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ORCHARD PARK COMMUNITY COUNCIL Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 1 About Orchard Park Community Council A ‘Community Council’ is another name for a Parish or Town Council – the first and most local level of government closest to the people and representing the concerns of the local community. It is an elected local For matters regarding the authority with nine councillors that Community Council: represents Orchard Park. It tries hard [email protected] to punch above its weight. It works closely with South Cambridgeshire Community Centre and Sports Facilities to announce that we shall be District Council and the County Booking enquires: providing space for advertising. Council but is separate from them. www.orchardpark.gov.uk/bookings Editorial Please get in contact for more General enquires and booking: information on advertising rates. 2 About and Contact Information [email protected] elcome to our Spring If you have any news or 3 Editorial newsletter for 2019. It something you’d like promoted, The Orchard Community Centre contains updates from please let us know. 4 From the Chair of the Community Council Central Avenue W Orchard Park Community Cambridge This newsletter is produced by It5 Meet is funded your Community by a “precept” Councillors part of the CB4 2EZ Council (OPCC) and the latest council tax as well as income from the news in our community. Orchard Park Community community6 District Councillor centre Information and sports ground 01223 420750 Council and is distributed to all as well as initial funding from developers.8 County Councillor It owns Report and runs most of We employ a number of staff households and businesses in the open space and play areas within W W W www.orchardpark.gov.uk including a teamof caretakers Orchard Park. A digital copy is Orchard9 Community Park. Gallery that strive to keep Orchard Park available on our website: 10 Community News and Events OPCCpage clean, green and safe. If you notice something wrong please Orchardpark.gov.uk 11 TerraCycle at the Community Centre get in touch and let us know, if 20 Wildlife Project we can’t help we will hopefully Sign up to our Facebook Page to Stanley Ave be able to point you in the right get the latest updates: 22 Local Policing and Crime Prevention direction of who should be able @OPCCpage 26 Welcome to Marmalade Lane to help.
Central Ave 30 Primary School Newsletter With the growth of community Your Editorial Team 32Thought of the Month from the Vicar clubs and groups, we are happy [email protected]
2 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 3 and although shocking, I would like to reassure residents that we have been working very closely with the Police and their partners, the County Council, South Cambs District Council, and youth workers in addressing these issues. The evidence
suggests that it was clearly a Archeological finds from Orchard Park during the excavation of the site targeted and isolated incident Generic photo of some people having a really productive meeting and there is currently no Meet your Community Councillors elevated risk to other members of the public. Your Community Council has nine elected members and are unpaid for their services to the community. The Council look after your parks, Photo credit: Jemima Wilcox I can understand that residents community centre, sports facilities, promote community events, and are worried but I believe that communicate the needs of our residents to the District and County the community can work Councils, and the Police. Hello there! together to put a stop to Andrew Chan Yemi Macaulay On behalf of the Orchard Park antisocial behaviour and deter Chairman Community Council, I would like criminality. We are working with to welcome you all to our Spring Police and others councils to [email protected] [email protected] 2019 community newsletter. implement increased community resilience and safety. More We’ve had a busy few months information can be found in this Elisa Meschini Robert Nixon - Vice Chairman and would like to thank issue of our magazine. members of the community for [email protected] The Police encourage residents all their help with the Christmas [email protected] event, Chinese New Year to join Neighbourhood Watch Saima Din and to set up local groups to celebrations, and board games Fred Oboloje evening. If you would like to help reduce crime and to raise awareness. [email protected] hold a community event, please [email protected] do get in touch! Toni Page Cllr Andrew Chan, PhD Filippo Facciani You may have heard of the recent reports of anti-social Chairman behaviour and violent incident Orchard Park Community Council [email protected] [email protected] at the skate park on the news, [email protected] 4 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 5 itself over the last three years that South Cambridgeshire District made me want to stand for the Contact information for local council. I want to ensure that South Cambs Councillors for Orchard Park, at least in this area, we continue to District Council Histon and Impington be outward, open, and welcoming and that you, now as my What does the District Council do? constituents, have the chance to Benefits: [email protected] 03450 450 061 District, borough, and city councils cover smaller areas than county express that approach to life politically. Without being open and Building Control: councils and responsible for: refuse collection, recycling, collecting [email protected] Council Tax, housing,licensing, and planning applications. applying knowledge and 0300 772 9622 experience at local level, we cannot Your District councillors: Cllrs Martin Cahn ([email protected]), Elections:[email protected] solve the many problems facing us, 03450 455 214 Pippa Heylings ([email protected]), and Steve Hunt social and environmental, cultural (cllr.hunts@@scambs.gov.uk). In this issue, Martin will introduce himself Environmental Services: and economic. [email protected] and tell us about the things he’s been involved with. 03450 450 063 My interests are conservation, Read their monthly reports at: https://hiopcouncillors.wordpress.com Housing Benefit Fraud: 0800 854 440 environmental topics, and Martin Cahn Wales, getting to know the area Other Fraud:[email protected] internationalism. I am vice chair of 0800 7311 892 intimately. Seeking wider the District Council’s Climate and Histon and Impington experience, I moved to France and Environment Committee and on Housing: [email protected] is a small local village, 03450 450 051 worked with an international their Planning Committee and but it is very network of local authorities working Brexit advisory group. These are Planning: [email protected] international in its outlook and 03450 455 215 on exchange of experience key issues in South Cambridgeshire evolution, as its role changed from programmes on sustainable energy as it shows rapid expansion, so I Revenues: [email protected] an agricultural village, through an 03450 450 064 topics, so my own experience has look forward to adopting industrial centre, to a commuting been local and international, environmentally friendly policies as Rents: [email protected] centre for a knowledge-based 03450 455 216 theoretical and practical. our contribution to global problems economy, with the newest example - as they say ‘Think Global, Act For all other enquiries: of that change being the After 16 yrs spent abroad I retired [email protected] Local’. 03450 450 500 development of Orchard Park. and returned to the UK in 2008 with my Polish wife, Aga, and two [email protected] Born to a refugee father and a very young sons, initially caring for my English mother , I have been elderly mother, and then moving to W W W www.scambs.gov.uk exposed to a plurality of cultures. Impington in 2012. So like so many @SouthCambs After a doctorate in plant ecology, I in our village, I am multicultural, South Cambridgeshire spent 17 years as a local authority open and mobile. In effect it was countryside officer based in South the country’s political retreat into [email protected]
6 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 7 County Councillor for Orchard Community Park, and Histon and Impington
What does the County Council do? Gallery It provides social care for people of all ages; runs libraries; takes care of our roads, footpaths and cycleways; supports the development of our economy; disposes of our waste; manages the County Farms Sohini Datta Biswas estate; delivers programs to improve public health; funds new Noémi Horváth-Áncsán schools; engages with other public sector bodies to make Cambridgeshire a great place to live, work and visit.
David Jenkins up the accounts). And in the time I am the county plan for next month only two will meet. Why do we have so many of councillor for Histon Sohini Datta Biswas and Impington, a them? division which also includes the King’s Meadow and Orchard Full Council meeting There was a county council Park. I was first elected in 2005 Mandy Haywood when I was one of two meeting during March. It was most councillors for a wider area notable because I think it’s the first which also included Cottenham. time we had prayers from an active Muslim cleric and it’s the first time Sohini Datta Biswas I attend the monthly Orchard I’ve heard applause at the end. My Park Community Council account is at meetings and you can find my https://wp.me/p7tuu7-1QV monthly County Councillor reports on my website. For further information, please see my website March 2019 Report: [email protected] www.cllrdavidjenkins.com It was a busy month but not much was done. All the Council’s www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ committees met and took between If you wish to have your photos in the community magazine, please them a grand total of one key email them to [email protected] or post them on our decision (and that was for tidying Facebook Page: @OPCCpage
8 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 9 Community News and Events Recycling with TerraCycle at the Community Centre
We have partnered with Previous fun evening of board games. TerraCycle to provide recycling The Community Centre currently Community Events Many thanks to St John’s Church facilities for certain types of accepts thesespecific and for organising. waste that normally cannot be clean items only. More Many thanks to all those placed in your blue bins. We will information on the following involved with our past events be given points for everything pages. and for helping us to celebrate we collect and these will then our diverse community.If you be donated to our local primary • Crisp packets would like to organise an school, so please get recycling! • Baby food pouches, caps, event please contact and snack packets [email protected] • Pringles cans
• Toothpaste tubes, caps, Chinese New Year was also a packaging, regular plastic wonderful success with over 100 tooth bushes, toothbrush people attending. We had a heads wonderful evening of traditional dumpling making, arts and • Biscuit and cracker crafts, and raffle prizes. Many wrapping, cake wrappers We had a fantasticChristmas thanks to CFT and Cambridge celebration full of mince pies, CFT Chinese School. • Soft disposable contact carols, and mulled wine; and a lenses, blister packs, foil film 10 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 11 Recycling Units Kg Points Recycle your items at the Programme Collected Collected Earned Colgate Oral Care 21 0.210 527 Community Centre Crisp Packets 596 2.98 569 Total 617 3.19 1123
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12 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 13 Parking the sports grounds car park. We Drivers must park considerately • opposite a traffic island or (if also ask parents to consider as to not discriminate and this would cause an The original design guide for walking their children to/from endanger pedestrians and other obstruction) another parked Orchard Park planned for a the school where possible as to road users. vehicle “maximum of 1.5 parking reduce air pollution and to spaces per dwelling” . This promote wellbeing. PleaseDO NOT block dropped • where the kerb has been included garages, off-street kerbs. These are designed for lowered to help wheelchair parking, and rear court parking. In certain parts of Orchard Park, mobility access, buggies, and users and powered mobility Some of these would have been there are greater densities of car those with visual impairment. vehicles marked/unmarked and ownership than what the design YouMUST NOT park in parking shared/private. guide had planned for and this spaces reserved for specific • in front of an entrance to a (https://www.scambs.gov.uk/ has led to parking issues such as users, such as Blue Badge property media/9821/orchard-park- parking on pavements or on holders, reisdents or design-guidance-spd.pdf page private roads. motorcycles, unless entitled to • onabend 24) do so. We can understand that it is • where you would obstruct We have various parking frustrating for car owners to The Highway Code gives clear cyclists’ use of cycle facilities restrictions in Orchard Park, experience parking difficulties guidance in Parking (239 to except when forced to do so including waiting restrictions as and if uncertain, we encourage 252): by stationary traffic. indicated by double yellow lines you to check your documents https://www.highwaycodeuk.co. We have also been experiencing and single yellow lines. Drivers such as title deeds with the Land uk/parking.html issues with goods vehicles (e.g. are reminded to observe these Registry, tenancy agreements, heavy goods vehicles, HGVs) restrictions and that includes Excerpt from the Highway and/or management companies parking on pavements and even parking on the pavement. For Code: Rule 243 for clarification. Please do not on the roundabout. Parking on example, there are waiting and park in private roads unless the pavement is an offence and parking restrictions around the DO NOTstop or park: permitted to do so by the land is dangerous. primary school, and drivers must owners. • near a school entrance not park on the yellow lines We are in discussions with the where indicated. The restricted Driving on pavements in an • anywhere you would prevent Police, SCDC, and County times for waiting and parking on offence (Highway Code 145. You access for Emergency Council to address these issues. the single yellow lines are MUST NOT drive on or over a Services If you have any further indicated on the signs. We pavement, footpath or information, please pass it onto encourage parents who are bridleway except to gain lawful • opposite or within 10 metres us and report incidences to the picking up and dropping off access, or in the case of an (32 feet) of a junction, except Police. their children from the school to emergency.) Obstructive parking in an authorised parking park safely and to consider is also an offence. space other options such as parking in
14 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 15 Examples of bad parking: Neal Drive Western plot
As many of you may know, we There are two planning have had issues with applications for this site, both by unauthorised encampments at Marchingdale Developments the end of Neal Drive on Limited. One is for two multiple occasions. The caravans residential blocks of 99 were able to enter the site apartments (S/0768/18/FL) and through damage of the previous the other is for 168 student bollards and also when Anglian rooms (S/3983/18/FL). Water needed access to the X On a bend pumping station. Many thanks to those who also submitted their opinions to the X Pavement The matter has now been SCDC Planning website. resolved with swift aid of X Dropped kerb X At a junction enforcement officers from X Facing oncoming traffic X Pavement SCDC, the Police, and others. Neal Drive The Community Council have X Near school entrance placed soil bunds to deter access and the developers of the land east of Neal drive (proposed Aparthotel behind Topper Street Play Area) have installed new bollards and wooden hoarding.
Developments on plot COM4 at Neal Drive Eastern plot There are two parts to the X On a bend At a junction X COM4 site: a smaller plot on the This area of land behind Topper X Pavement X Pavement western side, and a larger plot Street Play area is intended to on the eastern of Neal Drive. be used for an Apart/Hotel and X Dropped kerb X Dropped kerb is being developed by the TLC Group. More information will be X Facing oncoming traffic X Facing oncoming traffic circulated when a planning application is received.
16 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 17 A14 Cambridge to fines up to £1000. Please report Huntingdon Improvement incidents with as much detail as Scheme possible to SCDC at [email protected] or Dangers of Pet Poop Residents have expressed their website Campylobactercan cause Toxocariasis caused by concerns with the noise and tummy upsets and is spread by roundworms found in dogs and vegetation clearance in relation Dog poo can contaminate our animals, especially puppies. It cats, especially puppies and to the road works. environment and can spread can be spread by direct contact kittens. The worms produce diseases caused by germs and with animal faeces and also raw lots of eggs in the faeces, • Please join the Histon, parasitic worms. Eggs in the uncooked meats. which can be accidentally Impington and Orchard Park faeces can persist in the soil and eaten by humans and children A14 Action Group on can easily be picked up by Salmonella can cause food from contaminated soil. Facebook for more children or on your shoes. To poisoning and is found in Symptoms are varied and can information and updates on find out more information about human and animal faeces. include pneumonia, coughing, the latest development. treating worms, please see your Symptoms include fever, fever, rash, liver enlargement, vet. tummy cramps, diarrhoea, and • Sign up to daily noise and even blindness in rare head aches. cases. warnings by emailing 9 out of 10 dog walkers clean [email protected] up after their pets, let us work Giardia & cryptosporidium Ringworm is a skin condition together to make it 10 out of 10 can cause diarrhoea and severe • Send complaints to: caused by a fungus and not a tummy cramps. It can be [email protected] worm. Symptoms include dangerous in those with and copy in circular marks under the skin, weakened immune systems. itchy and painful rashes. [email protected] Children are very prone to [email protected] Toxoplasmosis is caused by infection. the parasiteToxoplasma Dog fouling Gondii found in birds and Residents have reported mammal. Cats and rodents are increased incidences of dog important hosts in it’s life cycle, Advice: and can be spread by cats and fouling around Chieftain Way • Clean up pet poop and Topper Street. Please be their faeces. Symptoms include reminded that it is an offence to flu-like illness, fever, sore • De-worm and treat fleas not clean up afterwards and muscles, tiredness, and it can regularly according to advice from the vets fixed penalty notices of up to cause blindness. Those who £100 an be issued. If the matter are pregnant or have • Seek medical attention is taken to court, the owner or weakened immune systems are when required person in charge could face at greater risk. 18 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 19 Spring 2019 So what can we do to help our local wildlife Orchard Park Wildlife Project now spring seems to have sprung?
The Wildlife Project aims to make Orchard Park better for people These ideas are from the and wildlife through community action Wildlife Trust for
WWW www.opwildlife.wordpress.com @opwildlife Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire and Orchard Park Wildlife [email protected] Northamptonshire’s Newsletter... I saw a butterfly from the Blog update guided bus in February when Provide some early nectar for travelling down Histon Rd but it the insects if you have a raised Add a bird box. Come along to Mild weather seems to have was too distant to attempt an bed, larger style planter, a our event to paint nest boxes temporarily disturbed insects identification. window box, or hanging basket, and put them up in your from hibernation. you could add snowdrops, garden. There’s lots of From The Wildlife We held a Charity Pot crocuses, or winter information on the British Trust Trust’s local report fundraising party at aconites for Ornithology website on how - a red admiral was Lush in March where to select and place an seen on 17 we planted organic appropriate box. Also see our December in Cambridgeshire; lavender seeds and website for more information. the average emergence date is raised awareness about the 7 May, making it nearly five dangers of neonicotinoid Get ahead for summer insects months ahead of schedule. pesticides on wildlife. Many and make your garden more thanks to Lush and their staff! colourful. Plant annuals such as Calendula and Nasturtiums, Our Activities - look out for the To help hedgehogs and they’re bright and pretty and details and dates at insects, and frogs and toads, provide nectar opwildlife.wordpress.com According to the don’t tidy up just yet! These Woodland Trust creatures might be hibernating Litter Picking Lizard Recycling arts in dried up plant stems, under We hold litter Monitoring Workshop Spring 2019 pick events Take part in Improve our wood piles or broken plant throughout the Citizen Science, recycling rates, arrived in pots, and some would like to year. See the and learn about and make arts & November 2018! remain undisturbed for a little website for our lizards crafts longer more information
20 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 21 Register your bike for free on the the above mentioned information. www.immobilise.com database. When reporting your bike the This helps Police reunite stolen details will be put on the stolen bikes with their owners and assists property register and anyone found with prosecutions. This simplifies with it can be arrested. If your bike insurance claims and Police reports is not reported stolen there could with certificates of ownership. be a possibility that a suspect There are also great member could be released with your bike. Local offers. “...simple preventative We live in a bike City, so as you can measures can reduce the Local police officers holding a crime imagine not all bikes are reported risk of your bike being awareness event at the Community Centre Policing stolen to the police. They are not stolen” normally reported because the Don’t leave your bike unlocked i everyone, I am one of the police officers.Take a photo of victim thinks that they do not have neighbourhood officers that your bike this will help prove that any chance of getting their bike • Donotleaveyourbikein covers Orchard Park. Over it is yours and help with insurance back.If your bike is stolen report H it immediately to the Police with isolated places. the last six months we have had an purposes. increase in cycle thefts, therefore I • Use bike racks which are have decided to put together some located in a visible and well-lit crime prevention tips on how to area. keep your bike safe and unattractive to bike thieves. By • Lock up your bike at all times taking some simple preventative using a good quality D-lock, measures you can reduce the risk even if you’re quickly going of your bike being stolen and into a shop or visiting a friend’s improving your chances of house. recovering it if it is unfortunately stolen. • Wherever possible, try to find a place to secure the frame and Before your bicycle is stolen there at least one wheel to an are some measures you can take. immovable object. Record the details of your bike, make of cycle, model, colour, type • If there are cycle parking of bike eg Unisex, BMX, mountain facilities nearby that provides or racer and the frame number. It this, then use them, otherwise will help you describe your bike to look for railings or posts. 22 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 23 • Buy good quality locks and use fittings are vulnerable. Local bike Crime prevention and them every time. shops have a solution to this, in Neighbourhood Watch which the lever is replaced by a Which lock should I buy? security bolt. Bicycle lights are If you are interested in This is not an easy question for the made to be detached and so your area and security Police to answer as we cannot remove them, before the thief and want to know more recommend individual products. As does. about Neighbourhood a general rule of thumb the more Cambs Police recommend you lock your Watch, how to become a you spend on a lock the more bike up like this: member or co-ordinator security it will offer. Many of the and what it is all about locks that look good in the shop then please go to offer no deterrent to thieves. Some www.ourwatch.org.uk D orU locks may look strong but to find out more the security they offer varies widely. To keep up to date with Thin cable locks can easily be cut, messages from the Police but the better ones are thicker and and to hear what's been have interwoven threads that force happening in your local the attacker to spend longer area, please sign up to “chewing” through them. The Second hand bikes www.neighbourhoodalert.co.uk websitewww.soldsecure.com lists Ask the seller if they can cycle locks that survive attack account for the history of the testing. bike. Ask to see the frame number, if there has been How to Report a Crime: Bike parts and accessories interference with it decline the If a thief can’t steal your bike, they purchase. If stickers or decals It is important that all crimes are reported to the Police and you can may take a piece of it. Wheels and have been removed, ask why. do so via a range of different options: seats held by “quick release” This could be to disguise the bikes identity. If in doubt do not www.cambs.police.uk - main website with lots of information buy. Phone 101 - for non emergencies Extension cable Cable lock Phone 999 - for emergencies and crimes in progress Protect against scams Webchat: https://www.cambs.police.uk/information-and- Please see the website services/Contact/Contact friendsagainstscams.org.uk for www.actionfraud.police.uk - 0300 123 2040 - Reporting fraud Tip: Look for information on how to sport and DorU claims of protect yourself against scams. crimestoppers-uk.org - 0800 555 111 - Anonymous reporting “resistance to lock attack” of one You can also report concerns via the Police website. minute or more PCSO Tony Martin 24 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 25 Moving in To Marmalade Lane we didn't have to coordinate by Hester Wells borrowing and returning things to distant friends. Moving in to a cohousing Neighbourliness, and helping community is unlike anything I’d each other out, is built-in to how experienced before when cohousing works. And we love moving house. I didn’t quite it! believe what other cohousers had told me, but on move in day I got the full experience – it took half an hour to leave Marmalade Lane because so Welcome to many of my neighbours stopped to talk to me and I to them!
Marmalade Lane Jan Chadwick Over the following few days we Jan Chadwick were doing all the DIY armalade Lane was sourcing of building materials, associated with a new home; Our Rubbish Ramblings completed at the end of to the running of energy but lacked some tools, and in by Frances Wright M2018 and the community efficient systems. Residents have particular didn't have a would like to extend a warm asked what those funny looking screwdriver in the correct size Seven of us went out to collect welcome to our newest machines outside of each house for one job. We put up a rubbish for an hour, on a cold residents of Cambridge are: they are air-source heat message though our WhatsApp Sunday morning in January. We Cohousing, the first of its kind in pumps that provide an energy group asking if we could borrow covered the guided busway and Cambridgeshire. There are 42 efficient way of heating/cooling. one, expecting that maybe later the streets around Marmalade homes, comprising of a mix of They extract heat from the in the day or another day we'd Lane and were staggered at terraced houses and flats. It was environment in a similar way to be able to complete our task. what we collected in just a short designed by the award-winning how fridges extract heat from its Minutes later one of our time! Having collected five sacks architect Meredith Bowles and inside. neighbours was at our door with of rubbish, the tip of the his team at Mole Architects and the screwdriver! iceberg, we decided to repeat developed Trivselhus, a Swedish The first residents have already our ramble in February. An early company, in partnership with been moving in since December It’s a small, but important, shift went out at 8.45 and a Jonny Anstead & Neil Murphy of 2018 and they would like to example of how cohousing can latter one at 10.15 – collecting a developers TOWN. share some of their stories of make life easier and contribute total of 12 black bags full! We what they’ve been up to: to less crowded houses: we plan to adopt a little and often The homes are designed with didn't have to buy anything new approach and meet monthly for sustainability in mind, from the that we would rarely use, and a Rubbish Ramble every second 26 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 27 Sunday of every month - disturbance meant that very few building, so the worms meeting at 8.30 in Marmalade birds were present when we departed to somewhere else Lane ready to leave at 8.45am moved in during December. and we’re now in the process of for an hour’s litter picking – we applying soil conditioner and have the equipment now thanks With diligent daily feeding of compost to put some life back to the Community Council and mealworms, mixed seeds, niger into the ground where we hope SCDC. There is a second shift at seeds, peanuts and suet balls, to grow vegetables, and 10.15am for later risers. We’d we now have a thriving hopefully attract the worms and love to invite our neighbours to population of goldfinches (five grubs back. join us on the Ramble and so far, enough to call it a ‘charm’ afterwards for refreshments – I think) numerous coal, great and to warm up – in our and blue tits, a greater spotted Common House. There will be a woodpecker, sparrows and a reminder on the Inside Orchard growing murmuration of very Park Facebook page greedy starlings. We made a birdbath, which has proved to be very popular with the tits who splash about having a lovely time getting clean. It’s a real privilege and delight to be able to watch them, and we’re expecting to have an increase in the bird population for the Frances Wright spring nesting season. STOP Birding in Orchard Park PRESS a Sparrow hawk spent 10 by Jon Mousley minutes in the garden this week eating one of our little birds! The last remains of a wooded ditch and bank from the ancient Our plan is to plant a large area county boundary line runs with a wildflower meadow seed through our private garden at mix in the spring, which will Marmalade Lane. The four large attract bees’ insects and other trees and undergrowth were useful creepy crawlies. The preserved during the ground was extremely construction process, but the compressed by all the heavy
associated noise and equipment used during the Jan Chadwick 28 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 29 School Tours Dates THEPARENTS SCHOOLEVENTS SPRING 2019 Thef ollowing dates are in the school di- HAVESPOKEN! ary for parent tours. PrimaryMaths World BookDay SchoolDiaryDates Mental HealthDropIns Ourrecent Parent If you would like to This academic year,wehave revised World Book Day is a worldwide Drop in mental health sessions QuesΚonnaireresults visit, please contact the way we teach math's across our event that encourages children havebeen organised by Cam- havebeencalculated Monday6thMay the School Office: school. We are placinga strong empha- toc ome together and explore bridge County Council and the sis on children’s ability to reason as May Day - school closed Wed 3rd April 2 pm andanalysed. Astag- the pleasure of books and read- Cambridge United Community they workthrough a range of problems Mon 13th -Fri17thMay Fri 24th May 10 am gering103responses ing. We fully embraced the Trust forparents who would and calcula�ons. In addi�on to this, we Fri 5th July 10 am havebeenreceived, event by magically transforming SATS Week like to talk about any social, are increasing mathema�cal fluency Alltoursareledby throughasystem �tled ‘fluent in five’. Orchard Park into the world of Mon 27th -Mon 3rdJune emo�onal or mental health represenΚng70%of theHeadteacher familiesat Orchard This provides five minutes at the start Hogworts Witchcra�and Wizard- Summer Half Term difficul�es their childis having, of every lesson to drill fastan d effective ry! The children hadafantas�c or for children between 16 and Park. Iamhumbled Wednesday3rdJuly strategies for addi�on, subtrac�on, day and willn ow hopefully be 25 to attend (with or without to reportasampleof mul�plica�on and division. If you Sports Day even more enthused to go home parents). The drop ins willbe the findingsbelow: would liketo kn ow moreabout our ap- Wednesday24thJuly proaches to calcula�on from nursery to and pick upabook. Please en- hosted by Educa�onaland Last day of Term 100%believe their Y6 then please visit out website and courage your child to do so as Child Psychologists that work view our Calcula�onP olicy child ishappyin studies show that reading for for the SEND Service (0-25) at (orchardparkprimary.co.uk/policies). pleasure makes a big difference the Council. The drop in slots school CONTACTUS: to a child’s educa�onal perfor- are each 40 minutes long be- 99%areable to com- mance. Evidence suggests that tween 3 pm and 6 pm on 7th TELEPHONE: municateeasilywith reading for pleasure is more like- March, 9th May and 11th June 01223 438200 school lyto determine whether a child at The AbbeyStadium, New- EMAIL: doeswell than their social or marketR oad, Cambridge, CB5 98%believetheir economic background. It is al- 8LN. The drop in slots are free [email protected]. sch.uk child issafeinschool ways goodt o read! to attend but slots must be booked by emailing: dar- WEBSITE: 97%believetheir ryl.coakley@cambridge- orchardparkprimary.co.uk childistaughtwell SCHOOLGOVERNANCE united.co.uk. TWITTER: andthat the school The Spring Term welcomes two new School Governors at Or- chard Park. DrSco� ParsleyjoinsusasaParent Governor and @orchardparksch deliversonitsMis- plans to bring to the role knowledge gained in project manage- ADDRESS: sionStatement OURMISSION ment, repor�ng,team leadership and recrui�ng. STATEMENT Ring Fort Road 97%wouldrecom- Cllr Andrew Chan is a scien�st and the current chair of Commu- Orchard Park mendOrchardPark nity Council. He aims toc on�nue building a strongconnec�on AplacewherechildrenareempoweredtoreachtheirfullpotenΚal, with Κ Cambridge CPSchoolto anyone! between the school and the local community. the highestpossibleaspira onsandpassionforlearning. With values Please note that if you are interested in becoming a School andrespect, ourchildrenareconfidenttomovefromournurturing CB4 2GR Governorand you have a background in financet hen we would environmenttoexploreandsucceedinthe widerworld. be delighted to hear fromyou!
30 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 31 wrong, always wrong. And Living with those who act violently should one another rightly face justice. But we can’t just say that and On Friday 15th March, on the stop there. other side of the world, violence overtook a city. Live streaming In a world prone to violence, we his rampage, one man entered should pause and ask: what will two mosques in Christchurch we do? How will we act? New Zealand and killed fifty adults and children and In the small moments of every wounded many more. The day – at home, with our world reeled in shock and neighbours, with those we disgust. disagree with or are different from… The evening before, right here in our community, violence Will we keep our doors shut and erupted in an isolated incident. our heads down? Will we find Leaving many shocked and ‘them’ annoying, dwell on small worried. wrongs, lose patience, get angry, stay angry… and then What should we say, as a lash out? community? Or, will we ourselves open our We should say that violence is doors and lift our eyes? And, wrong, always wrong. The Bible seeing before us people of says that every human being is immense worth, will we treat created ‘in the image of God.’ them with respect and dignity, Every person we see and know patience and kindness? Sundays 4-5pm on the Astro pitch has a God-given dignity, value, Join us for a friendly game and worth. And so to shed the Chris Lowe, blood of another – however Vicar of St John’s Open to all abilities and fitness levels much we disagree with them or Church Orchard Age 18+ Cost £2.50 are different from them - is Park [email protected]
Find out more at www.stjohnsorchardpark.org 32 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 33 Strength and balance MOTs part of the successful Stronger can keep you doing the things for Longer campaign. Thinking of starting a group? you enjoy The campaign is now The ‘Stronger for Longer’ encouraging local older people campaign has been designed by to have a Stronger for Longer Cambridgeshire County Council MOT to help keep them fit, There’sfree advice and grants! and CPFT to encourage older active and independent. With people to take up strength and the help of a qualified instructor, balance exercises twice a week a person will learn about their to reduce their risk of falling and level of fitness to do everyday keep them doing the things activities and find out what they enjoy. simple strength and balance exercises they could do at home A local woman has put a spring or at recommended classes in in her step after joining strength the community. The MOTs will and balance classes that are be running throughout May keeping her doing the things across the county. In South What is Let's Get Moving you! We are passionate about she enjoys. Cambridgeshire the MOTs Cambridgeshire? empowering the community taking place are: and if you are thinking of Rita, aged 77 from Ely joined Let's Get Moving starting a group that will benefit the fun and sociable class at the • Thursday 9th May 10am- Cambridgeshire aims to health and wellbeing, come talk local library class having heard 12noon Kay Hitch Way improve the health of the to us. It could be as simple as about it from a friend after a Communal Room, Histon Cambridgeshire population, starting an exercise group for recent fall. The class featured as specifically by increasing levels busy parents or sporting of physical activity. This will be sessions for elderly relatives. done by promoting existing opportunities, developing new Email:[email protected] opportunities, and supporting individuals that require support to achieve their goals.
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Orchard Park Community Council would love to hear from http://www.forever-active.org.uk/ 34 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 35 • Wednesday 15th May 2pm- October, over 100 new people 4pm Orchard Close have joined strength and Communal Room, Girton balance classes around the county and are now stronger • Thursday 16th May 10am- and steadier. Over 2,300 people 12noon Blythe Way have also downloaded our Communal Room, Supersix leaflet, which is helping Gamlingay people to do strength and balance exercises at home at For more information on the least twice a week. MOTs go to www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk The nearest strength and /strongerforlonger balance classes in the district are run by Forever Active. For more Rita said: information go to: “The class has helped me http://www.forever-active.org.uk with my walking, strength, balance, and The Stronger for Longer posture, along with campaign involves a range of confidence outside of the class.” partners, including Cambridgeshire County Council, “I can see the difference Let’s Get Moving in myself, I do a lot of Cambridgeshire funded by walking and since going to classes I am now able Cambridgeshire County Council to walk that bit longer Health Committee, District without any problems – Councils, local NHS, Living which means I can go out Sport and Forever Active. more and enjoy with my friends.” “Coming to the class will improve your well-being Have your say at and help you to keep www.healthwatch.co.uk/what-would-you-do active. You will meet new T: 0330 3551285 people and it can be e: [email protected] fun.”
Since the launch of the Stronger
for Longer campaign back in Registered Community Interest Company 08516179 36 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 37 There are two Children’s Centres Rivalry, Effective Discipline and in North Cambridge (North Understanding Challenging Cambridge Children’s Centre and Behaviour Chesterton Children’s Centre) you and family can access, often • Offering advice on issues such as for free potty training, picky eating, budgeting and finances Our activities include: • Bumps to Babies and • Weekly Orchard Park Seedlings Mini Movers play group (parent led) at Orchard Park Community Centre Please feel free to drop-in and find out more or call us on 01223 • Free Swimming for under 1’s and 728118. You can also join us on under 3’s at Kings Hedges Learner Facebook: Pool northcambridgecluster • Free Storytime at Arbury Court Library We hope to welcome you and your family soon to your local • Short courses such as Sibling Children’s Centre. Zen Mindfulness Cambridge
Mindfulness and Meditation for Wellbeing 8 week course in Cambridge
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38 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 39 Kerief Catering Limited Outside catering service and caterer offering delicious flavour fusions between South-African and Jamaican
With our love and passion for good,nourishing food and the ‘longing’ for something familiar from our home countries, we decided to join the ‘street food’ scene by bringing delicious, mouthwatering Flavour Fusions between traditional South African and Jamaican cuisine. Sasa, born and raised in Jamaica is a qualified chef with nearly 22 years’ experience under his belt. So, you can be assured that each dish will be packed with vibrant and exciting flavours, leaving your taste buds wanting more! Find us every Tuesday We would love for you to join us on a taste journey, evening at the discovering flavoursome and vibrant dishes and making new friends on the way! Grahame Road and Topper Street junction Love, Sasa and Almarie 17:30 - 21:00 Available for Private Hire, Corporate Events, Weddings and more!
40 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 41 Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter in the UK They are made of cellulose acetate, a type of plastic fibre and can take up to 10 years to break down Used filters contain tar, thousands of chemicals, toxins, carcinogens, and heavy metals that can poison our environment and neighbourhood When dropped in drains, they end up in our waterways and can poison marine animals and wildlife. Just one butt in a litre of water can be deadly to fish No ifs, no buts, bin your butts
42 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 43 44 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 45 46 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 47 Booking enquiries: www.orchardpark.gov.uk/bookings
COMMUNITY CENTRE ROOM HIRE
AND SPORTS FACILITIES
The Orchard Community Centre, Central Ave, Cambridge, CB4 2EZ With a wide range of rooms and facilities, the Community Centre provides excellent spaces for meetings, parties, and conferences. Please enquire on our website:www.orchardpark.gov.uk/bookings
SPORTS FACILITIES Large Hall - max 90 people
Small Hall - max 66 people Orchard Park sporting facilities boasts an Astroturf pitch, grass football pitch, tennis/netball pitches, multi-use games area, skate park, changing rooms, and a newly built multi-use room.
Meeting Room - max 15 people
Kitchen Multi-use Room - at sports grounds 48 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019