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JUNE

2012

VOLUME FIFTEEN

Diamond Jubilee Celebrations Friday, 1st June to Monday, 4th June, 2012

Friday 1st June 7-9.30 p.m. - Preview of a special floral display in St. Nicholas, commemo-

rating the Queen’s sixty years on the throne. Refreshments will be served.

Saturday, 2nd June from 2 p.m. - Garden walks followed by Afternoon Tea and the church

displays will again be on view

Sunday, 3rd June at 10 a.m. - Special Civic Service of Celebration at St. Nicholas Church for

HM the Queen’s life and long reign.

Monday, 4th June from 12 noon – Family Fun Day with BBQ and Cream Teas

For more details see page 5

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Nigel Featherston writes:

June is rather a special month because it marks not just the half way point in the year (where

has the time gone you may well ask), but it is also the month when the longer, lighter days co-

incide with the coming warm of summer that we have all been waiting patiently for.

This year the month is particularly special as it is the month when we all celebrate the Queen’s remarkable achieve-

ment of 60 years on the throne. Her reign has been marked by her devotion to serve the people of this country and in-

deed the whole Commonwealth with a selfless passion and vision.

The Queen has demonstrated through her clear expression of the depth of her own Christian faith how leadership can

be blessed by God with wisdom, discernment and a true love for others. This is a real inspiration for us all at a time in

our history when so many other aspects of our common life together have changed dramatically, yet the Queen and

her publically declared faith have remained constant.

I hope the weather is kind to us for all the celebrations locally and nationally and at St Nicholas, we hope that you

will all come along to the events in church over the Jubilee weekend which were highlighted in last month’s Village

Voice. We also welcome you to come and celebrate our vibrant community with our current theme in church of Com-

munities Transformed by Christ. The essence of which is having a caring attitude towards each other wherein each

other’s gifts and talents are acknowledged and celebrated and on that note I would like to share the following quote

from Tinie Tempah, who is an award winning British Rapper;

“I definitely believe in God. I pray as much as possible. I think it’s imperative to have faith or religion, because it’s

good to have morals, to be kind to others.”

(Taken from The Observer 15 February 2011).

Thought for the Month

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Don’t forget the CPFA Annual General Meeting will be held at

7.30pm on 12th June in the Clubhouse. Do come along.

Viv Birkby, Hon Secretary

It wasn’t the lovely weather required for a May morn-

ing but at least it was not raining and the large crowd

assembled in the

churchyard and in

the road beyond

were able to enjoy

the lovely singing

coming from the

tower above them.

When the singers

moved into the

church the specta-

tors who crowded in after them found that the chairs

were arranged round the singers which made it easy

for the spectators to feel totally involved, especially

when they accepted the conductor’s invitation to join in

with the singing of some well-known songs. This year

the presence of a vivacious choir from Berlin, the Gol-

gotha Kantorer, provided extra pleasure.

After the performance hot drinks and delicious pastries

were served by the Church’s ever helpful Catering

Committee and audience and singers alike enjoyed the

chatting (see photograph) which concluded a very hap-

py May Day celebration.

June 23 The Ruby Small Sunrise Walk to see the sun rise over the

Vale from the Upper Winchendon Observatory will take place on

Saturday 23rd June. It will start at 4am from the Lower Green.

Refreshments and offers of lifts either up or down if you don’t

fancy the whole circuit . Any queries to Angela Wenham

291932

Following the sad and sudden death of John Slack, a Service of

Celebration took place at the Chilterns Crematorium on Tues-

day 22nd May. Village Voice hope to be able to carry a tribute

to him, “CJ”, in next month’s edition.

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A “lordly manor” set in a “smiling, romantic park”. This de-

scribes the transformation of farms and cottages swept aside

by the creation of Waddesdon Manor and its estate in the

1870’s. These words are taken from the obituary of Ferdi-

nand, Baron de Rothschild when he died in 1898. History has

now repeated itself - Windmill Hill Farm has been trans-

formed into the Rothschild Archive Centre, an innovative building on the foot-

print of the old barns.

Gardening Club members enjoyed presentations and the opportunity to study

original archival material relating to the gardens and grounds of Waddesdon

Manor. Our hosts - Catherine Taylor, Head of Archives and Sophie Piebenga,

garden historian, displayed records from published and unpublished documents,

accounts and ledgers, maps and photographs which described the construction

and development of the layout and planting.

Windmill Hill Archive

Centre has been con-

ceived as a place to enjoy

art and architecture; it is

built round an inner

courtyard - one building

houses the Rothschild

Foundation and the other

side provides archive

storage, a reading room/

library and a seminar

room. The centre also

houses Lord Rothschild’s

growing collection of

modern art and sculpture

which provoked some

discussion!

Should you wish to visit

the centre, it is open to

the public on a Friday afternoon, 2 - 4 pm, FREE, up to 30th October. Guides will

be present and should you need a map please ask Elsie Frost on 290768. It is not

part of the National Trust set up and more details are available on the Waddes-

don website.

The next Gardening Club event is a gardens visit to Homelands, Springs Lane, Ellesborough on Wednesday 13th June at 2.30 pm in support of the National Gar-

dens Scheme. Guests are welcome and for further details please contact Elsie.

Overall, April was cold, and both very

wet and dull. The average temperature

for the month was 7.5 deg Celsius

(45F), 2 degrees below normal, mak-

ing it very slightly colder than April

2000(7.6 deg C(46F).

Daytime maximum air temperatures

averaged 12.5 deg C(55F); the long

term average is 14.8 deg C(59F).

Night time air minimum temperatures

averaged 2.5 deg Celsius(37F); the

long term average is 4.2 deg Celsius

(40F).

The actual highest day time air maxi-

ma occurred on the 30th (17.9 deg C,

64F) and the lowest, 28th(7.9 deg C,

46F). The actual highest night time air

minima occurred on both the 9th and

27th (7.6 deg C, 46F) and the low-

est,6th(minus 4.3 deg C, 24F). The

lowest temperature just above the

grass also occurred at this time

(minus 8.8 deg C, 16F).

It was a very dull month with only

111.82 hours of bright sunshine rec-

orded – the long term average is 150

hours. It was the dullest April since

1998 (106 hours).

April's rainfall accumulation was spec-

tacular, breaking the run of previous

dry months. The total accumulation

was 122.9 mm (4.84in) set against the

14 year long term average of 46.6mm

(1.83in). Cuddington's previous wet-

test April was in 2000 with 114.6mm

(4.51in).

Sky Notes. On the morning of June 6th one of the

rarest of astronomical events will take

place, a transit of Venus across the

face of the sun. Transits of Venus oc-

cur in pairs with each transit within a

pair being separated by 8 years; each

pairing is separated by over 100 years.

The first transit of this current pairing

occurred in 2004 and after the second

on June 6th the next will not occur until December 2117! Unfortunately, from the

UK we will only be able to observe the closing stages for about an hour after

sunrise. At Cuddington the sun rises in the north-east at 04.49 am BST and, cloud

permitting, the silhouette of Venus's disk will be seen against the sun. The planet

will begin to move off the sun's disk at 05.37 am BST and by 05.55 am BST the

transit will be over.

Historically, transits of Venus were of great scientific importance, enabling 18th

century astronomers to calculate the true distances of the earth and known planets

from the sun for the first time.

Please remember that great care must be taken to protect your eyes when observ-

ing the sun. Never look directly at the sun through any optical instrument without

specialised filters and for observations with the eye alone one should use either

commercially available eclipse glasses or a #14 welders glass.

Sean Clarke

The photograph shows members studying the ar-

chive material in the reading room. The “dish” at

the far end of the room is in stainless steel and was

created by Anish Kapoor (the sculptor of the spiral

at the Olympic Park).

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John Hyde-Trutch came to talk to the History Society about “The Reconstruction

of Haddenham Croft Cottage” at The Chiltern Open Air Museum where he is the

Buildings Manager.

Croft Cottage is a wichert building that, as it was to be demolished, was given to

the museum in 1977. It was not until 2007 that it was decided the time was right

to reconstruct the house, a task that needed some one with John’s optimism and

skill to undertake.

John started by showing a slide of an overgrown rubble hillock at the museum

and ended by showing a slide of a delightful double fronted three bedroom cot-

tage that, with a lot of hard work, patience, trial and error had emerged from the

hillock.

We were taken through the pro-

cedure step by step starting with

the grumblings, traditional foot-

ings made of large pieces of

rock found in wichert. These

were mainly laid by the Muse-

um’s young volunteers aged 8

to 12 years. Next the berry was

started, that is the layers of

wichert. The material was

mixed with water and straw to

the desired consistency then

applied layer by layer on top of

the footings. Only the first layer

was mixed by hand which

proved to be “very hard work”,

then the wichert was mixed

mechanically. Each layer had

to dry sufficiently to enable it to

be trimmed, then further dried

before the next layer could be

applied, special attention being

paid to the angles and chim-

neys.

Wichert can only be built in the

summer as it will not dry in the

winter hence it was not until

August 2010 that the last

wichert was applied.

Next came the roof battens of

cleft oak, the hand made roof tiles, 1 inch elm floor boards, the brick porch,

7,000 foot of plaster lathes and all else needed for the interior. The exterior was

finished with 4 coats of dashed render and 2 coats of lime wash. The final work

on the interior it is hoped will be finished by this autumn.

What makes the undertaking all the more remarkable is that there were no plans,

no one from the museum took part in the demolition and the last wichert house

was built in 1939, so there was no surviving expert to consult. The only aid was

a series of high resolution photographs taken by the Thame Gazette.

John showed a photo of a lady who visited the project having lived in the house

in the thirties. ”That’s my cousin” said Dodge Walker, later telling me that she

had often stayed in the house when she went to Hadenham on holiday, local his-

tory indeed.

What is wichert? It is decayed limestone of which there is a large tract stretching

from the south coast up the country. In this area it is near the surface making a

cheap and effective building material in a time when labour was cheap and time

more leisurely.

Despite recent bad

weather, the sun shone

brightly last Saturday

12th May, for the se-

cond Boules Cup com-

petition against

Chearsley. The

Chearsley team had

come well equipped with a brand new

set of super-shiny boules, but they

failed to shine on the piste, and Cud-

dington were once again victorious.

The final score was ten games to six,

exactly the same margin as last year.

Great fun was had by all, and a hard

fought and sometimes very close se-

ries of games was only interrupted

when everyone downed boules to en-

joy a wonderful ploughman’s lunch,

and cakes, prepared by Amanda,

Joyce and Lorraine. Well fed, and

well watered from the bar, the games

continued until 6.00pm when our

Captain, Tony Orchard, was present-

ed with the magnificent Boules Cup.

Nick from Chearsley, who was re-

markably gracious in defeat, chal-

lenged Cuddington to a return match

in September. The challenge was ac-

cepted.

Despite this win, we cannot rest on

our laurels. Many of the games were

very tight and we need all the help we

can get. So, if you fancy joining in, the

club meets on the playing field every

Wednesday, weather permitting, at

7.00pm and on Sundays at 11.00am.

Come along; it’s fun!

“Barnes Wallis”

"The first berry being laid on the

foundations (above) and nearing

completion (below). Pictures courtesy of

Chiltern Open Air Museum

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I love this time of the month when I open up (my computer)

and find Village Voice has arrived. Not only have I the sea

one side – but we are experiencing a lot of flooding in the

marshy areas. Thankfully, because my bungalow is situated in

an elevated position the road takes the brunt of the water.

Looking forward to the June Village Voice.

Best regards

Anne Bargery Holland

The above is an e-mail received from Anne who gets the elec-

tronic version of Village Voice sent to her each month. In our

covering note we had enquired of our readers how they were

surviving all of the wet weather! Ed.

As always, the Editor is very happy to receive correspondence

from readers, especially anything which has local and current

interest. Ed.

The Jubilee weekend is almost upon us when Cuddington

will be celebrating the Queen’s 60 years upon the throne. If you have lost your

programme enclosed in last month’s Village Voice or have-n’t made a note in your diaries of all the events that have been arranged, we have listed them for you below. Tick-

ets for the Family Fun Day with BBQ and Cream Teas can still be bought from Denise’s or the Village Shop and on the day at the Playing Fields. It is also still possible to order a Jubilee Mug - call Jennifer or Jaap – but we can’t promise they will be available on Jubilee Day. Friday, 1st June at 7 pm - St Nicholas Church will be hosting a special floral display in honour of the Queen, with refreshments - no tickets needed! Saturday, 2nd June from 2 pm – 5.30 pm - “Cuddington Open Gardens” Six lovely gardens will be open for you to visit and from 3.30 pm Afternoon Tea will be served in the Marquee on the Playing Fields. Tickets will be available from the participating gardens on the day.

Sunday, 3rd June at 10 am - A Special Civic Service of Celebration for HM the Queen’s Life and long reign will be held in St. Nicholas Church. Coffee will be served after the service and another opportunity to enjoy the floral ar-rangements.

Monday, 4th June from 12 noon - Family Fun Day with BBQ and Cream Teas. Among all the events and activi-ties organised, there is a fancy dress competition for all ages; toys to keep the very young happy; for the slightly older children a bouncy castle and all sorts of other games. You

can make a royal crown at the craft corner (a prize for the best crown) and jubilee biscuits to decorate and eat! And there’s pillow jousting and a bouncy castle for the older “children” . Food and all the above activities are

included in the price of your tickets -£7.00 for Adults and £3.00 for Children of 12 years and under. Other activities include a Grand Jubilee Raffle with among other things, a bottle of bubbly and French Perfume to be won; a general raffle with all sorts of goodies to win. Other competitions include the chance to take home the Jubilee Cake or a little Steiff Teddy who needs a name and a chance to find the hidden jubilee coin in the Treasure Hunt. But there will be much more for you to enjoy so come along and join in the fun!

Tuesday, 5th June from 9.30 am - St. Nicholas Church Bells will ring out! - Bells will ring out across the coun-try and joining them will be a band of bell ringers from the Oxford Diocese who will attempt to ring a full peal of 5040 changes beginning at 9.30 am. If successful, the peal should end at 12 Noon, to coincide with the end of the Ser-vice of Thanksgiving to be held at St. Paul’s Cathedral, after which members of the Royal Party will leave for their own celebratory luncheon. Your Jubilee Committee has worked long and hard to pro-vide an enjoyable week-end for you all, and we do very much hope that you will come and celebrate with us. Addi-tional programmes can be found in the Village Shop or from Jennifer and Jaap (291501). Thank you!

May God Bless our Queen!

1st June to 5th June, 2012

On July 19th the Company “Patch of Blue Theatre”

will perform an updated version of the well-known

Musical “Godspell” at 3.45 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the

Bernard Hall.

“Patch of Blue Theatre” has performed this in a num-

ber of places including the Fringe of the Edinburgh

Festival where they received excellent reviews. They

are donating the profit from the afternoon perfor-

mance to Cuddington and Dinton School.

Young people and children of 7 and over are particu-

larly invited to come and enjoy this.

Tickets : Adults £6, children £4 For further

information contact Sharon Sampson (01844

208740)

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In the monthly meeting on

Tuesday, May 8th Caroline

Thompson, who had at-

tended the Resolution

Briefing Meeting in Ayles-

bury on April 24th reported

that it had been decided to

send one Resolution to the N.F.W.I. AGM in

the Albert Hall on May 30th. This Resolution

expressing concern at the shortage of Midwives

was discussed by Cuddington members who

then voted unanimously that they approved of

its going forward.

The speaker

for the after-

noon was

John Fort-

gang. Mem-

bers were

delighted to

see him as on

two previous

occasions he

had had to

postpone his

visit because

of illness.

John, a retired County Judge, had for his topic

“The Windy Side of the Law”. After describing

the work of a County Court he gave us innu-

merable examples of the cases he had heard.

We were given a very vivid picture of those

people who had come before him hoping for a

settlement in their favour.

There were domestic conflicts; troubles with

neighbours etc., and one memorable case that of

a dispute over the ownership of a parrot. This

case John had adjourned to the home where the

parrot cowered in a corner. The claimant did

not manage to prove his case, perhaps the ver-

dict would have been different if the parrot had

been more eloquent!

John’s examples gave us a very vivid picture of

the work in his court peopled with those from

very different walks of life but all with the hope

of a favourable verdict from “Sir”.

The other picture which we gleaned from

John’s talk was of the world outside the court

from which these claimants had come—a world

not of crime (other courts dealt with that) but a

world of unhappiness peopled by so many who,

for some reason or another, were dissatisfied

with a situation and had to take that case to

court.

John looked very benign as he spoke to us but

to those whose case went against them he

would have been seen as the stern face of the

law.

Final part of 3 - the present time and a mystery

It was in 1983 that the present owners of The Old Rectory, James &

Elsie Frost, purchased the house. Whilst immaculately kept, that is both

the house and the garden, it had suffered very badly from underinvest-

ment, and so a comprehensive refurbishment was undertaken.

Plaster was stripped from the walls, doors and skirting removed and the

roof taken off. At night you could stand in the cellar and look up to see

the stars. New heating, plumbing, and wiring were installed and to avoid

damp, the cellar was tanked.

From the outside very little changed and so the house maintained its

position as a very fine example of an early Victorian Rectory. However,

the inside was completely remodelled. The servants’ quarters were in-

corporated into the house, more bathrooms added out of the existing

accommodation, a new kitchen and utility room created and much more.

Two fireplaces were retained in the sitting room and drawing room, one

chimney stack was blanked off but retained and another chimney stack,

previously removed re-instated, that is why there are now four chimney

stacks as there would have been when the house was first built.

A new porch and first floor bathroom above were added in 2011 to

match the existing front elevation and visitors have commented that they

thought that it had been there all along.

The house continues to look fundamentally unchanged from whence it

was built in 1857. For those who have been to the house in daylight,

they will know that if you compare the south and west sides of the house

with the north and east sides it looks like two different houses. The south

and west sides are very ornate and the north and east sides are very

plain. Why, it is just speculation of course but, it is the south and west

sides you would have seen coming up from the village?

You were promised a mystery.

In the church-

yard, just past

the entrance

and to the

right of the

path you will

find the

marked graves

of James Man-

sel Price and

the two grand-

children who

died in 1886. In between the two marked graves you will find an un-

marked grave and you might reasonably wonder who would put an un-

marked grave between James Mansel Price and his two grandsons?

On 16 November 1855 a baby girl was born, Florence Annie Price, a

daughter. She died 6 hours later. Is this, an unmarked grave between

father and grandsons, the resting place of Annie?

Old villages have stories to tell. Do you have a story?

James & Elsie Frost - March 2012

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Diamond Jubilee 2012

June

Friday 1st - Tuesday 5th Diamond Jubilee (see page5)

Tuesday 5th 7.00 p.m. CYD present “ The Aristocats”

Wednesday 6th 7.00 p.m. CYD present “ The Aristocats”

Wednesday 6th 7.30 p.m. Parish Council Meeting

Thursday 7th 7.00 p.m. CYD present “ The Aristocats”

Friday 8th 7.00 p.m. CYD present “ The Aristocats”

Saturday 9th 2.00 p.m. CYD present “ The Aristocats”

Saturday 9th 7.00 p.m. CYD present “ The Aristocats”

Tuesday 12th 2.30 p.m. W.I. “A Royal Occasion” Afternoon Tea

Tuesday 12th 7.30 p.m. Cuddington Playing Fields Association AGM

(see page 2)

Wednesday 13th 2.30 p.m. Gardening Club Visit to “Homelands”, Ellesborough

Saturday 16th 10.00 a.m. Nature Walk with Photography (see page 7)

Tuesday 19th 7.30 p.m. History Society “An Anglo-Saxon Lyre, Origins

and Performance”

Saturday 23rd 4.00 a.m. Sunrise Walk (see page 2)

July

Wednesday 4th 7.30 p.m. Parish Council Meeting

Sunday 8th Welcome to Ian Herbert the new Curate for the

United Benefice

Tuesday 10th 2.30 p.m. W.I. Boules at the Club

Saturday 14th Village Fete

Monday 16th 2.00 p.m. Sunshine Club Garden Party

Thursday 19th 3.45 p.m. Production of “Godspell” in Bernard Hall ( page 5)

Thursday 19th 7.00 p.m. Production of “Godspell in Bernard Hall

Saturday 21st 3.00 p.m. Tennis Club Veterans’ Tournament

Join us for the:

Wildlife and Photography Walk on Saturday June

16th at 10.00am

We will be doing a guided nature

walk starting at Lower Green, along

the Thame valley during which we

will learn more about wildlife and

flowers in our immediate vicinity and

how to photograph them. We will be

accompanied by local wildlife expert,

Dr Roger Kemp and by professional

photographer, Pascale Cumberbatch.

At this time of year, we should en-

counter lots of wild flowers, butter-

(Continued on page 8)

If you have any unwanted articles please bag

or box them and bring them to the Bernard

Hall on Monday 18th June from 5pm or put

them in the Donation Bin outside the shop

from Sunday 10th June or call any of the

Committee below to arrange pick up of larg-

er quantities.

We need books, toys, cuddly toys and teddy

bears, bric a brac, baskets, nearly new cloth-

ing and footwear, second hand clothes, uno-

pened bottles and jars (edible and cosmetics).

On the day, plants can be donated to the Gar-

dening Club stall and cakes to the cake stall.

Please contact the committee below:

Ian Cutler 295845; Karen Clayton 290404; Tony Digby 291310;

Yvette Digby (Treasurer) 291310; Zoe Gibson 291349; John Luckett

290491; Vicky Reddington 01296 748566; Brenda Williams 290633

Thank you!

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flies, dragonflies and other

insects, birds and mammals,

especially if the weather is

good.

Local Food As part of our focus on thinking about

local solutions to global problems we

have been considering ways of encour-

aging residents to reduce their ‘food

miles’ and petrol consumption and buy

locally produced food wherever possible.

John and Elaine Moore in our village

shop are already selling local bread,

eggs and herbs and are very keen to ex-

pand their selection of local produce. If

you know any local farmers with meat or

dairy produce please let them know and

if you are a gardener and have produce

available or would consider growing

food for John and Elaine to sell, please

speak to them directly. Having our vil-

lage shop as both a focus and outlet for

local produce would be the best possible

way of giving it the increased trade it

needs to continue to serve our communi-

ty in the years ahead.

If you are interested in taking an active

part in a local food group, please get in

touch (details below) as we are looking

to build up a little team to make Cud-

dington a special place, where the quali-

ty and sourcing of food really matters.

Cuddington Garden Vertebrate Watch Our 2nd Garden Watch took place last

weekend, and we’ve had 14 forms re-

turned so far, which is slightly disap-

pointing as we had a few more last year,

so please return your form asap if you

did take part. Otherwise, we’d like to

know if there is any way we can make

this more attractive as an activity, and

whether you think it is worthwhile:

please email your thoughts. The results

will be published in next month’s Vil-

lage Voice.

Greener Cuddington is a village project

whose aim is to raise the profile and un-

derstanding of environmental sustaina-

bility within the village and thereby re-

duce the village’s overall environmental

footprint. If you think you might have

something to contribute, we would love

to hear from you or for you to join us.

Please contact Doug Kennedy on 01844

290602 or email:

dgkennedy@alloverde.com

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Services at St. Nicholas (Churchwardens: David Benson 01296 433757 and Graham Carr 290000)

June

3rd 10.00 am JUBILEE SERVICE A service of Thanksgiving for the 60 years of the Queen’s reign

10th 10.00 am FAMILY SERVICE A service for all ages, including lively hymns, with the involvement of young musicians.

5.00 pm Tea and Prayer

17th 10.00 am HOLY COMMUNION A less formal modern Communion Service with hymns. The children go to Sunday Special for part of the Service 24th 10.00 am MORNING WORSHIP A service of worship and the word, with a mixture of traditional and modern hymns. The children go straight to Chattabox and the Grid in the Bernard Hall at 9.50 a.m.

11.15 am HOLY COMMUNION A communion service with hymns, according to the Book of Common Prayer.

There is a service at 5.30 pm every Sunday evening at Cuddington Methodist Chapel.

The highlight of the month has to

have been the Heroes and Villains

Ball. Despite the fact that this was put

on by Parents and Staff for themselves

and their friends, the children had a

major input! 350 guests attended the

marquee on the Junior site playing

field where the reception area was laid out as a Heroes and Villains lair!!

This had been built by the Years 5 & 6 children under close supervision of our

Deputy Headteacher, Mr Matt Tomson as part of their after-school crafts

class.

The children also produced Hero and Villain costumes which were displayed

on mannequins and comic strips for the walls—all quite a feat!

And finally we were most

fortunate to have had live

music provided by Tony

Hadley—being captured

on camera by ball-goers!

(left, courtesy of Owen

Price)

We are very grateful to

Mrs Lesley Arnott and her

committee for putting on a

fantastic event and raising

some really important

funds for the school.

This month has seen us participating in Kst2 SATs for the first time and these

were conducted to the highest standards within the temporary facilities on the

Infant site.

Lots of plans are being made to celebrate the Olympics which includes a par-

ent who will be competing in the Paralympics coming to talk to the children

about wheelchair events.

Detailed analysis of the tenders is still taking place for the rebuild of the

Junior site and now that Planning Permission has been granted we are look-

ing at possibilities of making a phased return.