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Dear Parent/Carer,
We are writing to invite your child to enter Chesterfield Royal Charity's Annual Charity Christmas Card Competition 2020.
This Year 2020 is certainly on that all of us will never forget. Coronavirus (COVID- 19) has affected us all in many different ways and we're all experienced a variety of emotions throughout this unprecedented period of time. We've been overwhelmed by the support our Charity has received throughout the pandemic and we hope people will still want to get involved in our good work!
We're asking creative children and young people up to the age of 18 to come up with a design for our Annual Charity Christmas cards. We hope they'll love the opportunity to showcase their talents - especially as we're fond of lots of colours, vivid imaginations and originality! Not only will the chosen designs feature on our Christmas cards - but the winner will also receive a special prize.
We know it's really early to start talking about Christmas, but the sooner we get the designs, the sooner we can get them professionally produced ready for the festive season!
This summer, RNLI Lifeguards can’t be on every beach, meaning a heightened water safety risk to beach goers. We are asking you to help us share some important messages to children and their families.
It is anticipated that as restrictions are eased and the summer weather is here, people will head to the beaches and coastline to enjoy the sun, sea and time with friends and family. In a normal year, the RNLI helps thousands of people who end up getting into difficulty in or close to the water when doing these types of activities.
Throughout the summer term, the RNLI's local team of trained volunteers and Lifeguards do their best to visit as many of the schools, colleges and youth groups in our region as possible. However, due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak they have not been able to engage with school communities as we normally would.
Below, you will find out ways in which you can help at this time.
Chesterfield in Bloom is our year-round campaign involving residents, businesses, schools, community groups and a wide range of volunteers.
Our aim is to involve more people in improving their local area, the environment and the character of Chesterfield, and we aim to make our town a cleaner and greener place to live, work and visit.
Our award-winning borough prides itself on the innovative displays you will see in parks, traffic islands and roundabouts. Over the years we have worked hard to improve the appearance of the borough as a place to live, work and visit.
We encourage local neighbourhoods to get active in improving their own areas of Chesterfield.
Chesterfield’s Still Blooming 2020
In 2020 Chesterfield was due to take part in both the East Midlands in Bloom competition as well as the national competition, Britain in Bloom competition. However, these competitions have been cancelled due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus. This has also meant the annual Chesterfield in Bloom competition for residents has had to be changed.
Chesterfield Borough Council is therefore launching a new competition for residents called Chesterfield’s Still Blooming that aims to find the best sunflowers in the borough.
There are three categories for which participants can be awarded:
To enter, please send a picture of your sunflower, stating your name and the category you want to enter to green.spaces@chesterfield.gov.uk
Chesterfield’s Still Blooming will run from May 2020 until Wednesday 30 September 2020. Winners will be given a special certificate and will have the satisfaction of knowing they grew the best sunflower in the borough.
Whilst growing your flowers, you can also keep children engaged by encouraging them to to start a plant diary and track the growth of their sunflower. This is also a good way of teaching them about how plants grow and what they need to survive. The council will be awarding special certificates for the most creative growth diaries. Please send pictures or copies of your growth diaries along with your entry to green.spaces@chesterfield.gov.uk
May is the best time to start to grow your sunflowers indoors before moving them outside ready to bloom by late summer.
The council will announce the winners on social media and share some of the best pictures from the competition. You can follow the council on Facebook and on Twitter.
Find out more about how to grow Sunflowers on the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) website.
Chesterfield’s digital flower festival – Grow and Tell
Chesterfield Borough Council is encouraging residents to share pictures of gardens, wildlife and wildflowers they spot around the borough in order to help create a digital flower festival.
The virtual festival, Grow and Tell, aims to collect images from around the borough in June and July that show off some of the colourful flower displays created by residents, as well as wildflowers and wildlife from across the borough’s many green spaces. Residents are also asked to share some of the stories behind the photographs.
All the images and accompanying messages that are sent in will be placed in a special gallery on the council’s website and Facebook page for anyone to view whenever they need a splash of colour and inspiration.
In order to share your pictures for Grow and Tell please send them to public.relations@chesterfield.gov.uk or send them via a message on Chesterfield Borough Council Facebook page or on the Chesterfield Borough Council Twitter.
View the Grow and Tell gallery.
Sponsoring Chesterfield in Bloom
Local businesses take pride in supporting the Chesterfield in Bloom campaign and helping to improve the town.
A wide range of opportunities are available, including tree sponsorship, hanging basket sponsorship, sponsoring a whole park and the popular traffic island sponsorship.
04 June 2020
Hello Chesterfield, and welcome to our Beat the Bug newsletter. Beat the Bug is a free health and wellbeing programme from the Intelligent Health team - the team behind the Beat the Street walking, running, rolling and cycling game.
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Do you know your community?
‘Know Your Chesterfield’ Starts Monday on 18 May for 6 weeks showcasing Chesterfield and helping everyone to really get to know Your Community.
Each day for the next 6 weeks this will be showcasing Chesterfield, showing you its schools, community groups, clubs, parks & leisure centres.
We are starting our journey to know Chesterfield this coming Monday with ‘Know Your Schools’.
Each day a different school from Chesterfield will be introducing themselves and showing what they have been up to during Covid-19 to stay connected as a school and to their community. And as its National Share-a-Story month, each school will also be reading a bedtime story to connect everyone before bedtime.
What’s coming up
Know Your Community Week – We get to meet some of the wonderful community groups working in Chesterfield that really make a difference in the community.
Know Your Clubs Week – Learn about some of the clubs that are operating in Chesterfield creating sustainable sport and recreational exercise in your community.
Know Your Leisure Centres Week – Explore what Queens Park Leisure Centre & Healthy Living Centre Staveley have to offer and meet some of the coaches and instructors in their video sessions.
Know Your Parks & Greenspaces – We learn about the wonderful parks, pocket parks and greenspaces Chesterfield has.
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My name is Sarah Wray and my passion is mental and emotional well-being; to help people – whether individuals or within schools and organisations – to enhance their own well-being; to thrive not just survive!
We will all see times when our well-being is flourishing and then times when we struggle, some of us more than others. Well-being affects every part of our lives, including our work or education. We cannot always avoid mental ill health, but we can be better prepared to deal with it.
Our inner state impacts on the way we experience the world and how we live; when our well-being is good, we feel happier and healthy; we feel and function better personally, socially and professionally.
We can all help ourselves to have better well-being; whether there is a specific issue that is holding us back, and we are ready to deal with; or to build resilience to handle the stresses of life better on a daily basis and support us when life throws us a curve-ball!
At times we have no control over things that happen, but we have total control over how we handle it – having the tools to choose how we handle things is so empowering.
We all deserve to live in the best way we can.
Launch of the Community Response Unit |
Message from Derbyshire County Council
We’ve launched our Community Response Unit which has begun taking requests for urgent help from members of the community who don’t have friends or family able to support them.
Volunteers from over 200 different organisations will be able to help with shopping, fetching prescriptions or offering a befriending service.
Help is available for people across the county if they are:
You may know someone in your community or through the course of your work who needs support. Please direct them to www.derbyshire.gov.uk/gethelp or ask them to call 01629 535091.
At Hasland Infant School we are always extremely proud of the art work our children create.
As you know this week has been ‘Multi-cultural Week’ in our school and we have been learning all about Japan. Each class has created some wonderful artwork inspired by different Japanese Art and Japanese Artists. A selection of these pieces will be exhibited in the hall on Monday 2nd March and Tuesday 3rd March after school.
All children produce different artwork every half term which is displayed in classrooms on our corridors throughout school. We would encourage you to have a look around at the different art exhibited in the hall and around our school.
We are sure you will be impressed.
The PTFA and school staff would like to send a big thank you to everyone who contributed towards making the Festive Family Fun day a huge successful.
The total amount raised is £1,200.00.
The PTFA are also still looking for volunteers to help out with the Christmas Shop. If you can spare a few hours on Thursday or Friday morning please contact the school office.