quite as much choice as normal on these days but we can still guarantee you a day full of outdoor, adventurous fun activities.

If you would like to look at another day, let us know and we will do our very best to accommodate what you are looking for.

September £8.50 day of 3 activities

Tuesday 7th September

Wednesday 8th September

Thursday 9th September

September £10.00 a day of 3 activities

Monday 20th September

Tuesday 21st September

Remember, during October all School Activity Days start at £10.00 per pupil and even if you pick our most labour intensive activities will never cost more than £20.00 per pupil.

Lastly, if you haven't already - consider entering a team of pupils into our

Dragon Boat Championships on September 25th - email if you would like a booking form.

The Quotes

At the Family Festival we where asked if you could buy The Quotes music, the band advise me that you can find their music on iTunes or through myspace www.myspace.com/thequotes

Bucks Sport Awards - now open for nominations

Bucks Sport Awards 2010

NOMINATE NOW! Bucks Sport Awards celebrate and honour the amazing work carried out every day by volunteers and coaches across the county.

We welcome nominations in the following 9 categories

Coach of the Year
Young Leader of the Year
Volunteer of the Year
Club of the Year
Sports Project of the Year

School of the Year
Workplace of the Year

NEW! Community Challenge
Unsung Hero

The search for sport's Unsung Heroes is taking place not only in Bucks but across the United Kingdom. Winners of the Bucks Sport Coach, Volunteer and Unsung Hero Awards will be nominated for the BBC South Awards.

Nomination Process
Nominations can be made via the online nomination form on the Bucks Sport website. Please note that self nominations will not be considered for individual awards. Attached to assist you are the criteria for each award.

The closing date for submitting nominations is Monday 11th October 2010 .

All the information can be found on our website. www.buckssport.org

Family Festival - Steve Backshall

Steve is best known for being a keen member of Longridge Canoe Club. However when paddling allows, Steve Backshall is also the naturalist who reaches parts of the world others just can’t reach. He’s travelled to over 100 countries around the world making first ascents of remote jungle mountains or descending into hidden sinkholes in search of new species, climbing the world’s highest peaks or completing some of the world’s most demanding endurance races. Steve has continued to push back the boundaries of exploration whilst capturing it all on camera or in words.

His BBC natural history series ‘Deadly 60’ is being shown around the world, and is about to enter its third series. Whilst making the series, he has danced with thresher, tiger, bull and white sharks, come into contact with rattlesnakes, king cobras, mambas and giant pythons, and discovered such oddities as ghost bats, mantis shrimps, alligator snapping turtles and Humboldt Squid. In 2009, the series was nominated for two BAFTAS; best children’s presenter and best children’s factual series.

We are delighted that Steve will opening this event and our amazing Training Centre and hope you will join us on Monday to make the day even more wonderful.

2011 Brochure

In the meantime there is a pdf you can download a pdf by following this link.

Training Centre is completed

The ground floor of our new Training Centre is now finished and from Monday will be available for everybody to use; so no more having to make do with tiny showers, dirty changing rooms and constantly breaking toilets. Our new facilities have plenty of room, are sparkly clean and all round are very beautiful indeed - we couldn't be prouder of this new very valuable resource.

Fundraising continues for the money necesary to complete the top floor and provide us with some rather stunning training rooms, as well as things like lockers and benches for the ground floor. With my fingers tightly crossed I am hopeful we might achieve this by next summer.

Once the Training Centre is complete we will turn our attentions to the other areas that need updating, the carpark being the most urgent and updating our infrastructure. It will be a chilly winter for the staff as in order to power the new block we lose heating in the other buildings - the cost to increase our gas supply is outrageous! We would also like to build a youth centre, with club rooms for our growing youth club, rowing and kayaking clubs and a boardwalk so that our rowers and marathon kayakers have a more pleasant journey from the boat racks to the pontoons. The final piece of the jigsaw will be to update all the paths and build a floating accommodation block - but doubt this will all be done by next summer! We will aim to complete the Training Centre though.

Rare sighting - Crocadillo on our island

Follow this link to find out more about this rare species.

Opening New Training Centre

Let's hope we can raise the £60k we need to complete the building by then!

To complete the building we need:

£10,000 for the floor

£20,000 for internal walls

£20,000 for heating

£10,000 for furniture

Any ideas? If so email amanda.foister@longridge-uk.org

Adult Rowing Club

Because of the holidays, it will be a little disjoined until September but follows the next course dates:

12th August 14.00 - 15.30

1st September 10.30 - 11.45

3rd September 10.30 - 11.45

6th September 19.00 - 20.15

From then on Adult Club Sessions will run on:

Mondays 19.00 - 20.15

Wednesdays 10.30 - 11.45

Thursdays 10.30 - 11.45

Fridays 10.30 - 11.45

You are welcome to book on any/all of these sessions.