LONG SUTTON AND LONG LOAD NEWSLETTER – Long Sutton C of E (VA) Primary School and Toybox pre- November 2018 school Visit the official Website: www.longsutton.org.uk The children have taken part in two fundraising events Email: [email protected] recently. Firstly, our Year 1 children hosted a Macmillan Coffee morning in the school hall and raised £255.52. We are grateful Date Long Sutton & Long Load Calendar to everyone who helped make this possible. Secondly, the 3rd 10.30am Coffee morning in the Church School Harvest Service took place in the Church led by Rev 4th 6.30pm Evening Prayer Jane. Instead of bringing produce for our Harvest festival, the 11th 10.50am Remembrance children came to school dressed in blue and made a donation 15th 7.45pm WI LSVH towards the charity ‘Wateraid’. This was to raise awareness of the importance of this precious commodity, not only for farmers 18th 10.30am Benefice service at Long Sutton in this country but for the many people in the world who don’t 15th 7.45pm WI LSVH have access to clean water. This supported our whole school 21st 10am Corporate Communion @ Long Sutton Church th topic which is focussing on a range of environmental issues. 25 9.15am Holy Communion We were delighted to raise £106.80 for this very worthy cause and are thankful for the donations. Date Flowers & Brasses Rota Twenty one members of the School Choir enjoyed singing heartily in the Village Harvest Festival in Holy Trinity Church Nov 3rd Mrs Neil and appreciated the warm welcome and hearty supper which Nov 10th Mrs Brand followed. Nov 17th Mrs Brand Mrs R Cox & Mrs The children all enjoyed a day on a ‘Life education bus’ which Shepard arrived at school providing a memorable, interactive Nov 24th Mrs Bond experience for them. The specially trained educators taught Dec 1st Mrs Bond the children how to keep themselves healthy and safe using puppets. . Our ‘Music Buddies’ group for 0-4 year olds will continue every Coffee Mornings in the Church Monday from 9.30a.m until 11am term times only, which Autumn announced its presence with heavy rain on the includes a sing, play and snack in the school hall. It costs morning of the October coffee morning. People turned out £2.00 for the first child, £1.00 for other siblings. All welcome. despite the weather and the event raised £404 for the Farming If you would like to find out more about our fantastic school do Community Network (FNC). It was very helpful the following get in contact and come and visit. We have spaces in all year day to hear more detail of the work of the charity at the harvest groups including the pre-school with wrap around care from festival service. 7.45 to 5.45. Toy Box pre-school is now open all day from 8.45 Future events: to 3.15 and parents are able to access the wrap around care On Saturday, 3rd November our services charity will be too. Contact us on 01458 241434, Service Dogs UK. The charity trains and provides assistance longsuttonprimary@educ.somerset.gov.uk, Website: dogs to support members of the Armed Forces and http://www.longsuttonprimaryschool.co.uk ;Facebook: Emergency Services (including the RNLI and Coastguard) who @LongSuttonPrimarySchool ;Twitter: @longsuttonsch have PTSD. The charity mainly uses rescue dogs to achieve unique partnerships that will benefit the lives of both partners. Long Sutton Primary School PTFA Christmas Cart Due to the great success of our Christmas cart last year, On Saturday, 1st December we will be supporting the work of raising a fabulous amount of money for Long Sutton Primary the Salvation Army. School and D & S Air Ambulance, Father Christmas has agreed to join us again this year. The Village Carol Service 2018 Please look out for us in the run up to Christmas and give is on Dec 16th at 6pm in the Parish Church. father Christmas a wave. Rehearsals for the supporting Village Choir will be at 7.30pm We are starting on the 7th December with Drayton and on the following dates:- Nov 28, Dec 4th, 6th, 10th, 14th. Muchelney, 8th December Somerton, 9th December Everyone who enjoys singing is welcome to join the choir. Hambridge and Westport. 12th December Kingston, 14th Jess 01458 241443, [email protected] December Huish Episcopi, 15th December Long Sutton and Upton and finally 16th December Knole and Long Load. Mothers Union Long Sutton Primary School PTFA held its Annual General th November 21st: Corporate Communion @ Long Sutton Church Meeting on Thursday 4 October. In this meeting the Committee wanted to express their thanks and gratitude to the Long Sutton W.I. local community for their support for the school, especially in The next Long Sutton WI meeting is on Thursday 15th relation to fundraising events. November at 7.45pm at the Village Hall. Particular thanks goes to The Friendly Society, organisers of We will be having a presentation about Aloe Vera Forever the Christmas Cart, Harry Fry from Harry’s Cider and Trish Living Products. This should prove extremely interesting and Coombes, from Bineham City Farm for involving the PTFA in informative especially as we are all looking to using more fundraising events and making donations to the school. This natural products and move away from those which use a has allowed the purchase of new colourful outdoor benches, synthetic base. Competition: a cactus/succulent. new library books, classroom equipment and a drumming day for pupils. The children are delighted with these resources and This Christmas, the LSWI will be supporting our local Women's we would like to convey how much these purchases enrich the Refuge. To make their Christmas a little bit more special, we experience of the children as they embark on their learning are collecting toiletries and little luxury treats. If you do have journey. any niceties to spare, please bring them to the meeting. FOLSC into Christmas! Our social evening proved a great success. There was a What better way to start the Christmas season than joining us minimum of business and a maximum of enjoyment - good at the Long Sutton Village Hall for our final outing of the 2018 conversation, food and drink with a couple of quiz's thrown in season on Saturday 1st December. Following feedback as well. A big thank you to Angela for hosting the event and received from our members, we have laid on a presentation for all her hard work. that we hope will appeal to a wide cross section of the Our December meeting will be a Christmas Celebration. community. You are invited to join us for an evening of good Do come along and join us. See you on the 15th! company, homemade Christmas Canapés, drinks from the bar and a fully illustrated audio-visual presentation from FOLSC Trustee Geoff Pringle mysteriously entitled ‘’A Vignette of unpublished Naval Stories- HMS Polruan, HMS Express If any Villager would like a book or glass please contact and a U Boat!’’ Tommy Tulk 01458 241486 or call in at Tullards cost £10.00 Whilst Geoff is not giving too much away, he will be drawing on per item. Any profit on these will of course be given to local experiences gained over a lifetime of collecting and with 16 Charities. years working on the fringes of the Antiques trade. During the day the society presented Cheques for £ 3250 to Specifically, he will highlight three objects from his own both the Air Ambulance and Village School from the proceeds collection, each of which has proved to be a bit of a raised at our celebratory Beer festival in May. conundrum. He will present his first-hand research which On Saturday 22nd members of the society were again raising encompasses largely unknown incidents from two World Wars money at a fund raising event to raise funds for a local boy and you will have the opportunity to inspect a small display of Mckenzie Lock who requires an operation which is not related artefacts from his own collection. You will also have the available on the NHS. opportunity for questions about the presentation or his I can confirm that we raised £9006.24. Well done to everyone experiences as your local ‘Del Boy’ trader! who helped and contributed to this event. Whist the evening is a must for all those in the community with a naval background, this is not just ‘Boy’s Own Paper’ stuff and Long Sutton Friendly Society Christmas he promises to keep your attention whatever your background Celebration: Please come and see the Christmas Tree Lights or inclinations! During the interval we will be serving a range switched on and Meet Father Christmas on Saturday of Christmas canapés and with drinks from the bar, our guests 1st December at 6.00pm outside the church. Please come and will have the chance to mingle with friends and perhaps make enjoy a mince pie, mulled wine, treats for the children and sing some new ones. As ever with FOLSC events we are open to a few carols with Father Christmas. all and more so if you are new to the community. Tickets are available now from any of the FOLSC Trustees at a modest £10.00 each or call Geoff at the Box Office on 01458 241371. Remember every penny we raise goes to support our LONG LOAD Charity’s fighting fund to maintain the fabric of Holy Trinity Church for the benefit of our community now and for the CRAFTY LADY`s CLUB DATES 2018 generations that will follow us, so we hope for a really good Long Load Village Hall turnout for this one! 2 pm – 4:30pm

Long Sutton Gardening Club WEDNESDAY 14TH NOVEMBER November 14th: Martin Young: Gardening on clay. Flower Christmas Card/Decoration competition. Please book your place with Marsha Teas: Brenda and Malcolm Meadem, Sue and Dick Sheppard. WEDNESDAY 12TH DECEMBER Christmas Get Together Somerset Churches Trust ‘Ride+Stride’ Please contact Marsha for Bookings 01458 241415 A big ‘thank you’ again to all those who participated in the or email [email protected] annual Somerset Churches Trust ‘Ride+Stride’ event held on Long Load Village Hall 2pm – 4pm Refreshments available. 8th September this year, raising just over £600. Half of this will Everyone welcome. come to Holy Trinity and the other half used by The Trust for grants to help other churches needing repair or maintenance. New members of the Village Hall Committee Thanks are due not only to those who pedalled from church to Our thanks to Barbara Nieto and Sarah Badger for agreeing to church, but also those who ‘manned’ Holy Trinity throughout join the Village Hall Committee, following our request in the the day. Most importantly, thanks go to all our sponsors who last Newsletter. have given so generously and have all contributed to the success of the event. I would also like to extend my sincere Whist Drive at the Village Hall, Saturday 10th November gratitude to Dan Shoreland-Ball, who has single-handedly There will be a whist drive at the Village Hall on Saturday 10th organised the local event over the past 14 years. His efforts November at 7.30pm. Players of all abilities are welcome, have resulted in Long Sutton being recognised by The Trust as singles, couples and whole families. There will be light the highest contributing village in the Somerset event for the refreshments served, but please bring your own drink. The last two years running. Well done Dan ! cost will be £4 per person. Please call Ann on 01458 241202 if Could any interested cyclists please remember Ride+Stride for you are planning to attend so that we have an idea of numbers next year and pump up those tyres for September 2019. for catering. David Astington. Carol Singing Round the Village Art history series in Long Sutton Village Hall, For the last two years a group of singers has enjoyed singing with Joanna Cobb, MA. 'Every Picture Tells a Story: carols round the village one evening in the week before Reading 19th century art'. Christmas. It is planned to repeat the event this year. Watch Next llecture iin thiis series ’Pre-Raphaelite storytelling', the December Newsletter for details. Monday 26th November 2018, 7 pm - 9 pm. The seriies can be jjoiined at any tiime. £10 for one person /£18 for two peoplle per Christmas Eve Carols llecture. Inclludes comprehensiive handouts and liight The traditional Christmas Eve carol event will be held in the refreshments wiith glluten free and decaf. choiices. Village Hall on Monday 24th December. Come along with Other tiimes and venues avaiillablle llocalllly for each llecture. friends and family to enjoy our annual celebration. Full details Addiitiionall autumn series, ''The ''gentller'' sex? A hiistory of will appear in the December Newsletter. women as artiists'' avaiillablle iin Gllastonbury and Somerton. For more iinformatiion or to reserve a pllace contact Joanna on Winter Warming Supper 01458 832178 or [email protected] or just come The Winter Warming Supper will be held at the Village Hall on allong. Allll wellcome. No previious experiience needed in late January or early February. A choice of delicious one-pot warmers plus dessert and coffee will be on offer. The date will be confirmed in the next Newsletter LONG SUTTON FRIENDLY SOCIETY 200 Year Celebration: A big Thank You to everyone who helped in celebrating at our ______final event on September 15th. The day and evening were a great climax to our celebrations. During this, we unveiled our Items for the December newsletter to Lieve Cousins, Spring book celebrating 200 years and also promoted our Whisky House, Shute Lane, Long Sutton TA10 9LU or preferably by email Goblet which has been produced for the celebration. The to [email protected] by 12th November please. For younger and older members certainly enjoyed the Roundabout more information call 01458 241450 and Ferris Wheel and the evening dance and pig roast were an undoubted success.