A Bournemouth school is celebrating after being judged the best performing school in Dorset for giving its students the most value from their education. The recently published secondary school league tables show Oakmead Technology College had the highest ‘value added’ score across Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset. This score is given to reflect how schools are…
Members of the School Council at Trinity CE (VA) First School in Verwood made a visit to their local town council offices. The Mayor, Cllr Simon Gibson and the Town Clerk, Mrs V Bright answered any questions from the children regarding how the council functions. The children gave information on their fund raising activities and…
The new state-of-the-art 3G all-weather sports pitch, providing a football and rugby small-sided match and training facility, has been opened at Potterne Park in Verwood.
The facility was opened in dramatic style by Bournemouth FC player Matt Tubbs who kicked a ball at a specially-adapted goal releasing black and white balloons into the air.
Lawrences recent auction of pictures went ahead despite a heavy fall of snow in Crewkerne on the morning of the sale. “We were inundated with commission bids, telephone bids and online bids,” said the firm’s managing director, Helen Carless. “In the event, the sale was as well-received as ever and the results were even better than we might have hoped.”
Following on from 2012’s successful movie night, ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’, Christchurch Round Table are hosting another movie night, with the film Grease showing at the Regent Centre, Christchurch on Tuesday, 12 February at 7.30pm. Welcome drinks on arrival, fancy dress optional. All proceeds going to Children’s Wish.
Dedicated volunteers are embarking on an ambitious £150,000 refurbishment of Swanage station’s 1930s canopy – 40 years after it came close to being demolished and replaced by a supermarket, hotel, public house and car park.
When the ambitious 12-week scheme is complete, it is expected the 254-feet long metal and wood platform canopy covering 5,000 square feet – and made up of 350 separate panes of glass – will not require further attention for another 50 years.
The malls of Bournemouth’s Castlepoint Shopping Park reverberated with the stirring sound of bag pipes to celebrate Burns Night. As piper Jeremy Martin played favourite strathspeys, reels and jigs in honour of the Scottish bard, a cooking demonstration was provided by Brockenhurst College’s New Forest Cookery School, showing how to cook and serve haggis, either…
Bournemouth is investing in improving the lives of looked after children by expanding its adoption and fostering services. The council is growing its children’s social care services with the addition of a number of new social work posts for fostering, adoption, and child care social work. One of the key aims of the expanding service will be to recruit more adoptive parents and more foster carers from Bournemouth and the surrounding local areas to care for looked after children.
In February, local disability charity Diverse Abilities Plus, is hosting two events entitled ‘Gift for Life’ to benefit parents and carers of children with disabilities of any age. The sessions are in conjunction with legal firm Rawlins Davy, and will provide advice and information on writing a Will and lasting powers of attorney, helping families ensure that their loved ones are provided for in the future.
The Pancake Race around the Minster will be on Shrove Tuesday, 12 February at 11am. In its 16th year since its revival in 1998, it starts at 11am outside the main entrance to the minster. Competitors should report to the north porch by 10.30am to enrol, complete with frying pan and ready cooked pancake. There…