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In every school year there are four planned inter-school cross-country races. ON THE EDGE MARCH 20 19 Issue 250 that extra bit of effort, and the sense of reward at the end The races are held at KLB on a Saturday and are is a tangible reminder of their achievements. highly popular with the children of North Nibley I use the word ‘achievement’ in the full knowledge that it is School. There are races for girls and boys separately in one of the four ‘buzz words’ from our school vision. “Our Lower Key Stage Two, (usually 7 to 9 year olds – the vision is to inspire and celebrate Learning, Achievement, ‘Junior’ races), and separate races for girls and boys in Faith and Fun!” Upper Key Stage Two, (9 to 11 year olds – the ‘Senior’ Achievement is more than getting things done. For us, races). achievement is going that extra mile (in this case, quite North Nibley School traditionally sends a large team, literally) and pushing hard to be the best we can be. It may because our Thursday morning running club, under the be evident in our maths, in our behaviour, in our leadership of Mrs Dixon, helps children develop stamina friendships and in our sport. We each have our own and pleasure in physical activity. The club is very popular. barriers to overcome. Merely completing the course could be an achievement for some, whilst others strive to better the positions achieved in the previous race. Perseverance is the value we associate most strongly with long-distance running, but we can also give respect to those who triumph, and give thanks for our God-given abilities. So how did we do? Junior Girls - this team came 3rd overall, with two collecting medals for their places overall in the season. Junior Boys - the North Nibley Team came first, with three of our boys collecting trophies for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places, for their individual efforts over the season. Senior Girls - this team also came first, with two of our girls collecting trophies for 1st and 2nd places overall. Senior Boys – our school team also came first, with two boys There are incentives for doing well and children have goals collecting medals for their places overall in the season. to aim for. The distances run each morning are added to a The club inspires our runners who do well and this inspires chart and important milestones (such as half and full others in their turn. Celebrate with us at the successful end marathons) are celebrated in assembly time, with to another season. And however you run, whatever your certificates and medals to match. Having a goal inspires ‘race’, run it well! Paul Batchelor, Head Teacher “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us”!! NOTES FROM YOUR PARISH COUNCIL The village Clean-Up day will be held on Saturday 23rd March. Volunteers At its February meeting the budget for are invited to help with this annual clean. 2019/20 was approved, as was a new design Meet at the village hall at 9.30 am to collect for council headed notepaper. Grant equipment and select areas to cover during the applications will be considered at the March day. Bring collected items back to the village meeting. hall Disposal of rubbish collected will be arranged by the parish council from outside the village hall. The Annual Parish Meeting will be held in the village hall on Monday 8th April 2019, 7.00 pm. The APM is The Community’s Meeting. An Speeding: The Council now has a opportunity for parishioners to hear of activities subgroup working on the speeding problem during the year, meet councillors, raise issues and on the main road. The subgroup will report meet invited speakers. on its work at the March meeting before All are welcome to attend. presenting the council's overall plans on this Please note the start time of 7.00 pm to allow time for important item at the Annual Parish council reports and presentations by invited speakers. Meeting. The next meeting of the parish council to which all are invited is Monday 4th March at 7.30 pm in the village hall. SNOW HEROES A big Thank you to all those who gave up their time and energy to clear the recent snow and grit roads in and around North Nibley. Not just in the village, but outlying areas like Pittcourt, Millend and Waterley Bottom. You are appreciated! (ARCHIVE PHOTO) **LEGALLY the Speed Limit through our village of North Nibley is 30MPH...** How many drivers travel at this speed? Despite flashing 30mph warning signs? I am proposing to ask Gloucestershire Highways for the installation of a pavement, wide enough to take a wheelchair, walker or pushchair, from the crossroads in the centre of the village to the lay-by on New Road (B4060 towards Dursley). I have organised a petition to present to Highways. PLEASE SUPPORT this Petition, so that our village will be a safer place for EVERYONE in the future. Copies of the petition are available for you to sign, in the Black Horse, and the Chapel, or contact Eliz Miller. Thank You! Eliz Miller 2 In loving memory of Lindsay Cooper Betty and all the family would like to warmly thank all who sent cards, flowers, kind words and attended the service at Cam Methodist Church to remember Lindsay's life. The Church was filled to capacity, which is in itself a testimony to the esteem and love many had for Lindsay. We would like to share the tribute by Lindsay's great niece, Jessica Marsh Lindsay was born at the helped train younger runners, Old Golden Heart in as well as organising the Pittcourt, on a snowy 28th Martin Blythe memorial run February in 1931, to Tom for several years, round the and Emma Cooper. He roads and woods of North was a little brother to twin Nibley. sisters Betty and Rosalie, where they grew up Only a few days before together in the pub. There Christmas, he was telling me they had an active how he used to run in childhood helping run the Singleton Park in Swansea pub, as well as finding with his running club, where time to play out in the I go to University. He was orchard. Betty can also really supportive of me remember being tied to a going to University, tree with her long plaits by especially for the paramedic Lindsay – a game that course me and my sister have Rosalie refused to partake recently applied for. in. As well as running, he also The three of them went to enjoyed other forms of North Nibley Primary exercise. As children Peter School and later Katherine Lady Berkeley’s Grammar School. and Linda can remember hikes in the Black Mountains and There he completed his O-Levels, before joining the Navy as a cycling trips to the newly opened First Severn Bridge, which writer aged 18. gave them their respective love of cycling and mountain walking. On many an occasion I remember him reciting During the Navy, he achieved the role of Chief Petty Officer – poems he had written, and how he would tell me about his Secretary to the Captain – for which he was awarded the progress hand-writing them down into a book. I hope this British Empire Medal. Whilst away in the Navy he sent home book is treasured. cine film of his travels, such as Singapore and Hong Kong. He also gave his sisters a beautiful Japanese dinner set each, which Over the summer during the drought, we ran round Pittcourt were used for his nieces Linda and Lesley’s weddings. borrowing as many hose-pipes as we could to help Uncle Lindsay put out the fire which was slowly engulfing the After leaving the Navy in his early forties, he worked at Orchard. This caused him to chuckle and reminisce on the Presentation Cases in Wotton, until his retirement, and by this time that his father set fire to the orchard and nearly the time he was living in the Old Golden Heart again. nearby field in the 1980’s. Hopefully this will not be a tradition that is passed down any further. He always had a tight bond with his sister Betty. He would take Lindsay also kept racing pigeons, as his father used to, which her shopping every week and they would go for a walk around used to travel as far as France. the village each day. Sadly, Lindsay and Betty’s sister Rosalie After me and my Dad took up scything, he told me how he died in 1984, which tightened their bond even more. used to scythe the orchard as a child with his father. Altogether, Lindsay had 5 nephews and nieces - Linda, Lesley, I will always remember Uncle Lindsay’s soft spot for dogs – Peter, Timothy and Rayner. He was also a great uncle as well especially his dog Sheba, who he signed birthday cards from as a great-great uncle. Unfortunately, he never met some of his with licks to us kids. Even after Sheba died, he would leave a great-great nieces and nephews due to the fact they live in bowl of water out for any neighbouring dogs who fancied a Australia with his niece Lesley, however many photographs drink, as well as her picture in the window. were exchanged. His Christian faith was strong and undergirded his whole life. In 2001 he was very ill in hospital for 2 months. I have a He was an Anglican by tradition, and was pleased to have a memory going to visit him with Dad and he enjoyed showing nephew Peter, and nephew-in-law Peter, ordained into the me all the tubes and pipes he was connected to.