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Exciting New A Fitzpatrick FORDS DISCOUNT STORE PAINTER & DECORATOR Developments at Best Start Nurseries Your local Aladdins cave! Bookings Now Best Start Nurseries – St Mary’s Montessori Day 1 Market St, Lutterworth T: 01455 553624 Being Taken Nursery, Lutterworth and Alma Park Day Nursery, Claybrooke Parva are both really excited about the new Tel: 0116 233 1208 or 07914 672305 developments that are happening within each setting. 7 Belton Road, Leicestershire, LE3 2GD After much blood, sweat and tears, both settings fought off stiff competition from other nurseries [email protected] within the area to be awarded a Capital Grant from the Local Authority. This will enable our settings to enhance and support the children’s learning and Home Library Service development to as full an extent as we possibly can. Alma Park Nursery, Claybrooke Parva If you know someone in Lutterworth who has always been Alma Park Day Nursery has been awarded the grant St Mary’s Montessori, Lutterworth a 'bookworm' but now, due to age, illness or infirmity is to develop our Information, Communication and unable to get to the local Library, then Lutterworth We pride ourselves in the Library would love to hear from them. Technology (ICT) area for the children. We are really excited by this as ICT has the potential to not only Lutterworth Library, in conjunction with local quality of care and learning enhance the children within our care - learning volunteer coordinators, Tony & Sylvia Hirons, have launched through play, but also allows promotion of new and that each child receives. a Home Library Service in Lutterworth. If you are unable to exciting ways to engage the children in their learning get to the library to pick the books for Open from 7.30am to 6pm through the resources. yourself, then a member of the library will visit you, 51 weeks of the year discuss whether it's 'thrillers', 'romance', 'biographies' what- St Mary’s Montessori in Lutterworth: We are also ever your reading taste and then books will be excited about the recently approved planning Homemade nutritious meals that delivered to you on a regular basis. These could be normal permission for our Garden Room which will complete the children rave about! or large print or even talking books if you are having trouble our garden developments and is due to commence over reading and would prefer to hear your favourite authors. the summer months. The new room will extend from Exciting play based learning Just give Lutterworth Library a ring on 0116 305 3619 the nursery building, which will allow easier access to opportunities tailored to each and they (& the team of volunteers) will do the rest. the gardens and will encourage curiosity about the individual child outside world for children. This is the last phase in our garden developments that began last year. The garden Nursery Education Funding available room will add a new dimension to the nursery as the children will be able to really make the most of the Early Years Graduate level staff outdoor environment, whatever the weather! We Limited spaces available believe that outdoor play really is a vital element in helping our children develop to their full potential in Please feel free to come & have a look around all areas of development. For further information, please call If you would like to come and have a look at our new Sue or Claire on 01455 554034 developments and are looking for quality child care for your little ones, please contact Sue or Claire on or e-mail us at 01455 554034 to arrange a visit at either nursery. Please [email protected] Photo courtesy of Andrew Carpenter be aware that spaces are limited! See advert right. of Blaby and Lutterworth Proud to Support Lutterworth Carnival Weekend August 14th Special dishes available during the week: Visit our JAMAICAN JERK CHICKEN Caribbean FREE CARIBBEAN SAUSAGES Beach Leis for the kids CARIBBEAN KEBABS BARBECUE PACKS available for delivery or collection from either shop Bargain Barbecue Pack 4 Beef Burgers, 1lb Home-made Sausages, 4 x 6oz Tenderised Steaks, 4 Chinese Pork Ribs and 4 Chicken Legs, Only £16.99 Large Bargain Party Pack 48 Beef Burgers (frozen), 80 Pork Sausages (frozen), 10 Chinese Pork Ribs, 20 Chicken Portions, Only £39.99 Superior Barbecue Pack 4 Home-made Burgers, 4 Home-made Kebabs, 4 x 6oz Rumps Steaks, 12 Home-made Sausages, 4 Chicken Breasts, 4 Single Minted Lamb Chops, Only £39.99 Visit The Chamber of Trade Marquée at Call Lutterworth 01455 552701 or Blaby 0116 277 6981 the Carnival for a burger or sausage cob! to place an order or visit www.flackies.co.uk www.lutterworthanddistrictjournal.co.uk The Lutterworth & District Journal - 19 Kids on the Starting Grid The opportunity to design and race a model FruiTica Formula 1 racing car enabled 150 primary school pupils to have an exciting day at Lutterworth College which hosted the Midlands Regional Final Opening in August 2010 of this National competition on 1st July. Twenty nine teams took part drawn from seven primary Your 5-A-Day to Eat-in or schools across South Leicestershire. The boys and girls gained great educational Take-away benefits from the use of a number of computer technical and design programmes which determined Check the Leicester Mercury how each team shaped their balsa wood vehicle. for opening date Powered by a CO2 capsule, the cars streaked down a 50 metre track at amazing speeds with the fastest, Fruitica is part of Cranberry Catering Ltd, designed by the Shock Wave team, taking just 0.997 102 Granby Street, Leicester of a second to breach the finish line. Teams were marked on a wide variety of criteria which included not only the manufacture, technical FruiTica and performance aspects, but also included We all know we should eat our 5 pieces of fruit a day but with so presentational skills and teamwork. Sponsorship of many to choose from and so little time in our busy day to prepare it doesn't always go to plan. If the event together with the team of judges was only there was a tropical refuge, somewhere to sit and relax whilst someone else prepares your 5 provided by The Rotary Club of Lutterworth Wycliffe. a day - well in August 2010 there will be! First place was awarded to the Blaze of Fire Team from Countesthorpe Greenfield Primary; 2nd place Fruitica is opening its doors to help you choose the best fruit for you from a list of freshly prepared to Husbands Bosworth's Shockwave Team and 3rd to smoothies and fruit pots, (see address below). Narborough Pastures Extreme Team. The Blaze of We have idenitified which fruits benefit which areas of the body so we are able to provide you Fire team can now take part in the F1 in Primary with a selection of fruit which suits your needs from asthma to cholesterol busting and even to Schools National Finals in London. keeping your waterworks working! Better still, if you bring in this article you can have your first smoothie at half the listed price! If you want to make sure your loved ones don't miss out then why not send them a thoughtful and healthy fruit gift. With freshly prepared fruit baskets, strawberry hearts and melon carvings to choose from. Our freshly prepared fruit baskets are chilled and ready to eat and can be a great way to encourage someone with a poor appetite and we offer a free delivery service to Leicester hospitals and hospices. For those of you planning special celebrations why not have a healthy alternative with our fruit banquets and pineapple trees - a truly spectacular centre piece for parties and weddings at over Alwyn Ogden presents winners Blaze of Fire with a 6 foot high, they are really a taste of paradise. shield, left to right: Ben Haggerwood, Mitchell Langridge, Hattie Mercer and Tom Roper. 102 Granby Street, Leicester. Fruitica is part of Cranberry Catering Ltd, Tel: 07521 106132. Photo courtesy of Andrew Carpenter 20 - The Lutterworth & District Journal Tel/Fax: 0116 275 1037 you are invited to view the 2010 designer sunglass collection prescription sunglasses available adults from £59.95 ~ childrens from £39.95 ophthalmic & dispensing opticians edmonds & slatter opticians www.edmondsandslatter.co.uk leicester rd, blaby stamford st, glenfield high st, lutterworth 0116 277 77 33 0116 287 1025 01455 556053 Tempus Fugit at Brooke House alone the children. Again, like all good schools we have been inspected and come through with flying colours. There’s a saying isn’t there that declares “Time flies The children performed that wonderful musical “Oliver” when you are enjoying yourself”. No wonder then that and regularly visit the Eco Centre to look after the ani- last September at our school seems only 5 minutes ago. mals and the fruit and veg. So what’s been a-happening along the Croft Road. Somewhere in all of this, some lessons have taken Well, it is probably easier to list what hasn’t but here goes. place although quite how we did that no one is really sure We had trips aplenty – from the big one to Penzance to and yet, the childrens’ books are full and next year, it goes a little one to Walcote (following footpaths); to Brinklow, without saying that the class of 2011 will want to do all Bolsover and Warwick Castle; to the theatre for “Joseph” this and more. Quite rightly. That is exactly how it should and the “Gruffalo”; Science visits to the Yew Tree Avenue, be, because time and tide wait for no man because the Eco House and the National Stone Centre; A trip to tempus fugit.