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TABLE TOP SALE


SAXMUNDHAM & district branch Royal British Legion with sub branch Yoxford. Table top sale, Yoxford


village hall, 9.30am till 2pm Saturday 31st August. Refreshments


Cakes,


parking and admission. books, clothes,


craft,


jewellery, tools, tombola, bric- a-brac and much more. Do come and grab a bargain – all proceeds


will go to


Saxmundham & District branch Royal British Legion. The Legion’s mission is to safeguard the welfare, interests and memory of those who are serving or have served in the Armed Forces. A


Registered Charity. Charity No. 219279. CommunityNews01 available.


Bargains galore, lots of stalls. Free


Year 6 Athletics Tournament at Alde Valley Academy


ON Thursday 20th June, a Primary Athletics Tournament was held at Alde Valley Academy.


attended consisted of: Coldfair Green, Snape and


The schools that Leiston


Primary School. To win the competition, each student had to compete in four athletic events: throwing, long jump, running and relay. Each event had points, depending on the student’s place. Therefore, the school with the most points at the end of the day, was announced the winner. We asked students from Coldfair


Green how they


enjoyed their afternoon. Daisy, Lexi and Annabel commented; “We really


enjoyed the


athletics. It was very well organised and the students from Alde Valley Academy who helped us gave really good advice and encouraged us to push ourselves to our limits.”


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After a very eventful afternoon, the results were added up and announced. In third place was Snape Primary, runner-up was Coldfair Green,


Primary Drama Workshop at Alde Valley Academy


STUDENTS from Coldfair


Green, Benhall and Middleton Primary School visited Alde Valley Academy for a drama session with Ms Manders. They started off with a few warm up games like wink murder and ‘I went to the shops and I bought…’ After a few very energetic


warm up activities, the students got to experience


practical


work. They broke off into small groups and rehearsed different parts of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears.’ Each group then performed their chosen scenes.


said,


Students, Daisy and Sam “It


was really fun


and interactive and a great experience of being at Alde Valley Academy.”


Daisy said that she felt that she could reach her dream of becoming an actress. Ms Manders, Teacher, said,


“All the


Drama the


children were really involved and engaged. It was a very enthusiastic enjoyed


afternoon; they workshop and


learnt some new skills. It was a brilliant day.” Written by students


Lucy, Sarah and Emilee


The Whistlecraft Family- A Poacher’s Life


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murder, the


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poaching, and ‘knocked out’ his sentences in the prisons of Ipswich, Norwich, Pentonville, Wandsworth and Dartmoor. He died in 1960, but not before spending some of the happiest years of his life working for Major Wilson of Hinderclay Hall, a gentleman with whom he’d had a number of runnings in the past, but who then proposed to employ Joe on the premise that ‘poachers make the best gamekeepers’. Pip’s spellbinding delivery was enhanced by the perfectly timed arrival of a summer storm over Snape Village Hall, just as we listened to the account of one particularly


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Subsequently tried for murder, Joe was acquitted thanks to the intervention of a skilled barrister, Mr Gerald Howard, who proved able to dismantle the case for the prosecution. Joe was minded to send Mr Howard a brace of pheasants by way of thanks, but then thought better of it! For anyone interested in finding more about the Whistlecraft family, Pip Wright’s excellent book ‘Whistlecraft – The true story of the poachers of Rickinghall’ is available via the author’s website: www.pipwright. com. The photograph of Joe Whistlecraft


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infamous night-time poaching sortie to Stubbings Wood. As real thunder and lightning provided backdrop,


an it was easy


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imagine Joe and his younger brother struggling through flooded ploughed fields, their boots clogged


with heavy


clay soil, as they made their way towards the cover of the wood. On this occasion, their evening would end in disaster. Startled by a bright flashlight cutting through the darkness, Joe fired his rifle to put out the light but, instead, shot the gamekeeper Charles Cornwell, causing fatal


injuries. Open Evening


and the winner was Leiston Primary. They will go on to represent the Alde Valley Pyramid School in the County Finals, hosted at Bury St Edmund’s track, in July 2019. Mrs Mayhew, the Head of Faculty at Alde Valley, commented; ‘Well done to all competing athletes, and to the Year 8 Alde Valley students for


their efficiency in officiating. Good luck to Leiston Primary in the final!’


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AT


Club Celebrates 50th Charter Night Handover a recent dinner at


Halesworth Saxmundham Golf celebrated Club,


Rotarians, plus partners and guests


and District the


start


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the guests, the club welcomed Rotary District


Governor Jonathan King and wife Chris on his first official outing in his new role. This provided an opportunity DG Jonathan induct


for to formally three new members


into the club, Archana Bhatia, Joyce Friend and John Denman.


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It was also an occasion for current


club President Owen Lower, who has served for the last two years,


to


handover the reins to Steve Seager who has been in the role of club secretary. Steve is also the Rotary 1080 District Secretary and will combine the two posts for the coming year. DG Jonathan toasted the club and wished everyone a very successful year ahead. Keir Wyatt


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