James Wolfe Primary School, Greenwich needs your help! 

At James Wolfe Primary School, we have started work with a company called 'OPAL', which stands for Outdoor Play and Learning. Their vision is: every child in every school has an amazing hour of high-quality play every day – with no exceptions. We want every school to plan for, resource and evaluate the quality of their play provision as if it were an important human right, essential to all aspects of children’s development and a source of joy and happiness. We are developing our play opportunities to help our children to develop their whole selves and experience the 16 types of play OPAL outline in their training. 

What kinds of things do we need? 

- Large amounts of soil

- Large amounts of sand

- Large amounts of chalk for children to use

- Wooden Palettes and crates 

- Any cardboard 

- Dressing up clothes

- Children's books

- Toys

- Old Suitcases

- Anything that could be used for den-building or junk-modelling

- Giant board games! 

- Anything that you/your company need to dispose of that you think could be safe for children to play with (e.g. cardboard)

If you or any companies/organisations you have contact with could support us, please contact Joe Armson (Assistant Headteacher) (jarmson@jameswolfe.greenwich.sch.uk). 

If you would like to know more about the OPAL organisation, please follow the links here: 

The website for OPAL is here: https://outdoorplayandlearning.org.uk/ 

A video of a school who have worked with OPAL for 18 months:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXxgxygdFWo&t=31s 

Thank you very much for your time and, in advance, for your help!

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75 Ashburnham Grove - UPDATE & ACTION

The property is now being filled with vulnerable people housed through the Noble Tree Charity working with Luton Borough Council.   An updated management plan has been produced by the developer (Grosvenor House) and Noble Tree setting out how it will operate.

The community has been invited to look at the document and feedback.   Peter Ferenz (a local resident) has kindly offered to collate community responses. Please take a look at the document (a link to it is attached below) and feedback by email to pferenz@debevoise.com as soon as possible (we have until the 29th April).

Peter is suggesting you respond to him using this structure to help him collate responses:

• On whose behalf are you submitting comments to the latest management plan?
• Are you in support of the management plan? Yes/no
• Are there specific items in the management plan to which you wish to raise an objection? If yes, please explain.
• Are items missing from the management plan that you think should be added/considered? If yes, please explain?
• Based on your reading of the management plan, what concerns should be raised to the council?

 

Link to document. 

Tom

Next ATA history group talk Thursday 15 February 7.30 at West Greenwich Library

Neil Sinclair, Greenwich tour guide and volunteer at Royal Museums Greenwich, kicks off our 2024 history talk programme with a detailed look at the Queens House - the first palladian style building constructed in Britain.

Conceived following a royal row over a hunting accident in 1613, the Queens House has been a museum and art gallery since 1937. But over its approximately 400 years of history it has served as a royal love nest for King Charles II, a temporary home for the first astronomer royal, a studio for Dutch marine painters Willem van de Velde and son, a refuge for Huguenots escaping religious persecution in France, a school for sons and daughters of Royal Navy seafarers, and laterly a film set for block-buster period dramas The Crown, Bridgerton, and Oscar-winner The Favourite.

Queen Henrietta Maria, for whom it was completed around 1638, called it her house of delights and together with her husband King Charles I filled it with exquisite artworks from the most gifted painters of the 17th century, including Orazio Gentileschi and Anthony van Dyck.

Come along to West Greenwich Library on Thursday 15th February to learn more about the first neo-classical building in Britain, its architect Inigo Jones and the ghost said to haunt the great entrance hall and spectacular tulip staircase. 

Doors open from 7.00 and the talk will start at 7.30.

December's carol singing

Robin and Janet report that the carol singing in December raised £500 for the charity Shelter — £280 from the carols and quiz, and £220 from the Ash.