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The Thirsk Weekly News is a family-owned paper for Thirsk and the surrounding area
23rd December, 2020.
Here are some Christmassy pictures for you from Thirsk Community Primary School. Unfortunately we have not been able to invite families into school this year, instead we held a virtual Nativity and Christmas concert with some lovely songs being sung and performed using Macaton! The children have had a Christmas jumper Day, Christmas Parties and a virtual Christmas Fayre with fabulous donations from local business and friends and families of the school. We even had some cheeky visits from our School ELF Brandy Butter....
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23rd December, 2020.
"It’s a Christmas cracker! Some of Queen Mary’s School’s youngest pupils have filmed their first ‘movie’, written by Alistair Cowey, as they tell the story of the first Christmas....
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23rd December, 2020.
Parcels are packed and ready for distribution to families and the elderly in Thirsk next week. Rotary are working with Community Works to help spread a little cheer to those who need it most. Volunteers will be delivering the parcels on 23rd December....
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18th December, 2020.
Here are some pictures of our Year 5 and 6 classes. They all dressed up to celebrate their world war 2 topic.
The day included various activities including making a gas mask box, 3d paper aeroplanes, WW2 pencil and paper games, WW2 art....
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18th December, 2020.
Seven-year-old Jessica Sorbie and six-year-old twins, Coco and Betsy Van Huet, have won a Christmas card challenge set by homebuilder Taylor Wimpey North Yorkshire this month.
Asking pupils at Thirsk Community Primary School to get creative ahead of December 25th, the homebuilder set children in years two and three the task of designing a Christmas card for this year.
The best entries and winners of the challenge were promised the prize of a £50 gift voucher.
Year 3 teacher, Jemma Bullock, commented: “The children simply loved getting creative and designing their cards ahead of Christmas. There was certainly a lot of excitement in the room as they put the finishing touches on their designs....
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18th December, 2020.
This most unusual year is nearly at an end, and almost 60 members and friends entered the final club championship race this weekend, over 4 days, in the form of the virtual cross country in Kilburn Woods. When Rob Burn organises these races he likes to include a few hills and plenty of mud, and there was some of both this weekend - a 3 lap course with the outward half on solid stony tracks and then a short uphill on to a muddy return! Newish member, Andrew Price, continues to demonstrate his form, and he was quickest over the 3+ mile course in 28.02, with Stephan Tomaszewski 2nd in 29.15 and Matt Jones 3rd in 29.20. Ken Wood put in one of his appearances and took 31.34 in 4th place, just pipping Alan Simpson, 5th in 31.35. Rob Burn, in his element here, came 6th, not far behind, in 31.40, with Gary Bastow 7th in 31.54, Paul Peacock 8th in 32.52, Marc Davies, also in his element, 9th in 34.18 and Andy Butcher 9th in 35.44....
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18th December, 2020.
When the history of Sowerby’s new primary school Keeble Gateway is written, it will record a complex, some might say a bumpy, start-up. With delays in planning holding up the start of building work the School opened for its first small classes in temporary but very well equipped buildings and those first children were able to watch work on the permanent building.
I asked the Headteacher Nikkie Beniams how it had felt during their “rollercoaster” year.
“We opened in September 2019 in temporary premises serving Nursery and Reception children. In 2020 we moved to our brand new building and grew in size as a new group of children joined us and we had our first Year 1 cohort. Having a school built during National Lockdown was certainly challenging! We were lucky that the craning in of the building happened just before the Spring lockdown and so the project remained on track, but there were moments when the opening of the new school building felt under threat....
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11th December, 2020.
Here are some photos from Thirsk Community Primary School following their Art enrichment week. Over the week the whole school have been involved in Dance, various art and craft activities and even some African Drumming within their class 'bubbles'. The week has given all of our pupils an opportunity to spend time learning about different artists and different art techniques....
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11th December, 2020.
A HOUSING association has begun construction on a new £1 million road which will open the way for the building of almost 100 affordable homes on the outskirts of Thirsk.
Broadacres is currently applying to Hambleton District Council to build 97 new homes at the Sowerby Gateway site. These properties will mark the end of the development at Sowerby.
Work on the new road, which is off the B1448 Topcliffe Road (near the Premier Inn) is now underway, with completion expected in February 2021....
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11th December, 2020.
A retail worker from Thirsk has been named 2020 Union Learning Rep of the Year for Supporting Apprentices at this year’s virtual unionlearn Annual Conference.
Shirley Smith is a Union Learning Rep and Branch Secretary at the Tesco’s in Thirsk and has been supporting the stores apprentices at the store for some time.
Apprenticeships are a priority for Usdaw’s Lifelong Learning campaign, and the unions reps and ULRs have been working with employers across the country playing an important role in successful apprenticeship programmes - promoting the benefits of apprenticeships and supporting those who take them up.
Shirley has played a key part in helping the apprenticeship programmes succeed in her own store. She used her experience as a trainer and assessor for four years going around the store speaking to the day and night staff about the benefits apprenticeship bring and explaining how they work....
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11th December, 2020.
One consequence of the rules of the Christmas “bubbles” in time of tiered restrictions is that some people will be cut off from those they know and love. This can be depressing. Events that are a normal part of our highly traditional Christmas will be curtailed or simply not happen. There will be gaps, potentially silence. Things can look bad, and let’s admit that these are dark times if someone has suffered loss, maybe a job or financial security, loss of friends or contact group, or loss of schooling. For some there may be an empty chair at the table.
Christmas is great if you feel part of it, not so if you feel left out. There are ways of coping with this. Although we can all point to bad things that have happened, we can also count our blessings. Dawn comes. Be a “glass half full” person. We have learnt new skills and have been surprisingly adaptable. If you can’t be with loved ones, perhaps you can make something or write something for them instead. Phone and video links are a substitute for having someone in the same room, it’s worth the effort and if you aren’t up on the how-to of Zoom, someone will be able to tell you....
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4th December, 2020.
Thirsk and Sowerby Harriers is an inclusive club, with fast or slow, young or old, all made welcome and encouraged. The oldest member, Ian Codling, got even older this week, becoming an octogenarian! His philosophy is, one foot in front of the other, keep going until the end, for as long as you are able until you are forced to give up for health reasons - or lack of motivation! Ian is never short of that. He actually only took up running 20 years ago, following a sporting lifetime of playing, and then managing, football with Thirsk Falcons. He was forced to give up when it became necessary for him to have a hip replacement. He began, as many boys do, kicking a ball about in the school playground, and when he got to senior school, he eventually got into the school team as well as playing for Falcons. At least weekly football continued throughout university, and he turned out for more than one faculty team! When he came back to the area to teach, he was a regular with Falcons and one memorable occasion was a match against the Northern TV All Stars, a team of stars who obviously loved football, and would appear at charity events....
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4th December, 2020.
Children love doing craftwork, and to help them Rotary Club of Thirsk have donated £500 for bags of craft activities to be supplied to local children.
Thirsk Community Library is working with local schools to encourage children to read four library books before Christmas. Any child who signs up for the challenge is being given a Craft Bag, which is being put together by volunteers from Thirsk Yarnbombers, with the help of Rotary funding....
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4th December, 2020.
Over the past year Jasmine Harrison has been preparing for the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. The 21 year old from Thirsk is competing as a solo to row 3000 miles.
Even through the struggles of Covid she has managed to get this far....
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4th December, 2020.
Youngsters from Cundall Manor School, based near Ripon and Thirsk, took on the test of strength in a recent PE lesson that saw each child compete for their School House.
The unique tug of war event was organised by the school’s ever adventurous Games department and saw pupils as young as 7 compete to earn their School House coveted points.
Director of Sport, John Liley, was the man behind the fun event. He said: “With the current health emergency, we can’t engage with sport in the same way we would normally. Events like the tug of war break up the training programmes and inter-house games but also allow for our pupils to try something different, fun and memorable.”
He added: “It is not every day that you get to race your school friends in a minibus tug of war. Our pupils had a great time and it was lovely seeing the smiles on their faces as they competed....
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