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Issue No 873 At the heart of our wonderful community Friday 15th June 2018
Published at: 3-4 First Floor Offices, Shildon Town Council, Civic Hall Square, Shildon DL4 1AH • Editorial: 01388 775896 • Advertising: 07909 992731 • Email: [email protected] • Online: www.swd.news/crier •
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PARENTS OF Year 10 and 11 pupils at the Sunnydale Campus of Greenfield Community College have reacted with dismay to a letter informing them that from next year, their chil-dren will be moved to the school’s Aycliffe campus.
Parents are angry that the letter arrived without any prior warning or con-sultation on the school’s decision.
They have also expressed concern that the decision may be a precursor to the school closing entirely, although Greenfield deny that is in their plans.
Executive Headteacher, David Priestley responded to concerns by saying that the changes are essential.
In his letter to parents and carers, a copy of which the school has provided to the Crier, he said: “To
continue to build upon the current picture of whole school improvement it has been agreed that Years 10 and 11 will be educated at Newton Aycliffe.
“By initiating this move we will be able to ensure that all senior students have equal access to the same range of courses and are taught in groups of a similar ability with an effective deployment of
staff.“These changes are
essential to facilitate learning and provide the appropriate teaching for all in order to best prepare for GCSE courses in what is a very important time for our students and to progress in accordance with Ofsted recommenda-tions.
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PARENTS DISMAY AS SUNNYDALE PUPILS SET TO MOVE TO AYCLIFFE
Sunnydale campus parents have been told their Year 10 and 11 children will be moving to Newton Aycliffe in September.
BIG BRASS BASH RETURNS TO SHILDON
Shildon will feature twice in the Big BRASS Bash line-up this year
selection of music includ-ing a world premier of ‘The Train Suite’ at the museum on Saturday 14th July at 1.30pm.
They’ll be joined by chil-dren from various schools in the Shildon and Darling-ton area who have taken part in Durham Music Ser-vice workshops to help celebrate the anniversary of the Stockton and Dar-lington Railway in the run up to its 200th anniver-sary in 2025.
THE POPULAR Big BRASS Bash returns to Shildon’s Hackworth Park on Wednesday 18th July.
Families are invited to pitch up their seats and take along a picnic between 6pm and 9pm and enjoy the musical styl-ings of some of Europe’s best brass bands.
This year Shildon will feature twice in the line-up, with a second free event at Locomotion.
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“Provision for Years 7, 8 and 9 will be unaffected and these students will continue to benefit from targeted, high quality teaching using specialist teachers from both sites to ensure the best possi-ble preparation for their GCSE courses.
“We will continue to develop their skills as independent learners and promote their personal development to prepare them for the intensity of their final two years of their GCSE courses.
“All students will have full access to the exten-sive range of curricular and extracurricular oppor-tunities that we have on offer including sports
teams and educational visits ensuring that all students receive the full benefits of being part of a large school.
“We are convinced that this change will improve the coherence and con-sistency of our provi-sion and raise standards achieved by all students whilst meeting the chal-lenges identified by Ofsted.”
He went on to assure the Crier “that there is no plan to close our site on the Sunnydale Campus.”
There has been no indi-cation to date of what the move will mean for class sizes.
Several parents, posting on a conversation thread on the ‘Whats On In Shil-don’ Facebook page have
suggested that their chil-dren do not wish to move, or that they do not wish their children to move:
“I have phoned the edu-cation department as my daughter [is] going in to year 11 and is refusing to go over other site”, said one.
Another responded: “Mine is considering mov-ing schools completely”, while another said: “my son [is] refusing to go over.”
One parent posted an image of a Durham County Council document called ‘In Year Transfer Applica-tion for a Change in School Place’ which provides guidance saying: “The last two years of secondary school (Years 10 and 11), when children are prepar-
ing for their GCSEs … it is generally considered that changing schools at this stage should be avoided.”
Parents also highlighted the disruption to studies and the anxiety the move is causing their children, while others expressed concern that they were not consulted on the move.
“The kids are settled with their own teachers and classes why change everything without even consulting with parents”, said one.
Asked to comment on the issue, a spokesperson for Durham County Coun-cil would only say: “This is a matter for the school.”
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which was made possi-ble due to being success-ful in securing funding to facilitate a “Remember When” event in March, which saw 160 older people come together and share an afternoon of friendship, a hot meal and entertainment.
Two other main chari-ties, The Shildon branch of the Royal British Legion and The Sanctu-ary, received cheques for £1,261 each.
The remainder was divided between Shil-don Football Club, Eden Fisheries, Redworth House Nursing Home Comfort Fund, Support-ive Home Care, Shildon
Ladies Darts & Domi-noes League, Bishop Auckland Ladies Darts & Dominoes League, Guer-rilla Gardening Project, Spectrum Roller Skaters, Theatre Group and The Town Crier.
The presentation evening was a lovely occasion for all of these worthy causes to meet and Shirley went around the room explaining why she had chosen them, introducing them to each other.
Shirley wishes every-one success in their future and hopes the money is put to good use for the benefit of local people.
COUNCILLOR SHIRLEY Quinn invited several local community groups to receive cheques on Thursday 7th June.
Shirley chose these groups to receive part of the total charity fund she raised during her recent Mayoral year.
In total, through the generosity of local peo-ple, family and friends, a total of £4,222.34 was raised. Shirley quoted that she had been inspired by the support given by all and has welcomed the opportu-nity to get to know the groups all personally.
In total 12 worthy causes were chosen,
EX-MAYOR HANDS OUT CHEQUES
Cllr Shirley Quinn and new Mayor, Cllr Luan Deakin with members of the community who received a share of Cllr Quinn’s mayoral fundraising.
SHILDON AFC Supporters’ Club’s latest lottery draw took place at Shildon AFC social club on Sunday 10th June.
The six numbers drawn were: 2, 3, 7, 15, 18 and 19.
With no jackpot winners, the consolation prize of £25 was won by S Halli-mond.
This week, players must match the six numbers drawn from the remain-ing 19 to collect the £450 jackpot, which matches the largest jackpot issued to date.
As well as all the usual outlets around the town, including Shildon AFC social club, it is now possi-ble to purchase tickets from the Town Crier offices.
LOTTO ROLLOVER
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LOCOMOTION IN Shildon has appointed Dr Sarah Price as its new Head. Sarah is the first senior appointment since the museum moved into the management of the Science Museum Group last Decem-ber.
Sarah heralds from Dur-ham University, where she is currently Head of Engagement and Learning, responsible for the visitor operations and the public programme at all of Culture Durham’s venues, including award winning exhibits such as the Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition and the new Dur-ham Light Infantry gallery.
Sarah will join in late August and will have a number of key priorities including forging stronger links with the local commu-nity and reinvigorating the museum’s programme of events and exhibitions for the museum’s audience of schools, families and rail enthusiasts.
The announcement fol-lows a ‘Meet the Museum’ open event, aimed at pro-viding the local community with a unique taste of what happens at the museum. Over 100 people were treated to music from local school children, access into locomotive cabs and a peek at work on the 2HAP carriage, which is nearing completion.
The 2HAP is possibly the furthest travelled train in the National Railway Museum’s collection and the project to restore its two historic carriages is the most com-prehensive restoration of
Dr Sarah Price has been appointed as the new Head of Locomotion.
an electric train undertaken in the UK. Only a handful of the carriages now remain in existence and the work has been lovingly undertaken by a dedicated team of work-shop staff and volunteers.
Work is also progressing on Locomotion’s historic structures, commencing with the stabilisation of the Grade 2 listed historic coal drops by Durham County Council. The Sci-ence Museum Group has also appointed a Project Manager with a heritage background to oversee conservation of the muse-um’s historic buildings, with ecological surveys due to start later this month. It is hoped that work to appoint the building contractors will start in the Autumn, once architects have been appointed.
Locomotion also aspires to improve the museum to better showcase the stars of the national collection
of rail vehicles and tell the story of Shildon’s history and importance as a railway town. Emerging ideas for the future include a new building to house more rail vehicles and a larger workshop facil-ity to support a programme of engineering and heritage apprenticeships.
Locomotion visitors are welcome to look at panels showcasing these emerg-ing ideas and to comment on them until the Autumn. These ideas will be used to develop a longer term Masterplan over the com-ing months. Information can also be found online at https://locomotion.org.uk/about-us/vision-future-loco-motion.
A copy of the panels will also be displayed in other local venues over the sum-mer. If your venue has good footfall and you would be interested in displaying them, get in touch via [email protected].
LOCOMOTION APPOINTS NEW MUSEUM HEAD
A SHILDON store is cele-brating a National Lottery milestone with the delivery of a millionaire worthy gold playstation.
The new shiny playsta-tion has been unveiled at the Spar on Jubilee Road as The National Lottery reveals it has now created an amazing 5,000 million-aires. Astonishingly, the last 1,000 have been made in just 29 months, at the rate of more than one every day.
In the DH postcode alone a total of 235 players have banked a big prize and this includes a very lucky 33 millionaires.
Most recently Shil-don’s very own Alex Best, scooped a £1M EuroMil-lions raffle prize in January this year after buying his ticket in this store.
David Ferrol, Manager of the Spar, has unveiled the new playstation (where customers can write out their tickets) and says he hopes it will bring lots of lottery luck to people in the area.
He said: “It is so exciting to have this gold playsta-tion in the store – I just hope it brings lots of lot-
SHILDON STORE GETS THE WINNING TREATMENT
Store manager David Ferrol with the new playstation.
tery luck to other people and we see lots more win-ners being created in this region.
“Since word got out about Alex winning £1M with a ticket from our store, we’ve had a great uplift in customers and sales.
“It really is very impres-sive. It is fantastic to think a millionaire was made in this store just a few months ago – and let’s hope we will see many more now too.
“Who knows what sort of good luck this amaz-ing shiny playstation will bring?”
Nationally, more than 38,800 big winners of £50,000 or more have been made across all National Lottery games since 1994.
Andy Carter, Senior Winners’ Advisor at the National Lottery said, “The winners team here at Camelot travel the length and breadth of the country paying out lucky winners every day. It is no surprise to me to see how lucky Darlington [the DL postcode] has been and I’m sure I’ll be back there soon with another giant cheque.”
This week in History
The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size.
14 June 1900
Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
15 June 1752
Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in Mainland China opens to the public.
16 June 2016
Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
17 June 1900
American Revolution-ary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia.
18 June 1778
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day fil-ibuster in the United States Senate.
19 June 1964
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Residents in the Red-worth Road area can also take part in a ‘Tidy Fronts’ competition. Take before and after photographs of your own house front and email to [email protected] before 1st July to win £100 in prizes.
Durham County Coun-cil’s Operation Spruce Up campaign will commence on 25th June, when the authority will carry out an intensive clean and tidying
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A ‘DOOR knock’ consulta-tion was carried out by a multi agency team in Shil-don last week.
Durham County Coun-cil, Shildon Town Council, Durham Constabulary, Fire and Rescue and Shildon Alive visited residents in the New Shildon and Byer-ley Road area of town, as part of a time-limited pro-ject tackling community issues, including protect-ing empty homes from being broken into and bringing them back into use.
Residents spoke to agen-cies about a wide range of issues affecting their area, such as accumulations of waste in back streets. As a result, two tonnes of waste have since been removed from back streets and 30 recycle bins were taken away, emptied and returned as part of a ‘bin amnesty’ involving bins which were ‘contaminated’ with non-recyclable mate-rials.
As part of the ongoing project, a number of activ-ities have been organised, including community litter picks, the first of which will be held on Thursday 21st June.
Residents are invited to meet at the Daniel Adam-son Coach House on Byer-ley Road at 4.30pm. A fur-ther community litter pick in the New Shildon area will take place on Tuesday 26th June, meeting oppo-site the Railway Institute at
CLEANING UP SHILDON’S STREETS
Before: Overflowing bins and discarded waste were concerning residents in Bouch Street.
After: Durham County Council cleaned away the rubbish and emptied bins as part of a ‘bin amnesty’.
SHILDON AFC have announced a pre-sea-son friendly schedule which will see some big games taking place at Dean Street ahead of the 2018/19 league cam-paign.
The schedule begins on Saturday 30th June with a home game against Sun-derland FOL.
Sunderland FC will be the next visitors on Tues-day 3rd July, followed
by York City, Northern League champions, Mar-ske United and then Dar-lington.
Shildon’s only away match will take place on Saturday 21st July when they visit Victoria Park to take on Hartlepool United.
Their final match will again be at home against Long Eaton United.
A full schedule will be published in next week’s Town Crier.
SHILDON FRIENDLIES SCHEDULE
SHILDON AFC Supporters Club is calling for volun-teers to go along to Dean Street to help with the club’s annual Spruce Up Weekend in preparation for the coming season.
The weekend will involve a general clean up around the ground as well as painting of perimeter boards and any other odd jobs that may be required.
Volunteers are asked, wherever possible, to take along any spare tins of
white paint they may have, and paintbrushes and roll-ers. Equipment will also be provided for those who cannot take any along.
The weekend spruce up will take place on Satur-day 16th and Sunday 17th June, from 9am onwards each day. Refreshments and food will be provided by the football club.
It is not necessary to go along at 9am, or for the full day, just for any time volunteers can spare.
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR SPRUCE UP WEEKEND
SHILDON’S FRIDGE for All, a new community fridge in Shildon, is help-ing to reduce food waste in the area.
Shildon Alive is work-ing with Sainsbury’s ‘Waste less, Save more’ campaign and HUBBUB to collect food from local Tesco and Morri-sons stores to put food into the fridge, which members of the local community can access.
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Residents and local businesses can get involved by donating unwanted, edible food to the fridge.
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For more information call 01388 417 600.
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They also chose to plant giant sunflowers they had grown from seed at the community garden.
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John’s church project’s guerrilla gardening pro-ject which involves hun-dreds of local school children throughout the spring and summer in the town.
BYERLEY ROAD pre school decided to add sunflowers to their plant-ers outside nursery this week.
After listening carefully to instruction, the chil-
dren worked alongside their teachers and Shil-don Alive staff to dig and prepare the planters out-side their nursery before planting petunias, viola, geranium and marigolds.
TOTS BRIGHTEN UP NURSERYGreen-fingered Byerley Road pre-school children plant sunflowers outside their nursery.
let rolls for the local food bank to help fam-ilies in crisis.
Paula Nelson, Com-munity project coordi-nator for Shildon Alive,
thanked Colin Lee Clough and Michael Warden from Knuckle Eddz MCC for organis-ing the collection and to everyone who donated.
THE BIKING community gave Shildon Alive food bank a boost in June.
Knuckle Eddz MCC arranged a large food collection at their
recent event at the Dog Inn, Heighington when biking groups came with generous donations of tins, dried foods, nappies and toi-
KNUCKLE EDDZ DONATE TO FOODBANKMembers of Knuckle Eddz MCC with their donation for Shildon Alive food bank.
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The event takes place between 3pm and 5pm on Saturday 16th June.
The following day, on Sunday 17th June, Cafe Church will take place from 5pm.
The informal ‘church’ is open to everyone.
“Try something new, grab a seat and have a cuppa,” said a spokesper-son.
FUN, FOOD & RELAXATION
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The fee for cars and table tops will be £5 while 4x4s and small vans will be £7. Vehicles are required to be on site by 9.30am. To book your place, contact Norman Smith on 07500 874505.
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they went on a trip to Beamish Museum.
“They all found it very interesting and the trip brought back lots
of good memories for them while they were looking round the dis-plays,” said a spokes-person.
RESIDENTS FROM Holly Lodge Care Home on Maddison Street, Shil-don had a great time on Friday 8th June when
A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANEThe school house at Beamish Museum brought back memories for residents of Holly Lodge.
full of praise for the young people: “I was extremely proud of the way the students sup-ported each other dur-ing the day and their approach to the cele-bration.
“It was a very spe-cial day for all with a well-attended parade and a chance for people to come together and be part of the day.”
TWENTY STUDENTS from Greenfield Com-munity College took to the streets of Durham on Sunday 27th May to celebrate equality and diversity.
They marched from the Cathedral to the Sands where they joined in with the cel-ebrations and enjoyed live music for the rest of the afternoon.
This was the fifth Dur-ham Pride event which is now an established day in Durham’s calen-dar, with over 10,000 people attending last year’s event.
Students were com-plimented on their ban-ner, which was created by last year’s LGBT+ group.
Assistant Head-teacher Ms Davis was
STUDENTS MARCH IN DURHAM PRIDEThe Greenfield students at Durham pride show their banner, proudly supporting the LGBT community.
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fery (37:45), Hazel John-son (42:20), Salvadori McDonnell (44:45), Cath-erine McDonnell (48:39), James Ross (56:28), Vivi-enne Rudge (1:03:38), John Gray (1:06:11) and Emma Flynn (1:10:16).
Another team of ten run-ners at Swaledale took longer to complete their course.
The 23-mile course is a fell run and challenge walk event. Competitors must navigate them-selves, carry water, a first aid kit and bad weather gear and complete the course within ten hours.
The course also covers over 4,100 feet of ascent; almost the height of Ben Nevis.
On the day, the sunshine
slowed the Shildon run-ners down, but they all persevered and finished the tough race.
The first Shildon runner home was Gareth Shaw with a time of 5 hours 36 minutes followed by Ian Rudge (5:54) and Drew Griffiths (5:59).
Still achieving great times, but slightly further down the field were Dar-ren Ross, Donna Dunbar, Helen Race, Irene Ross, Julie Cane, Lynne Foster and Shannon Ross.
Elsewhere Shildon’s jun-ior sprinters were on good form. Fifteen-year-old Rachel Bennet got silver in the U20 womens 100m at the Northern Athletics Under 20 T&F Champion-ships.
Cody Hall (12) also took the runners-up position in the U15 girls 100m final in the Durham County Schools Championships, with a personal best time of 13.2 seconds.
Anyone interested in finding out more can con-tact the club by email at [email protected].
Search for Shildon Run-ning Club on Facebook and follow them on Twit-ter @ShildonRunning.
Anyone over the age of 18 can go along and join them for a run on Mon-days and Wednesdays at 6.15pm at Shildon and Sunnydale Leisure Cen-tre.
LAST WEEKEND saw Shil-don Running and Athletic Club members tackle the Swaledale Trail Marathon and the shorter but iconic Blaydon Races.
The Blaydon Race is a 5.9 mile athletics race from Newcastle upon Tyne to Blaydon that is steeped in local tradition.
It takes place on June 9th every year and starts off with the singing of The Blaydon Races, with the words as the basis for the race.
A team of ten Shildon runners took part this year with Richard Trowles the first one home with a time of 35 minutes 16 seconds.
He was followed by Colin Wild (36:45), Daniel Jef-
SRAC AT THE BLAYDON RACESShildon runners also took part in the gruelling Swaledale Trail Marathon.
AFTER STARTING the season unbeaten in May, Shildon BR remain win-less in the league in June after falling to defeat against Blackhall on Sat-urday.
A strong Shildon side batted first and were quickly on the back foot as they lost three wickets for five runs inside the first two overs of the innings.
There was a minor fight-back by Michael Roberts and Chris Young as the pair shared a 50 partner-ship. However, following the departure of Young, wickets again fell at reg-ular intervals with Rob Nevison the only other batsman to make double figures. The team were eventually all out for 108.
The target never really looked enough as Black-hall comfortably chased down the total for the loss of five wickets with Young and Nevison taking two wickets apiece.
There was better luck for Shildon in midweek in their cup tie with Bishop Auckland where they ran out winners by four runs in dramatic game.
Again batting first, Shil-don initially struggled against the Bishop open-ing bowlers, reaching the mid-point of the innings at 35-4.
But the second half of the innings belonged to Michael Roberts whose big hitting on the way to 66 not-out lifted Shildon to 120/6 at the close.
The Bishop reply mir-rored Shildon’s innings as runs were initially hard to come by and they were continually pegged back as the bowlers through-out.
In the dying stages, Bishop required 40 runs from their final four overs.
After more tight bowling, Bishop needed 18 runs from their final over and it fell to Shane Rowley to bowl the decisive over.
The first three balls cost Shildon 10 runs, but Row-ley held his nerve to hold off the Bishop fightback and ensure Shildon pro-gressed to the final.
The final is to be played at Normanby Hall next week, on Wednesday 20th June.
In a busy a week the team also progressed to the next round of the Eggleston Cup, beating West Park again by four runs in another tight affair.
Shildon made 125 all out batting first with Michael Lumley (40) and Rob Nevi-son (30) the main contrib-utors.
But it was Shildon’s bowlers who again held their nerve in a tense final couple of overs. Shane Rowley was the pick with three wickets.
Shildon’s league cam-paign continues at home this Saturday (16th) against Yarm and they will hope to get back to win-ning ways to maintain a promotion push.
BR LEAGUE CAMPAIGN STALLS
SHILDON BR Foot-ball Club have swept everything before them this season to finish a hugely successful cam-paign with five trophies in the cabinet.
They won the Crook & District League Cup, the Auckland Charity Cup, South Durham Bowl, Weardale Cup and Albert Vickers Cup as well as being crowned champi-ons of the Crook & District
Saturday League Division One, having gone through the campaign with an unbeaten record, winning 11 and drawing 3 games.
At their presentation night on Sunday 10th June, Tom Morgan took the Top Scorer award, Terry Gillan was Manag-er’s Player of the Year while Garry Thexton scooped the Players’ Player and the Player of the Year awards.
BR FC ARE SEASON’S INVINCIBLES