Platinum Party at the Palace: The BBC will stage and broadcast a special live concert from Buckingham Palace that will bring together some of the world’s biggest entertainment stars to celebrate the most significant and joyous moments from The Queen’s seven decade reign.

Sunday 5th June

 

The Big Jubilee Lunch: Every year since the idea began in 2009 The Big Lunch has encouraged communities to celebrate their connections and get to know each other a little bit better, coming together in a spirit of fun and friendship. In 2022 The Big Lunch will bring the Jubilee celebrations into the heart of every community.   People are invited to share friendship, food and fun with neighbours as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. A Big Jubilee Lunch can be big or small - street party or picnic, tea and cake or a garden barbeque.

The Platinum Jubilee Pageant: A pageant featuring over 5,000 people from across the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth will take place against the backdrop of Buckingham Palace and the surrounding streets. It will combine street arts, theatre, music, circus, carnival and costume and celebrate the service of Her Majesty’s reign, as well as honouring the collective service of people and communities across the country.

I would like to know your thoughts on what you would like to see Brize Norton do to celebrate this momentous occasion! Would you like:   • A Big Jubilee Lunch • A Street Party • A Jubilee Pageant • Something else – please advise

If you would like to become a volunteer contact me via email w.way@brizenortonparishcouncil.co.uk or by mobile 07786 436263 by 15th December 2021. I will then arrange a meeting in January to begin the arrangements.

Wendy Way
(Chairman, Brize Norton Parish Council)
 

BRIZE NORTON SCHOOLING

Brize Norton Primary School

We have had a couple of significant changes at our school recently.

The main corridor leading to the playground now has four enormous mythical beasts: a dragon, a griffin, a phoenix and a sprite, in honour of our four houses. The idea came from the School Council and the paintings have been wonderfully done by Jaweriah Mehmood, one of our parents.

A brave parachute jump!

Thank you so very much to everyone who sponsored Mrs Hunter to complete her parachute jump! We have had an anonymous donation of £1000 for which we are extremely grateful. Combining the donations for this event and the previous jump (which had to be abandoned due to Covid), we have raised a total of £3069!This money, plus help from the school association, means we finally have thirty new laptops for the children to use, enough for everyone in a class to have one each. This has already enabled us to teach word processing and typing, and I am looking forward to using them for computer programming later on in the year.

Remembrance The Falcons and Voyagers classes held our annual Armistice Day commemoration on 11th  November. We started by reading reflections in the church before moving to the war memorial for the two minutes’ silence. Thank you very much to Mrs Bostock (and Mr Bostock too) for decorating the war memorial so well with the children’s work.

Christmas Productions

We are going ahead and preparing to do our Christmas productions as planned. The plan includes a smaller, socially-distanced audience and asking all audience members to wear masks unless they are exempt.

However, if we are unable to hold live performances because of covid, we will live-stream it rather than canceling so the children still have the fun of performing.

 

Tree planting On Friday 12th November, groups of children planted trees in the new Mary Ellis Country Park on the Brize Meadow development. We did our bit for the local and global environment, got very muddy and had great fun. In the afternoon (when the older children had their turn) we were joined by members of the Parish Council, Robert Courts MP, Councillor Alex Postan, Rev Ian Howard and quite a few members of Mary Ellis’ family. A great time was had by all!

 

And finally, Farewell Miss Winter We were very sad to say goodbye to Miss Winter today who has served the school in many roles over the years. We will miss you greatly but wish you luck in your next adventure. Anna Anna Fairhurst (Headteacher)

BRIZE NORTON PRE-SCHOOL

Our fantastic new pre-school garden is now complete...
 

...and the children absolutely love playing outside whatever the weather. It really has made our garden a year round fun area for the children to explore, play and learn in.

“Many thanks again to everyone who helped make this possible.”

 

All of our new children have now started and settled into pre-school life. It’s been a fun filled first term at pre-school with harvesting our vegetables from the allotment, visits from a tractor for farm week and enjoying learning about our environment and recycling.   As we move into term 2 we are as busy as ever with planned visits from the local police, a dentist and a travelling Pantomime for a performance of Aladdin. We are also beginning to prepare for Christmas and our Nativity play in December.

 

Pre-school is full for the current academic year through to July 2022. We have extremely limited availability now from September 2022 onwards with some days and sessions already full.   Please contact us if you would like any more information regarding the pre-school. Our waiting list is arranged by date, siblings and villagers. There is lots of information, photos and a waiting list applications on our website www.brizenortonpreschool.co.uk For those new to the village, pre-school operates from the Elder Bank Hall during term time, Monday-Thursday 9am-3pm and Friday 9am-12pm. We offer places for children aged 2-4 years. Funding is available subject to certain terms and conditions. Please enquire by: ☎Telephone on 077696 17696 or by 📧 Email brizenortonpreschool@hotmail.co.uk Jackie Hampson (Manager)

BRIZE NORTON SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB

Another year has almost passed and what a year it has been! Now with all the covid restriction slowly being lifted and both the sporting and social life of the village is getting back to somewhat close to normality.

	Cricket returned during the summer, although a very welcome sight to see on the Rec, the season was not a great success as it saw the MLCC 3rd team relegated. However, there is always next year to come back fighting.   Football has also returned to a full fixture list, with a game at ‘home’ on most Saturday afternoons. So please come along and support them.
	We also saw the return of the Village Bash, what a great success and thank you to all who supported the event but also supported the S&SC bar!

NEW to the sporting calendar was the introduction of the BNS&SC Rounders Championship, a family event which, although starting with only six teams, proved to be a very enjoyable afternoon’s entertainment. This, I am sure, will become an annual event (most likely to be held in early September) and we would welcome new village-based sides to join us next year.

	The Bonfire Night proved to be another very successful village event. A big thank you to Ian Pearson for the magnificent bonfire, and to all those who supported the event and our bar! Very much appreciated.
	Newsflash: It is hoped that the new roofed pergola at the pavilion will be ready for use early in the new year.   This will allow the S&SC along with Humble Bumble Café to start to hold more social events. There are some already in the pipeline and once confirmed we will advertise it with posters and on social media.

Planning for the summer… Would anyone be interested in playing ‘Aunt Sally’? Depending on interest, our hope is to have a team(s) playing on a Thursday evening throughout next summer. Let us know!

Lastly, may I, on behalf of the S&SC members, wish you all a very happy Christmas and a healthy and peaceful 2022.

Many thanks

Tim Gush (Chairman)

BRIZE NORTON FOOTBALL CLUB

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It has been a very tough season so far for the Club both on and off the field. A few weeks ago the Committee held an Emergency meeting to discuss the withdrawal of one or both teams from the League. Thankfully (at least for the time being) with the hard work and determination of the Managers Jake Farrugia and Adam Harris the Club is continuing with two teams. Unfortunately, games have had to be forfeited with the main problem being player numbers and commitment. Following the meeting and some changes off the field, it was pleasing that games went ahead and fingers crossed this will continue. On the field with the cancellation of games by both teams, points have been dropped. The 1sts currently sit rooted to the bottom of Division 1 although 10th place sounds much better. Sadly, they have also exited the Junior Shield and Fred Ford Cup. The Reserves sit in 4th place in Division 3 and are still to play in the Jack Busby Cup. We thank the Managers and players who have helped keep things moving and hopefully in the next newsletter we will have a much more positive report. If anyone is looking to play, or knows anyone who is please contact the club or go along to training on Tuesdays at the Carterton ATP between 8 and 9pm. Simon Simon Cook Contact the Club: Website: pitchero.com/clubs/brizenortonfc Facebook Group: Brize Norton FC Twitter: @brizenortonfc